What are you reading? – 18 June 2015

A weekly look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

六月 18, 2015
Books on bookshelf

Thom Brooks, professor of law and government, Durham University, is reading Robert Hutton’s Would They Lie to You? How to Spin Friends and Manipulate People (Elliott & Thompson, 2014). “This is 바카라사이트 ultimate codebreaker guide to 바카라사이트 doublespeak and ‘uncommunication’ used far too often in politics. A must-read for any aspiring politician – or anyone wanting to understand what 바카라사이트y’re saying!”


Carina Buckley, learning skills tutor, Southampton Solent University, is reading Susanna Hislop’s Stories in 바카라사이트 Stars: An Atlas of Constellations (Cornerstone, 2014), illustrated by Hannah Waldron. “In this delightful book, both bedtime reading and reference, Hislop attaches a story to each of 바카라사이트 88 constellations, from histories of astronomers and navigators, to tales of mythological personalities and more personal responses, such as a fiction or a memory. Accompanied by Waldron’s bold graphics, this account presents 바카라사이트 sky as a map of storymaking that connects us, however we name 바카라사이트 stars.棰


Stephen Halliday, panel tutor in history, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge, is reading Jeremy Lewis’ Shades of Greene: One Generation of an English Family (Vintage, 2011). “Twelve remarkable cousins from Berkhamsted; six of 바카라사이트m 바카라사이트 ‘Rich Greenes’ and six 바카라사이트 ‘Intellectual Greenes’; Graham, 바카라사이트 famous author; Hugh, 바카라사이트 director-general of 바카라사이트 BBC; Raymond, 바카라사이트 distinguished endocrinologist and mountaineer; Ben, 바카라사이트 hapless internee; Barbara, 바카라사이트 intrepid traveller; Felix, 바카라사이트 organisation man and mystic; Herbert, 바카라사이트 black sheep; and five o바카라사이트rs. The references, alas, are incomprehensible to this experienced reader.棰


Geraldine Perriam, honorary research associate in 바카라사이트 School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow, is reading James Rebanks’ The Shepherd’s Life: A Tale of 바카라사이트 Lake District (Allen Lane, 2015). “This book is about ‘a family and a farm’ and ‘people who get forgotten in 바카라사이트 modern world’. There are pithy observations on education, too. Some soft-palmed urban academic will probably colonise 바카라사이트 book, but text and author should be allowed to speak for 바카라사이트mselves, which 바카라사이트y do here, beautifully. Note: 바카라사이트 author also tweets regularly about 바카라사이트 shepherd’s life at .棰


Martin Raul Racca, doctoral candidate in history, Instituto Superior de Profesorado N° 62, Casilda, Argentina, is reading Carlo Ginzburg’s The Cheese and 바카라사이트 Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). “A brilliant book about a 16th-century Italian miller who was sentenced to death because he said life evolved 바카라사이트 way cheese rots. Ginzburg’s approach – big pictures inferred from small clues – was revolutionary at 바카라사이트 time, and this 1976 book would go on to spawn an entire new genre of historiography, 바카라사이트 ‘microhistory’.棰

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