Archive for July, 2010

BOTW: Reclaiming the F Word by Catherine Redfern & Kristin Aune

29 July, 2010

Reclaiming the F Word: The New Feminist ovement by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune

If you thought Feminism was finished, this week’s book will happily tell you otherwise. Reclaiming the F Word by Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune aims to do just that; dragging ‘Feminism’ back from the depths of its ineffectual stereotype to something less unappealing and more relevant to the modern-day woman.  Redfern set up the new wave feminist’s website, The F-Word in 2001 at a time when the general consensus seemed to be an all round lack of enthusiasm for a women’s movement. Since then she and Aune have witnessed an uprising of grass-roots projects, particularly young women who seem to be tapping in to the issues that contemporary life raises on both a local and global scale. This book is a result of those observations and is both a celebration of these activities and a rallying call to action.

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BOTW: Applying for a Job: The Essential Guide by Sasa Jankovic

22 July, 2010

Applying for a job by Sasa Jankovic

This week we bring you a new book from Sasa Jankovic, a freelance writer from our Journalist Directory. We interviewed Sasa for the FeaturesExec Media Bulletin when she told us about her new guide-book Applying for a Job. Looking for work in this economic climate is difficult enough but with the ever-increasing numbers of talented graduates joining the market and each vacancy being well over subscribed you might well appreciate some practical advice on how to stand out from the crowd. Sasa’s book will take you through everything from preparing the best CV to dealing with rejection and the all important job offers. It’s not aimed purely at students either, it includes sections on returning to work, changing you career and knowing your employment rights.

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BOTW: The C-Word by Lisa Lynch

15 July, 2010

The C Word by Lisa Lynch

In yesterday’s Journalert we spoke to Lisa Lynch about her work, her aspirations of being a florist and Marc Jacobs handbags. Today we thought we’d talk about Lisa’s new book, The C-Word, based on her sensational blog www.alrighttit.com about the “sheer bloody pain-in-the-arse inconvenience of getting breast cancer at 28″. The blog started as a way of keeping her friends and family up to speed and evolved in to a strategy of blogging her way through the cancer – it was a matter of coincidence that Lisa was also a hugely funny and talented writer and her following grew from there. Having attracted the attention of everyone from Stephen Fry to Heat magazine it wasn’t long before the book deal came a-knocking and frankly we’re very glad it did.

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BOTW: Challenge for Africa by Wangari Maathai

8 July, 2010
The Challenge for Africa

The Challenge for Africa

This week The Media Book Club brings you Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai’s book Challenge for Africa. Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the prestigious peace prize back in 2004 for her work with The Green Belt Movement. Since winning the prize Maathai has become a spokesperson for a number of important initiatives from sustainable development to human rights. Challenge for Africa discusses the endemic corruption, legacies of colonialism, poverty and climate change that threaten the development of greater justice and equality in Africa.

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BOTW: Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

1 July, 2010

Cognitive Surplus by Clay Shirky

American writer, consultant and commentator on the World Wide Web, Clay Shirky’s new book is out today. It’s called Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age and it makes an interesting analysis of what the majority of the world does with its free-time. Our younger generation is now watching less television for the first time in history; instead they are turning to the internet and it’s changing the social landscape of the modern world. Networks and collaborations now exist where they were previously impossible. Cognitive Surplus continues on where Shirky’s previous bestseller, Here Comes Everybody left off as he discusses the potential scale and impact that this revolution of connectivity may well have on our future lives.

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