On our Front Table this week, disassemble the mechanics of power, from the necropolitics of yellow fever in Antebellum New Orleans to the strategic conniving of shellfish, rodents, and corvids. Find the following titles and more at semcoop.com
Adriatic: A Concert of Civilizations at the End of the Modern Age (Random House)
Robert D. Kaplan
In this insightful travelogue, Robert D. Kaplan turns his perceptive eye to a region that for centuries has been a meeting point of cultures, trade, and ideas. Often overlooked, the Adriatic is in fact at the center of some of the...