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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 ...
Wheel Of Fortune: The Battle For Oil And Power In Russia, Thane Gustafson, Harvard University Press, $39.95. In Wheel of Fortune, Thane Gustafson explores the imminent challenges faced by Russia if it is to ...
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 ...
The Secret Financial Life Of Food: From Commodities Markets To Supermarkets, Kara Newman, Columbia University Press, $26.95. From haute cuisine to gastro-anthropologic travels to simple recipes, television programs and books alike have celebrated in ...
Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation Is Failing When It’s Most Needed, Thomas Hale, David Held & Kevin Young Polity Press, £55.00. Gridlock sets out to explore a growing failure in global governance, whereby countries are ...
The Violent Image: Insurgent Propaganda And The New Revolutionaries, Neville Bolt, Hurst & Co, £24.99. “Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell’s famous statement refers ...
A History Of Future Cities, Daniel Brook, W.W. Norton & Company, $27.95. What do St Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai have in common? Replace St Petersburg with Moscow, and the list reads like shorthand ...
Why Philanthropy Matters: How the Wealthy Give, and What it Means for Our Economic Well-Being, Zoltan J Acs, Princeton University Press, $29.95. In Why Philanthropy Matters, Zoltan Acs traces the role of philanthropy in ...
Calcutta: Two Years In The City, Amit Chaudhuri, Union Books, £16.99. In 2004, Suketa Mehta’s magisterial work of narrative non-fiction, Maximum City, not only sung the praises of pre-Mumbai Bombay, but inadvertently kickstarted ...
Afghan Rumour Bazaar: Secret Sub-Cultures, Hidden Worlds and the Everyday Life Of The Absurd, Nushin Arbabzadah Hurst & Co, £15.95. Twenty years after her family fled Afghanistan, Nushin Arbabzadah returned to the land of “poets ...
China’s Silent Army: The Pioneers, Traders, Fixers And Workers Who Are Remaking The World In Beijing’s Image, Juan Pablo Caedenal & Heriberto Araújo, Allen Lane, £25.00. More than a sporting event, the ...
Israel Has Moved, Diana Pinto, Harvard University Press, $24.95. Diana Pinto’s depiction of Israel in her new book, Israel Has Moved, brings some much needed complication to a country often portrayed in black ...
Wilder Mann: The Image Of The Savage, Charles Fréger, Dewi Lewis Publishing, £25.00. It has passed into the realm of cliché to speak of art as being capable of transporting its audience. In ...
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