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Worth more than a dollar

From Human Rights & Human Welfare, a symposium on Confronting Global Terrorism and American Neo-Conservatism: The Framework of a Liberal Grand Strategy by Tom Farer; and a series of essays on human trafficking. In 2008, trafficking of the world’s 27 million slaves made up the third-most-profitable criminal enterprise; here’s what the $40-billion industry looks like. The introduction to Making Cities Work: Prospects and Policies for Urban America. From PopMatters, a review of I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto by Dave Thompson; the success or failure of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema hinges greatly on what one thinks of Slavoj Zizek's free-range associations on desire, blood, human waste, castration, and social control in films; and has any other art, even literature or music, ever exceeded the visual arts in its ambition, its richness, and its sheer beauty? Brad DeLong on depression economics: Four options. Sometimes 100 cents feels like it's worth more than a dollar. The first chapter from The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry by Glen Van Brummelen. A review of The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance by Penelope Deutscher. Testing the Test: English professor Michael Berube takes the GRE and questions its value.