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  • Rethinking Civilization

    Resolving Conflict in the Human Family

    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    Rethinking Civilization offers an alternative view of human civilization in a globalizing age. Majid Tehranian analyses the transition from nomadic, to agrarian, commercial, industrial, and digital civilizations and argues that the growing gaps among the five major civilizations have led to terror operating as a form of global communication.This new book explores the uneven pace of development of ... Leer más

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  • Occupy

    Three Inquiries in Disobedience

    Series series TRIOS
    Mic check! Mic check! Lacking amplification in Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street protestors addressed one another by repeating and echoing speeches throughout the crowd. In Occupy, W. J. T. Mitchell, Bernard E. Harcourt, and Michael Taussig take the protestors' lead and perform their own resonant call-and-response, playing off of each other in three essays that engage the extraordinary Occupy ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Atlas of World Affairs

    The economic, social and environmental systems of the world remain in turmoil. