Researching the race for shrinking water resources
Why has water increasingly become a source of trouble and conflict? Why is the driest continent on earth one of the world’s biggest water exporters? – I am…
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Informality and Spatial Confinement across the Global Order. Another conference session
At the next ISA World Congress in Yokohama (July 14-19, 2014), I will be the co-organizer of this session. I’m excited about that, and I am looking forward…
PNG deal – regional solution or co-dependency
This is a pre-edited version, final version on theconversation.edu.au. We are yet to find out the details of the deal struck between Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and…
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Science, Technology, and Society] Dorothea was a widow who treated Martin Luther, the Duke of Saxony, and throngs of poor peasants with her…
Alisha Rankin, “Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany” (University of Chicago Press, 2013)
Dorothea was a widow who treated Martin Luther, the Duke of Saxony, and throngs of poor peasants with her medicinal waters. Anna was the powerful wife of the…
Public Health Ryan Gosling
…I just can’t help myself. I am cracking up at these! Do you know about the Ryan Gosling meme? (If not, read all about it at Know Your…
Martha Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600”
[Cross-posted from New Books in History] When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were “proto-capitalists.” I was never quite sure what…
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates”
[Cross-posted from New Books in Big Ideas] Humans are quite a bit like chimpanzees, genetically speaking. Of course humans are quite a bit like fruit flies, genetically speaking. But when…
Frans De Waal, “The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among Primates” (Norton, 2013)
Humans are quite a bit like chimpanzees, genetically speaking. Of course humans are quite a bit like fruit flies, genetically speaking. But when it comes to behavior, humans…
Martha C. Howell, “Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300-1600″ (Cambridge UP, 2010)
When I was an undergraduate, I was taught that merchants in early modern Western Europe were “proto-capitalists.” I was never quite sure what that meant. If it meant…
When overheated expectations meet neoliberal policies
They chained themselves to bridges and went on hungerstrike. What people wanted was a road that connects them to the wider world. – Roads are perfect spaces for…
Injustice Served
Up until the age of twelve, I wanted to be a lawyer. My quick memory and logical argumentation skills made it a good choice for me people said.…
Injustice Served
Up until the age of twelve, I wanted to be a lawyer. My quick memory and logical argumentation skills made it a good choice for me people said.…
Injustice Served
Up until the age of twelve, I wanted to be a lawyer. My quick memory and logical argumentation skills made it a good choice for me people said.…
Injustice Served
Up until the age of twelve, I wanted to be a lawyer. My quick memory and logical argumentation skills made it a good choice for me people said.…
American Scenes: Riding The Trolley In St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…
American Scenes: Riding the Trolley in St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…
American Scenes: Riding The Trolley In St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…
American Scenes: Riding the Trolley in St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…
American Scenes: Riding The Trolley In St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…
American Scenes: Riding The Trolley In St. Petersburg, Florida
Downtown St. Petersburg, Florida is breathtakingly beautiful. The sweep of earth-toned buildings many of which are inspired by the domes and arches of classic Spanish architecture, contrasts stu…