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Price: $32.95
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Sale: $32.95
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Manufacturer: CQ Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: The CQ Researcher
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Publisher: CQ Press
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Edition: 2008 Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2007-12-03
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Reading Level: 400
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Description: With an in-depth look at sixteen contemporary issues ranging from world peacekeeping to climate change, this proven reader asks important, timely questions none with easy answers: Can India match China's economic growth? Is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty obsolete? Should the United States scale back efforts to export democracy to the Middle East and elsewhere? To facilitate sound analysis, each chapter explores who the players are, what s at stake, why recognizing past and current developments is so crucial to the future, and includes the following special features: a pro/con box that examines two competing sides of a single issue question; a detailed chronology; an annotated bibliography with web resources; plus photos, charts, graphs, and maps. The 2008 edition also features articles from the brand new CQ Global Researcher, which reports on global affairs from a multitude of international viewpoints.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $18.00
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pamela S. Chasek::Janet Welsh Brown::David Leonard Downie
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Edition: Fourth Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7056
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Publication Date: 2006-01-02
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: When Global Environmental Politics was first published, the environment was just emerging as a pivotal issue in traditional international relations. Today, the environment is considered to be a central topic to discussions of international politics, political economy, international organization, and the relationship between foreign and domestic policy. With new and updated case studies throughout, a revised chapter on improving compliance with international environmental regimes, and a new section on environment within the larger context of sustainable development, this classic text is more complete and up-to-date than any survey of international environmental politics on the market. In addition to providing a concise yet comprehensive overview of global environmental issues, the authors have worked to contextualize key topics such as the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the Kyoto Protocol, the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, international forest policy, and the trade, development and environment nexus. Environmental concerns from global warming to biodiversity loss to whaling are seen as challenges to transnational relations, with governments, NGOs, IGOs, and MNCs all involved in the multilateral interaction that is necessary to address the ever-complicated subject of global environmental politics.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: University of Minnesota Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Arjun Appadurai
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Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306
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Publication Date: 1996-11
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Reading Level: 224
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Price: $32.00
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Sale: $25.00
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Manufacturer: Westview Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karen A Mingst::Margaret P Karns
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Publisher: Westview Press
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Edition: Third Edition
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Dewey Decimal Number: 341.23
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Publication Date: 2006-07-31
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: The third edition of this popular text focuses on major events since 2000, including 9/11 and the war against terrorism, the Iraq War's effect on the UN's relevance, and the Millennium Development Goals. Thoroughly revised throughout, the text also has a new chapter on human security issues that encompasses environmental concerns and global health.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $8.04
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Manufacturer: Wiley
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Robb
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Publisher: Wiley
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Dewey Decimal Number: 327
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Publication Date: 2008-04-28
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: "For my money, John Robb, a former Air Force officer and tech guru, is the futurists' futurist."
--Slate
War in the twenty-first century will be very different from what we've come to expect. Terrorism and guerrilla warfare are rapidly evolving to allow nonstate networks to challenge the structure and order of nation-states. It is a change on par with the rise of the Internet and China, and will dramatically change how you and your kids will view security.
In Brave New War, the counterterrorism expert John Robb reveals how the same technology that has enabled globalization also allows terrorists and criminals to join forces against larger adversaries with relative ease and to carry out small, inexpensive actions--like sabotaging an oil pipeline--that will generate a huge return. He shows how taking steps to combat the shutdown of the world's oil, high-tech, and financial markets could cost us the thing we've come to value the most--worldwide economic and cultural integration--and the crucial steps we must take now to safeguard our systems and ourselves against this new method of warfare.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: P. W. Singer
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355.0083
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Publication Date: 2006-04-10
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Reading Level: 278
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Description: From U.S. soldiers having to fight children in Afghanistan and Iraq to juvenile terrorists in Sri Lanka to Palestine, the new, younger face of battle is a terrible reality of 21st century warfare. Indeed, the very first American soldier killed by hostile fire in the "War on Terrorism" was shot by a fourteen-year-old Afghan boy. Children at War is the first comprehensive examination of a disturbing and escalating phenomenon: the use of children as soldiers around the globe. Interweaving explanatory narrative with the voices of child soldiers themselves, P.W. Singer, an internationally recognized expert in modern warfare, introduces the brutal reality of conflict, where children are sent off to fight in war-torn hotspots from Colombia and the Sudan to Kashmir and Sierra Leone. He explores the evolution of this phenomenon, how and why children are recruited, indoctrinated, trained, and converted to soldiers and then lays out the consequences for global security, with a special case study on terrorism. With this established, he lays out the responses that can end this horrible practice. What emerges is not only a compelling and clarifying read on the darker reality of modern warfare, but also a clear and urgent call for action.
