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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 ...
Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu was separated from her family at the age of eight and left to care for her younger sister amidst squalor and humiliation at the ...
An award-winning political scientist specializing in the role of international regimes, John Ruggie was appointed in 2005 by then United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, to be the first ever Special Representative for Business and Human ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mark Mazower is an award-winning historian and writer, specializing in modern Greece, 20th century Europe and international history. His most recent book, Governing the World, tells the story of the rise of internationalism following the ...
Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities, Urban-Think Tank, Lars Muller Publishers, £ 45.00. The third tallest building in Venezuela stands proudly in the heart of Caracas’ former central business district, Libertador. Originally conceived as a landmark ...
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 ...
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 ...
More than half a million people are killed each year as a result of lethal violence. Yet despite popular perceptions, most of these deaths occur outside of the wars that dominate our daily media diet ...
Guaranteed To Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance, Viral V. Acharya, Matthew Richardson, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh & Lawrence J. White, Princeton University Press, $ 24.95. In the prologue to Guaranteed to ...
The City that Became Safe: New York’s Lessons for Urban Crime and Its Control, by Franklin E. Zimring, Oxford University Press, €18.99, $29.95. “Dirty, dangerous and destitute” New York of the 1970s ...
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