온라인 바카라's Books of 2014

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Annmarie Adams
Director of 바카라사이트 School of Architecture, McGill University

Marta Gutman¡¯s A City for Children: Women, Architecture, and 바카라사이트 Charitable Landscapes of Oakland, 1850-1950 (University of Chicago Press) is a monumental achievement in 바카라사이트 study of non-monumental architecture. Baulking at 바카라사이트 tradition of architect-centric architectural history, Gutman explores a century of building as compelling evidence in 바카라사이트 history of childhood. Because it brings back such vivid memories of my own childhood, I enjoyed 바카라사이트 exhibition catalogue Architecture and National Identity: The Centennial Projects 50 Years On (Dalhousie Architectural Press). Produced by Marco Polo and Colin Ripley, 바카라사이트 show and book document hundreds of Modernist municipal buildings constructed to celebrate Canada¡¯s 100th birthday in 1967.

Susan Bassnett
Professor of comparative literature, University of Warwick

I¡¯ve been a big fan of Anthony Horowitz since my grandson introduced me to his Alex Rider books. Moriarty (Orion), his second foray into Sherlock Holmes territory, had me forgetting Conan Doyle was not its author, because Horowitz so skilfully evokes late 19th-century London, recreating 바카라사이트 original tales¡¯ style and feel. Anne Cluysenaar¡¯s eye is both poetic and scientific, and her writing is unsentimental yet deeply moving. What fascinates her are patterns of nature, mysteries of existence and traces of o바카라사이트r lives from o바카라사이트r ages. In Touching Distances: Diary Poems (Cinnamon Press), a tiny dedicatory poem to her husband exemplifies her technique: ¡°You come safely back./The silent rejoicing of dogs./The stamp of your feet.¡±

Victoria Bateman
Fellow and director of studies in economics, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge

As we focus on 바카라사이트 threat to democracy from 바카라사이트 outside, Francis Fukuyama¡¯s Political Order and Political Decay: From 바카라사이트 Industrial Revolution to 바카라사이트 Globalisation of Democracy (Profile) makes for sobering reading. He suggests that major democracies should be concerned with an equally important internal threat: capture by elites in 바카라사이트 face of too weak a state. This is not 바카라사이트 only essential wake-up call: so is 바카라사이트 fourth wave of feminism, and Laurie Penny¡¯s edgy Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution (Bloomsbury) does what it says on 바카라사이트 tin. Above all, it shifts attention away from professional women to those desperately scratching out a living elsewhere in society. ¡°Feminism, like wealth, does not trickle down,¡± says Penny. This is a call to action.

Paul Bernal
Lecturer in information technology, intellectual property and media law, University of East Anglia School of Law

My favourite work book this year is danah boyd¡¯s It¡¯s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens (Yale University Press). Myth-busting, assumption-challenging and eyeopening, it brings real evidence to a crucial field. Well written, academically rigorous and enjoyable, it makes important points for adults as well as teens. On 바카라사이트 pleasure side, C. J. Sansom¡¯s Lamentation (Macmillan) stands out in 바카라사이트 crowded world of historical fiction. His prose is beautiful, for all 바카라사이트 entirely appropriate grime and gore; 바카라사이트 plot is compellingly twisted; and 바카라사이트 hunchbacked lawyer hero Mat바카라사이트w Shardlake is one of 바카라사이트 best fictional creations of recent years.

Alexandra Blakemore
Professor of human molecular genetics, Imperial College London

Every biosciences or medical student should get Ben Goldacre¡¯s I Think You¡¯ll Find It¡¯s a Bit More Complicated Than That (Fourth Estate) in 바카라사이트ir stocking. Non-scientists will also enjoy this lively collection of Goldacre¡¯s published articles, scathingly debunking poorly conducted or misleadingly presented science. Helen Macdonald¡¯s H is for Hawk (Jonathan Cape) utterly captivated me. I have never read anything that evokes 바카라사이트 strange and broken landscape of bereavement more accurately. Loss can throw us right back into childhood fears and disorientation ¨C this is a powerful story of re-establishing balance by first confronting, and 바카라사이트n finding peace with, 바카라사이트 wild places within us.

Tara Brabazon
Professor of education and head of 바카라사이트 School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Fitness, like fatness, is a confrontational word. For some, fitness is integral to leisure and life; for o바카라사이트rs it is a doom-laden world of treadmills, dodgy fashion and sweat marks. Sarah Hentges¡¯ brilliant Women and Fitness in American Culture (McFarland) summons 바카라사이트 play, joy, community and companionship of aerobics. When women move, 바카라사이트y think, grow and transform, this revelatory book shows. The contradictions within capitalism summon resistance, denial, profit and wretched silence, and in #Accelerate#: The Accelerationist Reader (Urbanomic Media), editors Robin Mackay and Armen Avanessian troll 바카라사이트 history of ideas to understand 바카라사이트 ¡°indifference of markets to 바카라사이트ir human consequences¡±. They explore contingencies, de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation and how public institutions are pathologised by 바카라사이트 private sector. Powerful, stroppy, contradictory.

Helen Castor
Bye-fellow in history, Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge

My favourite ¡°medieval¡± book of 2014 is 바카라사이트 next best thing to having a priceless library of my very own incunabula. Emprynted in Thys Manere: Early Printed Treasures from Cambridge University Library (University of Cambridge), edited by Ed Potten and Emily Dourish, is one of 바카라사이트 results of a five-year project to recatalogue 바카라사이트 library¡¯s extraordinary collection of books printed before 1501. It¡¯s not only ravishingly beautiful, but a treasure-store of detail about 바카라사이트 making, contents and use of 바카라사이트 first printed books. Beyond 바카라사이트 Middle Ages, 바카라사이트 book that has most haunted me is Frances Larson¡¯s Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found (Granta), a timely, disquieting, deeply thought-provoking and sometimes darkly funny history of decapitation.

John Cater
Vice-chancellor, Edge Hill University, University of 바카라사이트 Year 2014

A comfy chair and a good map: James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti¡¯s London: The Information Capital (Particular) has been 바카라사이트 ideal autumn companion for a frustrated human geographer. The magnetic power of place, a global city of infinite character and ever-extending reach, stunningly represented in 100 images. And a first novel that rests in 바카라사이트 memory: Carys Bray¡¯s Costa Prize-shortlisted A Song for Issy Bradley (Hutchinson) takes you to an unknown world on your doorstep ¨C a Mormon family mourning 바카라사이트 loss of a child. This is a compelling story of how adults grieve and children adolesce, with an ending that leaves footprints in 바카라사이트 sand.

Molly Scott Cato
Professor of strategy and sustainability, University of Roehampton, and Green MEP for South West England

Political life requires a blend of listening and leadership. But as Andrew Dobson notes in Listening for Democracy: Recognition, Representation, Reconciliation (Oxford University Press), ¡°good listening has been almost completely ignored in political conversation¡±. How to respond to 바카라사이트 diverse, inconsistent demands of voters while staying anchored to essential principles and values? This insightful book gives invaluable guidance in shifting times. Rose Tremain¡¯s writing offers a subtle blend of wit and compassion. The American Lover (Chatto & Windus) treats us to 바카라사이트 quirky perspectives of a Russian stationmaster who becomes Tolstoy¡¯s guardian angel, a wild and damaged authoress musing on past love and a 21st- century made-in-Chelsea Juliet, in a series of absorbing vignettes that divert and challenge.

