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  Straight Talk

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Urban Planning is Key

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Beyond Words

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  The New Frontier

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  The End of Straight Supremacy, Realizing Gay Liberation, Shannon Gilreath, Cambridge University Press, $26.95/£18.99 Shannon Gilreath writes his new book with a certain fire that is at first sight off-putting. Throughout, Gilreath ...

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  Mooncake and Dragon-Whisker Noodles

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Empowerment in Afghanistan

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  The Humanitarian With Humour

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Women Are Not Children

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Policing the Shadows?

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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  Back in the Subway

  by The Global Journal March 6, 2012

  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 ...

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