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book of the week“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you” – Anonymous, 1998 A weekly book recommendation from the readers, writers and staff of openDemocracy. What are you reading now? Email us Without looking into the past, how does one explain that almost everything carries within itself the imprints of a long journey? Nayan Chanda maps the hidden history of globalisation.
Is the world already organised and are there any choices left open to ordinary people? A new dictionary lists alternative ways of living and organising life.
Eyal Weizman dissects and reconstructs the thinking and strategy behind Israel's occupation of the West Bank
We must resist the status quo of today's information society to imagine – and create – a better future.
Stein Ringen's new book outlines how we can halt the decline of democracy's hard-won freedom.
A poetic exploration of colonial-Aboriginal relations and the politics of apology in wartime Australia. Hear author Gail Jones talk about her latest novel
Portraits of online gamers and their virtual-world alter egos.
Mapping the religions of the world. Read the rest of this post...
Is international terrorism really the single greatest threat to world security? Chris Abbott, Paul Rogers and John Sloboda present an alternate global vision and map new paths into the future. Read the rest of this post...
A rich and complex portrait revealing the forces that divide us and the ties that bind. Read the rest of this post...
Robert G Rabil's book reveals a Syria-United States relationship more changeable and nuanced than post-9/11 rhetoric indicates, says Carsten Wieland. Read the rest of this post...
Being British from the perspective of the newly arrived. Read the rest of this post...
Climate change is big, complex and scary. While Mark Lynas's new book helps readers get to grips with the issue, Caspar Henderson offers six caveats. Read the rest of this post...
The story of Sveta: a young Belarusian woman coerced into prostitution at the age of fifteen. Her frank description of the dehumanizing experience in part explains how she eventually came to invert the roles of sex slave and pimp. Read the rest of this post...
Paul Mason charts the history of the global labour movement and the parallels among workers in the global south today. Read the rest of this post...
Mankind is rapidly destroying ancient coral reefs. Why care? Caspar Henderson reviews Steve Jones’s new book on the wondrous ecosystems and finds it wanting. Read the rest of this post...
From a pioneer of modernist literature: a portrait of a sordid, dreary and war-ravaged Barcelona in the early days of Franco's brutal regime. Read the rest of this post...
A pioneering study by the great South African naturalist Eugène Marais shaped the way Michael Holman sees the world. Read the rest of this post...
Mapping the century's minor utopias and the individuals trying to imagine a radically better world. Read the rest of this post...
Singer's 17th century ghost story resonantes in a 21st century world, says Rafael Broch. Read the rest of this post...
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