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Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future
A Review of Agrobiodiversity: Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future Conservation through Conversation I initially approached the volume titled Integrating Knowledge for a Sustainable Future as an outside observer. As an archaeologist whose research focus is...
The Youngest Citizens: Children’s Rights in Latin America
A Review of The Youngest Citizens: Children's Rights in Latin America The Yawning Gap Between Theory and Practice The gap between theory and practice is not a promising place to start a book on children’s human rights. We already know that children’s legal...
Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary
A Review of Young Castro: The Making of a Revolutionary From Biran to Revolutionary Firebrand Before he died on Nov. 25, 2016, Fidel Castro told his brother Raúl that he wanted no statues erected in his honor nor any streets, roads or squares named after him. For the...
Regulating Style
A Review of Regulating Style: Intellectual Property Law and the Business of Fashion in Guatemala “No hay primero” Style in the Maya Highlands At the Art Basel Cities exhibits in Buenos Aires a few months back, Mexican artist Pia Camil displayed her interactive...
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border
A Review of Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border The Wall as Weapon: Border Emergency Responders As a journalist who has reported on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, I found Ieva Jusionyte’s look at the role of emergency responders who defy...
Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia
A Review of Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia Brand Bombing Colombia’s decades-long civil war has waxed and waned over the last fifty years. It has claimed the lives of 220,000 Colombians and displaced five million people from their...
Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability
A Review of Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability Untangling Sociocultural Trauma In his new book, Argentina Betrayed: Memory, Mourning, and Accountability, the Dutch scholar Antonius C.G.M. Robben seeks to establish a conceptual thread that will...
Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries
A Review of Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries Building a Web of Trust This book will deepen your understanding of how for-profit, nonprofit, or governmental entrepreneurship can be a powerful force for economic and social...
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