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Book reviews

Capitalism and mental health treatment

Posted on 2nd July 2018 by Camilla

A review of Iain Ferguson, Politics of the Mind: Marxism and Mental Distress (Bookmarks, 2017), £9.99 The current crisis in the National Health Service is at its worst in the field of mental health. Since the Conservative government was elected… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Mental health

Explaining Ukraine’s second Maidan

Posted on 19th April 2018 by Camilla

A review of Chris Kaspar de Ploeg, Ukraine in the Crossfire (Clarity Press, 2017), £19.19 Since the unrest of 2014—the Maidan protests, the outbreak of separatist war in Donbass, the annexation of Crimea and the MH17 plane crash—it seems Ukraine… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Ukraine

Demolishing dinosaurs

Posted on 19th April 2018 by Camilla

A review of Cordelia Fine, Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds (Icon Books, 2018), £8.99 It’s not every day that you pick up a serious work about sex, gender and ­hormones to find it begins with a… Continue Reading →

Book reviews

Language and learners

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Harold Rosen, Writings on Life, Language and Learning, 1958-2008 (edited and with an introduction by John Richmond) (UCL Institute of Education Press, 2017), £24.99. To begin on a personal note, I met Harold Rosen for the first… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Education, language

A red in the lab

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Krishna Dronamraju, Popularizing Science: The Life and Work of JBS Haldane (Oxford University Press, 2017), £22.99. On 22 April 2017 thousands of people around the world joined demonstrations in defence of science. Many of them were, and… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Science

Power in a union

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Gregor Gall, Bob Crow: Socialist, Leader, Fighter: A Political Biography (Manchester University Press, 2017), £20. In a period of retreat and demoralisation for the trade union movement, Bob Crow and the RMT union he led have been… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Bob Crow

Economics: crawling from the wreckage?

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins, The Econocracy: The Perils of Leaving Economics to the Experts (Manchester University Press, 2017), £9.99. Opening a new building at the London School of Economics in November 2008, the Queen… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics

The language of the unheard

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Matt Clement, A People’s History of Riots, Protest and the Law: The Sound of the Crowd (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), £65. Dr Martin Luther King once described riots as “the language of the unheard”. The great civil rights… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Riots, the police

Holocaust files opened

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Dan Plesch, Human Rights After Hitler: The Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes (Georgetown University Press, 2017), £23. The international tribunal in Nuremberg brought some of the leading Nazis responsible for the Holocaust before military courts.… Continue Reading →

Book reviews The Holocaust

Comrade Bernard

Posted on 9th January 2018 by Camilla

A review of Bernard Goldstein, Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund: A Memoir of Interwar Poland (Purdue University Press, 2016), £55.50. On 26 September 1936, Polish fascists attacked the offices of the Jewish Labour Bund in Warsaw. The building… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Jewish Labour Bund

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