LSE Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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The Holocaust: An Unfinished History
Dan Stone
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
On the Inconvenience of Other People
Lauren Berlant
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
Inclusive and Sustainable Finance: Leadership, Ethics and Culture
Atul K. Shah
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)
Educating for the Anthropocene: Schooling and Activism in the Face of Slow Violence
Peter Sutoris
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
Harnessing Global Value Chains for Regional Development: How to Upgrade Through Regional Policy, FDI and Trade
Riccardo Crescenzi
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
Confidence Culture
Shani Orgad
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
Happiness: Lessons from a New Science
Richard Layard
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
The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
Christopher Goscha
Books make great gifts! Find more 📚 reviews on @LSEReviewBooks 😉 https://t.co/yKGWS58Cuo
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Rural State: Making Comunidades, Campesinos, and Conflict in Peru's Central Sierra
Javier Puente
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
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Mukulika Banerjee
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