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Photojournalist Reader (Africa: A Biography of the Continent) traces the humble potato from its roots in the Peruvian Andes to J.R. Simplot's multibillion-dollar-a-year French fry business. Despite its predilection to disease, the potato is a highly adaptable, high-yield, and nutrient-packed foodstuff. While this title focuses primarily on the potato's presence in South America and Europe, it also touches on Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and China-currently the world's largest producer and consumer of potatoes. Verdict: Curiously little attention is paid to the tuber's contributions to the culinary and beverage landscape; the UK subtitle of this work, "The Potato in World History," provides a more accurate description of the focus of the text

Intro -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations and Picture Credits -- 1 First Impressions -- 2 How Did It Begin? -- 3 Where Did It Begin? -- 4 Common Threads -- 5 War, Greece and Rome -- 6 The Works of Giants Mouldereth Away -- 7 In the Name of God and for Profit -- 8 Prince's Capital and Merchants' City -- 9 By What Complicated Wheels -- 10 The City Found Wanting -- 11 The Impact of Numbers -- 12 Cities Built on Water -- 13 Turn to the Sun -- 14 Eternal Problems -- 15 The Greatness of Princes -- 16 Capturing the Horizon -- 17 'The city here, complete' -- 18 Accommodating Politics -- 19 Visions and Opportunities -- 20 We Tread too Heavily -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Environmental concerns about the state of the world's oceans have been growing over recent years, particularly as acidification, overfishing and the limited capacity of the oceans to absorb CO2 from climate change have come to the fore. Engineering practices and innovations in a number of forms are of direct relevance to this, notably through a concern to develop engineering in such a way as to be for the benefit of all, including the non-human world. This article argues that assemblage theory offers an alternative way of understanding how culture is always already a part of nature, and that human autonomy has to be seen as constrained and limited if the worst effects of pollution and climate change are to be addressed.

How does one contribute to a process of transformation towards great social justice and what are the barriers that stand in the way? Some of the ideas presented in the book Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology help us to address two issues vital to the above: first, that of why it is that humans are sometimes so loathe to oppose the forces and factors that prevent them striving for greater social justice, and second, how one can envision alternative forms of leadership—ones that rest less upon the power or influence of specific individuals, but do take into account human (and non-human) interdependencies. The publication of this text is a step in the direction of making Simondon's work more readily available, and helps us to see how a different understanding of how human individuality is formed offers new insights into both these issues.