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GalleryBook Review: Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation by Jennifer Loureide Biddle
In Remote Avant-Garde: Aboriginal Art Under Occupation, Jennifer Loureide Biddle focuses on the emergence of an avant-garde Indigenous aesthetics […]
GalleryBook Review: A Few Hares to Chase: The Economic Life and Times of Bill Phillips by Alan Bollard
LSE economist and inventor Bill Phillips became world famous for The Phillips Curve. Yet, as A Few Hares to […]
GalleryBook Review: Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War by Peter Gill
In Today We Drop Bombs, Tomorrow We Build Bridges: How Foreign Aid Became a Casualty of War, Peter Gill […]
GalleryBook Review: Free Speech after 9/11 by Katharine Gelber
In Free Speech After 9/11, Katharine Gelber compares three liberal democracies – the United States, the United Kingdom and […]
GalleryBook Review: Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific by Richard Javad Heydarian
In Asia’s New Battlefield: The US, China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific, Richard Javad Heydarian addresses how […]
GalleryBook Review: The Presidentialization of Political Parties: Organizations, Institutions and Leaders edited by Gianluca Passarelli
Edited by Gianluca Passarelli, new collection The Presidentialization of Political Parties: Organizations, Institutions and Leaders, explores why the level […]
GalleryReading List: Eight Must-Read Books On and Around the Theme of Utopia
Image Credit: Batik banner at the US Social Forum in Atlanta, GA (Brooke Anderson)
Today, Monday 22nd February 2016, marks […]
GalleryBook Review: The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations edited by Joachim A. Koops et al
In The Oxford Handbook of United Nations Peacekeeping Operations, editors Joachim A. Koops, Norrie MacQueen, Thierry Tardy and Paul […]
GalleryThe Monthly Roundup: What Have You Been Reading in October 2015?
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Most Read:
Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction. 2nd Edition. Ian Clark. Oxford University Press. 2015.
Ian […]
GalleryBook Review: Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact edited by Amy Nethery and Stephanie J. Silverman
The collection Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact, edited by Amy Nethery and Stephanie […]
GalleryBook Review: Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea by Alastair Couper, Hance D. Smith and Bruno Ciceri
Kathleen Chiappetta welcomes Fishers and Plunderers: Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea as a valuable introductory overview of the […]
GalleryBook Review: Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market
Offering an alternative account of the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, Masters of the Universe, Slaves of the Market analyses how bankers […]
GalleryBook Review: Standardizing Diversity: The Political Economy of Language Regimes
What explains the different language regime choices and what are the economic repercussions of these decisions? In Standardizing Diversity: […]
GalleryBook Review: Handbook of Disaster Policies and Institutions: Improving Emergency Management and Climate Change Adaptation, 2nd Edition
At the heart of the book we are made to think thoroughly about the dichotomy of “policy-as-usual” vs. “emergencies-as-exceptions”, […]
Book Review: Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Book Review: Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web
Despite their lowly reputation as a kind of dark collective unconscious of the Internet, the process of commenting and […]