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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $31.45
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lourdes Beneria
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.082
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Publication Date: 2003-05-23
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: With Cold War politics lost as the organizing principle behind international politics, development has become the most import policy goal of every international organization. There is an underside (and a human side) to development, and feminism has made inroads into the highly technical debates and frothy prophecies by examining what the future really holds for the people who will live it. This book highlights the ways in which feminist analysis has contributed to a richer understanding of international development and globalization. By combining theoretical, empirical, and political perspectives and discusses cutting-edge debates around development, globalization, economic restructuring, and feminist economics, Gender, Development and Globalization presents the ultimate primer on global feminist economics.
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $31.16
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Manufacturer: CQ Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 344.046
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Publication Date: 2004-07
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Reading Level: 300
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Description: Drawing together a distinguished cast of international contributors, this new edition offers a timely collection of essays that analyze key issues, institutions, laws, and policies for the protection of the global environment. In addition to crucial historical context on the development of global environmental organizations and treaties, chapter authors offer both engaging discussions of current and critical global environmental agreements and insight into national and international implementation of sustainable development principles. Returning contributors have thoroughly revised and updated their chapters, while six brand new chapters examine such important topics as regime theory, climate change, hazardous chemical controls, perspectives of the developing world, and the European Union's and United States' international environmental policies. A useful chronology of global environmental policy and a list of acronyms further aid students in critical reading, as well as review and study.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $18.50
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Amy B. Trubek
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 641.3
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Publication Date: 2008-05-05
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Reading Level: 318
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Description: How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands the concept of terroir beyond wine and into cuisine and culture more broadly. Bringing together lively stories of people farming, cooking, and eating, she focuses on a series of examples ranging from shagbark hickory nuts in Wisconsin and maple syrup in Vermont to wines from northern California. She explains how the complex concepts of terroir and goût de terroir are instrumental to France's food and wine culture and then explores the multifaceted connections between taste and place in both cuisine and agriculture in the United States. How can we reclaim the taste of place, and what can it mean for us in a country where, on average, any food has traveled at least fifteen hundred miles from farm to table? Written for anyone interested in food, this book shows how the taste of place matters now, and how it can mediate between our local desires and our global reality to define and challenge American food practices.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $12.00
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Manufacturer: Sierra Club Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Faith D'Aluisio::Peter Menzel
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Publisher: Sierra Club Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.4
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Publication Date: 1998-12-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A companion to the groundbreaking bestseller Material World: A Global Family Portrait, this remarkable volume portrays the striking similarities and profound differences in the lives of women around the world at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Under the direction of Faith D’Aluisio and Peter Menzel, a team of renowned women journalists traveled the world to take a close look at the lives of women in twenty disparate lands. In first-person interviews of startling candor, the women share their feelings about family, children, money, love, sex, and marriage. These interviews, together with 375 stunning full-color photographs, create a powerful multicultural portrait of the half of humanity that all too often remains invisible.
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Price: $27.95
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Sale: $13.97
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Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Reginald Van Lee::Mark Gerencser::Fernando Napolitano::Christopher Kelly
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Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.484
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Publication Date: 2008-03-18
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A hurricane strikes a city; terrorists attack a nation; global warming threatens the environment--such problems are too large for any one authority to solve alone. Our increasingly globalized and interconnected world calls for a new type of tri-sector leadership in which business, government and nonprofits work together in a state of permanent negotiation. To be effective, tomorrow’s leaders will need to reach across national and sector divisions to form a collaborative “megacommunity.” Based on interviews with over 100 leaders from around the world including Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, Kenneth Chenault and Richard Parsons, MEGACOMMUNITIES: How Leaders of Government, Business and Non-Profits Can Tackle Today's Global Challenges Together introduces a radically new framework for reaching solutions to today’s thorniest problems. Written by four senior consultants from global consultancy Booz Allen Hamilton, and with a Foreword by Walter Isaacson, this important book explains how a megacommunity approach is: COUNTERING AIDS, ALZHEIMER’S AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS
In India, a megacommunity battles HIV/AIDS by bringing together both public, private, and civil-sector organizations, including PepsiCo, the Gates Foundation, U.S. healthcare experts, UN development programs, and local NGOs. CONSERVING THE ENVIRONMENT AND ENERGY
In saving the world's rainforests, providers, distributors, sellers, and consumers of lumber team up with local communities, the World Wildlife Fund, and Goldman Sachs. HELPING COMMUNITIES GROW
In changing neighborhoods like Harlem, the megacommunity includes local small businesses, community groups, global companies, and foundations like Bill Clinton's. “What is required are leaders who know how to identify the vital interests they share with others, who are prepared to seek the benefits from which all can gain,” write the authors. Visit their website at: www.megacommunities.com |
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $36.01
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Mcphail
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 302.2
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Publication Date: 2005-10-14
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Reading Level: 376
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Description: The second edition of this major text in global communication has been fully revised to bring it up to date with advances in this dynamic field. Discussing the major trends, stakeholders, and global activities involved in international communications, this book provides new insights into the worldwide factors affecting media. Utilizes numerous and diverse examples of media stakeholders, including CNN, AOL / TimeWarner, the BBC, and the music industry. Offers a user-friendly balance of theoretical and empirical material Organized accessibly around two main theories: electronic colonialism and world system theory Places emphasis on the history of the international communications debate Features engaging examples from media coverage on the war of terrorism to the birth of the iPod. This newly revised edition provides updates on all developments in media since 2002 and most substantially on the war on terrorism, Afghanistan and Iraq wars, post 9/11, al-Jazeera and Arabic media systems. Global Communication, second edition is also accompanied by a fully updated instructor's manual.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Polity
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Beverly Milton-Edwards
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Publisher: Polity
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 956.05
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Publication Date: 2006-11-03
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: The second edition of this dynamic book has been fully revised and updated to provide a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Purposefully employing a clear thematic structure and including a wide range of case studies, the book explores and analyses the major issues which define the politics of this region of the globe.
