What We Are Reading Today: ‘Birds of India’

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Updated 19 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Birds of India’

  • Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone birding in this part of the world

Authors: RICHARD GRIMMETT, CAROL INSKIPP, AND TIM INSKIPP 

The best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent is now even better.

Thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, this third edition of “Birds of India” features revised color plates, text, and distribution maps, and 64 more pages than the previous edition.

Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone birding in this part of the world.

 

 


What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

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Updated 27 February 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: Corporate Crime and Punishment

  • Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability

Author: Cornelia Wall

Over the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations.

Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines.

Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries.

In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach.