Apart from the fact that the book is exemplary in its scholarship and aside from Morin's transparent and comprehendible style, the reason why this work excels in introducing the major themes and moves in Nancy's thinking, is because of its specific outline. Not only does Morin divide Nancy's work in distinct and recognizable themes, she also gives a tangible framework as to how one should understand Nancy's sometimes unobvious and difficult argument and rationale. Let me expand a bit on this last point.

The author intends to provide us with “biographies” of all his rivers. Now, what is exactly a “river's biography”? It certainly includes a clear description of the river, with its hydrology (sources, flows, landscapes) and its people—those that lived with and changed the river, and possibly vice versa.

This is not a book that simply rides the wave of popularity that studies of finance have been enjoying due to the recent global financial crisis. Of course the book does carry the nasty taste of the past five years’ crisis. This, however, has inspired the author to produce a convincing and well-researched discussion of the process of financialization that integrates, but also transcends, many of the ongoing debates among students of finance.

In this book, Haesbaert questions the idea of deterritorialization advanced by Arjun Appadurai, Manuel Castells, Bertrand Badie and Paul Virilio in the 1990s. According to these scholars the intensification of mobility (in terms of individuals, goods, and financial flows) and the development of digital technologies would challenge the bond between societies and their territories.

This is a book about drug addiction and how the lived experience of addiction disrupts and overflows the categories that attempt to make sense of it. Based on three years of ethnographic fieldwork at a residential treatment center in Baltimore, the book follows 12 adolescents undergoing treatment for opiate abuse using buprenorphine, an opiate substitution medication.

Pauline Kleingeld’s book on Kant and cosmopolitanism is a superlative piece of scholarship, one that will set a new gold standard in the interpretation and analysis of Kant’s work. This is surely one of the most comprehensive and carefully elaborated and argued reconstructions of Kant’s mature political philosophy— a contribution to Kant scholarship of the first order.

If the ‘mobilities paradigm’ is responsible for making roads a relevant topic of landscape research, then Routes, Roads and Landscapes is the welcome fruit of this scholarly vogue. Its strength lies in the relationships explored between historical and contemporary mobilities, and the interpretations, experiences and representations of landscape they provoked.

Geographers, it would seem, have come late to studies of "the left." Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift find the left in desperate straits and in even more desperate need of some serious theoretical rejuvenation.

Maha Samman has written an important contribution to understanding the political and urban geographies of the situation in Israel/Palestine. In common with other analyses, Samman wants to understand Israel, and earlier Zionist practices, as colonialism.

In an era when neoliberal universities are restricting our research imaginaries into short term metrics (e.g. citations, impact factors, league tables), it is heartening to read such a bold and ambitious book. While there are many excellent things about The Right To Look, the most impressive is its refusal to contain its intellectual horizon to one case study, one historical era, or one theorist.