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Fifty years after the UN Secretary-General's death, are we any closer to the truth?

'Unmasking the mystery of how life transforms' - does Frank Ryan's book live up to its sub-header?

A review of the book by Paul Cliteur

By Martin Kohan; translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor

By Peter Eichstaedt

By Tariq Ali

By Benjamin Kwakye

By Mashingaidze Gomo

By Véronique Tadjo translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid

By Eliza Carthy & Norma Waterson

By Alastair Crooke

By William Parry

By Mark Curtis

By Houshang Asadi

By Petros Markaris

By Stephen Chan

By Tomoyuki Hoshino

Thanks to the combination of specialization and production chains that span the globe, we consumers rarely get to see the whole picture. This book joins the dots, showing the impacts of resource extraction on local communities and the environment, making the link between games consoles, civil war, rape and rainforest destruction.

By Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Lierre Keith has written a passionately argued, highly personal, and deeply informative book about the destructive and unsustainable nature of modern day agriculture – but disguised it as an argument against vegetarianism.