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Revolt: The Worldwide Uprising Against Globalization
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"A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few will remain indifferent." --Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens An...
Reefer Madness: ...and Other Tales from the American Underground
Eric Schlosser explores three of the most prominent and least understood features of globalization; drugs, pornography and migrant labour. "Reefer Madness" traces the history of the contemporary "war on drugs"...
Can Europe Survive?: The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
A bold new account of Europe's plight as it faces political fracture, economic stagnation and external challenges from the U.S., China and Russia Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing,...
Atlas of Finance: Mapping the Global Story of Money
A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and covers five thousand years of history "The book is a lot...
Welcome to the Urban Revolution. How Cities Are Changing the World
We are now at the dawn of the urban century. What does it mean that half the earth's people now live in cities - and that two billion more will...
The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter
A case for why regionalization, not globalization, has been the biggest economic trend of the past forty years The conventional wisdom about globalization is wrong. Over the past forty years...
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
Palast, an investigative reporter, spent five years trying to find out what is really going on in politics and big business. In this volume he reveals what PR companies, lobbyists...
Pandemonium: How Golbalisation and Trade Are Putting the World at Risk
Is the pace and scale of global trade endangering our livestock, hospitals and waterways? How vulnerable is our food to bacterial, viral and fungal invaders? Do certain trade goods cause...
Rosewood: Endangered Species Conservation and the Rise of Global China
A riveting study of the booming rosewood trade between China and Madagascar uncovers an alternative approach to environmentalism that disrupts Western models. Rosewood is the world's most trafficked endangered species...
Globalization: A Critical Introduction
The increasing globalization of economic, social, political and cultural life is a key feature of the contemporary world. Jan Aart Scholte's provides a concise but broad ranging introduction to its...
The Fall of the House of Fifa
Fifa was founded in 1904 to unite the football-playing world, its first congress stating that 'no person should be allowed to arrange matches for personal profit' . A little over...
Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy
New intellectual property regimes are entrenching new inequalities. Access to information is fundamental to the exercise of human rights and marketplace competition, but patents are being used to lock up...
The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER From the former vice president and #1 "New York Times" bestselling author comes "An Inconvenient Truth" for everything--a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers...
The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
We have a choice: Breakdown or Breakthrough. Revered author and systems theorist Ervin Laszlo provides a concise yet encompassing overview of the present world situation, showing where we are, and...
Introducing Globalization: Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration
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...
Connectography: Mapping the Global Network Revolution
Which lines on the map matter most? It is time to reimagine how life is organized on Earth. We're accelerating into a future shaped less by countries than by connectivity....
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital
Previously published as Naked Diplomacy . Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future? Digital technology is...
The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man: How America really took
A breathtaking expose of who really holds the power in America, and how their henchmen have infiltrated every system of government, economics and society today ***THE WORD OF MOUTH INTERNATIONAL...
Globalization and Money: A Global South Perspective
Globalization and Money explores how men and women, particularly the poor and the unbanked in the global South, use money in ways that empower themselves and their families. Supriya Singh...
Open World: The Truth about Globalisation
Globalisation is one of the most controversial issues in the world today. While protestors take to the streets at international summits, it is becoming conventional wisdom that companies are taking...
For All Peoples & All Nations: Christian Churches and Human Rights
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In this new century, born in hope but soon thereafter cloaked in terror, many see religion and politics as a volatile, if not deadly, mixture. For All Peoples and All...
Rethinking Our World: an invitation to rescue our future
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A radical vision for a better future: an economy that works for us, rather than the other way around. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a...
Globalization: The Key Concepts
Viewed as a destructive force or an inevitability of modern society, globalization is the focus of a multitude of disciplines. A clear understanding of its processes and terminology is imperative...
Implicating Empire
Over the past several years, while visible protests against the World Bank and the I.M.F. made front-page news, there has been a growing field of scholarship that looks at the...
The Blue Age: How the US Navy Created Global Prosperity--And Why We're in Danger of Losing It
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The US Navy brought half a century of peace and free trade to the world's waterways. But climate change and rising nationalism threaten to end this blue age. For decades,...
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
A magnificent reckoning of how and why the marriage between democracy and capitalism is coming undone all over the world, and what can be done to save it We are...
The Global Merchants: The Enterprise and Extravagance of the Sassoon
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East' The Sassoons were one of the great business dynasties of...
The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism, 1860-1914
The acclaimed magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historians Capitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a...
A Liveable Future is Possible
A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present
Delightfully contrarian, this is the one book you need to read to understand our modern world We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of...
One World
Known for his originality and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation....
The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World - and Globalization
An authoritative rethinking of global history by a leading Yale professor When did globalization begin? Most observers have settled on 1492, the year Columbus discovered America. But as celebrated Yale...
Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
'Hugely enjoyable. . . A spirited examination of the hypocrisy of the super-rich who claim they are helping the world' - Guardian What explains the spreading backlash against the global...
Good Economics for Hard Times: Better Answers to Our Biggest Problems
The Nobel Prize-winning economists show how, when done right, economics can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day In this ambitious, provocative book Abhijit V....
On The Edge
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The World Is Curved: Hidden Dangers to the Global Economy
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Beyond the Crash: Overcoming the First Crisis of Globalisation
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Globalisation Laid Bare: Lessons in International Business
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The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
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A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations
An acclaimed author and celebrated journalist breaks down the history of electricity and the impact of global energy use on the world and the environment.Global demand for power is doubling...
The World is Flat: The Globalized World in the Twenty-first Century
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Stopping the Juggernaut: Public Interest versus the Multilateral Agreement on Investment
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The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
Author: Peter Zeihan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system....
The Accidental Superpower: Ten Years On
Author: Peter Zeihan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system....
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'
Author: Vincent Bevins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn...
If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution: 'as good as journalism gets'
Author: Vincent Bevins Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 This book is phenomenal ... It's about as good as journalism gets ...The highest praise I can give If We Burn...
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
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Foot Work: What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation
Author: Tansy E. Hoskins Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'Fascinating and eye-opening' OWEN JONES DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR SHOES COME FROM? DO YOU KNOW WHERE THEY GO WHEN...