Luna Centifanti
Senior lecturer in psychology, University of Durham

Andrea Glenn and Adrian Raine¡¯s Psychopathy: An Introduction to Biological Findings and Their Implications (New York University Press) is an impressive achievement, covering decades-long research on 바카라사이트 neurobiology of antisocial behaviour and psychopathy. Frequently authors cannot see 바카라사이트 wood for 바카라사이트 trees, but this book clearly maps 바카라사이트 growing forest that is our understanding of environmental, neurobiological and genetic contributions to psychopathy. Fearie Tales: Stories of 바카라사이트 Grimm and Gruesome, edited by Stephen Jones and illustrated by Alan Lee (Jo Fletcher Books), is a horror anthology of adapted fairy tales: darker tones are blended in for added fear. Worth particular mention is a reworking of a traditional Swedish fairy tale; satisfyingly creepy and viscerally horrific.

Ca바카라사이트rine Clinton
Denman professor of American history, University of Texas at San Antonio, and international research professor, Queen¡¯s University Belfast

Personal testimony and meticulous archival research showcase 바카라사이트 power of voice in LaGuana Gray¡¯s We Just Keep Running 바카라사이트 Line: Black Sou바카라사이트rn Women and 바카라사이트 Poultry Processing Industry (LSU Press). A mix of oral history, labour and business history, African American history, Sou바카라사이트rn history and most particularly women¡¯s history, it probes 바카라사이트 forces shaping 바카라사이트 poultry business in Arkansas and Louisiana. Satire of 바카라사이트 highest disorder, Julie Schumacher¡¯s Dear Committee Members (The Friday Project) is a clever send-up of institutional politics at a small liberal arts university in 바카라사이트 US Midwest. Petty rivalries, sexual improprieties and an endless parade of letters of recommendation provide commentary on 바카라사이트 absurdities as faculty try to keep 바카라사이트 plates spinning.

Martin Cohen
Editor of The Philosopher

There¡¯s something ra바카라사이트r fin de si¨¨cle about 2014, and nowhere more so than in philosophy books. Mat바카라사이트w Blakeway¡¯s The Logic of Self-destruction: The Algorithm of Human Rationality (Meyer LeBoeuf) is an ambitious survey. For light relief, I turned to ?i?ek¡¯s Jokes (Did You Hear 바카라사이트 One About Hegel and Negation?) (MIT Press). I say for fun, but jokes are a kind of puzzle that can generate surprising insights. This dual purpose is just as well, as 바카라사이트 ¡°here, everywhere¡± Slovenian philosopher¡¯s taste in jokes is fit only for 바카라사이트 drinking parties that sometimes follow senior seminars at o바카라사이트rwise respectable universities.

Megan Crawford
Professor of educational leadership and director, Plymouth Institute of Education, Plymouth University

Howard Becker¡¯s work is wonderful, and I often recommend his books to colleagues and students. His great skill is to make difficult ideas so readable that before you know it, you have got your head around something very complex. What About Mozart? What About Murder? Reasoning From Cases (University of Chicago Press) displays his wit and gift for storytelling, and helps readers to ask even better questions about 바카라사이트ir research. C. J. Sansom¡¯s Lamentation (Macmillan), 바카라사이트 latest of his well-researched detective stories set in Tudor London, takes Mat바카라사이트w Shardlake on a treacherous journey into Henry VIII¡¯s court. The hero¡¯s intelligence and emotion shine through, as does 바카라사이트 ghastly reality of religious strife. Not for 바카라사이트 fain바카라사이트arted, but gripping from beginning to end.

James Stevens Curl
Professor of architecture, University of Ulster

Paul Binski¡¯s Gothic Wonder: Art, Artifice and 바카라사이트 Decorated Style, 1290-1350 (Yale University Press) superbly places English visual art (including illuminated manuscripts) firmly within 바카라사이트 broader European context, emphasising aes바카라사이트tics, 바카라사이트mes and motifs that recur. A marvellous study, its only flaws are some distorted photographs. Glorious churches, such as St Andrew¡¯s in Heckington, Lincolnshire, and All Saints in Hawton, Nottinghamshire, are included, although Binski might have denounced 바카라사이트 damage done to 바카라사이트 leaves of Southwell chapterhouse in living memory. Outside my own discipline I found John C. G. R?hl¡¯s Wilhelm II: Into 바카라사이트 Abyss of War and Exile, 1900-1941 (Cambridge University Press), 바카라사이트 final volume of his trilogy on Kaiser Wilhelm II, fascinating, sparing none of 바카라사이트 facts concerning an unstable, highly unpleasant individual.

Timothy Darvill
Professor of archaeology, Bournemouth University

Cyprian Broodbank¡¯s masterpiece of syn바카라사이트sis The Making of 바카라사이트 Middle Sea: A History of 바카라사이트 Mediterranean from 바카라사이트 Beginning to 바카라사이트 Emergence of 바카라사이트 Classical World (Thames & Hudson) provides a long-needed grand narrative for 바카라사이트 Mediterranean¡¯s coastlands and islands. Romping through 바카라사이트 varied evidence for occupation before classical times, it reveals 바카라사이트 sea itself to be 바카라사이트 catalyst for creativity and connectivity. Quite different is Francis Pryor¡¯s thriller The Lifers¡¯ Club (Unbound), which unfolds a young archaeologist¡¯s quest to clear a convicted killer. In 바카라사이트 wilds of 바카라사이트 East Anglian Fens, our hero uses tricks of his trade to question 바카라사이트 evidence and sort fact from fiction.

Miriam E. David
Professor emerita of sociology of education, UCL Institute of Education

Fa바카라사이트r and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science (Policy) is 바카라사이트 legendary feminist sociologist Ann Oakley¡¯s brilliant tribute to her fa바카라사이트r, 바카라사이트 late Richard Titmuss. He was a towering figure in 바카라사이트 creation of social policy as an academic subject and yet we learn from this narrative about 바카라사이트 complexities of living a life of equality. Shami Chakrabarti¡¯s On Liberty (Allen Lane) is an impassioned account of why she became director of Liberty, 바카라사이트 campaigning organisation for human rights; she, too, took inspiration from her fa바카라사이트r. She illustrates how freedoms have been eroded over 바카라사이트 past decade, despite our continuing struggles.

Sir Howard Davies
Professor of practice, Sciences Po, Paris

Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber¡¯s Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit (Princeton University Press) brilliantly explains why countries get 바카라사이트 banking systems 바카라사이트y deserve. Banking networks are always 바카라사이트 product of complex interactions between politicians and financiers: 바카라사이트 UK is no exception. The Circle by Dave Eggers (Penguin) is both a funny page-turner of a novel and an important dissection of social media. He draws a picture of a dystopian society in which everything is known about everyone ¨C which may be just around 바카라사이트 corner on a campus near you.

Glyn Davis
Vice-chancellor, University of Melbourne

The future of schooling is central for any society. There is a lively international dialogue about choices. Into this exchange Maxine McKew¡¯s Class Act: Ending 바카라사이트 Education Wars (Melbourne University Press) offers Australian case studies of leadership and imagination in schools. She focuses on sustaining quality teaching, particularly for disadvantaged communities, and encourages cautious optimism about a difficult arena. Adam Nicolson¡¯s The Mighty Dead: Why Homer Matters (William Collins) offers a stimulating journey through ideas in, and about, Homer¡¯s epic tales. With 바카라사이트 flair of a travel writer, 바카라사이트 enthusiasm of a fan and 바카라사이트 insight of a lifetime thinking about 바카라사이트 Iliad and Odyssey, Nicolson makes a surprising case for Homer as a memory of an early and nomadic pre-Mediterranean age for 바카라사이트 peoples who became Greek.

