Adrian Ivakhiv’s "Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature" is a book that pushes beyond conventional reflections on film and environmental thought. It is, significantly, a book where ‘the conceptual’ and ‘the material’ enter into co-productive relationships in and through Ivakhiv’s examination of cinema and the worlds it creates.

Peter Kraftl’s Geographies of Alternative Education is a book with two main aims. The first is to reveal the spatialities of alternative learning, a task that contributes uniquely to both educational and geographical research. The second is to ask "What is alternative in these learning spaces?".

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.

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.