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Seeing the Elephant: Understanding Globalization from Trunk to Tail

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

In the new millennium, it is nearly impossible for us to talk about basic concerns like food or gas prices, without examining global intersections in trade, energy, immigration, the environment, and defense. Many countries once described as "developing" nations now wield greater economic and political influence than some of the...

Western Balkan Economies in Transition: Recent Economic and Social Developments (Societies and Political Orders in Transition)

Springer, 2018

This book explores the economic and social development of the Western Balkan region, a group of six countries that are potential candidates for EU membership. It focuses on the key economic issues facing these countries, including the challenge of promoting economic growth, limiting public deficits and debt, and fostering international...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)

Routledge, 2018

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments...

Critical Social Issues in American Education: Democracy and Meaning in a Globalizing World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

This volume, like the editions that preceded it, is predicated on the following assumption: Educators must see their work as inextricably linked to conflicts, stresses, and crises of the social world—whether these appear in forms that might be cultural, moral, political, economic, ecological, or spiritual. It is impossible to make sense of...

London and Paris as International Financial Centres in the Twentieth Century

Oxford University Press, 2005

`This book has a truly exciting set of fifteen chapters... This is a well-integrated volume that should be in the library of every economic historian who deals with international banking and finance in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. I read it with great absorption and delight.' Mira Wilkins, EH.NET

London and...

Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents (Telecommunications Series)

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Over the past 40 years, satellites have played a key role in creating a global culture, spreading worldwide entertainment, stimulating technological interchange, and promoting trade around the world. Communications Satellites: Global Change Agents addresses communications satellites not only in terms of the technology and the services they...

Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine, Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know

Apress, 2012

Health Care Reform Simplified: What Professionals in Medicine, Government, Insurance, and Business Need to Know describes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the individual mandate and other key parts of the lawâwhat must busy healthcare professionals, insurance...

Digital Terrestrial Television in Europe

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Digital technology for the production, transmission, and reception of television is expected to replace analogue transmission throughout the world. The timetable for this transition is uncertain and different projections have been made for virtually every country in the world. This book gives the exhaustive details of the issues of this changeover...

Sex For Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry

Routledge, 2009

A groundbreaking collection of essays on the sex industry. Sex for Sale contains original studies on sex work, its risks and benefits, and its political implications. The book covers areas not commonly researched, including gay and lesbian pornography, telephone sex workers, customers of prostitutes, male and female escorts who work...

From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage: How Australia Got Compulsory Voting

textpublishing, 2019

NOT MANY COUNTRIES compel their citizens to vote, but Australia is one. Voting is compulsory in nineteen of the world’s 166 electoral democracies and only nine strictly enforce it.

None of Europe’s most influential democracies has it, and none of the countries in the mainstream of Australia’s...

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)

Routledge, 2021

Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account explores local perceptions of climate change through ethnographic encounters with the men and women who live at the front line of climate change in the lower Himalayas.

From data collected over the course of a year in a small...

Democratic and Authoritarian Political Systems in Twenty-First-Century World Society, vol. 1: Differentiation, Inclusion, Responsiveness (Global Studies & Theory of Society)

transcript publishing, 2020

What seemed unthinkable after the end of the Cold War and the triumph of liberalism has become reality today: the democratic world society of the 21st century is threatened by illiberal and autocratic political models. The state is no longer an instrument of a dominating stratum trying to control society. It must include individuals, produce...

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