
Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia
Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson and John Harley Warner
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Until recently, receiving a European or North American-style medical education in Southeast Asia was...

Wasted Wombs: Navigating Reproductive Interruptions in Cameroon
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Central to the book are Gbigbil women's experiences with different "reproductive interruptions":...

Legitimacy, Legal Development and Change: Law and Modernization Reconsidered
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This book addresses critical questions about how legal development works in practice. Can law be...
Radical Equality: Ambedkar, Gandhi, and the Risk of Democracy
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B.R. Ambedkar, the architect of India's constitution, and M.K. Gandhi, the Indian nationalist, two...

The Invention of Law in the West
Antony Shugaar, Aldo Schiavone and Jeremy Carden
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Law is a specific form of social regulation that is distinct from religion, ethics, and even...

A Walk to the Water: Six Million Steps to the Mediterranean Sea
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On 14 April 2013, Daniel Graham and his twin brother, Jake, stepped out of their front door in...
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club
Christopher B. Teuton and America Meredith
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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a...

The Iliad
Homer, E.V. Rieu and Peter Jones
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A stunning Penguin clothbound edition of Homer's great epic, in E. V. Rieu's classic translation....

Nicholas Sparks recommended Unforgiven (1992) in Movies (curated)
One of my books of the year.