{"product_id":"this-is-not-a-diary-hardback-9780745655697","title":"This is not a Diary (Hardback) 9780745655697","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThis is not a Diary\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eZygmunt Bauman (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745655697, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 27 January 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e216 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.9 x 16 x 2 cm, 0.445 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"If Bauman had posted the pieces of this book on the internet as he went along, it would have been the world's best blog. But I'm glad he didn't.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/apr\/06\/et-cetera-non-fiction-reviews-roundup\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Poole, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bauman, like all the best teachers, encourages independent thinking and insists only that it is informed and above all critical ... Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003ehttp:\/\/www.morningstaronline.co.uk\/news\/content\/view\/full\/114532\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis is not a diary: while these observations were recorded in autumn  2010 and spring 2011 in the form of dated entries, they are not a  personal reflection but an attempt to capture signs of our times in  their movement - possibly at birth, at a stage when they are still  barely perceptible, and in any case before they have matured into  common, all too familiar forms, escaping our attention due to their  banality. Some will perhaps settle in our daily life for a long time to  come, others will fade and vanish before they would otherwise have a  chance to be noted, recorded and explored in depth: in our fast-moving,  protean and kaleidoscopic world, it is hardly possible to predict their  future course and to decide in advance which of them will grow in volume  and significance and which will prove to have been still-born. Whatever  their fate, the author tried to take a leaf from William Blake's  precept of seeing the universe in a grain of sand - and, having done so,  alert us to what is or may be happening to our individual lives, forms  of togetherness, shared prospects; to the ways we perceive and relate to  each other, the forces that shape our life chances and itineraries; and  to the ways we try to control, or at least influence, and sometimes  even reform for the better, some or all those dimensions of our  existence. \u003cp\u003eThese timely meditations by one of the most perceptive social thinkers of our time will appeal to a wide range of readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eSEPTEMBER 2010\u003cbr\u003eOn the sense and senselessness of diary-keeping\u003cbr\u003e On the usefulness of fighting windmills\u003cbr\u003e On virtual eternity\u003cbr\u003e On farming words\u003cbr\u003e On superpower, superbroke\u003cbr\u003e On averages\u003cbr\u003e On multi-tasking\u003cbr\u003e On the blind leading the impotent\u003cbr\u003e On Gypsies and democracy\u003cbr\u003e On fading trust and blooming arrogance\u003cbr\u003e On the right to be angry\u003cbr\u003eOCTOBER 2010\u003cbr\u003eOn the right to get richer\u003cbr\u003e On many cultures, and one cover-up\u003cbr\u003e On don't say you haven't been warned\u003cbr\u003e On the quandaries of believing\u003cbr\u003e On Cervantes, father of humanities\u003cbr\u003e On one more war of attrition, A.D. 2010-?\u003cbr\u003eNOVEMBER 2010\u003cbr\u003eOn why Americans see no light at the end of the tunnel\u003cbr\u003eDECEMBER 2010\u003cbr\u003eOn the war to end wars\u003cbr\u003e On hurting flies and killing people\u003cbr\u003e Jerusalem vs. Athens revisited\u003cbr\u003e On why students are restless again\u003cbr\u003e On respect and scorn\u003cbr\u003e On some (not all!) of my idiosyncrasies\u003cbr\u003e On the new looks of inequality\u003cbr\u003e On re-socializing the social\u003cbr\u003e On the friends you have and friends you think you have\u003cbr\u003e On the front pages and other pages\u003cbr\u003e On (selected) quandaries\u003cbr\u003e On whether \"democracy\" still means anything, and in case it does, what is it? \u003cbr\u003eJANUARY 2011 \u003cbr\u003eOn The Angel of History, reincarnated...\u003cbr\u003e On finding consolation in unexpected places\u003cbr\u003e On the growth: do we need it?\u003cbr\u003e On sustainability: this time, of social democracy\u003cbr\u003e On consumption getting richer and the planet poorer\u003cbr\u003e On justice, and how to know it is there\u003cbr\u003e On internet, anonymity and irresponsibility\u003cbr\u003e On collateral damages and casualties of cuts\u003cbr\u003e On one of many pages torn out from the history of democratic crusade\u003cbr\u003e On immoral axes and moral axmen\u003cbr\u003e On Berlusconi, and on Italy\u003cbr\u003e On keeping him in by being kept out\u003cbr\u003e On people in the streets \u003cbr\u003eFEBRUARY 2011\u003cbr\u003eOn glocalization coming of age\u003cbr\u003e On what to do with the young\u003cbr\u003e On the not-for-anybody virtues\u003cbr\u003e On blessings and curses of not-taking-sides\u003cbr\u003e On human tsunami, and thereafter\u003cbr\u003e On the bottoms beneath the bottoms\u003cbr\u003e On being out inside, and inside but out\u003cbr\u003e On miracles, and not quite miracles\u003cbr\u003e On Facebook, intimacy, and extimacy\u003cbr\u003e On building fortresses under siege\u003cbr\u003e On American Dream: time for obituaries? \u003cbr\u003eMARCH 2011\u003cbr\u003eOn H. 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