Globalization

This book introduces readers to global brain singularity through a logical meditation on the temporal dynamics of the universal process. Global brain singularity is conceived of as a future metasystem of human civilization that represents a qualitatively...

The book reviews globalisation by identifying causes behind the discontent it has produced in recent years. It variously engages in economics, political economy, development and policy discourses to study experiences of countries and institutions in...

This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the world's largest energy consumer and its resultant growing...

Jonathon Moses makes moral, political and economic arguments in favor of the free mobility of human beings across national borders. Pointing to the importance of immigration to the sucess of many nations, he shows that Europe itself now faces a falling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788949538Author Laurence J BrahmFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Discovery PublisherPublisher Discovery PublisherWeight(grams) 152g

This book narrates the integration of consumer culture into transnational human rights advocacy and explores its political impact. By examining tactics that include benefit concerts, graphic imagery of suffering, and branded outreach campaigns, the book...

This volume studies the relation between globalization and inequalities in emerging societies by linking Area and Global Studies, aiming at a new theory of inequality beyond the nation state and beyond Eurocentrism.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783640829729Author Kathrin Marisa LeimigFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Grin VerlagPublisher Grin VerlagWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm...

This edited collection explores citizenship in a transnational perspective, with a focus on Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It adopts a multi-disciplinary approach and offers historical, legal, political, and sociological perspectives. The two...

In the aftermath of the financial crisis, why have reforms been incremental, despite the fact that conditions for rapid transformation appeared to be available? Is there anything specific about financial policy that prevents more radical reforms? Drawing...

With North Atlantic post-World War II transatlantic dynamics as the subject, this volume inquires if its theoretical tenets hold in other epochs and Atlantic arenas. Both case and comparative studies of such historical cases as the silver, slave, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783836423625Author Ayman K AgbariaFormat PaperbackImprint VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Publisher VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Weight(grams) 408g

John Vogler examines the international politics of climate change, with a focus on the United Nations Framework Convention (UNFCCC). He considers how the international system treats the problem of climate change, analysing the ways in which this has been...

Through a number of engaging and illuminating vignettes, The Slow Rise to a Global World guides students through over 500 years of world history, exploring both the lesser-known and common happenings that have shaped a more globalized world. Readers...

This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of...

Christian Berndt investigates how selected corporate actors in German small and medium-sized enterprises and in large companies respond to globalisation and the apparent crisis of the German model. By exploring the role of economic and non-economic...

Maya Ajmera and Greg Fields provide the architecture of a new perspective on the global agenda for children, based on a new global web of relationships stemming from the community level. Arguing that the existing global agenda for children has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632401885Author Donna TapoiFormat HardbackPage Count 354Imprint Clanrye InternationalPublisher Clanrye InternationalWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936955145Author Theo HoreshFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Bauu InstitutePublisher Bauu InstituteWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782807619425Author Maddalena ColomboFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint PIE - Peter LangPublisher PIE - Peter LangWeight(grams) 404g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781937592332Author Serena Joseph-HarrisFormat HardbackImprint FortisPublisher FortisWeight(grams) 953g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922792792Author Howard DimondFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Inspiring PublishersPublisher Inspiring PublishersWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783960672272Author Odhiambo James OdukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Anchor Academic PublishingPublisher Anchor Academic PublishingWeight(grams) 82g

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance. Addressing global and planetary forms of insecurity that include...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912759033Author Kerry BoltonFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

"It is my expectation that respect for the critical importance of seed sovereignty will in due course be recognised by member states of the United Nations to be as critical to global peace and security as the UN Charter demands in respect of State...

This book introduces readers to global brain singularity through a logical meditation on the temporal dynamics of the universal process. Global brain singularity is conceived of as a future metasystem of human civilization that represents a qualitatively...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789359890012Author Nina_naniFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Blue Rose PublishersPublisher Blue Rose Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789976604818Author Aidan G MsafiriFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Dar es Salaam University PressPublisher Dar es Salaam University PressWeight(grams)...

This book challenges the conventional wisdom that civil war inevitably stymies economic development and that 'civil war represents development in reverse'. While some civil wars may have adverse economic effects, Civil War and Uncivil Development posits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227100450Author Waleed MahmudFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Waleed Mahmud TariqPublisher Waleed Mahmud TariqWeight(grams) 449g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938158087Author Jim SheffieldFormat HardbackPage Count 444Imprint Isce PublishingPublisher Isce PublishingWeight(grams) 984g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625161277Author Dr Bernardine AtkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 262Imprint Strategic Book PublishingPublisher Strategic Book PublishingWeight(grams)...

Håvard Haarstad is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Geography, University of Bergen. He has worked extensively on the political economy of natural resource extraction, and the role of social movements, civil society and labor unions in...

Seeking reason in the impassioned globalization debate, de la Dehesa examines who stands to win and who stands to lose from the process of globalization, in a style accessible to readers unfamiliar with economic theory. Objectively and dispassionately...

Focusing on the Attac movements in France and Germany, this book seeks to explain the dramatic differences that exist between the individual and organisational levels of activism. The author derives engagement patterns for various types of activists and...

This study combines an account of Blair, Chirac, Schroeder and their attitudes towards European integration. It analyzes political discourses on 'national interests' and the EU, the frequently debated role of political discourse, the concept of national...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926958187Author Simten Co ArFormat PaperbackImprint Red Quill BooksPublisher Red Quill BooksWeight(grams) 485g

Until its recent revival the term 'imperialism' had virtually disappeared from academic and political discourse. Today, however, the notion of imperialism, particularly regarding the aggressive projection of state power by the Bush administration, has...

This book is the product of a team-teaching course entitled, "Issues in Economic Development" offered to the final-year students of Department of Economics and Finance at Hong Kong Shue Yan University. In this volume, the authors comprehensively survey...