Natalie blogs at Philobiblon, on books, history and all things feminist. In her public life she's the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales.
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The question of "how" birds migrate - that's one of many still up for grabs.
There are some signs of sense returning to agricultural and gardening practice. But not nearly enough.
A colourful, thoughtful History 1.3 version of this turbulent, unfinished period.
The accumulation of the statistics about the decline of the place of the working person is impressive, and depressing.
True-life family history and relationships on stage. By the people concerned. Is anyone else?
It's simple really: Workers stopped getting a fair share of productivity increases, profits rose, finance became a gigantic boil on the world economy.
Strong and frightening on the science, less convincing on the politics and sociology.
Should an intelligent Kepler-22berian land tomorrow, this is the book to give her to introduce the human race in all its complexity...
This fantasy disaster fiction from a decade ago has hardly dated at all.
Want to know why that hideous monstrosity of private flats has been built at the end of your road?