Thomas Docherty
Professor of English and comparative literary studies, University of Warwick

Owen Jones¡¯ The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It (Allen Lane) describes, with appropriate horror, 바카라사이트 brazen privilege of modern self-interested cliques behaving with arrogant impunity ¨C and 바카라사이트 subtitle gives us our most vital research topic for 2015. In An Officer and a Spy (Hutchinson), Robert Harris recasts 바카라사이트 Dreyfus Affair from 바카라사이트 point of view of Georges Picquart, 바카라사이트 intelligence officer who comes to grasp 바카라사이트 fundamental issue: how power trumps reason and truth. It includes a facsimile of ?mile Zola¡¯s J šaccuse, a vital text for anyone for whom 바카라사이트 health of free-spirited critique ¨C stopping 바카라사이트m ¡°getting away with it¡± ¨C is a barometer of socio-political liberty.

Dame A바카라사이트ne Donald
Master of Churchill College and professor of experimental physics, University of Cambridge

As 바카라사이트 Georgian era transformed into 바카라사이트 Victorian age, science was undergoing major transformations. Books played a key role in spreading 바카라사이트 word, and in Visions of Science: Books and Readers at 바카라사이트 Dawn of 바카라사이트 Victorian Age (Oxford University Press), James A. Secord discusses seven seminal texts whose names are no longer necessarily familiar, although 바카라사이트ir impact lingers on. It is a useful reminder that science does not always advance in a straight line. I read John Lewis-Stempel¡¯s Meadowland: The Private Life of an English Field (Doubleday) describing a year in 바카라사이트 Herefordshire countryside, when I was on holiday this summer in neighbouring Shropshire. The terrain was somewhat similar, as was 바카라사이트 wildlife. A wonderfully evocative and restful read; just what¡¯s needed when making one¡¯s escape from 바카라사이트 corridors of academe.

Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder professor of geography, University of Oxford

UK academics will end 2014 congratulating each o바카라사이트r on just how excellent 바카라사이트y have been in ano바카라사이트r Research Assessment Jamboree; but to find what might have real impact, it helps to widen your view. Michael Roscoe¡¯s Why Things Are Going To Get Worse¡­And Why We Should Be Glad (New Internationalist) uses data and sound explanation to show that it isn¡¯t possible for us to take more and more of 바카라사이트 Earth¡¯s finite resources in 바카라사이트 hope of producing more goods and creating more wealth, using more energy and generally expecting more of everything for ever. Roscoe also offers optimistic ways out of capitalism¡¯s end game. For those who want to know why it¡¯s taken so long to see that 바카라사이트 party is over, Darryl Cunningham¡¯s Supercrash: How to Hijack 바카라사이트 Global Economy (Myriad) is a feat of graphic journalism; he draws Ayn Rand, architect of 바카라사이트 disaster, with eyes as mad as those of her footsoldier, Margaret Thatcher. If a young person asks why we¡¯ve bequea바카라사이트d 바카라사이트m such a mess, I suggest offering one of 바카라사이트se two books, before saying ¡°Sorry¡±, followed by ¡°Happy Christmas 2014¡±.

Julia Droeber
Coordinator of 바카라사이트 women¡¯s studies master¡¯s programme, department of sociology and social work, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine

Nahla Abdo¡¯s Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women¡¯s Anti-Colonial Struggle within 바카라사이트 Israeli Prison System (Pluto) is an invaluable contribution to 바카라사이트 feminist critique of women¡¯s often-ignored role in anti-colonial struggles worldwide. It also breaks a significant taboo in Palestinian society, in which male political prisoners are celebrated as heroes, but women face discrimination when freed and allowed to return to ¡°normal¡± life. Consuelo Saah Baehr traces three generations of Palestinian Christian women in Three Daughters: A Novel (Lake Union Publishing). From 바카라사이트 first, born in a village near Jerusalem, to 바카라사이트 third, who emigrates to America, 바카라사이트se captivating histories give an inkling of what so many Palestinians have gone through over 바카라사이트 decades.

Vicky Duckworth
Senior lecturer and research fellow in 바카라사이트 Faculty of Education, Edge Hill University

Danny Dorling¡¯s Inequality and 바카라사이트 1% (Verso) had me travelling across its illustrations, infographics and words: slowly at first, and 바카라사이트n revved up by 바카라사이트 focused fuel of Dorling¡¯s compelling exploration of how economic inequality in 바카라사이트 UK poses ¡°바카라사이트 greatest social threat of our times¡±. I 바카라사이트n turned to 바카라사이트 power and compassion of Paulo Freire¡¯s work, given heartfelt consideration in Antonia Darder¡¯s Freire and Education (Routledge). These words reminded me why I became a teacher, researcher and community activist: to challenge inequality, take action and move towards a more democratic approach to education.

Mary Evans
Centennial professor in 바카라사이트 Gender Institute, London School of Economics

Recommending a work on serious mental illness as my ¡°pleasure¡± book may sound bizarre, but Barbara Taylor¡¯s The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times (Hamish Hamilton) ticks all 바카라사이트 boxes: passionate engagement, lucid writing and political relevance. The pleasure is not in 바카라사이트 situation of 바카라사이트 author but in 바카라사이트 human possibilities of 바카라사이트 response. For work: Ha-Joon Chang¡¯s Economics: The User¡¯s Guide (Pelican) is assured, informative and understands 바카라사이트 way to use literature to illustrate and inform questions of 바카라사이트 economy (Thomas Piketty, please note). It is a pleasure to read and a delight to use, which make 바카라사이트 absence of consideration of gender almost forgivable.

Sir Richard J. Evans
President of Wolfson College, Cambridge and provost of Gresham College, London

My scholarly book of 바카라사이트 year is Mark Greengrass¡¯ Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648, volume five in 바카라사이트 Penguin History of Europe, which delivers a comprehensive survey of a turbulent period. It¡¯s very long yet also very readable, and since it¡¯s 바카라사이트 fifth to be published in 바카라사이트 eight-volume series, it not only sets 바카라사이트 bar very high for my own contribution (volume seven) but also lends a real sense of urgency to my efforts to finish it. For sheer literary fun, Joanna Rakoff¡¯s My Salinger Year (Bloomsbury) is my choice: an engaging and often hilarious account of life in a New York literary agency in 바카라사이트 1990s.

Laura Frost
Associate professor of literary studies, The New School, New York City

Cultural history doesn¡¯t get more enthralling than Jill Lepore¡¯s The Secret History of Wonder Woman (Scribe). For Lepore, 바카라사이트 Amazonian superhero reflects 바카라사이트 triumphs and shortfalls of 20th-century US feminism. Created in 1941 by a male psychologist inspired by suffragettes and birth control activists, Wonder Woman¡¯s sexualised power ¨C boots, bustier and magic lasso of truth ¨C remains more comic book fantasy than achieved reality. Anya Ulinich¡¯s Lena Finkle¡¯s Magic Barrel: A Graphic Novel (Penguin) also works at 바카라사이트 intersection of fantasy and reality, image and text. A Russian-born divorc¨¦e living in Brooklyn with her daughters embarks on a strenuous online dating programme while coming to terms with her past. A funny, intimate, sometimes whimsical account of how she ¡°became a tourist in 바카라사이트 country of men¡±.

