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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 ...
The Disappearance Of Darkness: Photography At The End Of The Analogue Era, Robert Burley, Princeton Architectural Press, $50.00. In 2007, a series of scheduled implosions of Kodak film factories took place in Rochester, New ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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