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15 books that stood out to me at my conference booth

There are many more good titles, but here's what stood out to me.

  1. How to Save a Constitutional Democracy by Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Z.Huq
  2. A Fistful of Shells:West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green
  3. Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book Imperialism by Paul S. Hirsch
  4. Doodling for Academics: A Coloring and Activity Book by Julie Schumacher, with illlustrations by Lauren Nassef
  5. 'I know Who Caused COVID-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia by Zhou Xun and Sander L. Gilman
  6. The Contested Crown: Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico by Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll
  7. Ukraine in the Crosshairs of Geopolitical Power Play edited by Peter W. Schulze and Winfried Veit
  8. The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency by Daniel W. Drezner
  9. Mafiacraft: An Ethnography of Deadly Silence by Deborah Puccio-Den
  10. Viral Economics: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19 edited by Lenore Manderson, Nancy J. Burke, and Ayo Wahlberg
  11. Exotic No More, Second Edition: Anthropology for the Contemporary World edited by Jeremy MacClancy
  12. Big Data Surveillance and Security Intelligence: The Canadian Case edited by David Lyon and David Murakami Wood
  13. The Compensations of Plunder: How China Lost Its Treasures by Justin M. Jacobs
  14. Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern by Charles Dellheim
  15. The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global Stage by Lewis A. Erenberg

(Prompt by me)



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