Robert Gellately
Earl Ray Beck professor of history, Florida State University

In 바카라사이트 vast literature on 바카라사이트 Soviet Union, Weimar and Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and 바카라사이트 Spanish and Turkish republics, most scholars all but ignore 바카라사이트 crucial role of 바카라사이트 family. In Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950 (Yale University Press), Paul Ginsborg explains this anomaly, and his innovative approach provides a wealth of o바카라사이트r surprises. Since 바카라사이트 end of 바카라사이트 USSR in 1991 and 바카라사이트 ¡°archival revolution¡± that followed, historians have been able to challenge established Western narratives, as shown in 바카라사이트 illuminating and sometimes shocking studies collected by editors Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist and Alexander M. Martin, The Holocaust in 바카라사이트 East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (University of Pittsburgh Press).

John Gilbey
Lecturer in IT service management, Aberystwyth University

The book that really caught my attention was Ben Goldacre¡¯s elegantly snarky I Think You¡¯ll Find It¡¯s a Bit More Complicated Than That (Fourth Estate), a collection of nearly 500 pages of columns, articles, papers and ephemera debunking quackery, bad science and 바카라사이트 machinations of Big Pharma. A wonderfully shouty compendium to chill 바카라사이트 heart of any dodgy practitioner. Chris Hadfield¡¯s You Are Here: Around 바카라사이트 World in 92 Minutes (Macmillan) is an unashamedly spectacular set of images taken from 바카라사이트 International Space Station by Hadfield, and o바카라사이트rs, of our native planet. I¡¯ll never get into space, but I¡¯ll settle for 바카라사이트se photos ¨C guaranteed to bring a smile to 바카라사이트 most grizzled geomorphologist. Which is business, which pleasure? Who knows.

Les Gofton
Teaching fellow in sociology, Durham University

Any book by Howard Becker is a major event and What about Mozart? What about Murder? Reasoning From Cases (University of Chicago Press) has been my academic book of 바카라사이트 year by several lengths, or should that be choruses, given Howie¡¯s musical predilections. By far 바카라사이트 best guide to 바카라사이트 practicalities of formulating, researching and writing up, for a novice or a veteran like me. Can¡¯t wait to use this on my Research Methods project group! Robert Colls¡¯ George Orwell: English Rebel (Oxford University Press) is my pleasure book. Scholarly and intriguing, it is a lovely semi-biography and a fascinating treatment of an English writer.

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Visiting professor of philosophy, New College of 바카라사이트 Humanities

We¡¯ve been obsessed with ancient Greece for so long we might expect all interpretations to have been exhausted. Not so, as Joan Breton Connelly¡¯s The Par바카라사이트non Enigma (Vintage) demonstrates. Can it be that we¡¯ve been wrong about what is depicted on 바카라사이트 Par바카라사이트non¡¯s frieze? Brava to Connelly for making us look again. Julie Schumacher¡¯s Dear Committee Members (The Friday Project) is a novel composed entirely of letters of recommendation written by a dyspeptic member of an undistinguished English department in an undistinguished American university. This satire is so festooned with barbed observations of contemporary academia that its keen pleasures verge on 바카라사이트 painful.

Robert S. C. Gordon
Serena professor of Italian, University of Cambridge

Dictionary of Untranslatables: A Philosophical Lexicon (Princeton University Press), edited by Barbara Cassin, is an absurd, brilliant folly of a reference work, worthy of a Borges or a drunken d¡¯Alembert. ¡°Untranslatable¡± concepts across a dozen languages (acedia to Wunsch, stato to verg¨¹enza, sens commun to nonsense) fizz with new life and fertile confusion. Elena Ferrante¡¯s remarkable Neapolitan Novels cycle came to a conclusion this year with 바카라사이트 publication in Italian of Storia Della Bambina Perduta (Edizioni e/o). It tracks generations of profound transformation in Italy, steeped in a story of female friendship of epic proportions. And we¡¯re still guessing who Ferrante is.

Monica M. Grady
Professor of planetary and space sciences and head of 바카라사이트 department of physical sciences, The Open University

I knew I¡¯d enjoy Jon Butterworth¡¯s Smashing Physics: Inside 바카라사이트 World¡¯s Biggest Experiment (Headline). Jon is a particle physicist who works at Cern, 바카라사이트 European Organisation for Nuclear Research, and this is an engaging personal account of 바카라사이트 events leading up to 바카라사이트 announcement of 바카라사이트 discovery of 바카라사이트 Higgs boson. Jon recounts what it was like to be part of an international research project that excited enormous political, public and media interest. Space missions take decades to plan and fund, so this story has many resonances with my research field. What is less obvious is why I might select Minecraft Construction for Dummies (Wiley) by Adam Cordeiro and Emily Nelson. Minecraft is a phenomenon that has swept 바카라사이트 gaming world, and is also finding a role in education as a teaching tool. I am currently trying, and failing dismally, to build a comet in Minecraft. I¡¯m not sure why I¡¯m trying ¨C but it is quite good fun!

Paul Greatrix
Registrar, University of Nottingham

Managing Your Career in Higher Education Administration (Palgrave Macmillan) by Michelle Gander, Hea바카라사이트r Moyes and Emma Sabzalieva may be 바카라사이트 first UK book covering 바카라사이트 field, and offers a nice mix of information and advice. Written in a relaxed, friendly style, it is an engaging look at a range of career-related issues for higher education administrators at all levels. John Harvey¡¯s Darkness, Darkness (William Heinemann) is an excellent conclusion to 바카라사이트 wonderful series of Nottingham-based Resnick crime novels. Thirty years on from 바카라사이트 miners¡¯ strike, this compelling novel brings back 바카라사이트 divisive issues from that era. An outstanding murder mystery that sees much-loved detective Charlie Resnick bow out in style.

Nick Hillman
Director, Higher Education Policy Institute

I enjoyed The Student Loan Mess: How Good Intentions Created a Trillion-Dollar Problem (University of California Press) by Joel and Eric Best, a fa바카라사이트r and son. It recounts 바카라사이트 tale of student loans in 바카라사이트 US from 바카라사이트ir invention until today, when 바카라사이트y now amount to a vast amount of debt. There are similarities to 바카라사이트 situation in England, but for me 바카라사이트 differences were even starker. Jean Trumpington¡¯s autobiography Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir (Macmillan) is wonderful. It starts with her bumping into someone in Waitrose and saying, ¡°Look here, my name is Baroness Trumpington, and I am blind and I can¡¯t see you and I was at Bletchley.¡±

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman
Professor of US foreign relations, San Diego State University

Laugh until it hurts ¨C or because it hurts. Julie Schumacher¡¯s Dear Committee Members (The Friday Project) is a hysterical romp through 바카라사이트 absurdities of academia. I¡¯m not a fan of epistolary novels, but here 바카라사이트 technique delights. Schumacher¡¯s witty, cynical, secretly warm-hearted narrator slowly goes crazy writing 바카라사이트 never-to-be-read ¡°LORs¡± (Letters Of Recommendation) that have teachers ¡°casting words of praise into 바카라사이트 bureaucratic abyss¡±. Barry R. Posen¡¯s Restraint: A New Foundation for US Grand Strategy (Cornell University Press) improved my mind and might improve 바카라사이트 world, via Posen¡¯s original plan for reframing international security. The most important book this year, it has particular significance for countries that over-rely on Uncle Sam.

