Peter Mitchell 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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bald art riot | 'Imperial Nostalgia: How the British Conquered Themselves' (MUP 2021)
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure
Greg LukianoffPeter Mitchell@JamesBSumner sounds like *a little someone* hasn't read The Coddling of The American Mind by the absolutely-not-fash intellectuals "Jonathan Haidt" and "Greg Lukianoff"
Paperback, 2019
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Don't Hit Me: International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Carol L. GreenPeter Mitchell@matilda_jt will never forget him scolding me, five days after my sister’s death, for ruining International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Girls by misogynistically asking terfs to take her name out of their mouths. heroically Online behaviour
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1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellPeter Mitchellgenuinely puzzled why, in 1984 by George Orwell, they faff around inventing all sorts of doublethink, mind control etc & then go & write WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH in massive letters everywhere. why not just write LOL ACTUALLY WE’RE THE BADDIES. idiots
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Culture and Imperialism
Edward W. SaidPeter Mitchell@robpalkwriter all the apparent ingredients of a silly tweet about books, but arranged in such a way that actually it's Culture and Imperialism by Edward Said
Paperback, 1994
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The End of the World Is Flat
Simon EdgePeter Mitchellreckon someone should make a really shonky eccentric-millionaire-funded film of Simon Edge’s nifty and often snort-inducingly funny satirical novel ‘The End of the World Is Flat’, like they did with Atlas Shrugged
Paperback, 2021
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture
Raphael SamuelPeter Mitchell@bsb1945 and the two volumes of Theatres of Memory by Raphael Samuel are great for the past few decades. Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Silencing the Past is also great - these are the books I stole most outrageously from for my last, anyway
Paperback, 2012
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Animal Lovers
Rob PalkPeter Mitchellsounds like someone hasn’t read ‘Animal Lovers’ by Rob Palk https://t.co/yKiGqEoDWr
Paperback, 2018
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Roald DahlPeter Mitchell@whij @HeadWarriorTWM @loadofmince but none of these things are under threat of being censored or made unavailable John, you can still buy any editions of Roald Dahl you like in bookshops and on Amazon (including the pre-1970s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in which the Oompa-Loompahs are enslaved Africans)
Paperback, 2007
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Saturday
Ian McEwanPeter Mitchell@MatthewKilgour i really want to agree with you here, but i think he probably considers Ian McEwan’s ‘Saturday’ to be the century’s first true masterpiece
Paperback, 2006
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sense of an Ending
Julian BarnesPeter Mitchell@MatthewKilgour btw he also owns The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
Paperback, 2012
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book