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Understanding Private Sector Development in Africa

M. Anne Pitcher, the author of Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies discusses the way the private sector is developing in modern Africa.

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• Canada's History recently included The War of 1812: Conflict for a Continent in their War of 1812 Reading List.   #
• The Washington Independent Review of Books reviews Chinese Martial Arts: From Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century, praising author Peter Lorge's "masterful job of detailing the evolution of martial arts from the aristocrats of the Shang dynasty (approximately 1600 B.C.) to the practitioners of the 21st century." #
• Are more "derechos" in store? The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live author Brian Stone, Jr speaks to "Talk of the Nation" about how cities are planning for extreme weather. #
• Treat yourself to a micro Venice vacation this afternoon, courtesy of San Diego State University and Venice: History of the Floating City author Joanne M. Ferraro.  #
• Jewish Book Council calls Alon Confino's Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust as Historical Understanding "one of the most original and suggestive theoretical responses to the Holocaust to have appeared in recent years." and "a brilliant, lucid, accessible meditation on interpretations of the Holocaust." #
• Kent Roach, author of The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism, has a conversation with the blog Lawfare in this new podcast. #
• Peter Singer and Christian Ethics: Beyond Polarization author Charles C. Camosy "5 tips for creating civil discourse in an era of polarization" in an op-ed piece for The Seattle Times. #
• Have you been to La Serenissima? Share your favorite photo on our Facebook page! #
• Bookforum's Political Positions includes Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America. #
• Sorry, gents! Women are scoring higher on IQ tests, according to Are We Getting Smarter?: Rising IQ in the Twenty-First Century author James Flynn, via TIME. #
• How do you begin to tackle global warming? Take out the 'global' part. The Star Tribune reviews The City and the Coming Climate: Climate Change in the Places We Live. #
• The Trouble with the Congo: Local Violence and the Failure of International Peacebuilding author Séverine Autesserre calls on the international community to address the causes of violence in Congo rather than the consequences of conflict in an op-ed for The New York Times.  #