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  If Europe Thinks – Will It Be?

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, by Jürgen Habermas, Polity Press, £16.99, €19.80. Philosophy is a very refreshing exercise when meeting a great philosopher. As one of those great minds ...

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  Memoirs from Beyond the Grave

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Gulag Voices: An Anthology, edited by Anne Applebaum, Yale University Press, $25.00. A strange feeling of fascination arises from reading Gulag Voices: An Anthology, a well-chosen collection of excerpts from Gulag prisoners’ memoirs, selected ...

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  Schizophrenia at the UN and State Level

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  The Fight for the Right to Food: Lessons Learned, by Jean Ziegler, Christophe Golay, Claire Mahon, Sally-Anne Way, Palgrave MacMillan, £74.00. While the world is growing richer, we are currently witnessing the worst hunger ...

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  Gods, Athletes and You

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  A Visitor’s Guide to the Ancient Olympics, by Neil Faulkner, Yale University Press, €18.00, $28.00, £14.99. As the excitement and preparations for the London summer Olympics are heating up, it is ...

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  From Siege to “Starchitects”

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Terror and Wonder: Architecture in a Tumultuous Age, by Blair Kamin, University of Chicago, €15.00, $19.00, £12.50. In the postscript to his latest collection of columns and articles, Chicago Tribune architecture critic ...

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  No Place for Optimism

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Climate Wars: Why People Will be Killed in the 21st Century, by Harald Welzer, Polity Press, £20. In the first chapter Harald Welzer explains, “Some books one writes in the hope of being proved wrong ...

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  The Digital Market Failure

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Free Ride: How Digital Parasites Are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back, by Robert Levine, Doubleday/Random House, $26.95. The notion of ‘regulation’ applied to the Internet has ...

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  @Politics

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  iPolitics, Richard Fox, Jennifer Ramos, Cambridge, €25.61, $32.99. Today, traditional media are (finally) coming to terms with the fact that the Internet, in particular social media and mobiles, are redefining the industry. It ...

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  Collective Petitioning in China

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China, by Xi Chen, Cambridge, €73.20, £60.00. How does the Chinese Communist Party keep tight control over China's institutions and political participation? Allowing and facilitating collective ...

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  The Mobile People

  by The Global Journal May 18, 2012

  Roads to Power, Britain Invents the Infrastructure State, by Jo Guldi, Harvard University Press, £26.95. A delightful surprise! Not only is the analysis followed with panache from start to finish, but the story is ...

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