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Prize List:

CDs:

Aam Zameen: Common Ground by Kiran Ahluwalia (Avokado). Kiran Ahluwalia's music is the organic product of a globe-hopping artist born in India, raised in Canada, and now living in New York. Backed by the West African "desert blues" band Tinariwen, she sings with an ever-present sense of yearning.

Blue Hour by The Drift (Temporary Residence Ltd.). The Drift's tactile swirl of meandering guitars, infectious grooves, and warmly glowing keyboards provides an instrumental soundtrack to ruminative emotions

Will the Guns Come Out? by Hanni El Khatib (Innovative Leisure). Hanni El Khatib combines raw, ferocious punk rock with American pop styles including doo-wop, rockabilly, and soul.

Books:

Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis by Cynthia Barnett (Beacon). Author Cynthia Barnett calls for a water ethic, inspired by Aldo Leopold's land ethic. By embracing a new relationship with water, we can clear the way for a water system that's good for the environment, the economy, and society.

Losing It by William Ian Miller (Yale University Press). "My views reproduce one very well established view of old age," warns Miller in his acidly funny history of going gray, "the negative one." As a law professor and medieval scholar, he taps his expertise on how societies have perceived and supported their elderly through the ages.

I Killed Scheherazade by Joumana Haddad (Lawrence Hill Books). It's time to put the stereotype of the submissive Arab woman to death, writes Lebanese journalist Joumana Haddad. She playfully and pointedly bids Western readers to rethink their perceptions.

DVDs:

Urbanized (New Video). This peppy, thought-provoking documentary about urban design explores the fabric of metropolitan living and the way designers are employing innovative ideas to change cities in the 21st century.

The Shaft (Global Lens Collection). China's rural coal towns typically enter the global consciousness only when a mine collapse traps or kills miners. The Shaft, a drama set in one such town, depicts a different sort of slow suffocation, wrought by social and economic stagnation.

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