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Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Blaming Immigrants: Nationalism and the Economics of Global Movement
Immigration is shaking up electoral politics around the world. Anti-immigration and ultranationalistic politics are rising in Europe, the United States, and countries across Asia and Africa. What is causing this nativist fervor? Are immigrants the cause or merely a common scapegoat?

In Blaming Immigrants, economist
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The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World
The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver’s transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by
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Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
Environmental Justice: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)

Environmentalism and the civil rights movement have been two of the most important social movements in the United States over the past half century. At first glance, these two great movements would appear to have little or nothing in common with each other. And, in fact, some observers have argued that steps taken to improve the...

The Archaeology of Athens
The Archaeology of Athens
The city of Athens has played a leading role in the development of European civilization. When we look back through time to the origins of so many of the institutions and activities which thrive or are valued today, we are led to ancient Greece and, most often, to Athens in the Classical period (480–323 B.C.). Time and again...
The Essential Handbook of Ground-Water Sampling
The Essential Handbook of Ground-Water Sampling
Tremendous improvements in ground-water sampling methodologies and analytical technologies have made it possible to collect and analyze truly representative samples to detect increasingly lower levels of contaminants—now in the sub-parts-per-billion range. Though these new methods produce more accurate and precise data and are less expensive,...
Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach
Engineering Service Oriented Systems: A Model Driven Approach
Despite pressures of economic slowdown and the e-commerce bubble burst, moving towards e-services is a compelling necessity for todays organizations. Companies that are reluctant to adopt a service oriented architecture in their IT systems will be missing out on unprecedented opportunities to create business value with relatively small IT...
Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking
Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking
Since I wrote The Green and Virtual Data Center (CRC Press, 2009), I have had the opportunity to meet and speak with thousands of information technology (IT) professionals around the world, both in person and virtually via different venues. Even as that last book was being printed, the ideas to be found in this new book were coming...
Industrial Organic Chemicals
Industrial Organic Chemicals

An essential introduction to the organic chemicals industry—in the context of globalization, advances in technology, and environmental concerns

Providing 95 percent of the 500 billion pounds of organic chemicals produced in the world, the petroleum and natural gas industries are responsible for products that ensure our...

Forex for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Profiting from the Global Currency Markets
Forex for Beginners: A Comprehensive Guide to Profiting from the Global Currency Markets

"Backed by a comprehensive list of studies, this book is a brilliant contribution on the connections between exchange rates and economics."

—Francesc Riverola, CEO and Founder of FXstreet.com
 

"Adam Kritzer has been covering the forex market for years as a...
Youth in Saudi Arabia
Youth in Saudi Arabia

This book uses the youth life stage as a window through which to view all domains of life in present-day Saudi Arabia: family life, education, the impact of new media, the labour market, religion and politics. The authors draw extensively on their interviews with 25-35 year olds, selected so as to represent the life...

Energy and Environmental Security in Developing Countries (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)
Energy and Environmental Security in Developing Countries (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)

This book presents a comprehensive account of the energy and environmental security perspectives of the developing countries. To address the subject comprehensively, it covers four geographically diverse clusters of developing countries from across the world. The regions particularly focused on are: South Asia, South East Asia, Sub...

Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age
Web.Studies: Rewiring Media Studies for the Digital Age
'Web.Studies sets the agenda for a new period of media research, one that gets to grips with the significance of new communications technologies and the global spaces in which they are so rapidly developing. I believe that this book will help considerably to take media studies in new directions.' - Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College,...
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