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RR 2018/090 Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know (2nd edition) Roderic Ai Camp Oxford University Press New York and Oxford 2017 xviii + 230 pp. ISBN 978 0 19 049416 2 (hbck) ; ISBN 978 0 19 049417 9 (pbck) ; ISBN 978 0 19 049418 6 (e-book) £47.99 $74 (hbck); £10.99 $16.95 (pbck)What Everyone Needs to Know
What Everyone Needs to Know is a well-established series from Oxford University Press. Begun in 2008, it now, based on a quick check of the dedicated series website at , comprises about 80 titles. The aim of the series, again according to its website, is to offer "a balanced and authoritative primer on complex current event issues and countries". An impressively wide range of topics have been treated. Titles released around the same time as the Mexico volume here under review deal with environmental protection, the global pain crisis, corruption, privacy, economic development and quantum physics. Other countries recently covered alongside Mexico include Iran, Spain and Turkey. Series volumes are available in hardback and paperback. The latter are attractively priced, usually at £10.99 ($16.95). E-book versions of each title are also available, but as far as the reviewer was able to ascertain, there is no electronic access to the entire series in one cross-searchable database.
Like a few other titles in the series, this Mexico volume is a second edition, the initial volume appearing just six years ago. The new edition has a slightly expanded page count but, admirably, for the paperback version at least, it retains the same price tag. The author is again Roderic Ai Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College, a private liberal arts...