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**The New York Times and Sunday Times Bestseller** 'An ordinary
person's guide to hope. Read this book' Arundhati Roy 'As
accessible as it is brilliant' Owen Jones 'A genuine page turner'
Michelle Alexander Naomi Klein - award-winning journalist,
bestselling author of No Logo, The Shock Doctrine and This Changes
Everything, scourge of brand bullies and corporate liars - gives us
the toolkit we need to survive our surreal, shocking age. 'This is
a look at how we arrived at this surreal political moment, how to
keep it from getting a lot worse, and how, if we keep our heads, we
can flip the script.' Remember when love was supposed to Trump
hate? Remember when the oil companies and bankers seemed to be
running scared? What the hell happened? And what can we do about
it? Naomi Klein shows us how we got here, and how we can make
things better. No Is Not Enough reveals, among other things, that
the disorientation we're feeling is deliberate. That around the
world, shock political tactics are being used to generate crisis
after crisis, designed to force through policies that will destroy
people, the environment, the economy and our security. That
extremism isn't a freak event - it's a toxic cocktail of our times.
From how to trash the Trump megabrand to the art of reclaiming the
populist argument, Naomi Klein shows all of us how we can break the
spell and win the world we need. Don't let them get away with it.
'Who better than Naomi to make sense of this madness, and help us
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Klein's new book incites us brilliantly to interweave our No with a
programmatic Yes. A manual for emancipation' Yanis Varoufakis
'Magnificent ... a courageous coruscating counterspell' Junot Diaz
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With contributions from seven of Mexico's finest journalists, this
is reportage at its bravest and most necessary - it has the power
to change the world's view of their country, and by the force of
its truth, to start to heal the country's many sorrows. Supported
the Arts Council Grant's for the Arts Programme and by PEN Promotes
Veering between carnival and apocalypse, Mexico has in the last ten
years become the epicentre of the international drug trade. The
so-called "war on drugs" has been a brutal and chaotic failure
(more than 160,000 lives have been lost). The drug cartels and the
forces of law and order are often in collusion, corruption is
everywhere. Life is cheap and inconvenient people - the poor, the
unlucky, the honest or the inquisitive - can be "disappeared"
leaving not a trace behind (in September 2015, more than 26,798
were officially registered as "not located"). Yet people in all
walks of life have refused to give up. Diego Enrique Osorno and
Juan Villoro tell stories of teenage prostitution and Mexico's
street children. Anabel Hernandez and Emiliano Ruiz Parra give
chilling accounts of the "disappearance" of forty-three students
and the murder of a self-educated land lawyer. Sergio Gonzalez
Rodriguez and Marcela Turati dissect the impact of the violence on
the victims and those left behind, while Lydia Cacho contributes a
journal of what it is like to live every day of your life under
threat of death. Reading these accounts we begin to understand the
true nature of the meltdown of democracy, obscured by lurid
headlines, and the sheer physical and intellectual courage needed
to oppose it.
**Winner of the Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical
Prose** 'A devastating front-line account of the police killings
and the young activism that sparked one of the most significant
racial justice movements since the 1960s: Black Lives Matter ...
Lowery more or less pulls the sheet off America ... essential
reading' Junot Diaz, The New York Times, Books of 2016 'Electric
... so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of
a man who has not grown a callus on his heart' Dwight Garner, The
New York Times, 'A Top Ten Book of 2016' 'I'd recommend everyone to
read this book ... it's not just statistics, it's not just the
information, but it's the connective tissue that shows the human
story behind it. I really enjoyed it' Trevor Noah, host of Comedy
Central's 'The Daily Show' A deeply reported book on the birth of
the Black Lives Matter movement, offering unparalleled insight into
the reality of police violence in America, and an intimate, moving
portrait of those working to end it In over a year of on-the-ground
reportage, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled across the
US to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise
neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the
scale of the response to Michael Brown's death and understand the
magnitude of the problem police violence represents, Lowery
conducted hundreds of interviews with the families of victims of
police brutality, as well as with local activists working to stop
it. Lowery investigates the cumulative effect of decades of
racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with constant
discrimination, failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too
few jobs. Offering a historically informed look at the standoff
between the police and those they are sworn to protect, They Can't
Kill Us All demonstrates that civil unrest is just one tool of
resistance in the broader struggle for justice. And at the end of
President Obama's tenure, it grapples with a worrying and largely
unexamined aspect of his legacy: the failure to deliver tangible
security and opportunity to the marginalised Americans most in need
of it.
Media reform plays an increasingly important role in the struggle
for social justice. As battles are fought over the future of
investigative journalism, media ownership, spectrum management,
speech rights, broadband access, network neutrality, the
surveillance apparatus, and digital literacy, what effective
strategies can be used in the pursuit of effective media reform?
Prepared by thirty-three scholars and activists from more than
twenty-five countries, Strategies for Media Reform focuses on
theorizing media democratization and evaluating specific projects
for media reform. This edited collection of articles offers readers
the opportunity to reflect on the prospects for and challenges
facing campaigns for media reform and gathers significant examples
of theory, advocacy, and activism from multinational perspectives.
Frank Laskier was born 1912 and lived his early years in the
suburbs of Liverpool. As a teenager, Frank was an avid reader of
Conrad and Masefield and had a romantic view of the "call of the
sea". One day he decided to lie about his age and run away from
home aboard a ship destined for Australia. Laskier worked on many
ships in the merchant navy and it was his experiences during the
Second World War that brought him to the attention of the BBC.
Frank was asked to broadcast a number of talks on his experiences.
This book is a transcript of those radio talks first published in
1941. Through this authentic voice of an ordinary man - not a
historian, or a politician, or a great admiral - but an ordinary
man, we can be reminded of the importance, bravery and sacrifice of
the merchant navy in keeping Britain supplied during the Second
World War. From the 1941 cover: 'We are proud to announce this book
by Frank Laskier, "a sailor, an Englishman," the merchant seaman
who gave the ever-memorable postscript after the BBC news on the
first Sunday in October. The millions of listeners who heard that
deeply moving voice will welcome an opportunity to read many more
stories of the war at sea, which Laskier tells with the
incomparable vividness of simple truth, and which made him a great
broadcast speaker overnight. Laskier sounds, too, the note of
victory that will bring a universal response-"Remember what we have
been through; remember what we're going through; and fight and
fight, and never, never, never, give in!" ' The publisher of this
new edition has included an introduction and explanatory footnotes,
as well as an appendix listing the ships mentioned in the book
along with their descriptions.
From the earliest FA Cup finals in the 1870s played between teams
of former public schoolboys, to twenty-first-century Champions
League matches contested by teams of billionaires - with stops
along the way for Leicester City's extraordinary Premier League
triumph, the Hand of God, and the 1966 World Cup - this is football
history as it happened, straight from the pages of The Times. 'The
players came off arm in arm. They knew they had finally fashioned
something of which to be proud.'
What happens when a regular person accidentally finds themselves
lost in the middle of a war? In 1991, BBC journalist Chris Woolf
travelled to Afghanistan. The government in Kabul was fighting for
survival, after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union. The parallels
to today are extraordinary. Woolf was visiting a colleague to see
if he'd like the life of a foreign correspondent. They hitched a
ride with an aid convoy and bumbled straight into the war. They
kept going, despite the horror and terror. There was no choice.
Amid the darkness, Woolf discovered the generosity and hospitality
of ordinary Afghans. They became the first journalists to pass
through the battle lines to meet with legendary warlord Ahmed Shah
Massoud, and carried home a vital message for the peace process.
They met with Soviet POW/MIAs and recorded messages for loved ones.
Unlike a conventional war story, Woolf shares an intimate portrait
of first encounters with death and real fear. He explores the
lingering effects of trauma, and explains how he put his experience
to good use. The author introduces readers to just enough of
Afghanistan's history, geography, culture and politics for readers
to understand what's going on around him. What people are saying:
"Bumbling Through the Hindu Kush is at once gripping, informative,
suspenseful, and at times it reads like a thriller." - Qais Akbar
Omar, author of "A Fort of Nine Towers: An Afghan Family Story."
"Chris Woolf has written a truly personal tale that is both
gripping and historically significant for the war between the
Soviet-backed government and Mujahidin in Afghanistan. His mix of
personal, cultural, and wartime reflections make this a story well
worth the time of Afghanistan aficionados and casual readers
alike." - Dr Jonathan Schroden, former strategic adviser to the US
military's Central Command, and to the International Security
Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan "Combat can feel like the
ant on an elephant's tail: overwhelmed and along for the ride.
Chris Woolf's memoir of his ten days in late 1991 "bumbling" into
the war in Afghanistan is just such an up-and-down tale, with the
momentary highs and gut-crushing lows common to combat. When the
teenage goat herder fires his AK-47 in the first few pages - you'll
know how that ant feels, just holding on, exhilarated, terrified,
never really knowing what comes next." - Lt-Col ML Cavanaugh, US
Army; Senior Fellow, Modern War Institute at West Point; lead
writer and co-editor, "Strategy Strikes Back: How Star Wars
Explains Modern Military Conflict." The perfect Christmas gift for
all those who like military history and think they understand war.
The author believes in giving back, so a portion of the proceeds is
donated towards helping Afghan kids with disabilities
(enabledchildren.org), and towards clearing landmines in
Afghanistan and around the world (HALOTrust.org).
