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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
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David C Korten
In his classic international bestseller, "When Corporations Rule the World," David Korten exposed the destructive and oppressive nature of the global corporate economy and helped spark a global resistance movement. Now, he shows that the problem runs deeper than corporate domination -- with far greater consequences. Korten argues that global ...
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Cultures and Organizations: Software for the Mind: Software for the Mind
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Dr. Geert Hofstede, Gert-Jan Hofstede, Hofstede Geert
The revolutionary study of how the place where we grew up constrains the way we think, feel, and act, updated for today's new realities. The world is a more dangerously divided place today than it was at the end of the Cold War. This despite the spread of free trade and the advent of digital technologies that afford a degree of global connectivity ...
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Global Crises, Global Solutions
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Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
A unique publication exploring the opportunities for addressing ten of the most serious challenges facing the world today: Climate Change, Communicable Diseases, Conflicts, Education, Financial Instability, Corruption, Migration, Malnutrition and Hunger, Trade Barriers, Access to Water. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to ...
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Showdown with Nuclear Iran: Radical Islam's Messianic Mission to Destroy Israel and Cripple the United States
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Michael D Evans, Jerome R Corsi, PH.D.
This terrifying work is an examination of how Iran's president (a radical Shiite zealot) believes he has a "divine mission" to usher in the apocalypse and thereby herald the second coming of a Shia Muslim messiah.
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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone
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Joseph S Nye, Jr.
This prescription for America's role in the world counsels against unilateralism and favors an engagement with the world that balances U.S. military might with what the author calls its "soft power"--which is derived from its culture, values, and way of life. The author sees this as a potent force that can be used for good.
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Hooked: Pirates, Poaching, and the Perfect Fish
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G Bruce Knecht
Knecht chronicles how an obscure fish merchant in California "discovered" and renamed the Patagonian toothfish to Chilean Sea Bass, kicking off a worldwide craze for a fish no one had ever heard of--and everyone had to have.
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International Public Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies
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Michael H Merson, M.D.
Now there is a textbook that reflects both the scope and depth of challenges in global health and the dynamic nature of the field. By emphasizing diseases, programs, health systems, and health policies, "International Public Health" helps students understand the wide range of global public health issues and the various approaches nations adopt to ...
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Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage
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James Cuno
Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums ...
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Case Against the Global Economy
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Jerry Mander (Editor), Edward Goldsmith (Editor)
A point-by-point analysis of the global economy, its premises and its social and environmental implications. Includes contributions by 43 leading economic and agricultural experts, who claim that free trade and economic globalisation through institutions such as GATT, are producing exactly the opposite results from those promised.
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Global Sociology
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Robin Cohen, Paul Kennedy
This work highlights the importance of sociology for understanding the complex and rapidly changing modern world. Containing suggestions for classroom projects and seminar activities, this book considers a range of issues from the emergence of global society to migration, tourism, and crime.
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Essentials of Global Health
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Richard L Skolnik
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How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place
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Bjorn Lomborg (Editor)
Edited by Bjorn Lomborg, this abridged version of the highly acclaimed Global Crises, Global Solutions provides a serious yet accessible springboard for debate and discussion on the world's most serious problems, and what we can do to solve them. In a world fraught with problems and challenges, we need to gauge how to achieve the greatest good ...
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Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939
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Barry Eichengreen
This is a reassessment of the international monetary crisis of the post-World War I period that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s. It also analyzes the responses of the world economic powers to the Depression and describes how new monetary policies set the stage for the watershed post-World War II system established at Bretton Woods. It ...
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The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads
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Ervin Laszlo
Breakdown or Breakthrough? We are at a critical juncture in history, a "decision-window" where we face the danger of global collapse--or the opportunity for global renewal. Written by Ervin Laszlo, the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, The Chaos Point provides a concise overview of the present world situation, showing ...
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Cultures and Organizations
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Geert Hoftstede, Geert H Hofstede
Despite calls for better co-operation between countries and different cultures, there is still confrontation between people, groups and nations. But at the same time they are exposed to common problems which demand co-operation for the solution of these problems. Cultures and Organizations helps to understand the differences in the way strategists ...
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Trilateralism: The Trilateral Commission and Elite Planning for World Management
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Holly Sklar (Editor)
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Deterring International Terrorism and Rogue States: US National Security Policy After 9/11
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James H Lebovic
This new study challenges the widely held view that many current US adversaries cannot be deterred, maintaining that deterrence is not a relic of the Cold War period and that it should shape US policies toward so-called 'rogue states' and terror groups. James Lebovic argues that deterrence principles continue to apply, and focuses upon the 'three ...
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More Than Houses
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Millard Fuller
In the style of Chicken Soup for the Soul, this warm collection of stories tells about the people impacted by one man's dream - Habitat for Humanity, founded in 1976 by Millard Fuller. Meet children who have excelled academically after moving into the "houses that love built." See neighborhoods that have been revitalized and people of different ...
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International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World
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Lynne M Healy
International Social Work: Professional Action in an Interdependent World is a comprehensive introduction that places social work history, practice, policy, and education within an international perspective. Two main themes-- global interdependence and professional action-- are emphasized in this complete examination of an increasingly global ...
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A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights
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Elizabeth Borgwardt
In a work of sweeping scope and luminous detail, Elizabeth Borgwardt describes how a cadre of World War II American planners inaugurated the ideas and institutions that underlie our modern international human rights regime. Borgwardt finds the key in the 1941 Atlantic Charter and its Anglo-American vision of 'war and peace aims.' In attempting to ...
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The Physical Science Basis
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Susan Solomon (Editor), Dahe Qin (Editor), Martin Manning (Editor)
What is happening to the climate? Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis is the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific assessment of past, present and future climate change. This report has been produced by some 600 authors from 40 countries, over 620 experts and a large number of government reviewers. Providing insights into the ...
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The Merger: How Organized Crime Is Taking Over the World
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Jeffrey Robinson
Robinson outlines a worldwide network of illegal deals that are almost impossible to trace, let alone stop: joint ventures in heroin trafficking, counterfeit currency, arms dealing, money laundering and murder. From London to Moscow, Miami to Bogota, this wealth cabal is destined to become the most powerful special interest group on earth.
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The Discovery of Global Warming
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Dr. Spencer R Weart
In 2001 a panel representing virtually all the world's governments and climate scientists announced that they had reached a consensus: the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia, and that warming was caused by the buildup of greenhouse gases from human activity. The consensus itself was at least a ...
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The Mark of the New World Order
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Terry Cook
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Global Environmental Governance
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Professor James Gustave Speth, Professor Peter M Haas
Today's most pressing environmental problems are planetary in scope, confounding the political will of any one nation. How can we solve them? Global Environmental Governance offers the essential information, theory, and practical insight needed to tackle this critical challenge. It examines ten major environmental threats-climate disruption, ...
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