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Rafael Leal-Arcas (PhD European Studies 2002) Edward Elgar, 544pp £110 h/b In this insightful book, Leal-Arcas seeks to answer
Pat Barker (BSc International History 1965) Penguin, 272pp £7.99 p/b Pat Barker returns to the first world war in Toby’s Room, a dark, compelling novel of human desire, wartime horror and the power of friendship. Moving from the Slade School of Art to Queen Mary’s Hospital, where surgery and art intersect in the rebuilding of the shattered faces of the wounded, Toby’s Room is a riveting drama of identity, damage, intimacy and loss. Pat Barker is an award winning writer; her books include the highly acclaimed Regeneration trilogy, comprising Regeneration, which has been made into a film, The Eye in the Door, which won The
Guardian Fiction Prize, and The Ghost Road, which won the Booker Prize. The trilogy featured in The Observer’s 2012 list of the ten best historical novels. She is also the author of the more recent novels Another World, Border Crossing, Double Vision and Life Class. In February, Pat took part in Branching Out, the 2013 Literary Festival at LSE, where she spoke on Art in Conflict alongside Dr Suzannah Biernoff. In their joint session, they explored art’s responsibility to war, and the links between art, literature, science and history.
the question: How can we make best use of the international trading system experience to aim at a global climate change agreement? In doing so, he contributes to developing the architecture for a post2012 global climate agreement and, in the process, identifies and proposes new approaches to climate change mitigation by linking it to the international trade system.
The Emerging Markets of the Middle East: strategies for entry and growth Tim Rogmans (BSc Economics 1987) Business Expert Press, 145pp £17.59 p/b This book is the first of its kind to include the information, insights and frameworks that are required to develop entry and growth strategies for the Middle East in the new turbulent environment following the global economic crisis and the Arab Spring.
A Post-War Half Century: Christmas letters 1962-2011
ALUMNI BOOKS Future Asia: the new gold rush in the East Rajiv Biswas (BSc Economics 1980) Palgrave Macmillan, 216pp £26.99 h/b Future Asia looks at the key trends reshaping the global economy, and how an economic revolution driven by Asia will sweep through the old world order in the next decade, bringing widespread political upheaval for governments, companies and individuals.
Alienation and the Carnivalization of Society Jerome Braun (Research Fee Industrial Relations 1973) with Lauren Langman, Routledge, 214pp £28 p/b This book examines alienation from both a sociological and psychoanalytic perspective, revisiting classic
treatments of the topic (Marx, Simmel, Weber) and exploring its relevance to understanding post-modern consumer society.
The Compositor in London: the rise and fall of a labour aristocracy Dr Cyril Cannon (BSc Sociology 1957, PhD Sociology 1961) St Bride Library, 285pp £30 p/b In the early days of letterpress, every letter had to be manually selected, placed and spaced. Only a trained and literate worker could manipulate type into pages ready to print. The compositor was thus considered an aristocrat among the working men because his skill was essential. For 500 years the compositor’s craft was fundamental to communication; the digital age has effectively changed the world of printing beyond recognition. Dr Cannon’s thesis, published in 1961, explores the role of the compositor and the work in which they were so skilled.
Eberhard George Wedell (BSc International Relations 1947) with Rosemarie Wedell, Memoir Club, 230pp £20 p/b During the second half of the last century the Wedells began to send a letter to their friends and relations, telling them about their lives during the year. The first letter in 1962 details Professor Wedell’s work as Secretary of the Independent Television Authority, while the 2011 letter reflects on life after his wife Rosemarie’s death in 2010. During the half century concerned, Professor Wedell moved from London to take up a chair at the University of Manchester, and when Britain joined the European Community in 1973 he was put in charge of the Employment Policy Division in Brussels. In 1982 he founded the European Institute for the Media. Rosemarie developed her work in Religious Education at home and abroad, exploring the inter-faith challenges in China, India and Zambia. The publication of these diaries, unedited and endto-end, provides a fascinating slice of contemporary history as experienced by one ordinary family during its post-war half century.
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