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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $5.19
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Manufacturer: Mariner Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Kynge
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Publisher: Mariner Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.951
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Publication Date: 2007-09-05
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: "Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate around the globe. Award-winning journalist James Kynge takes measure of the tremors made as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food — and its export of goods, workers, and investments — drastically reshapes world trade and politics. Through dramatic stories of the people who are driving China's transformation — entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks — Kynge describes the breakneck rise of China, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both.
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Price: $26.00
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Sale: $12.49
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Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Roberts
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.8
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Publication Date: 2008-06-04
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Paul Roberts, the best-selling author of The End of Oil, turns his attention to the modern food economy and finds that the system entrusted to meet our most basic need is failing.
In this carefully researched, vivid narrative, Roberts lays out the stark economic realities behind modern food and shows how our system of making, marketing, and moving what we eat is growing less and less compatible with the billions of consumers that system was built to serve.
At the heart of The End of Food is a grim paradox: the rise of large-scale food production, though it generates more food more cheaply than at any time in history, has reached a point of dangerously diminishing returns. Our high-volume factory systems are creating new risks for food-borne illness, from E. coli to avian flu. Our high-yield crops and livestock generate grain, vegetables, and meat of declining nutritional quality. While nearly one billion people worldwide are overweight or obese, the same number of people—one in every seven of us—can't get enough to eat. In some of the hardest-hit regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, the lack of a single nutrient, vitamin A, has left more than five million children permanently blind.
Meanwhile, the shift to heavily mechanized, chemically intensive farming has so compromised soil and water that it's unclear how long such output can be maintained. And just as we've begun to understand the limits of our abundance, the burgeoning economies of Asia, with their rising middle classes, are adopting Western-style, meat-heavy diets, putting new demands on global food supplies.
Comprehensive in scope and full of fresh insights, The End of Food presents a lucid, stark vision of the future. It is a call for us to make crucial decisions to help us survive the demise of food production as we know it.
Paul Roberts is the author of The End of Oil, which was a finalist for the New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award in 2005. He has written about resource economics and politics for numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, Harper's Magazine, and Rolling Stone, and lectures frequently on business and environmental issues.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $8.41
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Manufacturer: Verso
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mike Davis
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Publisher: Verso
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Dewey Decimal Number: 307.336416091724
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Celebrated urban historian's bestselling account of the global explosion of slums, with a major new introduction.
According to the United Nations, more than one billion people now live in the slums of the cities of the South. In this brilliant and influential book, Mike Davis explores the future of a radically unequal and explosively unstable urban world. From the sprawling barricadas of Lima to the garbage hills of Manila, urbanization has been disconnected from industrialization, even economic growth. Davis portrays a vast humanity warehoused in shantytowns and exiled from the formal world economy. He argues that the rise of this informal urban proletariat is a wholly unforeseen development and asks whether the great slums are, as a terrified Victorian middle class once imagined, volcanoes waiting to erupt.
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Sale: $58.79
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Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas Pugel
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Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Irwin
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Edition: 13
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Dewey Decimal Number: 337
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Publication Date: 2006-04-19
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Reading Level: 752
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Description: This classic text has sold well for a half century because it covers all the conventional areas of international economics in an easy-to-understand manner. . . The 13th edition continues to provide the best blend of events and analysis, so that readers can build their abilities to understand global economic developments and to evaluate proposals for changes in economic policies. The book is informed by current events and by the latest in applied international research. It combines rigorous economic analysis with attention to the issues of economic policy that are alive and important today. This concise and readable text uses economic terminology when it enhances the analysis, but avoids jargon for jargon�s sake. Like earlier editions, it also places international economics events within a historical framework. The overall treatment continues to be intuitive rather than mathematical and is strongly oriented towards policy. . .
