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Short Stalks at Distant Shores, Christoph Grill, Hatje Cantz, €58.00. Between 1999 and 2010, German photographer Christoph Grill visited the successor states of the Soviet Union. As he writes in the epilogue to Short ...
The Garden, Alessandro Imbriaco, Dewi Lewis Publishing, $48.00. In a small wooded swamp next to the Aniene River, under a concrete flyover on the bustling ring road circling the eastern outskirts of Rome, exists ...
Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia, Siddharth Kara, Columbia University Press, $29.50. Gaurav is a withered old laborer in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Aged eight when his father ...
Race in a Bottle: The Story of BiDil and Racialized Medicine in a Post-Genomic Age, Jonanthan Kahn, Columbia University Press, $35.00 Race in a Bottle dives headfirst into the ethics of classification and begs ...
Interventions: A Life in War and Peace, Kofi Annan with Nader Mousavizadeh, Allen Lane, £25.00. Kofi Annan’s Interventions is one of those rare books allowing the reader to feel they have gained access ...
Making the European Monetary Union, Harold James, Harvard University Press, $35.00. It is hard to read Making the European Monetary Union. Not because the euro is part of the story, but because the clarity ...
How We Forgot the Cold War: A historical Journey Across America, Jon Wiener, University of California Press, $34.95. In Nevada, a bomb crater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. At a ...
Future Perfect: The Case Progress in a Networked Age, Steven Johnson, Allen Lane, £20.00. In his 2001 book Emergence, technology writer Steven Johnson led readers on a fascinating tour of adaptive self-organizing systems – the ...
Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America, Jonathan Levy, Harvard University Press, $35.00. In Freaks of Fortune, Princeton University historian Jonathan Levy argues financial risk emerges from a culture ...
Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health, Joseph Dumit, Duke University Press, $23.95. The average American is prescribed and purchases between nine and 13 prescription-only drugs per year. Overall healthcare expenditures were ...
A Confucian Constitutional Order: How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future, Jiang Qing, Princeton University Press, $39.50. The latest book by prominent Chinese scholar Jiang Qing, A Confucian Constitutional Order is ...
On Borders, Ostkreuz Agency Photographers, Hatje Cantz, Ð38.00. They offer protection, lead to war, limit freedom or enable it; they have always been there and will continue to exist: borders. Hardly anything else is ...
Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent, Matthew Carr, Hurst & Co, £20.00. “On 28 May 1999, a Sudanese asylum seeker named Aamir Ageed died during a deportation flight from Frankfurt to Cairo, after police ...
Doing Psychoanalysis in Teheran, Gohar Homayounpour, The MIT Press, $19.95. Doing Psychoanalysis in Tehran is not about human rights violations, democracy or freedom of speech. Gohar Homayounpour challenges Western preconceptions of a stigmatized society ...
Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, Karen E Field & Barbara J Fields, Verso Books, £20.00. Tackling the Obama-era idea of the post-racial society head on, sociologist Karen E Fields and historian Barbara ...
Disasters Without Borders, John Hannigan, Polity Press, £13.95. As international attention on natural disasters increases, John Hannigan examines the latest trend in international politics to resolve“borderless” issues. Conceived as a textbook reviewing contemporary ...
Thieves of Virtue: When Bioethics Stole Medecin, Tom Koch, The MIT Press, £20.95. Born in the 1960s, bioethics was to bring “a specific kind of analytic, moral philosophy to questions of medical care and ...
Fit: An Architect's Manifesto, Robert Geddes Princeton University Press $19.95. Early in Fit, Robert Geddes – dean emeritus at the Princeton School of Architecture and distinguished urbanist– notes that “what we build is a ...
Twitter: Social Communication in the Twitter Age, Dhiraj Murthy, Polity Press, £50.00. What impact can 140-character messages have in our everyday lives and on influential social movements? These are the questions Dhiraj Murthy, a ...
The Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and Pursuit of Social Justice, Peter Corning, University of Chicago Press, $17.00. At the outset of The Fair Society, Peter Corning, Director of the Institute for ...
A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East To America, Leila Ahmed, Yale University Press, $30.00. The hijab is back – on an increasing number of women’s heads, and as a ...
In December 2006, Mexican President Felipe Calderón began his six-year term in office declaring war on the drug cartels fighting to control lucrative trafficking routes into the United States. It is estimated that more ...
Elementary Calculus, J Carrier, MACK, $ 50.00. The first image one sees in Elementary Calculus, a subtle, but striking new collection of photography by Brooklyn based artist J Carrier, is of orange blossoms. The delicate ...
European Identity: What the Media Say, Paul Bailey & Geoffrey Williams (eds), Oxford University Press £55.00. This volume presents parts of the findings of the IntUne Project, a transnational quadrennial project questioning the idea of ...
Water, David L. Feldman, Polity $39.95. Water is required by every living thing, yet a growing number of people face difficulties accessing it. Climate change, urbanization, pollution, energy use, agriculture, population growth, and migration ...
Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai Pardis Mahdavi Stanford University Press $27.95. Ravi came from Hyderabad to Dubai to work in the construction industry. He was not kidnapped, nor was he working ...
Islamism and Islam Bassam Tibi Yale University Press £20.00. Bassam Tibi, a prominent Islamic Reformist scholar has decided to conclude his 40 year academic career with an attempt to explain a significant distinction between ...
The Ironic Spectator: Solidarity in the Age of Post -Humanitarianism Lilie Chouliaraki Polity £55.00. Your alarm clock rings but you can’t get out of bed so you click the snooze button. Thanks to ...
DUST: Egypt's Forgotten Architecture, Xenia Nikolskaya, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £30. Egypt is one of the most densely populated countries in the world and has a colonial history that stretches back centuries. From 1882 until ...
Road Map to Happiness Pictures of a Street 1979-1981, Edited by Die Photographische Sammlung / SK Stiftung Kultur, texts by Gabriele Conrath-Scholl, graphic design by Jutta Herden, Hatje Cantz, €49.80. A book such as this ...
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