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In-depth analysis of a Europe in disintegration
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
Europe's Crises
Edited by Manuel Castells et al
(Polity Press, £18.99)
ONE of the difficulties with books written by academics is that they often have a tendency to become narrowly focused within the author's specialism. Europe's Crises is not such a book.
Edited by leading academics from the fields of sociology, economics, communications science and science and technology, its 18 essays are drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines.
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