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Advantages: Some interesting ideas
Disadvantages: Probably not aimed at the general reader

Like most avid readers, I don't remember the time before there were books. We were brought up with books. There are family tales of my father as a child eating his breakfast with one hand, while trying to tie his shoelaces with the other and still contriv ...

hiker 27.10.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Enchanted Hunters - Maria Tatar

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Drug Wars

Advantages: Quality of writing, interesting stories, compassion for and engagement with humans at centre
Disadvantages: Grim, ever changing situation means book will probably be out of date fast

More than 38,000 people have been killed in the last 3 years in what Ed Vulliamy argues is an unacknowledged war, on the long border (2,100 miles) between Mexico and the United States. The war is between drug trafficking gangs over control of the ...

elkiedee 18.02.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Amexica: War Along the Borderline - Ed Vulliamy

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Touché

Advantages: Lots of quirky side-information to keep you interested
Disadvantages: Not convinced the thesis fully stands up, but its an enjoyable argument along the way.

Locke's subtitle ''Why Men and Women Talk So Differently'' might lead you to think that this is just another self-help ''Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus'' tome. It's not. Rather than focussing upon what we all know from experience – that men and ...

hiker 20.12.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Duels and Duets: Why Men and Women Talk So Differently - John L. Locke

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Jumping through hoops

Advantages: better size, good practice questions
Disadvantages: reproduces poorly written work from official guide

...Why buy this book? In 2005, the Home Office introduced the Life in the UK test for most people applying for British citizenship. In 2007, they extended the requirement to pass the test to include people applying for permanent residence ...

j9j8j7 11.01.2012 · Read full review
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Review of Life in the UK Test Study Guide 2012 Edition - Henry Dillon, George Sandison

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Academic Prejudice

Advantages: Thought provoking and interesting to read
Disadvantages: Some rather nasty prejudices are dressed up in academic jargon here, weird English in translation

...Paul Scheffer, a Dutch academic, sets out to address the "problems" caused by immigration from developing countries to Western Europe and the US. Immigrant Nations was first published in the Netherlands in 2007 but has been translated into English this ye ...

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Review of Immigrant Nations - Paul Scheffer

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