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As the race for the White House hots up, The Guardian journalist SUZANNE GOLDENBERG asks if the United States is ready for a female President. In her new book, Madam President, she examines Hillary Clinton鈥檚 record and ponders what sort of leader she would make if she wins. Madam President: Is America Ready to Send Hillary Clinton to the White House? is published by Guardian Books.

China is now the biggest emitter of CO2 and, according to the environmental expert PROFESSOR C S KIANG, the country is at a crossroads. He urges a truly global approach to climate change that includes the West taking some responsibility for the situation of developing countries. After all, he points out, China is pumping out pollutants making cheap goods for the developed world. Professor Kiang is leading the new dialogue between China and the West and is speaking at the Be The Change conference in Central Hall, Westminster, London 15-17 November. His lecture is called Sustainable China?

As Pakistan remains in turmoil, under a state of emergency imposed by a military leader, what role can the Commonwealth play in returning the country to peace and democracy? Does it have any influence over its members who behave badly or is it simply an out-dated ex-colonial club? With a Heads of Government meeting coming up, what鈥檚 the future for the organisation? Commonwealth Secretary-General DON MCKINNON is giving a lecture on 12 November at the London School of Economics on The Modern Commonwealth: challenges in the 21st century.

The image of extravagant victory parades have come to symbolise a modern view of the Romans as jingoistic, militaristic warmongers, obsessed with power, booty and showing off. Yet in her new book, The Roman Triumph, PROFESSOR MARY BEARD paints a much more complex picture of an empire racked with doubts about the methods of their victories and their victims, even as they lavishly celebrated them. The Roman Triumph is published by Harvard University Press.