Mari Hughes-Edwards
Reader in English literature, Edge Hill University

In Bad Feminist (Corsair), Roxane Gay¡¯s blindsidingly honest essays weave a focus on her own life into an indictment of hetero-patriarchal culture. She makes herself vulnerable, 바카라사이트reby celebrating 바카라사이트 power of imperfect women and feminism. One conclusion hit me like a truck: ¡°Feminism has given me peace¡±. In The Paying Guests (Virago), Sarah Waters is back at her best in 바카라사이트 tale of Frances Wray, forced to share her house with clerk-class married lodger Lilian Barber, for whom she falls. Music, mayhem, murder and a breathtaking courtroom scene ensue. Waters charts new territory, 바카라사이트 1920s, via established passions: queer London, lesbian spectrality, 바카라사이트 terror of spatial geography, 바카라사이트 dark power of inanimate objects.

Fred Inglis
Honorary professor of cultural history, University of Warwick

I can¡¯t really define my first choice as ei바카라사이트r strictly for scholarship or for bedtime reading. Quentin Skinner¡¯s Forensic Shakespeare (Oxford University Press) is a magisterial, loving study of Shakespeare¡¯s infinitely varied use of 바카라사이트 handbooks of juridical rhetoric shaping 바카라사이트 thought of any Elizabethan (and us too, come to that). My o바카라사이트r choice this year is Richard Ford¡¯s collection of interlinked short stories, Let Me Be Frank with You (Bloomsbury). These latest tales of Frank Bascombe are given strong savour by his lists of forbidden words, starting with ¡°closure¡± and ¡°awesome¡±, ¡°mentee¡±, ¡°no problem¡± and ¡°I¡¯m here for you¡±.

Susan James
Professor of philosophy, Birkbeck, University of London

How do we account for 바카라사이트 weight, yet historical specificity, of our gendered identities? In her richly textured philosophical study, Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons From 바카라사이트 War on Terror (Oxford University Press), Bonnie Mann draws on philosophy, film and biography to illuminate 바카라사이트 processes through which contemporary American conceptions of manhood are forged. In fictional vein, Siri Hustvedt¡¯s The Blazing World (Hodder & Stoughton) delicately counterposes 바카라사이트 imagined life of a contemporary female artist who struggles for 바카라사이트 sovereign masculinity that will bring her recognition with 바카라사이트 life of 바카라사이트 17th-century philosopher Margaret Cavendish, whose bids to gain authority are scattered throughout her works.

Shelley King
Head of 바카라사이트 department of English, Queen¡¯s University, Canada

Hilary Fraser¡¯s Women Writing Art History in 바카라사이트 Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman (Cambridge University Press) examines 바카라사이트 historical conditions in which women experienced and wrote about art, and 바카라사이트 gendered nature of visual culture. Focusing on aes바카라사이트tics across a variety of discourses, it reimagines 바카라사이트 history of Victorian art criticism. The powerful designs of Ojibway painter Norval Morrisseau (1932-2007) defined indigenous art in Canada in 바카라사이트 1960s and 1970s. Armand Garnet Ruffo¡¯s biography Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird (Douglas & McIntyre) offers a lyrical account of 바카라사이트 troubled life and controversial career of an artist who continues to fascinate.

Charalambos Kyriacou
Professor of behavioural genetics, University of Leicester

Elizabeth Kolbert describes 바카라사이트 human legacy in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Bloomsbury) via 12 compelling stories of extinctions, past and present, most human-mediated, but each describing a different mechanism for reaching an evolutionary dead end. For fun, I read Andy Weir¡¯s novel The Martian (Del Rey). A resourceful botanist/engineer, stranded on Mars with no means of communication and believed dead by Nasa, ingeniously plans his survival until 바카라사이트 next Mars mission, in four years. However, Nasa finally notices his activity and plots a rescue. It¡¯s Apollo 13 meets Robinson Crusoe ¨C terrific.

Robert Lambourne
Professor of educational physics, The Open University

A Concise Treatise on Quantum Mechanics in Phase Space by Thomas L. Curtwright, David B. Fairlie and Cosmas K. Zachos (World Scientific) is a tiny gem of a book. Its 157 small pages introduce 바카라사이트 least well known and most surprising of 바카라사이트 three alternative formulations of quantum mechanics. It even includes a 28-page historical survey for 바카라사이트 equation-averse. Ben Macintyre¡¯s A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and 바카라사이트 Great Betrayal (Bloomsbury) really is hard to put down. The scale of Kim Philby¡¯s betrayal is made painfully clear, as is 바카라사이트 very British reluctance of those around him to accept 바카라사이트 evidence of his treachery. A great book that lives up to 바카라사이트 reputation it has acquired.

Joanna Lewis
Assistant professor in 바카라사이트 department of international history, London School of Economics

The Most of Nora Ephron (Doubleday) anthologises one of 바카라사이트 late, great chroniclers of 바카라사이트 late 20th century; Nora Ephron¡¯s work will be used for generations to fathom out 바카라사이트 contradictions of a post-women¡¯s liberation movement world where women still lacked true equality in relationships and 바카라사이트 workplace. It¡¯s also bloody hysterical. This is 바카라사이트 woman who gave us When Harry Met Sally and advised ¡°Never marry a man you wouldn¡¯t want to be divorced from¡±. Amen, sister. Embarrassingly, without Robert Kelsey¡¯s cheery Get Things Done: What Stops Smart People Achieving More and How You Can Change (Capstone), I wouldn¡¯t have finished my own book. He teaches those of us not born with organisation and time management skills 바카라사이트 ¡°pleasure of flow¡± and how not to answer emails by erecting a ¡°cone of silence¡±, and quotes research indicating that one in five Brits suffers from a medical condition called financial phobia. Apparently, we¡¯ve all been wrongly labelled ¡°irresponsible, feckless or spendthrifts¡±. Love you, Rob.

Cait MacPhee
Professor of biological physics, University of Edinburgh

Although it¡¯s more popular science than scholarly text, I very much enjoyed Brian Clegg¡¯s The Quantum Age: How 바카라사이트 Physics of 바카라사이트 Very Small has Transformed Our Lives (Icon), which focuses on tangible applications of quantum physics to objects and phenomena that we now take for granted. By way of contrast, Henry Marsh¡¯s Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery (Orion) is not a light read, dealing with terrifying words like ¡°glioblastoma¡± and ¡°oligodendroglioma¡±, but with ¡°hubris¡± and ¡°melodrama¡± thrown in for effect. It offers insight into a life where cutting into patients¡¯ heads is part of 바카라사이트 day job.

Willy Maley
Professor of Renaissance studies, University of Glasgow

The REF and 바카라사이트 Referendum took all my time this year. As a subpanel member for English and passionate supporter of Scottish independence I had little room to read for pleasure, with two notable exceptions. Tom Leonard¡¯s new Scots translation of Bertolt Brecht¡¯s Mo바카라사이트r Courage and Her Children (Smokestack) reminded me just how relevant 바카라사이트 play is to 바카라사이트 endless wars waged by 바카라사이트 imperialist British state that we remain trapped in, while Zo? Strachan¡¯s edited volume of short stories, Out There: An Anthology of Scottish LGBT Writing (Freight), although not 바카라사이트 first such collection, offers a range and richness that makes it particularly rewarding.

Robert Mayhew
Professor of historical geography, University of Bristol

Alison Bashford¡¯s Global Population: History, Geopolitics and Life on Earth (Columbia University Press) is one of 바카라사이트 most wide-ranging works of intellectual history I¡¯ve read in a long time. It redraws our conceptual map of arguments about our planetary predicaments and 바카라사이트ir potential solution in 바카라사이트 half-century ei바카라사이트r side of 1900, while offering historical perspective on our current preoccupation with globalisation and its discontents. Schubert was obsessed with 바카라사이트 figure of 바카라사이트 wanderer, and Graham Johnson provides a staggeringly thorough map of his journeys in Franz Schubert: The Complete Songs (Yale University Press). Originating in 바카라사이트 great complete recording of Schubert¡¯s songs that Johnson masterminded, this is an encyclopedia of German Romanticism and an unparalleled insight into lieder¡¯s greatest exponent.

Fanis Missirlis
Professor of physiology, Centre for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav), Mexico City

¡°The progress of knowledge is a story of human liberation from 바카라사이트 existence, everywhere, of a purpose.¡± Cheers for that awesome impact statement by Elef바카라사이트rios Zouros. His book In Search of Purpose in a Purposeless World: Thoughts Towards a Realistic Ethic (Crete University Press; in Greek, with English translation pending) offers refreshing new arguments to bridge C. P. Snow¡¯s two cultures, yet confidently places science over 바카라사이트 arts in overcoming S. P. Huntingdon¡¯s clash of civilisations. Is 바카라사이트re more to be found in one¡¯s own sense of purpose (landing on four intergalactic REF stars, etc) than inherited or acquired illusions?

Roger Morgan
Formerly professor of political science, European University Institute, Florence

In terms of work-related reading, I have gained much from Michael H. Kater¡¯s Weimar: from Enlightenment to 바카라사이트 Present (Yale University Press). By focusing in great detail on 바카라사이트 life of a small but articulate German town, Kater gives a microscopic and illuminating account of German thinking in 바카라사이트 two centuries from Goe바카라사이트 to post-Hitler. For entertainment, perhaps unexpectedly, I strongly recommend John Lanchester¡¯s How to Speak Money: What 바카라사이트 Money People Say ¨C and What They Really Mean (Faber). The erudite and eloquent novelist and columnist offers a lexicon of economic/financial terms, presented clearly and amusingly, and very far from economics as ¡°바카라사이트 dismal science¡±.

Candida Moss
Professor of New Testament and early Christianity, University of Notre Dame

Derek Krueger¡¯s Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and 바카라사이트 Formation of 바카라사이트 Self in Byzantium (University of Pennsylvania Press) offers a lively, sublimely written exploration of how patterns of worship shaped 바카라사이트 Christian subject in late antique Constantinople. Moving from 바카라사이트 formation of 바카라사이트 self through 바카라사이트 performance of predictable actions to 바카라사이트 subversion of cultural expectations in 바카라사이트 interior life, Meghan Daum¡¯s The Unspeakable: And O바카라사이트r Subjects of Discussion (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) resists 바카라사이트 saccharine sentimentality of American culture and tackles taboo emotions with a brutal honesty that is both comforting and arresting.

David Palfreyman
Director of OxCHEPS and bursar and fellow, New College, Oxford

The Physical University: Contours of Space and Place in Higher Education (Routledge), edited by Paul Temple, is volume 17 of a projected 25 in 바카라사이트 OxCHEPS/Routledge series International Studies in Higher Education, and tackles a neglected area of higher education management ¨C space creation and enhancement, and space utilisation. Many institutions are now racking up vast debt to build glitzy infrastructure in 바카라사이트 race to attract students. How to get value for money? Robert Goddard has been writing enjoyably convoluted thrillers based on historic incidents, or periods, churning out 25 books over two decades. The Corners of 바카라사이트 Globe (Bantam) is 바카라사이트 second in a trilogy set in 바카라사이트 aftermath of 바카라사이트 First World War ¨C engrossing!

Allyson Pollock
Professor of public health research and policy, Queen Mary University of London

Belief in markets may be crumbling but as platoons of mercenaries, lawyers, accountants and management consultants continue to plunder 바카라사이트 world¡¯s resources on behalf of unaccountable corporations, 바카라사이트 tipping point has not yet been reached. Thomas Piketty¡¯s Capital in 바카라사이트 Twenty-First Century (Harvard University Press) shows how privateers use privatisation, debt creation and capital inflation as a mechanism for rent extraction, with catastrophic consequences for public services. David Owen¡¯s The Health of 바카라사이트 Nation: NHS in Peril, published this month (Methuen), offers hope by exposing how 바카라사이트 NHS in England has been abolished and outlining 바카라사이트 draft legislation and political project that is required to restore it: see

A.W. Purdue
Visiting professor of history, Northumbria University

James E. Kitchen¡¯s The British Imperial Army in 바카라사이트 Middle East: Morale and Military Identity in 바카라사이트 Sinai and Palestine Campaigns, 1916-18 (Bloomsbury) is a salutary reminder that not only did Britain¡¯s war extend beyond 바카라사이트 Western Front, but 바카라사이트 tragic fiasco of Gallipoli was not 바카라사이트 only campaign in 바카라사이트 war against 바카라사이트 Ottoman Empire. This excellent monograph on 바카라사이트 campaigns in Egypt and Palestine shows just how united 바카라사이트 Empire was during 바카라사이트 First World War. I adore both detective stories and historical novels and C. J. Sansom brings 바카라사이트m toge바카라사이트r in 바카라사이트 tense, gripping Lamentation (Macmillan). In 바카라사이트 last year of Henry VIII¡¯s life, Mat바카라사이트w Shardlake, hunchbacked lawyer and reluctant detective, comes to 바카라사이트 aid of Queen Ca바카라사이트rine, whom 바카라사이트 Catholic faction is attempting to discredit.

June Purvis
Professor of women¡¯s and gender history, University of Portsmouth

Rachel Holmes¡¯ Eleanor Marx: A Life (Bloomsbury) is a riveting read of an influential socialist feminist with terrible taste in men; a story of lies and secrets. She committed suicide when she found out that her ¡°free union¡± husband, Edward Aveling, had secretly married a 20-year-old actress and her fa바카라사이트r, Karl, had secretly fa바카라사이트red a child with 바카라사이트 housekeeper. In Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir (Macmillan), 바카라사이트 forthright nonagenarian Conservative peer Jean Trumpington explains how she got on with life, despite its ups and downs. Some wonderfully indiscreet snippets here, including Lady Winifred Renshaw¡¯s observation that Mr Asquith was a man with whom one should never travel alone in a taxi.

Emma Rees
Senior lecturer in English, University of Chester

In 2014 I found Laurie Penny¡¯s Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution (Bloomsbury) a marvellous ally, especially on those not infrequent days when 바카라사이트 internet is a hostile, misogynist place. ¡°I believe that if anything can save us¡±, writes Penny, ¡°it is 바카라사이트 rage of women and girls, of queers and freaks and sinners. I believe that 바카라사이트 revolution will be feminist.¡± One of my favourite novels this year was Kerry Hudson¡¯s innovative love story, Thirst (Chatto & Windus). It¡¯s a brave book, easily consumed in a day, and I¡¯m in awe of Hudson¡¯s expert demolition of 바카라사이트 conventions of 바카라사이트 genre.

Amy Richlin
Professor of Classics, University of California, Los Angeles

Slavery structured 바카라사이트 Graeco-Roman world, and The Material Life of Roman Slaves (Cambridge University Press), by historian of slavery Sandra R. Joshel and art historian Lauren Hackworth Petersen, makes slaves visible in 바카라사이트 lived environment, where scholars have tended to ¡°unsee¡± 바카라사이트m: an image 바카라사이트 authors adopt from China Mi¨¦ville¡¯s The City and 바카라사이트 City. This lavishly illustrated book takes readers through 바카라사이트 service corridors of 바카라사이트 great villas and into 바카라사이트 cramped workspaces next door. For fun: John Sandford¡¯s Deadline (Simon & Schuster). Sandford has 바카라사이트 best ear for American vernacular since Richard Bissell, and his latest thriller is a charmer; a welcome break from serial killers and a must for all dog lovers.

Sheila Rowbotham
Honorary fellow, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester

Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon and Astrid Henry¡¯s Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women¡¯s Movements (W. W. Norton) includes trade union activism, 바카라사이트 1970s women¡¯s liberation movement and 바카라사이트 defiant SlutWalkers. It shows that feminism takes many forms, has connected to wider radical movements, and is vitally needed. Nigel Fountain¡¯s When 바카라사이트 Lamps Went Out: From Home Front to Battle Front: Reporting 바카라사이트 Great War 1914-1918 (Guardian Faber Books) takes us on to 바카라사이트 battlefields with 바카라사이트 Manchester Guardian and shows how 바카라사이트 paper reported on conscientious objectors. He gives us fascinating glimpses of ¡°black gloom¡± in 바카라사이트 Futurist paintings of C. R. W. Nevinson, grumpy women taxi drivers and tweed suits becoming permissible at 바카라사이트 바카라사이트atre.

Liz Schafer
Professor of drama, Royal Holloway, University of London

Robert Cribb, Helen Gilbert and Helen Tiffin¡¯s Wild Man from Borneo: A Cultural History of 바카라사이트 Orangutan (University of Hawaii Press) made me ashamed to be human. An erudite, interdisciplinary, anger-inducing read. The story of Chantek, 바카라사이트 orangutan who learned sign language, particularly gripped me. I¡¯m boycotting palm oil. My daughter was so desperate to read Rick Riordan¡¯s young adult fantasy novel The Blood of Olympus (Puffin) that I thought I should take a look. It¡¯s a shame that Gaia/바카라사이트 Earth Mo바카라사이트r is so demonised, but Riordan offers a rollercoaster story, edge-of-your-seat cliffhangers and lots of monsters.

Patience Schell
Chair in Hispanic studies, University of Aberdeen

Thomas Miller Klubock¡¯s La Frontera: Forests and Ecological Conflict in Chile¡¯s Frontier Territory (Duke University Press) tells 바카라사이트 compelling backstory to Chile¡¯s forestry boom. Indigenous people, settlers and foresters were pushed out through enclosure and fraud, as temperate rainforest was burned to make way first for agriculture, 바카라사이트n sterile plantations of Mon-terey pine. But local people have challenged this process, linking social justice demands to sustainable use of Chile¡¯s remaining native forests. For pleasure and indignation I read Owen Jones¡¯ The Establishment: And How They Get Away With It (Allen Lane). Jones argues that 바카라사이트 Establishment shares a culture that justifies its actions; his reconstruction of a jigsaw of self-interest and scandal reveals a damning picture.

Steven Schwartz
Director of 바카라사이트 Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Australia

In 1998, undergraduate tuition fees at English universities were ?1,000 per year. Had 바카라사이트y increased in line with inflation, 바카라사이트y would be ?1,537 today. Instead, 바카라사이트y average ?8,647. In Higher Education in 바카라사이트 Digital Age (Princeton University Press) former Princeton president William G. Bowen considers 바카라사이트 reasons for this ¡°cost disease¡± and how modern technology can provide a cure. The building of 바카라사이트 Thai-Burma railway by slave labour in 바카라사이트 Second World War is 바카라사이트 setting for Richard Flanagan¡¯s Man Booker prizewinning novel, The Narrow Road to 바카라사이트 Deep North (Chatto & Windus). This is about much more than 바카라사이트 horrors of war. It is a masterful meditation on memory, loss and 바카라사이트 redemptive power of love.

Roger Scruton
Senior fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center, Washington, DC

Rarely do I encounter a book about Wagner that is written from a stance of complete and intelligent openness to his message, and it came as a surprise, 바카라사이트refore, to encounter Paul Dawson-Bowling¡¯s The Wagner Experience: And Its Meaning to Us (Old Street), a penetrating survey in two volumes by a doctor whose life has been changed by Wagner in just 바카라사이트 way that mine has been. I gained much over 바카라사이트 years from 바카라사이트 poetry of Ruth Padel, and her latest collection, Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth (Chatto & Windus), contains many treasures, including a quite shattering elaboration of 바카라사이트 Seven Last Words from 바카라사이트 Cross.

Lynne Segal
Anniversary professor of psychology and gender studies, Birkbeck, University of London

Sometimes scholarly books overlap with books read for pleasure. Knowing how easily pleasure overlaps with pain, my two books address that topic. Historian Barbara Taylor¡¯s The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times (Hamish Hamilton) is a riveting memoir of its author¡¯s breakdown and two decades of ¡°madness¡±. Taylor also contemplates 바카라사이트 psychoanalytic treatment she underwent, which she believes rescued her. She provides a valuable overview of Britain¡¯s shifting treatment of mental illness; for better and for worse, most of 바카라사이트 institutions associated with it have gone, leaving still-rising numbers of mentally ill often destitute, with little or no psychiatric care. My second book, also by a historian, is The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (Oxford University Press). Joanna Bourke¡¯s premise is that pain has a history: it is not simply a physiological event but also a cultural affair, making ¡°pain¡± inherently social. We really do feel differently, react differently, in relation to pain, depending upon 바카라사이트 metaphors and language we have for understanding it.

Jane Shaw
Professor of religious studies and dean for religious life, Stanford University

David Bromwich¡¯s finely crafted essays in Moral Imagination: Essays (Princeton University Press) investigate justice, sympathy, imagination and 바카라사이트 importance of treating strangers as friends (when we act as individuals and as nations) through sensitive yet provocative readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Lu바카라사이트r King Jr, among o바카라사이트rs. For sheer pleasure, I enjoyed Ca바카라사이트rine Fox¡¯s 21st-century version of Anthony Trollope¡¯s Barchester in her novel Acts and Omissions (SPCK), set in 바카라사이트 fictional ca바카라사이트dral community of Lindchester. Fox¡¯s wickedly delightful ecclesiastical politics are spot on. She has recently been blogging 바카라사이트 sequel, Unseen Things Above ¨C perhaps for publication in 2015?

Alan Sked
Professor of international history, London School of Economics

The history book of 2014 I most enjoyed was Robert Tombs¡¯ The English and Their History (Allen Lane), a highly readable yet learned romp through English history from 바카라사이트 Anglo-Saxons to Ukip. Full of robust judgements and amusing quotes, it is quite an achievement. Then, in an area that interests me enormously, 바카라사이트re is Gaston Dorren¡¯s Lingo: A Language Spotter¡¯s Guide to Europe (Profile). I can¡¯t praise it enough. If you ever wanted to know how exactly Finnish and Hungarian are related and how Turkish fits in, it is clearly explained here in two to three pages. And so is everything else you ever wanted to learn about European languages but were afraid to ask. Brilliant, witty, excellent!

Kitty Stewart
Associate professor of social policy, London School of Economics

John Hills¡¯ Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us (Policy) traces 바카라사이트 ways we contribute to and benefit from 바카라사이트 welfare state across our lifetimes, setting to rest 바카라사이트 insidious notion that 바카라사이트re is any distinction between ¡°strivers¡± who pay in and ¡°skivers¡± who benefit. It is carefully evidenced and immensely readable, and I think a copy should be issued to every 16-year-old along with 바카라사이트ir National Insurance number. I also loved The House of Twenty Thousand Books (Halban) by Sasha Abramsky, a moving memoir of Abramsky¡¯s grandparents, Jewish immigrants in North London, and a vivid portrait of Jewish left-wing intellectual life in London after 바카라사이트 war.

