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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritanceby: Barack Obama June 05, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Obama completely embraces the importance of effective communication as reflected on this book. I like the part where he realized how important is saying the right words and get the people's undivided attention to what he is saying.
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dreamby: Barack Obama February 07, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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"The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream" is Barack Obama's second book, and it is his personal view of the direction that the United States needs to move in terms of the type of politics we practice. It is not a look at whether one should be liberal or conservative--though he certainly does speak to the liberal positions better than the conservative ones; but rather about moving away from the divisive politics which have become the norm in recent years. The book is only nine chapters long, as Senator Obama goes into some depth of his thinking in a variety of areas.
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A History of Modern Britainby: Andrew Marr May 02, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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This is an interesting and readable history of our country since the Second World War marred (pun intended) by a liberal/left-wing bias. Andrew Marr deals with a number of topics and this book is neither political nor social history but contains bits of each and more.
Much of the book is a re-hash of information that I had already gathered from elsewhere but some topics were new to me. For example, Andrew Marr spent some time discussing the rise of pop music and how this and the fashion industry seems to have originated mainly from people who went to art school rather than e.g. university or technical college. The main strengths of the book are a clear writing style and the willingness to tackle slighly off beat subjects here and there ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The American Future: A Historyby: Simon Schama October 02, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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This book is for those of you who like history as a sweep of events and with interlocking sections that you have to piece together to get your overall picture. Although this makes reference to the current election I think its only because I think the author sees the two candidates as potentially the Hamilton and Jefferson characters of this age - one quite happy to use American military strength and the other very sey against it. And its this split in the US approach that the four sections of the book address. The four sections cover war, religion , what is an american, and the belief you can have it all if you just try hard enough and while I don;t think you get a full final view I think the observation at the end that the role of government is about making people ... Read More:
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50 People Who Buggered Up Britainby: Quentin Letts October 09, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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I love a good, light-hearted rant - who doesn't? - so I had high hopes for this book, having recently gone through a couple of Charlie Brooker's finest.
And what a let down it proved to be. Wielding a clever turn of phrase is usually a good thing, but in this case it feels less like an intelligent use of the English language, and more like a smug way of belittling the proles, who could never hope to master or understand such eloquent diction. This has the effect of almost completely preventing the reader from "warming" to the author, and therefore finding it fairly difficult to sympathise. Secondly the humour, which is distinctly lacking - yes, there are some clever and amusing sections, but for the most part it's just fairly unremarkable, ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalismby: Naomi Klein May 01, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Readable, passionate, but... if true, the latest financial crash would have seen another swift extension of market power. But does govt control or ownership of the banks, talk of aggressive new regulation or the 'end of capitalism' sound like capitalism making hay? Are we really seeing a retreat from govt or state activity in the face of recession?
On the contrary, this latest shock is widely described as a disaster for capitalism. The doctrine fails its first test. The former chairman of the Federal reserve - Alan Greenspan - talks about this shock as though it has fundamentally undermined the theoretical constructs of capitalism by showing the weakness of self interest. When the priests are becoming apostates, how can the shock be said to further their former creed? ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Life in the United Kingdom: A Journey to Citizenship - 2nd Edition (2007)by: The Home Office - Life in the UK Advisor March 27, 2007 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Here it is, the cure for insomnia!
Given that one of the aims of the Life in the UK test is to test English literacy, you would think the official guide would be written in accessible English! Instead, we are handed this sloppy compilation of pointless statistics, useless abbreviations, dry facts with little context and advice that will make you slap your forehead and scowl: 'Well, OBVIOUSLY!' A blue box pops up every so often asking the reader 'check that you understand...', but oftentimes what is listed has NOT been explained or even mentioned in what you've just finished reading. I defy anyone to explain to me the differences between the Council of Europe, the Council of the EU, the EU, the EC and the European Parliament at the best of times, but especially after reading ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About it: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About Itby: Paul Collier October 02, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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In my work over the last few years, struggling with the issues of development and poverty reduction, and I read a lot of books on the issues. Recently, I read one of the best books in the form of Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion.
Just as Mr. Collier says at the end of his book, discussions on poverty and development have over the last few years been dominated by two extremes: On the one extreme Mr. Jeffrey Sachs call for more aid to "end poverty", and on the other side, William Easterly's negativity that nothing really works (in the books The End of Poverty and The White Man's Burden, respectively). Mr. Collier strikes a marvelous and necessary balance between these two. On one side, he says about Mr. Sachs: "At present the clarion call for the left is Jeffrey Sach's book the end of ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Who Runs Britain?: and Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess We're in: And Who's to Blame for the Economic Mess We're inby: Robert Peston October 30, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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In my work over the last few years, struggling with the issues of development and poverty reduction, and I read a lot of books on the issues. Recently, I read one of the best books in the form of Paul Collier's The Bottom Billion.
Just as Mr. Collier says at the end of his book, discussions on poverty and development have over the last few years been dominated by two extremes: On the one extreme Mr. Jeffrey Sachs call for more aid to "end poverty", and on the other side, William Easterly's negativity that nothing really works (in the books The End of Poverty and The White Man's Burden, respectively). Mr. Collier strikes a marvelous and necessary balance between these two. On one side, he says about Mr. Sachs: "At present the clarion call for the left is Jeffrey Sach's book the end of ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritanceby: Barack Obama August 21, 2008 Best Selling > Books > Government and Politics |
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Obama completely embraces the importance of effective communication as reflected on this book. I like the part where he realized how important is saying the right words and get the people's undivided attention to what he is saying.
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