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What Matters

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What Matters

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Sterling, HK$224

If you are one of those fortunate souls who, in an age of needless bloodshed, environmental catastrophe and economic meltdown, stubbornly persists in believing the world is a generally swell place, this is the book for you.

Its 'creator' and editor David Elliot Cohen is best known as the co-founder of the immensely popular Day in the Life series, which sought to shed light on the soul of his native America and other countries through a marriage of striking photography and prose. Here, Cohen has kicked the concept up a notch, inviting dozens of heavy-hitting photojournalists, expert commentators and other writers to contribute chapters on the issues that trouble them most, resulting in a kind of enormous grab-bag of human depravation and social ills.

The aim, Cohen admits frankly in the introduction, is not just to make the reader think, but to 'react with outrage ... and create an uproar'.

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