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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 ...
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 ...
The 34th edition of Paris Film Festival Cinéma du Réel has come to an end. With the screening of almost 200 documentary movies, several master classes with internationally renowned filmmakers, and public debates ...
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 ...
Klitschko directed by Sebastian Dehnhardt Vitali Klitschko and his younger brother Wladimir are the first siblings to hold world champion boxing titles at the same time. Each around six foot six inches tall, nearly identical ...
Do you believe in the positive power of art? Whether your answer is ‘yes’ or ‘no’, Naoshima is a small, remote island in the Seto Inland Sea in western Japan awaiting your visit. It is ...
Good Italy, Bad Italy - Why Italy Must Conquer Its Demons to Face the Future, Bill Emmott, Yale University Press, $ 30.00. Italy’s most important division goes beyond the geographical differences between North and South ...
The Origins of AIDS, Jacques Pépin, Cambridge University Press, €54.90, $85.00. Have you ever wondered how, where and when the global AIDS pandemic started? How it spread to all the continents of ...
Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar: Stories of Food during Wartime by the World's Leading Correspondents, Matt McAllester (Ed), University of California Press, $29.95. War correspondents face dangers most journalists will never encounter. Wearing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Why America Needs a Left: A Historical Argument, Eli Zaretsky, Polity, $19.95. Eli Zaretsky’s Why America Needs a Left is a call to action to the young idealists of America in today’s ...
The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations, Michael L. Ross, Princeton University Press, $ 29.95. With the current high oil prices, The Oil Curse provides an interesting approach to the cause ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hunters, David Chancellor, Schilt Publishing, €49.90. A young boy, face smeared with blood, stands triumphantly over the carcass of a buck in Eastern Cape. A middleaged man in fatigues nestles in the leathery folds ...
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 ...
“I’m more interested in places when I take photographs. Movies always deal with people, anyway, so in photography I can finally do more justice to places. What they can tell us if you’re ...
The Asylum, Renegades Who Hijacked the World’s Oil Market Leah McGrath Goodman, Harper Collins, $27.99 From its home in lower Manhattan, the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) –the world’s largest physical commodity ...
Another Country, Mitra Tabrizian, Hatje Cantz, 39,80 € Powerful ideas may come from simply slowing down, taking time or stepping slightly outside ordinary life. Expressing unusual viewpoints without seeming artificial or awkward requires great artistic ...
Breaking the Rules: Working for the UN Can Be Fun. And it Can Also Do Some Good Provided One Is Ready to Lie, Fib, Obfuscate and Break All the Rules, Alexander Casella, Tricorne, 30 € Tracing ...
The Favored Daughter: One Woman’s Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future, Fawzia Koofi with Nadene Ghouri, Palgrave Macmillan, £16.99/$26.00 Fawzia Koofi’s new book gives a rare and gripping insight ...
The Very Hungry City: Urban Energy Efficiency and the Economic Fate of Cities, Austin Troy, Yale University Press, £25.00/$28.00/20,00 € In his new book Austin Troy shows how urban environment management ...
Famine and Foreigners: Ethiopia Since Live Aid, by Peter Gill, Oxford University Press, $18.95, £9.99. In 1984, the terrible famine, which swept across the north of Ethiopia claiming some 600,000 deaths, gained ...
Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China, by Xi Chen, Cambridge, €73.20, £60.00. How does the Chinese Communist Party keep tight control over China's institutions and political participation? Allowing and facilitating collective ...
Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, by Robert Levine, Doubleday/Random House, $26.95. The notion of ‘regulation’ applied to the Internet has ...
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