Dans Abstract from the Concrete, le géographe marxiste David Harvey entreprend une enquête minutieuse afin de lever le voile sur une statistique étonnante : entre 2011 et 2013, l'industrie chinoise a consommé 50 % de ciment en plus que les États-Unis tout au long du XXe siècle.

Cet ouvrage s'inscrit dans la série « The Incidents », qui prend pour point de départ des événements passés et à venir à la Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

When a man is found in the middle of Alfreton Road in the early hours one Sunday morning, stark naked and bleeding heavily from a chest wound, he is the latest in a series of viscous attacks on men.



Enquiries in the mean-streets of Nottingham's red-light district have brought the investigations to a dead end.



Charlie Resnick is the man for the job. And as if he hasn't had enough to deal with, he now has to provide police protection for a celebrity at the annual crime convention - an author with some very unpleasant 'fan' mail.



Chronically short-staffed as he is, it's a guessing game as to when Resnick's lack of manpower will have fatal consequences.