Globalist Bookshelf

2015 Selections

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Embracing the Infidel: Stories of Muslim Migrants on the Journey West (Delta)

By Behzad Yaghmaian

Excerpts:
▪ Fleeing Sudan: One Refugee’s Story
▪ Sudanese in Istanbul: Nur’s Story
▪ Getting to Greece: Nur and Leyla


Crouching Tiger: What China’s Militarism Means for the World (Prometheus Books)

By Peter Navarro

Excerpts:
▪ How China and India May Come to Blows
▪ Vietnam Dangles at the Tip of the Chinese Spear


Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers (St. Martin’s)

By Steven Hill

Excerpt: Rethinking the Uber Vs. Taxi Battle


Minute Zero (G.P. Putnam’s Sons)

By Todd Moss

Excerpt: Minute Zero: Prologue


The Latchkey Murders (Russian Information Services)

By Alexei Bayer

Excerpt: Writing a Russian Detective Novel


Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

By Mona Eltahawy

Excerpt: A Voice Against Violence


The World and U2: One Band’s Remaking of Global Activism (Rowman & Littlefield)

By Alan McPherson

Excerpt: U2’s Activism: From Innocence to Experience


The Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is Driving the Next Great Transformation (Stanford University Press)

By John A. Mathews

Excerpt: China Vs. the West: The Renewables Arms Race


The News: Poems (Copper Canyon Press)

By Jeffrey Brown

Excerpt: The News Beyond the Camera


The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy (W.W. Norton)

By Lester R. Brown

Excerpt: The Accelerating Transition Away from Fossil Fuels


Brexit: How Britain Will Leave Europe (I. B. Tauris)

By Denis MacShane

Excerpt: Brexit Looming? Will Britain Leave the EU?


Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America (Pegasus)

By Richard Parker

Excerpt: Global Texas: Homage to Austin


Germany, Russia, and the Rise of Geo-Economics (Bloomsbury)

By Stephen F. Szabo

Excerpt: Mercury or Mars? What Separates Germany and the United States


Trading Places (University of New South Wales Press)

By Tim Harcourt

Excerpt: Peru: Beyond Llamas and Machu Picchu


The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths (Anthem Press)

By Mariana Mazzucato

Recent Contribution: Where Are the European Googles?


Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet (Princeton University Press)

By Gernot Wagner and Martin L. Weitzman

Excerpt: Climate Shock: Will We Persist in Collective and Willful Blindness?


Reluctant Meister: How Germany’s Past Is Shaping Its European Future (Haus Publishing)

By Stephen Green

Excerpt: Europe’s Path and the Great Global Convergence

Globalist Bookshelf selections for 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002