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Book Cover for: The Holocaust: An Unfinished History, Dan Stone

The Holocaust: An Unfinished History

Dan Stone
LSELSE

In March, Dan Stone will discuss his book, The Holocaust: An Unfinished History, which uncovers how aspects of the genocide's history have been overlooked. #HMD2023 https://t.co/4sXVuhXmiF

Hardcover, 2024

$32.50$16.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: On the Inconvenience of Other People, Lauren Berlant

On the Inconvenience of Other People

Lauren Berlant
LSELSE

Lauren Berlant explores the affective states bound up in being inevitably in relation with and attached to others – not just people, but animals, things and thoughts. @LSEReviewBooks https://t.co/8A6Md8pAss

Paperback, 2022

$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Inclusive and Sustainable Finance: Leadership, Ethics and Culture, Atul K. Shah

Inclusive and Sustainable Finance: Leadership, Ethics and Culture

Atul K. Shah
LSELSE

In Inclusive and Sustainable Finance: Leadership, Ethics and Culture, Atul Shah argues for business and finance practices that embrace cultural influences over the technocratic models that predominate in our globalised world. @LSEReviewBooks #reading https://t.co/4N2MD5tWni

Hardcover, 2022

$160.00$135.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Book Cover for: Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence, Peter Sutoris

Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence

Peter Sutoris
LSELSE

In Educating for the Anthropocene, Peter Sutoris explores education around environmentalism and sustainability in Pashulok, India, and Wentworth, South Africa, two sites particularly impacted by the climate crisis. @LSEReviewBooks https://t.co/7OCEvyb38T

Paperback, 2022

$40.00$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development: How to Upgrade Through Regional Policy, FDI and Trade, Riccardo Crescenzi

Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development: How to Upgrade Through Regional Policy, FDI and Trade

Riccardo Crescenzi
LSELSE

The essay applies the knowledge and framework on #HarnessingGVCs from their recent book “Harnessing Global Value Chains for regional development: How to upgrade through regional policy, FDI, and trade.” Find an overview: https://t.co/xBHsmuswyM

Paperback, 2023

$48.99$24.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad

Confidence Culture

Shani Orgad
LSELSE

In Confidence Culture, Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill explore the demands that the cultural imperative of confidence particularly places on women. A necessary reading for scholars of gender, media studies and sociology. #BookReview @LSEReviewBooks https://t.co/uNetFTIguV

Paperback, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Happiness: Lessons from a New Science, Richard Layard

Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

Richard Layard
LSELSE

Richard Layard was one of the first economists to work on happiness, and co-edited yesterday's World Happiness Report 2023, which found that Finland is the happiest country in the world 🇫🇮 #WHR2023 @HappinessRpt https://t.co/FikyIh3LD8

Paperback, 2006

$24.00$12.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam, Christopher Goscha

The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam

Christopher Goscha
LSELSE

Books make great gifts! Find more 📚 reviews on @LSEReviewBooks 😉 https://t.co/yKGWS58Cuo

Paperback, 2023

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra, Javier Puente

The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra

Javier Puente
LSELSE

In The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in #Peru’s Central Sierra, Javier Puente explores the interrelation of rural communities, capitalist interests and state agendas in the Peruvian Andes. @LSEReviewBooks #reading https://t.co/PwIOgI3lv6

Hardcover, 2023

$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, Mukulika Banerjee

Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India

Mukulika Banerjee
LSELSE

Dr @MukulikaB from @LSEAnthropology talks about her book Cultivating Democracy on @BBCRadio4👇 The 📖 explores how West Bengal villagers promote democratic values in everyday acts of citizenship at a time when Indian democracy is under threat. https://t.co/AGZlsMu0Xn

Paperback, 2021

$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book