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $10.72
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Manufacturer: South End Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Miriam Ching Yoon Louie
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Publisher: South End Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 331.408624
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Publication Date: 2001-07
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: In this up-close and personal look at the heroines who make family, community, and society tick, Miriam Ching Yoon Louie showcases immigrant women workers speaking out for themselves, in their own words. While public outrage over sweatshops builds in intensity, this book shows us who these workers really are and how they are leading campaigns to fight for their rights. In-depth, accessible analyses of the immigration, labor, and trade policies, which together have forced these women into the most dangerous, poorly paid jobs, dovetail with vivid portraits of the women themselves. Louie, a longtime writer/activist and well-known figure in feminist, immigrant, and labor circles, is uniquely poised to make her case: that the labor of immigrant women worker-activists not only sustains families and communities, but the vibrant social activism that undergirds democracy itself. With chapters on successful campaigns against Levi-Strauss, Donna Karan, and restaurants in Los Angeles; Koreatown, among others. Miriam Ching Yoon Louie is a longtime writer/activist in campaigns to organize women of color. She is national campaign media director of Fuerza Unida, a board member of the Women of Color Resource Center, and former media director of Asian Immigrant Women Advocates. Her essays and articles on immigrant women and labor issues have been widely anthologized, including in the 1997 collection Dragon Ladies: Asian American Feminists Breathe Fire (South End Press) and she speaks at public events internationally. She is the co-author, with Linda Burnham, of Women's Education in the Global Economy (Women of Color Resource Center, 2000).
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Price: $110.00
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Sale: $94.13
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Marian Radetzki
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.02
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Publication Date: 2008-03-24
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Reading Level: 244
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Description: The world is going through an exceptional commodity boom triggered by a global demand shock largely caused by the sudden emergence of China and India as sizeable raw material importers. Prices of numerous commodities tripled between 2003 and 2006, resulting in huge windfalls for producers and a financial squeeze on consumers. A Handbook of Primary Commodities in the Global Economy is a guide to the ins and outs of this increasingly crucial part of the world economy. Assuming nothing more from readers than a basic understanding of economics, Marian Radetzki introduces and explains pertinent issues surrounding international commodity markets such as the global geography of raw materials, price formation, price trends, the role of commodity exchanges, the threat of depletion, cartel action, state ownership and the new commodity nationalism.
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Price: $185.00
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Sale: $180.99
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Manufacturer: Gower Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Janice Maclennan
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Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 615.10688
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Publication Date: 2004-06
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: Provides a step-by-step guide to brand planning, focusing solely on the pharmaceutical industry. Shows how branding can be integrated into Shows how branding can be integrated into the early stages of the commercialization process for new products, both in theory and in the real world.
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $52.95
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William G. Shepherd::Joanna Mehlhop Shepherd
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Publisher: Waveland Press
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 338.6
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Publication Date: 2003-08
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Reading Level: 440
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Description: Who controls markets and profits from them? Does competition or monopoly result in a more beneficial economy? How can the economic playing field become fairer or more biased in either direction? The study of industrial organization extends to the core of these most important questions of economics. Throughout the field's history, various clashing schools of thought have attempted to sort through these complex issues, examining both abstract theory and real-life cases. The Fifth Edition of this widely used, highly regarded text includes coverage of dramatic changes in the field. Shepherd & Shepherd provide broad, balanced coverage of topics without showing preference to any single point of view, encouraging students to think independently. This emphasis on independent judgment is evident throughout the book, with discussion of structure placed before performance to assist the reader in thinking about causation. Topics are organized for maximum flexibility, with distinct chapters covering case studies, antitrust and regulation policy, and capital markets.
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Price: $54.95
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Sale: $53.85
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Manufacturer: Waveland Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edward M. Gramlich
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Publisher: Waveland Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 657
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Publication Date: 1997-12
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Reading Level: 246
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Description: Now available from Waveland Press at a special low price, this highly regarded edition updates Gramlich's previous work with new material and real-world examples--including acid rain, minimum wages, public employment, matching grants, national defense, and so on--drawn from his Congressional Budget Office experience. It effectively shows how the logic of benefit-cost analysis can be applied to a wide range of policy measures and translates the technical debates of economists.
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Price: $95.00
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Sale: $95.00
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Manufacturer: Jameson Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: George Reisman
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Publisher: Jameson Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 330.122
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Publication Date: 1996-11-01
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Reading Level: 1096
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Description: Literally encyclopedic -- almost the length of a volume of the Britannica in terms both of number of pages and content per page--Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics is the philosophically and intellectually strongest and most comprehensive book in the defense of laissez-faire capitalism that can be found anywhere in the world at the present time. It is state of the art in economic theory and political philosophy. The intelligent, open-minded reader who seeks to understand the economics and politics of the modern world (along with much of its closely related history and social and cultural phenomena), and what is required to improve mankind's lot in these two vital areas, need look no further than to this book.
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