In providing a detailed and sensitive description of the everyday realities of Mizrachi women living in Yeruham, this book offers a fresh perspective on the outcomes of this national project. By paying close attention to how these women describe their own lives, Motzafi-Haller succeeds in deviating from the stereotypical and many times paternalistic discussion about life on the social and geographical periphery.

"Carscapes" is a substantial book on the architectural impact of cars in the context of a single industrialised western country, England. Yet, the book has wider significance, as nearly every country is currently grappling with the fundamental unsustainability of mass automobility.

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.

With rare exceptions, the moral possibilities of the city, or the immoralities of environmental choices, are rarely considered seriously. Conversely, few ethicists consider seriously the environmental structure of the things they seek to judge, the complex realities that provoke the dilemmas they self-confidently assess.That is the unavoidable if unintended lesson of Daniel Callahan’s biography, "In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics".

While disparate in their content and approaches, both of these books give a comprehensive sense of Ai’s diversity and international appeal, and are especially useful in gaining a better understanding of Ai’s relationship to China and his Chinese audience.