Books

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:54 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere’ by Paul Mason

As BBC Newsnight's economics editor, Paul Mason has enjoyed an unrivalled vantage point from which to observe the political, social and economic upheavals of the past year. His new book, 'Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere' is reviewed by Ceasefire's Alex baker.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, December 27, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments

Books | Review: ‘School Wars’ by Melissa Benn

Andrew Fleming reviews 'School Wars' by Melissa Benn, and discusses how a focus on the reactionary nature of recent education reforms threatens to obscure a vastly more important and unprecedented change to the way our nation’s schools work.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, December 10, 2011 20:06 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: The Political Economy of Media and Power

John Robertson reviews 'The Political Economy of Media and Power', edited by Jeffery Klaehn, an interdisciplinary collection addressing some of the most important issues at the intersections between mass media and the politics of power.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Monday, November 28, 2011 5:47 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Spills and Spin’, the inside story of BP

Matthew Butcher reviews 'Spills and Spin', Tom Bergin's chronicle of thirty years of corporate recklessness and cynical PR at the heart of BP, leading to the worst oil spill in history.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 15, 2011 13:38 - 1 Comment

Books | Review: ‘Broken Republic’ by Arundhati Roy

Arundhati Roy's 'Broken Republic' is a collection of essays, featuring both reportage and analysis, that address India's protracted emergence as a global superpower. Ceasefire's Lucy Du reviews.

Books, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, November 8, 2011 8:00 - 0 Comments

Books | Finding Fruitlands: An Interview with Richard Francis

Landscape with sculpture by Joseph Wheelwright (Photo: www.jenjablonsky.com)

Out in paperback this week, "Fruitlands" is an insightful account of one of history’s most unsuccessful, but significant utopian experiments. Ceasefire's JP O'Malley talks to the author, Richard Francis.

Books, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:53 - 3 Comments

Books | The politics of being: ‘Who Are We?’ by Gary Younge

In his new book on identity, Gary Younge takes a fresh look at race, class, sexuality, language and more, through a sweeping series of anecdotes and vignettes that move from Brooklyn and Barbados to Ireland, Sudan and London. Musab Younis reviews.

Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 17, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments

Books ‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones

Ceasefire's Matthew Butcher reviews Owen Jones' "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class".

Books, Middle East Chronicles, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, June 30, 2011 9:00 - 0 Comments

Books ‘The Golden Cage’ by Shirin Ebadi

Ceasefire's Frederick Andrews reviews The Golden Cage, an intriguing semi-fictional collation of personal memories, encounters and stories by the Iranian human rights activist and Nobel Prize winner Shirin Ebadi.

Books, New in Ceasefire, Photo Essays - Wednesday, June 22, 2011 14:57 - 0 Comments

Books Mapping a metropolis

Andrew Fleming reviews Mapping London, the new book by Simon Foxell, which examines the ways the British capital has been transcribed, mapped and understood over the centuries, from the mid-sixteenth century Shoreditch surrounded by windmills to the 1951 attempt to delineate the architecture of the South Bank.