Milton-Edwards begins by introducing and explaining key concepts and debates and goes on to outline the impact of colonialism and its legacy, the rise of Arab nationalism and anti-colonial politics. She then examines major political issues affecting the region, such as political Islam, American foreign policy, war and conflict, political economy, democratization, ethnicity and the role of women. The book concludes by highlighting the politics of the region in the twenty-first century and the future challenges it faces. This is a perfect introduction for undergraduates, covering key political, economic and social debates and providing updates and guidance for further reading.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $5.00
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Manufacturer: Kumarian Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Asif Dowla::Dipal Barua
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Publisher: Kumarian Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 332.1091724
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Publication Date: 2006-11-14
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Nobel Prize-winning microcredit institution Grameen Bank has financially empowered the poorest families in more than a hundred countries across the globe for over three decades through savings and loans. Recently, Grameen has undergone a complete overhaul of its system, creating "Grameen II" and seeking to make its loan programs more effective.
The Poor Always Pay Back not only uncovers how a major financial institution is able to change its system in response to the needs of its borrowers, but also how Grameen redefined and continues to redefine the basic assumptions of credit worthiness. The immense success of Grameen Bank shows a hopeful trend in the alleviation of poverty.
Grameen Bank II is addressing the frontier issues in microfinance: open access savings, flexible loan products, self reliance and absence of donor dependency for funds, and product development to cater to the needs of the retirees (Grameen Pension Scheme) and their adult children (Higher Education Loans). The story behind these and other innovations show why Grameen has become such an inspiration to those working for social justice everywhere.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $14.10
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Manufacturer: Cornell University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Barnett::Martha Finnemore
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Publisher: Cornell University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.2
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Publication Date: 2004-12-10
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Reading Level: 226
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Description: Rules for the World provides an innovative perspective on the behavior of international organizations and their effects on global politics. Arguing against the conventional wisdom that these bodies are little more than instruments of states, Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore begin with the fundamental insight that international organizations are bureaucracies that have authority to make rules and so exercise power. At the same time, Barnett and Finnemore maintain, such bureaucracies can become obsessed with their own rules, producing unresponsive, inefficient, and self-defeating outcomes. Authority thus gives international organizations autonomy and allows them to evolve and expand in ways unintended by their creators. Barnett and Finnemore reinterpret three areas of activity that have prompted extensive policy debate: the use of expertise by the IMF to expand its intrusion into national economies; the redefinition of the category "refugees" and decision to repatriate by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; and the UN Secretariat's failure to recommend an intervention during the first weeks of the Rwandan genocide. By providing theoretical foundations for treating these organizations as autonomous actors in their own right, Rules for the World contributes greatly to our understanding of global politics and global governance.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $17.41
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Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Borstelmann
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Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2003-09-15
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union resulted in the Cold War, a conflict that emphasized the American commitment to freedom. The absence of that freedom for nonwhite American citizens confronted the nation's leaders with an embarrassing contradiction. Racial discrimination after 1945 was a foreign as well as a domestic problem. World War II opened the door to both the U.S. civil rights movement and the struggle of Asians and Africans abroad for independence from colonial rule. America's closest allies against the Soviet Union, however, were colonial powers whose interests had to be balanced against those of the emerging independent Third World in a multiracial, anticommunist alliance. At the same time, U.S. racial reform was essential to preserve the domestic consensus needed to sustain the Cold War struggle. The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths--Southern Africa and the American South--as the primary sites of white authority's last stand. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization. (20011015)
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