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  • Hiroshima-75: Nuclear Issues in Global Contexts

    de Aya Fujiwara, Atsuko Shigesawa, Yuko Shibata, James Keeley, Frederick Mills, Mayako Shimamoto, Tomoko Masumoto, William Beard, Ritsuko Komaki, Susan Smith0, Jordan Vincent1, Chris Reyns-Chikuma2, Jin Hamamura3, David R Marples5 ...
    75 years after the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a group of international scholars offers new perspectives on this event and the history, development, and portrayal of the utilization of atomic energy: in military and civilian industries, civil nuclear power, literature and film, and the contemporary world. What lessons have ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Understanding Environmental Policy Processes

    Cases from Africa

    de James Keeley ...
    A critical analysis of the post-Rio consensus on environment and development which questions the role of particular forms of internationalized elite scientific expertise. It asks why certain understandings of environmental change stick with such tenacity. In exploring this, the authors unravel the politics of knowledge surrounding policymaking, looking particularly at Ethiopia, Mali and Zimbabwe ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

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  • The Oil Curse

    How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations

    de Michael L. Ross ...
    Explaining—and solving—the oil curse in the developing worldCountries that are rich in petroleum have less democracy, less economic stability, and more frequent civil wars than countries without oil. What explains this oil curse? And can it be fixed? In this groundbreaking analysis, Michael L. Ross looks at how developing nations are shaped by their mineral wealth—and how they can turn oil from a ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • The 2030 Spike

    Countdown to Global Catastrophe

    de Colin Mason ...
    The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization.Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • Governance for Sustainable Development

    A Foundation for the Future

    de Georgina Ayre, Rosalie Callway ...
    As the process of globalization continues and power imbalances between decision-making institutions become increasingly apparent, the need for a critical assessment of the way in which we manage our interaction with the natural environment becomes ever more urgent. Good governance was identified at the World Summit on Sustainable Development as a critical factor for ensuring successful sustainable ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of Emerging Powers

    Globalisation, US Power and the Global North-South Divide

    de Ray Kiely ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book critically examines the argument that the Global South has risen in recent years, that its rise has intensified since the 2008 financial crisis, and that this in turn has hastened the decline of the West and the US in particular. Drawing on critical theories of international relations and development, Kiely puts the rise into context and shows how the factors that aided the rise of the ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The View from Flyover Country

    Dispatches from the Forgotten America

    de Sarah Kendzior ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES and MIBA BESTSELLERFrom the St. Louis–based journalist often credited with first predicting Donald Trump’s presidential victory.**"A collection of sharp-edged, humanistic pieces about the American heartland...Passionate pieces that repeatedly assail the inability of many to empathize and to humanize." — KirkusIn 2015, Sarah Kendzior collected the essays she reported for Al Jazeera ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Localization

    A Global Manifesto

    de Colin Hines ...
    Localization is a manifesto to unite all those who recognize the importance of cultural, social and ecological diversity for our future - and who do not aspire to a monolithic global consumer culture. It is a passionate and persuasive polemic, challenging the claims that we have to be 'internationally competitive' to survive and describing the destructive consequences of globalization. This book ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • The Case Against the Global Economy

    And for a Turn Towards Localization

    Edición de Jerry Mander ...
    The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Future Positive

    International Co-operation in the 21st Century

    de Michael Edwards ...
    An optimistic assessment of the prospects for a new international order - acting as a counter-blast to global pessimism. The text explains how the international system operates, the pressures it faces and the changes it must undergo, and offers concrete ideas to re-frame international relations, foreign aid and humanitarian intervention, without using jargon or simplistic judgements. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Human Rights and the Environment

    Conflicts and Norms in a Globalizing World

    Edición de Lyuba Zarsky ...
    The impact of environmental damage on human rights - civil, political or welfare and labour rights - is becoming ever-more widely appreciated and has direct bearing on the behaviour of companies and their norms of conduct. In this volume, contributors draw on the tools and insights of a range of disciplines, including law, anthropology, economics, geography and social science, to analyze the ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • The Korean Economic Developmental Path

    Confucian Tradition, Affective Network

    de S. Lew ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book defines the Korean development as the moral economy of growth derived from a synergy between strong state and strong society and argues that Confucian cultural orientation has played a critical role in the process. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD