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There is probably no more pertinent global question right now than the China question. Adding his voice to the chorus of queries is American director Brook Silva-Braga, whose documentary The China Question trots out an ...
Under the Surface: Fracking, Fortunes, and the Fate of the Marcellus Shale, by Tom Wilber, Cornell University Press, €20.95, $27.95. Nobody wants dead fish in ponds, contaminated drinking water that makes people sick ...
(Mamatis 1, Dighton, Kansas, 2011) Supercell Kevin Erskine, texts by Richard Hamblyn and Redmond O’Hanlon Hatje Cantze, 78 € If Mother Nature has her own knights, they might look a little like the phenomena that ...
As so much is going on around the world, it is time for a thinker like Rifkin to rise again. Rifkin is a master at that game, connecting the essential drivers of change. He has ...
In postmodern tales about network cities, the bodies of the protagonists often disappear within the vehicles that they use. Megalopolis spaces are too often built for cars and highways. Seville’s Metropol Parasol is a ...
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 ...
Photographer Marrigje de Maar takes us on a personal journey into many Chinese homes. Each picture speaks about an individual or a group of people. The sense of welcome is present, whatever life has given ...
An Accessible, Clear and Concise Account of International Trade Understanding Global Trade focuses on what lies at the core of globalization: international trade and production across national boundaries. It might seem too ambitious a scope ...
Hell and Back Again. Directed by Danfung Dennis. The harrowing images of war that have come back to us from Iraq and Afghanistan have been matched, in many U.S. documentaries, by equally upsetting images ...
Food, Jennifer Clapp, Wiley and Polity Books, 15.60 € The latest food crisis is the triggering factor for a deep reflection on the forces that control the global food system. When food prices undergo a ...
An African Election directed by Jarreth Merz Ghana was the first sub-Saharan country to gain its independence, in 1957, and remains, despite its share of turmoil, the standard-bearer for political stability on the African continent ...
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 ...
Blaise Lampen, journalist and correspondent to the United Nations for the Swiss agency ATS, has just brought out his latest book. Eight years of a journal, where the writer gives us his personal view of ...
Kathryn Bolkovac was a good cop. Back in her hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska, the athletic Ms. Bolkovac once wrestled a fleeing criminal to the ground and disarmed him. Kathryn Bolkovac was just as thorough about ...
A fresh and factual look at the US Be careful before making sweeping generalizations about the US and its citizens until you have seen this atlas. The Real State of America: Mapping the Myths and ...
Confronting Equality, Gender, Knowledge and Global Change Raewyn Connell, Polity Books, 19.20 € Want to have a vastly different perspective on the meaning of social justice? Raewyn Connell’s new book gathers her more recent ...
Jeremy Rifkin, author and social activist with master plans, talks to The Global Journal about the Third Industrial Revolution, and how to bring it about. How would you define yourself? My dad asked me that ...
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 ...
A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein directed by David Cronenberg David Cronenberg has developed a reputation over many years as a director specializing in the artfully gruesome. From The Brood ...
The Credibility of Transnational NGOs: When Virtue is Not Enough, by Peter Gourevitch, David Lake, Janice Gross Stein, Cambridge University Press, €24.39, $32.99. We live in a world where NGOs are not only ...
Africa’s Moment, by Jean-Michel Severino and Olivier Ray, Polity Press, €25.90, $25.00. If you think of Africa as a rural continent struck by famine and war, then you are the target audience ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
For many of his readers Joe Sacco has a personal impact. The emotion is diffused but powerful; it might be perceived as a knock-out –though not many of us have had that experience– or perhaps ...
Documentary tracing the life and career of iconic Muslim leader of Pakistan’s post-Soviet generation. Bhutto directed by Duan Baughman and Johnny O’Hara On Dec. 27th, 2007, Benazir Bhutto, the first woman in history ...
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 ...
The Southern Tiger, Chile’s Fight for a Peaceful and Democratic Future Ricardo Lagos, Palgrave MacMillan, $28.00, £16.99 In this book Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile, gives an extraordinary account of his ...
The Triumph of Politics, The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, George Philip & Francisco Panizza, Wiley and Polity Books, 19.20 € Of course everybody remembers Hugo Chàvez’ notorious speech at the ...
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