Prisons and mental hospitals show certain fundamental similarities in organizational structure, in goals, and in the nature of inmatehood.

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Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.

If you're going downtown anyway, could you return these books to the library while you're at it?