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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Thomas L Friedman
In THE WORLD IS FLAT, the highly-regarded New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman advances the work on globalization that made his THE LEXUS AND THE OLIVE TREE a bestseller. Claiming that the world is now at an important historical point--as important as the changes brought by the discoveries by Columbus or by the Industrial Revolution- ...
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The Post-American World
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Fareed Zakaria
Vietnamese edition of The Post-American World. In this best selling book, a top American political analyst tells us that the US is still the top superpower in politics - and military, but in other areas, its supreme position is being challenged by the rest of the world... Vietnamese translation by Dieu Ngoc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
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George A Akerlof, Robert J Schilling
The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, 'animal spirits' are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert ...
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Making Globalization Work
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Joseph E Stiglitz
Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work and offers fresh, new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate.
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Timothy Brook
In the hands of award-winning historian Brook, Vermeer's dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought--from Delft to Beijing--were transformed in the 17th century, when the world first became global.
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Globalization and Its Discontents
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Joseph E Stiglitz
Joseph Stiglitz served as chairman of President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers for seven years, and he was also chief economist at the World Bank. In this book, Stiglitz recounts his experiences in such places as Ethiopia, Thailand and Russia. He finds repeatedly that the International Monetary Fund puts the interests of its "largest ...
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America for Sale: Fighting the New World Order, Surviving a Global Depression, and Preserving USA Sovereignty
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Jerome R Corsi, PH.D.
The #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Late Great USA" returns with a powerful follow-up that shows how America's economic crises have forced the country to accept global solutions.
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How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization
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Franklin Foer
Soccer is much more than a game, or even a way of life. It is a perfect window into the crosscurrents of today's world, with all of its joys and sorrows. Soccer clubs don't represent geographic areas; they stand for social classes and political ideologies, and often command more faith than religion. Unlike baseball or tennis, soccer is freighted ...
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The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations
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John Baylis (Editor), Steve Smith (Editor)
Fully revised and updated to cover the latest developments in world politics, the second edition of this highly successful textbook will once again provide the ideal introduction for all students of International Relations. Written specially for those coming to the subject for the first time, this text has been carefully edited by John Baylis and ...
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The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us
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Robyn Meredith
In the streets of India, camels pull carts loaded with construction materials and monkeys race across roads, dodging cars. In China, men in Mao jackets pedal bicycles along newly built motorways, past skyscrapers sprouting like bamboo. Yet exotic India is as near as the voice answering the telephone from a call-center. Communist China is as close ...
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Who's Your City?: How the Creative Economy Is Making Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life
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Richard Florida
From the best-selling author of "The Rise of the Creative Class", a brilliant new book on the surprising importance of place, with advice on how to find the right place for you.It's a mantra of the age of globalization that where we live doesn't matter. We can innovate just as easily from a ski chalet in the Alps or a cottage in Provence as in the ...
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Globalization: A Very Short Introduction
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Manfred B Steger
'Globalization' has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time - a term that describes a variety of accelerating economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. It is by its nature a dynamic topic - and this Very Short Introduction has been fully updated for 2009 ...
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Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
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Professor Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri
With enormous intellectual depth, historical perspective, and positive, enabling spirit, the renowned authors of "Empire"--two visionary theoreticians of the new global order--lay down a powerful case for hope in today's supranational world.
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In Defense of Globalization
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Jagdish N Bhagwati
The riot-torn meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle in 1999 was only the most dramatic sign of the intensely passionate debate now raging over globalization, which critics blame for everything from child labour to environmental degradation, cultural homogenization, and a host of other ills afflicting poorer nations. Now Jagdish ...
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World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability
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Amy Chua
In WORLD ON FIRE, Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, grapples with the myth that free markets work to spread wealth, instead arguing that they serve only to define and bolster the monied classes. Examining economic and political conditions in Africa, Asia, and South America, Chua examines how this distribution of wealth inflames lines of ...
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International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues
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Robert J Art
Edited by two of the most respected international relations scholars, International Politics places contemporary essays alongside classics to survey the field's diverse voices, concepts, and issues. Challenging students to use original scholarship to recognize and analyze patterns in world politics, this bestselling reader considers how to ...
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The New World Reader: Thinking and Writing about the Global Community
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Gilbert H Muller
With compelling selections by some of the world's most respected and critically acclaimed writers, The New World Reader encourages exploration of some of the most significant global challenges of the 21st century. Students consider topics that affect their lives, such as the challenges and consequences of globalization, global warming, bilingual ...
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International Economics: Theory and Policy
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Paul R Krugman
International Economics, the best-selling textbook in the field, is written by two of the world's preeminent economists. Both the real trade portion of the book and the monetary portion are divided into a core of chapters focused on theory, followed by chapters applying the theory major policy questions, past and current. International Economics ...
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Globalization and Diversity: Geography of a Changing World
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Lester B Rowntree
For undergraduate World Regional Geography courses, or for a course on globalization where instructors desire a BRIEF TREATMENT of the CORE IDEAS in World Regional Geography. Globalization and Diversity 2e is an exciting contemporary approach to World Regional Geography that explicitly acknowledges the geographic changes that accompany today's ...
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Global Business
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Mike W Peng
Broaden your students' global perspectives with the strategic and truly global approach used in GLOBAL BUSINESS -- the latest work from renowned international instructor, author, and consultant Mike Peng. Using an inviting, conversational style, GLOBAL BUSINESS delves into the inner workings of companies throughout the world that have expanded ...
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World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments
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Sallie A Marston, Paul L Knox, Diana M Liverman
For courses in World Regional Geography. For courses in World Regional Geography. World Regions in Global Context employs an explicitly global approach to world regional geography that emphasizes global connections, the stories behind the maps, and presents explicit discussions of how these forces and processes play themselves out in individual ...
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One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Second Edition
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Professor Peter Singer (Preface by)
Known for his original 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. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's ...
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The Global Future: A Brief Introduction to World Politics
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Charles W Kegley, Jr.
The GLOBAL FUTURE is a brief introduction to the study of international relations, based on the framework of Charles Kegley's best selling WORLD POLITICS: TREND AND TRANSFORMATION. Written in a clear, accessible style that speaks to students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities, this textbook provides a set of concepts and analytic tools ...
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Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance
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Professor Noam Chomsky
The United States is in the process of staking out not just the globe but the heavens as a militarized sphere of influence. Chomsky investigates how it came to this moment, what kind of peril it presents, and why rulers are willing to jeopardize the future of the species.
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The World Is Flat, Release 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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Thomas L Friedman
Tying into the new paperback and with a new preface, Thomas L. Friedman's account of the flattening of the earth is a modern classic
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