Globalization

In the years since publication of the first edition of Food Wars much has happened in the world of food policy. This new edition brings these developments fully up to date within the original analytical framework of competing paradigms or worldviews...

An incisive, evocative history of the experience of empire in the Oceanic world This compelling book explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain...

In the decades since the end of the Second World War, it has been widely assumed that the western model of liberal democracy and free trade is the way the world should be governed. However, events in the early years of the twenty-first century - first,...

Reclaiming the Commons: Biodiversity, Traditional Knowledge, and the Rights of Mother Earth lays out the scientific, legal, political, and cultural struggle to defend the sovereignty of biodiversity and indigenous knowledge.Two decades ago, at the height...

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous...

"If you want to catch up on some of the best articles written about globalisation since the topic became fashionable several years ago, this reader is the place to start." -The Economist A blue ribbon collection of major articles and position papers on...

A decade into the 21st century, our world is more interconnected than ever before. Yet even as the global community becomes increasingly more complex and competitive, the world is changing at a rapid pace. Just consider some of the major events of the...

'An exceptional account.' Prospect'Enlightening.' SpectatorFor the first time in millennia we live without formal empires. But that doesn't mean we don't feel their presence rumbling through history. The Great Imperial Hangover examines how the world's...

Why Britain's attempt at small government proved unable to cope with the challenges of the modern worldIn the nineteenth century, as Britain attained a leading economic and political position in Europe, British policymakers embarked on a bold experiment...

'If Downton Abbey still colours your impression of what Britain was like on the cusp of the First World War, 1913 could be a useful corrective' Scotsman2018 marks the centenary of the end of the Great War. What was the year before the war really like?...

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Today, production processes have become fragmented with a range of activities divided among firms and workers across borders. These global value chains are being strongly promoted by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637307014Author Judy RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint New Degree PressPublisher New Degree PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the YearThe Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Here's the inside scoop on the wine world.About the AuthorMike Veseth is professor emeritus of international political economy at the University of Puget Sound. He is editor of...

Advocates of computers make sweeping claims for their inherently transformative power: new and different from previous technologies, they are sure to resolve many of our existing social problems, and perhaps even to cause a positive political revolution...

For as long as there have been nations, there has been an "international"-a sphere of cross-border relations. But for most of human history, this space was sparsely occupied. States and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and the spasms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988726888Author Mark DiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Resistance ManifestoPublisher Resistance ManifestoWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595580399Author George MonbiotFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint The New PressPublisher The New Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967346670Author Mark DiceFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Resistance ManifestoPublisher Resistance ManifestoWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain's alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK's key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led...

Throughout his long and turbulent career as an Indian leader, first in South Africa and then in India, Gandhi sought to fulfill his religious aspirations through politics, and to reconcile politics with his private religious discipline. The Gandhi...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802141644Author Robert CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian...

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the reform of the global governance system, suggest that he has...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners. Identifies and explores the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119538509Author Kristen A. HiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Wiley-BlackwellPublisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd

In an age of globalization characterized by the dizzying technologies of the First World, and the social disintegration of the Third, is the concept of utopia still meaningful? Archaeologies of the Future, Jameson's most substantial work since...

This highly-acclaimed, bestselling textbook, quickly established itself as one of the leading texts on the subject worldwide in its first edition. Now substantially revised and updated, Scholte provides students with a comprehensive introduction to...

War in Ukraine, a global hunger crisis, the West's cost of living crisis - the eruptions of 2022 were all too predictable. In Price Wars, Rupert Russell lays out just how these crises are connected and how many such events plunged the 2010s into a decade...

As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start. Why did American leaders...

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780958240147Author Ian WishartFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Howling at the Moon Publishing LtdPublisher Howling at the Moon Publishing...

In this powerful and passionate critique of the 'war on terror' in Afghanistan and its extensions into Palestine and Iraq, Derek Gregory traces the long history of British and American involvements in the Middle East and shows how colonial power...

'A compelling warning ... It is hard to disagree with this advice from such a well-informed friend of the west' Martin Wolf, Financial TimesThe West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the...

Rapid advances and new technologies in the life sciences - such as biotechnologies in health, agricultural and environmental arenas - pose a range of pressing challenges to questions of citizenship. This volume brings together for the first time authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263187Author Themrise KhanFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 940g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789082327571Author Mathijs KoenraadtFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint MorningtimePublisher MorningtimeWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, were accomplished through an amazing orchestration of logistics and personnel. Crossing the Rubicon discovers and identifies key suspects-finding some of them in the highest echelons of American government-by showing...

International development is a vibrant, interdisciplinary area of the social sciences. This Short Guide offers a uniquely succinct and balanced account of this politically charged subject. It distils both the classic and newer debates together in a clear...

An economic and military superpower with 20 percent of the world's population, China has the wherewithal to transform the international system. Xi Jinping's bold calls for China to lead in the reform of the global governance system, suggest that he has...