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<p>In <b><i>THE RED</i></b><b><i> HOTEL: THE UNTOLD STORY OF STALIN'S DISINFORMATION WAR</i></b>, former <i>Daily Telegraph </i>Foreign Editor and Russian expert <b>Alan Philps</b> sets out the way Stalin created his own reality by constraining and muzzling the British and American reporters covering the Eastern front during the war and forcing them to reproduce Kremlin propaganda. War correspondents were both bullied and pampered in a gilded cage of the <b>Metropol Hotel</b>. They enjoyed lavish supplies of caviar and had their choice of young women to employ as translators and to share their beds.<br/><br/>While some of these translators turned journalists into robotic conveyors of Kremlin propaganda, others were brave secret dissenters who whispered to reporters the reality of Soviet life and were punished with sentences in the Gulag. Through the use of British archives and Russian sources, the story of the role of the women of the Metropol Hotel and the foreign reporters they worked with is told for the first time. With a riveting narrative very much in the same wheelhouse as Ben McIntyre's <b><i>Agent Sonya</i></b> this revelatory story will finally lift the lid on Stalin's operation to muzzle and control what the western allies' writers and foreign correspondents knew of his regime's policies to prosecute the war against Hitler's rampaging armies from June 1941 onwards.</p>

<p>Marketing is all around us. From your very first memories to the moment before you opened this book, you&apos;ve been inundated by marketing. You learned to read from the logos on the side of the road, and you spend your time and your money in response to what marketers have paid to put in front of you. Marketing, more than a lake or a forest, is the landscape of our modern lives. Because marketing has been done to us for so long, we take it for granted. This is Marketing turns that upside down and opens the door for you to do something with marketing. To make something better. To cause a change you&apos;d like to see in the world. To grow your project, but mostly to serve the people you care about.</p>

<p><b>A generation defining expose</b><b> of toxic beauty culture in our digital age and how it is harming women<br/></b><br/>We are living in a new age of beauty. With advancements in cosmetic surgery, augmented reality face filters, photo editing apps, and exposure to more images than we were ever meant to see, we have the ability to craft ourselves in whichever way we please. We pinch, pull, squeeze, tweeze, smooth and slice ourselves beyond recognition. But is modern beauty culture truly empowering? Are we really in control?<br/><br/>In every era there is a beauty ideal. Yet, today the pressure to attain and retain the perfect body is compounded by our addiction to sharing every angle of ourselves online. In an age of influencers and social media, modern beauty culture is all-consuming and it is hurting the lives of women around the world.<br/><br/>From <i>Love Island</i> to lip filler, blackfishing to the beauty tax, Ellen Atlanta reconfigures our understanding of women's relationship with beauty culture to account for the digital age. Providing an eye-opening account of the realities young women face under a dominant industry, <i>Pixel Flesh</i> unmasks the absurdities of the dystopia we find ourselves living in. Both a rallying cry and a refusal to suffer in silence, this is a vital insight into what it feels like to exist as a woman in a digitally obsessed world.</p>