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  • Social Transformation and Migration

    National and Local Experiences in South Korea, Turkey, Mexico and Australia

    Edited by S. Castles, D. Ozkul, M. Cubas ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines theories and specific experiences of international migration and social transformation, with special reference to the effects of neo-liberal globalization on four societies with vastly different historical and cultural characteristics: South Korea, Australia, Turkey and Mexico. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

    by Steven Johnson ...
    From the New York Times–bestselling author of Where Good Ideas Come From and Extra Life, a new look at the power and legacy of great ideas.In this illustrated history, Steven Johnson explores the history of innovation over centuries, tracing facets of modern life (refrigeration, clocks, and eyeglass lenses, to name a few) from their creation by hobbyists, amateurs, and entrepreneurs to their ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Future of Power

    by Joseph S Nye Jr. ...
    **From the scholar who coined the term “soft power,” a bracing examination of what it means to lead in the digital age“Nye is a master of his field at the height of his powers.” —The Washington Post**Power evolves. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, unsurpassed in military strength and ownership of world resources, the United States was indisputably the most powerful nation in the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Theory U

    Leading from the Future as It Emerges

    by C. Otto Scharmer ...
    Access the deepest source of inspiration and visionWe live in a time of massive institutional failure that manifests in the form of three major divides: the ecological, the social, and the spiritual. Addressing these challenges requires a new consciousness and collective leadership capacity. In this groundbreaking book, Otto Scharmer invites us to see the world in new ways and in so doing discover ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • China Wave, The: Rise Of A Civilizational State

    by Weiwei Zhang ...
    This is a best-seller in China and a geopolitical book for our times. As a leading thinker from China, Zhang Weiwei provides an original, comprehensive and engrossing study on the rise of China and its effective yet controversial model of development, and the book has become a centerpiece of an unfolding debate within China on the nature and future of the world's most populous nation and its ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Fragile States

    by Lothar Brock, Hans-Henrik Holm, Georg Sorenson, Michael Stohl ...
    Series series War and Conflict in the Modern World
    Today a billion people, including about 340 million of the world's extreme poor, are estimated to live in 'fragile states'. This group of low-income countries are often trapped in cycles of conflict and poverty, which make them acutely vulnerable to a range of shocks and crises.This engaging book defines and clarifies what we mean by fragile states, examining their characteristics in relation to ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • On Global Justice

    by Mathias Risse ...
    Debates about global justice have traditionally fallen into two camps. Statists believe that principles of justice can only be held among those who share a state. Those who fall outside this realm are merely owed charity. Cosmopolitans, on the other hand, believe that justice applies equally among all human beings. On Global Justice shifts the terms of this debate and shows how both views are ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • All Politics Is Global

    Explaining International Regulatory Regimes

    by Daniel W. Drezner ...
    Has globalization diluted the power of national governments to regulate their own economies? Are international governmental and nongovernmental organizations weakening the hold of nation-states on global regulatory agendas? Many observers think so. But in All Politics Is Global, Daniel Drezner argues that this view is wrong. Despite globalization, states--especially the great powers--still ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Gridlock

    Why Global Cooperation is Failing when We Need It Most

    by Thomas Hale, Kevin Young, David Held ...
    The issues that increasingly dominate the 21st century cannot be solved by any single country acting alone, no matter how powerful. To manage the global economy, prevent runaway environmental destruction, reign in nuclear proliferation, or confront other global challenges, we must cooperate. But at the same time, our tools for global policymaking - chiefly state-to-state negotiations over treaties ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The City

    London and the Global Power of Finance

    by Tony Norfield ...
    Radical insider’s account of how the city of London really worksThe City, as London’s financial centre is known, is the world’s biggest international banking and foreign exchange market, shaping the development of global capital. It is also, as this groundbreaking book reveals, a crucial part of the mechanism of power in the world economy.Based on the author’s twenty years’ experience of City ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work

    by Parin Dossa, Cati Coe, Neda Deneva, Yanqiu Rachel Zhou, Kristin Elizabeth Yarris, Erin L. Raffety, Mushira Mohsin Khan, Karen Kobayashi, Loretta Baldassar0, Delores V. Mullings1 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    Transnational Aging and Reconfigurations of Kin Work documents the social and material contributions of older persons to their families in settings shaped by migration, their everyday lives in domestic and community spaces, and in the context of intergenerational relationships and diasporas. Much of this work is oriented toward supporting, connecting, and maintaining kin members and kin ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Globalism, Nationalism, Tribalism

    Bringing Theory Back in

    by Paul W James ...
    `Paul James has written a magnificent account of the world′s current condition, one that highlights the complexities and contradictions with which people, communities, and nations must contend and that does so in a compelling and creative style. Stressing the interaction between global and local forces, his writing style is lively and compelling as well as peppered with a wide range of citations, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD