What are you reading? ¨C 18 June 2015

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 ¨C 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.é¢

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.é¢

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 .é¢

Martin Raul Racca, doctoral candidate in history, Instituto Superior de Profesorado N¡ã 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 ¨C big pictures inferred from small clues ¨C was revolutionary at 바카라사이트 time, and this 1976 book would go on to spawn an entire new genre of historiography, 바카라사이트 ¡®microhistory¡¯.é¢