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On The Frontlines: Gender, War, And The Post-Conflict Process, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes and Naomi Cahn, Oxford University Press, £18.99, $29.95 In On The Frontlines: Gender, War, And The Post-Conflict ...
Tibetan monks may have an iPhone 4, but too many still choose self-immolation. Exclusive report from Tibet where journalists are not welcome unless part of an official tour. The pilgrims are still circling around Labrang ...
Chinese Food, Liu Junru, Cambridge University Press, £12.99 Do you know when to eat a mooncake? Dragon-whisker noodles? And that if you show up unexpectedly at the door of a Mongolian tent they will ...
Check out if The Big Issue is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Offering a ‘hand up’ to the homeless. 20 years of expanding impact. Though not the prototype – that distinction belongs to Street ...
"The first thing in your life here is the weather,” says Iris Kramer. A musician from Hamburg, married to an Icelander, Kramer is in a café waiting to hear if the plane to her husband ...
From Rise to ruin, rising again. Unlimited sunlight dazzles the eye, blurring the line of the horizon. The silhouettes of chimneys and their smoke hats tremble the waves of heat. In this high valley of ...
It is hard to remain indifferent to Teju Ravilochan’s enthusiasm for the work of the young entrepreneurs attending the Unreasonable Institute. Ravilochan, a 24 year-old American, is part of a team of three young ...
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 ...
Interview with Michel Jarraud, Secretary-General World Meteorological Organization Imagine that your organization did not exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you do? How would it be fundamentally different from what exists ...
Interview with Francis Gurry, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) Director General. Imagine that your organization didn’t exist and you were asked to invent it. What would you build? How would it be fundamentally different ...
The screening of the movie The Whistleblower comes to an end. In the dark room, the atmosphere is heavily charged with disgust and indignation. Massive applause blasts out from a fully filled theatre, both to ...
So far, the shift of power following the popular uprising – unprecedented in Egyptian history – has failed to keep its promises. The deposed dictator handed over the reins of state to a transitional military government headed ...
For a long time the Arctic region has been viewed as barren wasteland far from civilization due to its inaccessibility arising from layers of thick ice. As a consequence, territorial claims have been relatively limited ...
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 ...
The Story of Swimming A Social History of Bathing in Britain, By Susie Parr, Dewi Lewis Media, £25 Contrary to its title, this book is about much more than just a history of swimming in ...
Subway by Bruce Davidson, Steidl 48€ For several years now, publisher Steidl has been republishing photographers whose work, often out of print, represents a cornerstone in the story of photography and its dissemination. In this ...
One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty, Simon Chesterman, Oxford University Press, £20.00 According to leading legal scholar Simon Chesterman, we are now living in a ‘post ...
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 ...
Dignity in Adversity: Human Rights in Troubled Times, Seyla Benhabib, Polity Books, 21,60 € Never has the human rights discourse been so ubiquitous and so contested at the same time. Never has the international human ...
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 ...
What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power, Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Oxford University Press, £27 .50 It is one of the most common stories of mankind, to be repeated time and again ...
Morten Albæk, Senior Vice President at Vestas, talks to The Global Journal about his vision –not just for the future of wind energy but also for an innovative business model where the bottom line ...
The many lives of social entrepreneur Jeroo Billimoria Nestled amongst a row of corporate headquarters at the edge of Amsterdam’s leafy canal belt, the layers of security greeting visitors to Child & Youth Finance International ...
Check out if TED is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! Inspiring change through access to ideas. More than 900 TEDTalks online. Founded in 1984 as a one-off event in Monterrey, TED (Technology, Entertainment ...
Check out if Reprieve is in The Top 100 NGOs 2013 Edition! First lawyers into Guantanamo Bay. Assisting over 70 death row inmates. Reprieve aims to use the law to enforce the human rights of ...
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