#thisweekthosebooks — Public Fediverse posts

2 books offer crucial context on the effects of #9/11, a quarter century on. #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/911-chapter-or-just-a-footnote

@jerusalemdemsas writes that “The Costs of War project at Brown University estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 war zones of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen is between 4.5 million and 4.7 million. This number includes both direct combat casualties and indirect deaths from things like malnutrition, economic collapse, displacement, and other knock-on effects that were put in motion by the wars.” This was at least partly because, as Dominic Streatfeild says in his book, “war was launched against anybody who might become – at some point in the future – a terrorist”. That’s how absurd and blundering was the American response. #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/911-chapter-or-just-a-footnote

Crucial context from Dominic Streatfeild’s book ‘A History of the World Since 9/11: Disaster, Deception, and Destruction in the War on Terror’. #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/911-chapter-or-just-a-footnote

9/11: Chapter or just a footnote? #thisweekthosebooks offers crucial context from 2 compelling books by Dominic Streatfeild and Mohammed Moulessehoul aka Yasmina Khadra. Get smarter, faster with this 5-minute read via @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/9-11-chapter-or-just-a-footnote-3e640aa5a274

This Week’s Books from #thisweekthosebooks
•A dismal summing up of #9/11’s effects.
•A novel about how the attack on #America affected an Iraqi village.
A 5-minute read.
https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/911-chapter-or-just-a-footnote

As the summer holiday comes to an end, interesting nugget dug up by #thisweekthosebooks from 2 great reads: Modern tourism grew out of the building of a “kind of virtual reality called the picturesque: a certain way of selecting, framing & representing views” https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/summer-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation

Dog days of August but summer holiday still.
An anthropologist explains the creation of the modern tourism industry.
Stories from a cool holiday spot in colonial India. #thisweekthosebooks has 2 great reads https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/on-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation-9f14d0a80313

Choice nugget on #holidays from distinguished Swedish anthropolgist Orvar Lôfgren’s book. #thisweekthosebooks. Free to read. https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/summer-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation

On #holiday: Hill station to #coolcation. #thisweekthosebooks via @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
An anthropologist explains the creation of the modern tourism industry.
Stories from a cool holiday spot in colonial India. https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/on-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation-9f14d0a80313

The #summer #holiday is changing to a search for ‘coolcations’, but this is not all that new. Remember the earlier colonial era of hill stations? #thisweekthosebooks has 2 great reads https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/summer-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation

The #summer #holiday is changing to a search for ‘coolcations’, but this is not all that new. Remember the earlier colonial era of hill stations? #thisweekthosebooks has 2 great reads https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/summer-holiday-hill-station-to-coolcation

Crucial context from 2 books on the #Mecca #defence pact. Free to read. Takes just 5 minutes #thisweekthosebooks
https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/allwhy-the-mecca-pact-matters-saladin-muslim-nato

What does Pak-Saudi-Turkey defence pact mean? #thisweekthosebooks looked at Chicago uni professor Paul Poast’s book on military alliances. Free to read. https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/allwhy-the-mecca-pact-matters-saladin-muslim-nato

#muslim world. #defence pact. what does it mean? 5 minutes and you get smarter, faster. #thisweekthosebooks
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/allwhy-the...

#muslim world. #defence pact. what does it mean? 5 minutes and you get smarter, faster. #thisweekthosebooks
https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/allwhy-the-mecca-pact-matters-saladin-muslim-nato

#muslim world. #defence pact. what does it mean? 5 minutes and you get smarter, faster. #thisweekthosebooks
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/allwhy-the...

All together now. Why the Mecc...

#Edinburgh: Backdrop to the world’s big fest via @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] #thisweekthosebooks has a city guide by Robert Louis Stevenson, a book on the last historic village to be swallowed up and two real-life crime novels. Please read #thisweekthosebooks #edinburghfringe

Oh to be a city mayor! #thisweekthosebooks on why many believe mayors should rule the world. Free to read https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/mayors-are-in-fashion-what-if-they-led-the-world

The biggest byelection in British history is for a #mayor. #thisweekthosebooks has context from two books on why mayors are in fashion. What if they led the world? via @medium https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/mayors-are-in-fashion-what-if-they-led-the-world-c095e091fa02

Rewiring Britain: Can Burnham do it? #thisweekthosebooks has a rollicking satirical novel on the Thatcher years + 2 great reads on the #neoliberal agenda. Get some context. A 6-minute read via @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/rewiring-britain-5273164c025e

From Jonathan Coe’s fabulous satirical novel on the Thatcher years, which kicked off neoliberalism in #Britain. Can #Burnham change things? #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnham-rewiring-britain-after-neoliberalism-40-years-

Andy Burnham wants to rewire #Britain but can he break the circuit on #neoliberalism? #thisweekthosebooks has 3 great reads – Jonathan Coe’s fabulous satirical novel & 2 primers on what the neolibs really really want. Get context in 5 minutes. Free to read. https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/andy-burnham-rewiring-britain-after-neoliberalism-40-years-

Why do crowds cheer #football and gawk at videogamers? This is from ‘The Greatest’ by @matthewsyed who went from competitive #sport to #journalism. #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/sports-overload-three-cheers

Why do crowds cheer #football and gawk at videogamers? This is from ‘The Greatest’ by @[email protected] who went from competitive #sport to #journalism. #thisweekthosebooks thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/sports-ove...

In her charming novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, @gabriellezevin explains why the act of playing is the ultimate gesture of trust. Apt during @ewc_en #thisweekthosebooks
https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/sports-overload-three-cheers

#Sports overload. #Football. #esports. Get context from 2 great books with #thisweekthosebooks via @[email protected] @[email protected] https://medium.com/this-week-those-books/sports-overload-three-cheers-16d2f8f15733

#Sports overload. #Football. #esports. Get context from 2 great books with #thisweekthosebooks via @[email protected] medium.com/this-week-th...

Sports overload. Three cheers

#Sports overload. Three cheers. #Football. #esports. Get context from 2 great books with #thisweekthosebooks via @[email protected] medium.com/this-week-th...

Sports overload. Three cheers

In the glut of games over this summer of #sports events, a tender novel about video #gaming and essays on why sport has themes basic to the human condition. #thisweekthosebooks offers crucial context in just 5 minutes. Free to read.
thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/sports-ove...

Sports overload. Three cheers

#American homespun, their response to imperialist taxation, was later reborn as Gandhiji's khadi movement for the #Indian independence struggle. Sarah M S Pearsall's new book has these and many other interesting world parallels. Read #thisweekthosebooks https://thisweekthosebooks.substack.com/p/america-250-the-whole-world-played