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Price: $16.00
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Sale: $4.74
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Ted C. Fishman
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.951
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Publication Date: 2006-04-11
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: "China today is visible everywhere -- in the news, in the economic pressures battering america, in the workplace, and in every trip to the store. provocative, timely, and essential, this dramatic account of china's growing dominance as an industrial super-power by journalist Ted C. Fishman explains how the profound shift in the global economic order has occurred -- and why it already affects us all. How has an enormous country once hobbled by poverty and Communist ideology come to be the supercharged center of global capitalism? What does it mean that China now grows three times faster than the United States? That China uses 40 percent of the world's concrete and 25 percent of its steel? What is the global impact of 300 million rural Chinese walking off their farms and heading to the cities in the greatest migration in human history? Why do nearly all of the world's biggest companies now have large-scale operations in China? What does the corporate march into China mean for workers left behind in America, Europe, and the rest of the world? Meanwhile, what makes China's emerging corporations so dangerously competitive? What could happen when China will be able to manufacture nearly everything -- computers, cars, jumbo jets, and pharmaceuticals -- that the United States and Europe can, at perhaps half the cost? How do these developments reach around the world and straight into the lives of all Americans? These are ground-shaking questions, and China, Inc. provides answers.Veteran journalist and former commodities trader Ted C. Fishman paints a vivid picture of the megatrends radiating out of China. Fishman's account begins with the burgeoning output of China's vast low-cost factories and the swelling appetite of its 1.3 billion consumers, both of which are being driven by historically unprecedented infusions of foreign capital and technological know-how. Traveling through China's frenetic landscape of growth, Fishman visits the factories, markets, streets, stores, towns, and cities where the story of Chinese capitalism is being lived by one-fifth of all humanity. Fishman also draws on interviews with Chinese, American, and European workers, managers, and executives to show how China will force all of us to make big changes in how we think about ourselves as consumers, workers, citizens, and even as parents. The result is a richly engaging work of penetrating, up-to-the-minute reportage and brilliant analysis that will forever change how readers think about America's future. "
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.54
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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: Kevin Bales
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3620905
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Publication Date: 2007-09-28
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Reading Level: 274
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Description: In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $8.90
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Manufacturer: Orbis Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Vincent A. Gallagher
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Publisher: Orbis Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.3
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 166
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $23.50
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Manufacturer: Polity
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Polity
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 303.482
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Publication Date: 2003-08-08
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: The world is changing dramatically and a vigorous public debate is under way about the nature and historical significance of these changes. At the centre of this debate lie conflicting claims about the extent, form and consequences of contemporary globalization. On the one hand there are the globalists, who argue that the world is being fundamentally and irreversibly transformed by globalization. On the other hand there are the sceptics, who believe that the globalists' claims are exaggerated and poorly substantiated. The sceptics contest the very idea of globalization, arguing that the power of national governments, nationalism and geopolitics remain the determining features of our age.
This completely revised and fully updated edition of The Global Transformations Reader brings together the most original contributions from both sides of the argument and from a range of disciplines. Many new chapters have been added, which incorporate the most recent developments in the debate and set these in the context of a global order that is in a constant state of flux.
Organized as an accessible and comprehensive teaching text, the Reader is divided into six sections covering all the key issues in the debate:
* controversy over the meaning, causes and historical significance of 'globalization'
* the transformation of state power and civil society;
* changing patterns of national culture;
* the power of global markets;
* global inequality and its consequences; and
* the nature of the global order and normative aspirations for its future.
The volume includes an extensive introduction by the editors, reviewing, analysing and assessing the globalization debate. Short but highly informative introductions to each section situate and contextualize the individual readings.
This Reader will be of immense value to all those interested in one of the most important debates of our time. It will appeal to students of politics, international relations, economics, sociology, geography, business studies and cultural studies.
The Global Transformations Reader is part of the internationally acclaimed series on globalization, which also includes Global Transformations: Politics, Economics and Culture and Governing Globalization: Power, Authority and Global Governance.
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