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  • Die Verlässlichkeit der Historia Augusta am Beispiel der Zenobia

    de Max Singer ...
    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Allgemeines, Note: 1,0, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (Alte Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Rom im 3. Jahrhundert, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Einstieg in die Vita der Zenobia ist so Historia Augusta-typisch wie man ihn sich nur vorstellen könnte: polemisch, wertend, chauvinistisch und ahistorisch. Das Reich ist aufgrund von ... Leer más

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  • History of the Future

    The Shape of the World to Come Is Visible Today

    de Max Singer ...
    History of the Future presents a set of ideas about where we are in history. It focuses on the great majority of people in each society, and shows that life in the modern world will be almost completely different from all previous human experience. The present time is best understood as a period of transition during which one country after another is following along parallel paths from traditional ... Leer más

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  • The Shock Doctrine

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  • The Beautiful and the Damned

    A Portrait of the New India

    The Beautiful and the Damned presents an affecting, incisive portrait of the vast, fascinating, and incongruent country that is globalized India.Siddhartha Deb grew up in a remote town in the northeastern hills of India and made his way to the United States via a fellowship at Columbia. Six years after leaving home, he returned as an undercover reporter for The Guardian, working at a call center ... Leer más

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  • The Globalizers

    The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers

    de Ngaire Woods ...
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    The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.—from the ... Leer más

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  • The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the World

    de Ben Wildavsky ...
    In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase ... Leer más

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  • Boom, Bust, Exodus

    The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities

    Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy. Political elites and policy experts were bewildered by combative talk of building a wall and the ubiquity of anti-TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) sloganeering in what many saw as a bizarre election cycle. They have scrambled to explain both ... Leer más

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  • Global Dreams

    Space, Class, and Gender in Middle-Class Cairo

    At the start of the twenty-first century, Cairo's cityscape has acquired a spectacular global touch. Its luxurious five-star hotels, high-rise office buildings, immaculately clean malls, and swanky coffee shops serving café latte and caesar salad, along with the budding gated communities in the city's desert expanses, exemplify three decades of economic liberalization. In the surrounding social ... Leer más

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  • Closing the Food Gap

    Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty

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  • Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere

    The New Global Revolutions

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    The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history—democratic revolt and social revolution—are being lived by millions of people.In this compelling new book, Paul Mason explores the causes and consequences of this great ... Leer más

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  • Dreaming in Public

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    Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say?Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the ... Leer más

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  • The Race To The Bottom

    Why A Worldwide Worker Surplus And Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standards

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    With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global ... Leer más

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