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FiveBooks – Aspects of War Week
12th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
This week has been Aspects of War week at FiveBooks.com with a huge range of book selections and views on the mechanics of foreign policy, the conflicts in Sudan and Burma, and the poetry and works of art that influence our views.
John David Lewis on War and Foreign PolicyMonday, August 2nd
Professor at Duke University, Lewis says that only victory over the enemy's will to fight can ensure long-term peace. He chooses... -
FiveBooks: Good and Evil Week
9th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It's been Good and Evil Week at FiveBooks with interviews and book recommendations that offered a new interpretation of King Lear, tips on how to be happy and a philosophical understanding of time itself. Enjoy reading!
Adam Haslett on Evil
Monday July 26th
The bestselling writer says King Lear rejects Cordelia because she addresses his mortal humanity and not his immortal omnipotence – something many people have a problem with. He chooses five... -
FiveBooks – Mad World Week
21st July 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Oliver James on the Mad World We Live In
Psychologist and bestselling author Oliver James says women don’t want to hear it but Bridget Jones is a lot more miserable than her grandmother. The American feminist men-in-skirts model has been an unmitigated disaster.Frank Furedi on the Crisis in EducationSociology Professor Frank Furedi chooses books on the crisis in education and says schools have got to stop trying to solve social problems... -
FiveBooks: Diplomacy Week
16th July 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
On FiveBooks Diplomacy Week we studied diplomacy’s history, it’s future and everything in between, from Northern Ireland to the Middle East.
Geoff Berridge on Why We Need DiplomatsDuring the India-Pakistan crisis in 1971 the US State Department favoured democratic India on the ‘merits of the issue’, but Henry Kissinger swung policy behind authoritarian Pakistan because its government was a bridge to China. Diplomacy expert GR Berridge says diplomacy needs amateurs like... -
FiveBooks: China Week with Harry Wu, John Kampfner and Richard McGregor
28th June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It’s China Week this week at FiveBooks – see all the interviews at www.fivebooks.com/china
Labour camp survivor Harry Wu talks about the horrors of Communist China and says our desire to do business with China has forced us into denial about the camps and the 50 million dead. Harvard Professor Elizabeth Perry discusses the popular protest in China that does exist. Together they choose our first ten books on China.Then Chief... -
FiveBooks: Mental Equilibrium Week
22nd June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Mental Equilibrium Week on FiveBooks includes some fascinating facts about autism and the proof that, yes, your dog actually is psychic.
Jessica Pryce-Jones, CEO of iOpener, a management consultancy devoted to raising productivity through happiness, says happiness is about positive thinking but sometimes you do have to release your inner asshole. She chooses five books on happiness at work and how to acheive it.Cognitive neuroscientist Sarah-Jayne Blakemore debunks pseudo-neuroscience and... -
FiveBooks: World Cup Week
14th June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It’s Football all week in FiveBooks, interviews with the best football writers and commentators from David Baddiel to Simon Kuper and 25 book recommendations – everything you’ll ever need to know about the beautiful game.
Kevin Bloom kicks off talking about South Africa – just to set the scene for World Cup 2010. He discusses post-apartheid identity and says white South Africans need to find modesty and humility in the face... -
FiveBooks: Islam Week
2nd June 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
This week FiveBooks devotes itself to what BBC reporter Shazia Khan calls ‘the different shades of Islam’. Shazia chooses five books on the Islam and says that Islam in pre-Taliban Afghanistan was actually far more moderate than in many places – a fact that has been forgotten in the carnage. One of the books she recommends is Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Alsanea. It is the Saudi Sex and...
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FiveBooks: Writing from Around the World
17th May 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
First a quick reminder to book tickets for our first live event at the Frontline Club on May 27th.
LSE’s Mary Kaldor, US Lt.Col. Shannon Beebe and war crimes barrister Andrew Cayley will be discussing the nature of modern warfare in a debate chaired by Lord Meghnad Desai. Tickets are £10 for members/£12 for non-members for the debate and you can also join us all for dinner afterwards – dining tickets... -
FiveBooks: Spies and Espionage Week
27th April 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
It’s Spies and Espionage on FiveBooks this week, with more than 25 book recommendations on the wilderness of mirrors that is the world of the secret services.
Espionage week kicks off on FiveBooks with Dr Michael Goodman of King’s College London’s Department of War Studies discussing the eccentric pioneers of the British and American intelligence services – the guns, wooden legs, boozing, paranoia and genius that became MI5, MI6 and the...
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