NOW SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
"Utterly gripping, timely and shocking" PHILIPPE SANDS "Compelling
and disturbing . . . quietly devastating" DAMON GALGUT "This is a
book of profound importance . . . A masterpiece" ALEXANDER McCALL
SMITH "A vintage crime story . . . an extraordinary tale . . . It
is written as a drama, part thriller, part tragedy" ALEC RUSSELL,
Financial Times "A smartly paced true-crime thriller with a vivid
cast of characters . . . as tense as it is disturbing" JOHN CARLIN,
author of Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made
a Nation Two dead men. Forty suspects. The trial that broke a small
South African town "Look what the fucking dogs did to them, someone
muttered. No-one mentioned the rope, or the monkey-wrench, or the
gun, or the knife, or the stick, or the whip, or the blood-stained
boots. In fact, no-one said much at all. It seemed simpler that
way. There was no sense in pointing fingers.'" At dusk, on a warm
evening in 2016, a group of forty men gathered in the corner of a
dusty field on a farm outside Parys in the Free State. Some were in
fury. Others treated the whole thing as a joke - a game. The events
of the next two hours would come to haunt them all. They would rip
families apart, prompt suicide attempts, breakdowns, divorce,
bankruptcy, threats of violent revenge and acts of unforgivable
treachery. These Are Not Gentle People is the story of that night,
and of what happened next. It's a courtroom drama, a profound
exploration of collective guilt and individual justice, and a
fast-paced literary thriller. Award-winning foreign correspondent
and author Andrew Harding traces the impact of one moment of
collective barbarism on a fragile community - exploding lies,
cover-ups, political meddling and betrayals, and revealing the
inner lives of those involved with extraordinary clarity. The book
is also a mesmerising examination of a small town trying to cope
with a trauma that threatens to tear it in two - as such, it is as
much a journey into the heart of modern South Africa as it is a
gripping tale of crime, punishment and redemption. When a whole
community is on trial, who pays the price?
In 1981 a young semi-professional footballer - known as `Imam
Beckenbauer' for his piety and his dominant style of play - has his
career cut short after a confrontation with Turkey's military
junta. His name was Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and three decades later
he is Turkey's most powerful ruler since Ataturk....' Turkey is a
nation obsessed with football. From the flares which cover the
stadium with multi-coloured smoke and often bring play to a halt,
to the `conductors' - ultras who lead the `walls of sound' at
matches, Turkish football has always been an awesome spectacle. And
yet, in this politically fraught country, caught between the Middle
East and the West, football has also always been so much more. From
the fan groups resisting the government in the streets and stands,
to ambitious politicians embroiling clubs in Machiavellian
shenanigans, football in Turkey is a site of power, anger, and
resistance. Journalist and football obsessive Patrick Keddie takes
us on a wild journey through Turkey's role in the world's most
popular game. He travels from the streets of Istanbul, where fans
dodge tear gas and water cannons, to the plains of Anatolia, where
women are fighting for their rights to wear shorts and play sports.
He meets a gay referee facing death threats, Syrian footballers
trying to piece together their shattered dreams, and Kurdish teams
struggling to play football amid war. `The Passion' also tells the
story of the biggest match-fixing scandal in European football, and
sketches its murky connections to the country's leadership. In
doing so he lifts the lid on a rarely glimpsed side of modern
Turkey. Funny, touching and beautifully observed, this is the story
of Turkey as we have never seen it before.
The first collection of food writing by Britain's funniest and most
feared critic A.A. Gill knows food, and loves food. A meal is never
just a meal. It has a past, a history, connotations. It is a
metaphor for life. A.A. Gill delights in decoding what lies behind
the food on our plates: famously, his reviews are as much
ruminations on society at large as they are about the restaurants
themselves. So alongside the concepts, customers and cuisines, ten
years of writing about restaurants has yielded insights on
everything from yaks to cowboys, picnics to politics. TABLE TALK is
an idiosyncratic selection of A.A. Gill's writing about food, taken
from his Sunday Times and Tatler columns. Sometimes inspired by the
traditions of a whole country, sometimes by a single ingredient, it
is a celebration of what great eating can be, an excoriation of
those who get it wrong, and an education about our own appetites.
Because it spans a decade, the book focuses on A.A. Gill's general
dining experiences rather than individual restaurants - food fads,
tipping, chefs, ingredients, eating in town and country and abroad,
and the best and worst dining experiences. Fizzing with wit, it is
a treat for gourmands, gourmets and anyone who relishes good
writing.
The AEF in Print is an anthology that tells the story of U.S.
involvement in World War I through newspaper and magazine
articles-precisely how the American public experienced the Great
War. From April 1917 to November 1918, Americans followed the war
in their local newspapers and popular magazines. The book's
chapters are organized chronologically: Mobilization, Arrival in
Europe, Learning to Fight, American Firsts, Battles, and the
Armistice. Also included are topical chapters, such as At Sea, In
the Air, In the Trenches, Wounded Warriors, and Heroes.
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