Chris Bertram Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Author of Do States Have the Right to Exclude Immigrants? Professor emeritus at Bristol. He/him. Also @crookedfootball@mstdn.social
A Tale for the Time Being
Ruth OzekiChris Bertram@CaroWintersgill @lea_ypi @OwenWintersgill @DrSJFine Another book that was mentioned to me by someone was Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being, but I haven't read that one.
Paperback, 2013
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Western Privilege: Work, Intimacy, and Postcolonial Hierarchies in Dubai
Amélie Le RenardChris BertramAmélie le Renard's Western Privilege (about "expats" in Dubai) is well worth a corrective read for anyone tempted by illusions about Westerners in that region as the bearers of progressive egalitarianism concerning race and gender
Paperback, 2021
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hot Milk
Deborah LevyChris Bertram@alex_callinicos It was odd to find the Angel of History surfacing in Deborah Levy’s Hot Milk, though you have to know the Benjamin to recognise the allusion
Hardcover, 2016
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Victor Hugo
Graham RobbChris BertramThis passage from Graham Robb's Victor Hugo made me chuckle for the nice touch at the end https://t.co/D8SUo4o9TS
Paperback, 2009
$37.50$18.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
David EdmondsChris BertramStephen Mulhall is somewhat sceptical of David Edmonds's way of approaching Parfit's life and thought https://t.co/oJyioZijIY
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Codes of the Underworld: How Criminals Communicate
Diego GambettaChris BertramDiego Gambetta's Codes of the Underworld should be required reading for all student's of Boris Johnson's administration https://t.co/IG3xu6Oe24
Paperback, 2011
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Human Acts
Han KangChris Bertram@LalehKhalili ppl mentioning Malraux, so Les Conquérants also. Sembène, Les bouts de bois de Dieu (strike rather than rev). Juan Gabriel Vasquez, The Shape of the Ruins; Han Kang, Human Acts; Erpenbeck, End of Days; London, The Iron Heel (fictional failed revolution imagined from 1909).
Paperback, 2017
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The Man Who Saw Everything
Deborah LevyChris BertramThere's so much Deborah Levy publicity out at the moment ... I really disliked The Man Who Saw Everything but maybe other stuff is much better?
Paperback, 2020
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Last White Man
Mohsin HamidChris Bertram“for what was more unlike oneself, more awkward, than trying to be oneself” Nice line from Mohsin Hamid, The Last White Man.
Paperback, 2023
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More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave
Ruth Schwartz CowanChris Bertram@KarenRothkin Just the thought that those put onus on the customer to walk up and down what is essentially a warehouse. @JohnQuiggin mentioned Ruth Schwartz Cowan's More Work for Mother and suggested return of home delivery means reduction in one form of "shadow work": driving to the shops
Paperback, 1985
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book