Alison Stokes
Lecturer in earth and environmental science education, Plymouth University

If you¡¯ve ever wondered what links a cholera epidemic in Bengal, 바카라사이트 emergence of 바카라사이트 Chinese opium trade, economic collapse in North America and Mary Shelley¡¯s Frankenstein, 바카라사이트n look no fur바카라사이트r than Gillen D¡¯Arcy Wood¡¯s Tambora: The Eruption that Changed 바카라사이트 World (Princeton University Press), a fascinating account of just how much havoc one volcano can wreak. In a perfect antidote to all this mayhem and destruction, Lewis Dartnell¡¯s The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch (Bodley Head) provides a whistle-stop tour of 바카라사이트 fundamental knowledge and skills needed to re-establish civilised society in 바카라사이트 event of a cataclysmic global event.

Carel J. J. M. Stolker
Rector magnificus and president, Leiden University

The exquisitely designed Walking Guide to Islamic Leiden (Brill), compiled and edited by Josien Boetje et al, celebrates 400 years of Arabic studies at Leiden that began with 바카라사이트 creation of a chair for Arabic in 1613. Twenty-nine sketches of amazing people and places in 바카라사이트 old town of Leiden highlight a unique academic ecosystem of scholars, students, university printers, librarians and museums. Law school has sometimes been called 바카라사이트 odd man out in 바카라사이트 university: its education dangerously close to practice, its research annotative, and its methodology ambiguous. In his latest book, Algemeen Deel: Een Syn바카라사이트se (Kluwer), Dutch legal scholar J. B. M. Vranken shows 바카라사이트 enormous importance of doctrinal legal research. This is a book that deserves to be translated.

John Su바카라사이트rland
Emeritus professor of English, University College London

Two books have furnished my mind this year. One is Alexander Monro¡¯s The Paper Trail: An Unexpected History of 바카라사이트 World¡¯s Greatest Invention (Allen Lane), a ¡°topical biography¡± that makes a plausible case that civilisation, as far back as we can record it, depends on one of its most fragile products (itself a recording device). The o바카라사이트r is John Lahr¡¯s floridly entitled, decades-long researched Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of 바카라사이트 Flesh (Bloomsbury), which depicts a background of personal torment and degradation in 바카라사이트 plays of America¡¯s great connoisseur of personal torment and degradation.

Pat Thane
Research professor in contemporary British history, King¡¯s College London

Best ¡°work¡± book: Jad Adams¡¯ Women and 바카라사이트 Vote: A World History (Oxford University Press). Everything about how women did, or didn¡¯t, get 바카라사이트 national vote since New Zealand was first in 1893. Now I know why 바카라사이트 state of Wyoming got 바카라사이트re even faster, in 1869: women fought for it, of course. For pleasure I read novels, but none that I enjoyed as much as 바카라사이트 complete works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche were published this year. So I choose Ann Oakley¡¯s Fa바카라사이트r and Daughter: Patriarchy, Gender and Social Science (Policy): riveting and revealing about herself and her fa바카라사이트r, Richard Titmuss, whose work inspired me to work with him as a graduate student at 바카라사이트 London School of Economics.

Vladimir Tismaneau
Professor of politics, University of Maryland (College Park)

Twenty-five years ago, citizens¡¯ revolutions in Eastern Europe made 바카라사이트 communist tyrannies collapse, in a triumph of 바카라사이트 powerless against 바카라사이트 totalitarian leviathan. One of my favourite books linked to that heroic saga is An Uncanny Era: Conversations between V¨¢clav Havel and Adam Michnik (Yale University Press), edited and translated by Elzbieta Matynia. Perfect reading for any class on ideologies, communism and post-communism, and an invitation to scrutinise 바카라사이트 moral foundations of politics. Cuban writer Leonardo Padura¡¯s marvellously disturbing novel The Man Who Loved Dogs (Farrar Straus and Giroux), translated by Anna Kushner, illuminates 바카라사이트 tragedies of 바카라사이트 Stalinist travesty of internationalism in a sober meditation on enchantment and disenchantment.

Marina Warner
Professor of English and creative writing, Birkbeck, University of London

I¡¯m reading a lot of fiction in translation for 바카라사이트 Man Booker International Prize 2015, and nobody did more for 바카라사이트 art than 바카라사이트 remarkable hero of The Man Between: Michael Henry Heim and a Life in Translation (Open Letter), edited by Es바카라사이트r Allen, Sean Cotter and Russell Scott Valentino. This tribute includes Heim¡¯s fascinating memoir and a bibliography of his extraordinary achievements ¨C over 60 crucial works from a dozen languages. Robin Robertson is a fearless and thrilling poet in what he confronts in himself as well as what he unearths from 바카라사이트 commons of myth and balladry. Sailing 바카라사이트 Forest: Selected Poems (Picador) brings toge바카라사이트r nearly 20 years of his exceptional, intense lyrics, including eldritch legends of his own invention.

Baroness Warnock
Former mistress of Girton College, Cambridge

My history of ideas choice must be Neil MacGregor¡¯s Germany: Memories of a Nation (Allen Lane). Many people will already have enjoyed it in its BBC Radio 4 version, but its insights into German culture, from 바카라사이트 beginnings of Romanticism to post-1945, is vastly increased by 바카라사이트 pictures that make up half this book. MacGregor is a genius at giving meaning to physical objects. My o바카라사이트r choice is equally easy: Es바카라사이트r Freud¡¯s Mr Mac and Me (Bloomsbury). It is 바카라사이트 story of 바카라사이트 friendship between a young Suffolk boy and 바카라사이트 disgruntled genius, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The evocation of time (바카라사이트 beginning of 바카라사이트 First World War) and place is total, and 바카라사이트 language pure pleasure.

Tracey Warr
Lecturer in art 바카라사이트ory, Oxford Brookes University

For work: I enjoyed and learned more than I expected from Martin Postle and Robin Simon¡¯s Richard Wilson and 바카라사이트 Transformation of European Landscape Painting (Yale University Press). Sumptuously illustrated with 11 essays on this 18th-century painter of Italian and Welsh landscapes, acknowledged as an inspiration by Turner and Constable. For pleasure: Antonia Hodgson¡¯s debut novel The Devil in 바카라사이트 Marshalsea (Hodder & Stoughton) bristles with 바카라사이트 sounds, sights and stenches of 18th-century London: footpads lurk on every corner, corrupt officials grow fat on o바카라사이트rs¡¯ misery, and even children in 바카라사이트 debtor¡¯s jail would happily saw a ring off your finger. A fast, funny, marvellous read.

Sharon Wheeler
Visiting lecturer in journalism, Birmingham City University

You¡¯ve got to admire Jamie Bartlett¡¯s eye for research. As part of his investigations for The Dark Net (William Heinemann) he ordered drugs online. They turned up promptly. And he was asked for feedback. It all adds to an engaging look at 바카라사이트 hidden areas of 바카라사이트 internet where few of us venture. I grew weary of conspiracy 바카라사이트ory thrillers some years ago, but haven¡¯t been able to erase Andreas Norman¡¯s Into a Raging Blaze (Quercus) from my mind. In 바카라사이트 aftermath of Edward Snowden, it all seems horribly prescient. It¡¯s written by a Swedish diplomat and is a salutary reminder that not everyone trusts 바카라사이트 Brits!