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1.		Plundering the Public Sector from Constable Price: £6.99 Customer Review: After reading Rip-Off! this book was a complete eye-opener on the consulting industry in the public sector, and pretty much confirmed what I experienced. An absolutely excellent read that will make your blood boil at the money squandering in government and make you get off your feet to do... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		An Appeal to Reason: A Cool Look at Global Warming from Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd Price: £6.49 Customer Review: This is a wonderful book. As the title suggests, it is cool, reasonable, and patient, looking carefully at all the evidence and coming to conclusions which it is hard to disagree with. Like other reviewers, I find it hard to take excerpts from the book because I would have to quote the whole... more info	Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		Scared to Death: From BSE to Global Warming: Why Scares are Costing Us the Earth from Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. Price: £11.49 Customer Review: ... and I soon realised how apt that warning was ! I agree with most of the comments made by others - well, the 4- and 5-star commentators. Whilst reading the book, a number of thoughts passed through my mind, ranging from 'idiots running the asylum' to 'Emperor's New Clothes' .. many of which... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		The Bumper Book of Government Waste 2008: Brown's Squandered Billions from Harriman House Publishing Price: £6.99 Customer Review: I deducted a star in my review of the First Edition of this book, partly because I could not find any reference to Brown's reckless - and deceitful - use of PFI schemes, which are kept "off balance". No such doubts about the second edition, which makes it quite clear what benefits we would all... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		The Triumph of the Political Class from Pocket Books Price: £5.39 Customer Review: I want to second pretty much everything that most of the other reviewers, especially Henry Berocca in an excellent review, have said. I have a few additional points and some quibbles: Oborne should perhaps have written more about the role of the European Union in the motivation of this class of... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		The Gods That Failed: How Blind Faith in Markets Has Cost Us Our Future from The Bodley Head Ltd Price: £9.09 Customer Review: This is one of those books that preaches to the converted. There are many unspoken assumptions used within the books (commerce = bad, risk=bad, regulation=good, profit=evil). If you agree with them it's fine, but you can see some significant examples of double standards in terms of challenging... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Systems Thinking in the Public Sector: The Failure of the Reform Regime.... and a Manifesto for a Better Way from Triarchy Press Price: £19.00 Customer Review: John Seddon has written a great book, which I hope becomes a management classic and mandatory reading for all politicians and managers. In it he explains how the current government focus on micromanagement and targets has made services worse and more expensive. Do targets work? They work... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

8.		Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media from Chatto & Windus Price: £10.69 Customer Review: A copy of this book should be put in the hands of every man, woman, child, cat and dog on the planet. We are being drowned in a sea of rolling news, breaking news, 'keeping you updated', etc etc - and it's all crap. Many of us knew the news has been distorted for years, but as Nick Davies proves the... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		The Retreat of Reason: Political Correctness and the Corruption of Public Debate in Modern Britain (Second Edition) from Civitas:Institute for the Study of Civil Society Price: £6.65 Customer Review: I am a former member of the PC Brigade and I found this book an excellent introduction to countering PC arguments. I am not against all aspects of PC but it has now become a bloated, arrogant,dishonest and ironically very intolerant creed. I realised that I no longer wanted to be PC when I saw... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Yo, Blair!: Tony Blair's Disastrous Premiership from Politico's Publishing Ltd Price: £8.99 Customer Review: I think my husband's book was very good. You should all read it. P.S. another great one is 'Pet Heaven'. I was going to call it 'Pet a Porter, but the name was taken.	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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