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WILD directed by Jean-Marc Vallée
Jan 13, 2015
Written by
Chris Fitch
Trekking a thousand miles through the American wilderness may not be for everyone. But this film intimately reveals what happens when someone impulsively decides to do exactly that
THE BRIGHT CONTINENT: Breaking Rules and Making Change in Modern Africa by Dayo Olopade
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Jonathan Wright
Dayo Olopade is fully aware that Africa confronts many problems. She simply wants us to come up with more imaginative solutions and to recognise how much potential the continent is already exhibiting
THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL ASIA: The Age of the Silk Roads by Christoph Baumer
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
John Hare
Christoph Baumer’s four-book-series on Central Asia reveals the author to be a person whose skills encompass a wide range of exacting disciplines
TISALA by Richard Seward Newton
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Jonathan Wright
It is the 1960s and David is about to embark upon his doctoral studies. A research trip to the Hebrides ensues, but David becomes distracted by a whale who regularly visits the local waters
HUN SEN’S CAMBODIA by Sebastian Strangio
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Kit Gillet
For most people, any knowledge of Cambodian history stops around 1979 – the year the Khmer Rouge fell, bringing to an end almost four years of genocidal behaviour
HOW NUMBERS RULE THE WORLD: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics by Lorenzo Fioramonti
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Mick Herron
‘We are so accustomed to numbers,’ Fioramonti asserts, ‘we do not realize their power anymore.’ And yet they increasingly rule our lives: the state of the economy, quality of life and myriad other conditions are all graded according to statistics
BACK IN THE USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria by Rory MacLean and Nick Danziger
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Matthew Webb
In 1990, on the brink of the fall of the Soviet Union, officials in present-day Transnistria declared the region as a Pridnestrovian Moldavian Region (PMR). In 1991, Moldova (including Transnistria) would become independent of the then dissolved USSR
LINGO: A Language Spotters’ Guide to Europe by Gaston Dorren
Jan 05, 2015
Written by
Mick Herron
The story of language in Europe, Dorren tells us, is like a game of Chinese whispers: once upon a time there was a single tongue – which linguists refer to it as PIE (Proto-Indo-European)
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