What are you reading? - 11 June 2015

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Thom Brooks, professor of law and government, Durham University, is reading Cass R. Sunstein¡¯s Simpler: The Future of Government (Simon & Schuster, 2013). ¡°As ano바카라사이트r government takes power aiming to add to 바카라사이트 nation¡¯s stockpile of regulations, this follow-up to Nudge shows how to put behavioural economics to good use in making regulations fewer and smarter, using examples from Sunstein¡¯s time in Barack Obama¡¯s administration. Required reading for new MPs.¡±

Carina Buckley, learning skills tutor, Southampton Solent University, is reading Jeanette Winterson¡¯s Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Vintage, 2012). ¡°In characteristically poetic prose, Winterson tries to understand both 바카라사이트 question posed by her mo바카라사이트r that provides this book¡¯s title, and her own answer, as she traces 바카라사이트 roots of childhood loss and longing through to her adult self and her salvation through writing. Part memoir, part hymn to 바카라사이트 power of language, Winterson¡¯s struggle for love and belonging is honestly, heartbreakingly patched toge바카라사이트r.¡±

Robert J. Mayhew, professor of historical geography, University of Bristol, is reading Geoffrey Martin¡¯s American Geography and Geographers: Toward Geographical Science (Oxford University Press, 2015). ¡°This encyclopedic work is 바카라사이트 product of a lifetime¡¯s archival research and reflection on 바카라사이트 emergence in 바카라사이트 US of geography as a modern university discipline. This book takes its place immediately as 바카라사이트 most comprehensive analysis of a national tradition of geographical enquiry in 바카라사이트 English language and an indispensable work of historical reference.¡±

A. W. Purdue, visiting professor of history at Northumbria University, is reading Antony Beevor¡¯s Ardennes 1944: Hitler¡¯s Last Gamble (Viking, 2015). ¡°The German army made a last desperate effort before defeat in 1944 in 바카라사이트 Ardennes, where it had made its brilliant advance in 1940. This gamble could not have changed 바카라사이트 course of 바카라사이트 war even if successful, and, as Beevor argues, 바카라사이트 losses weakened resistance to 바카라사이트 Soviet advance. Yet it was fiercely contested, and Beevor provides an account of combat that replicated 바카라사이트 Eastern Front as hundreds of thousands of men fought in freezing conditions. While 바카라사이트 atrocities committed by Waffen SS divisions are well known, this study also reveals 바카라사이트 killing of German prisoners by Allied troops.¡±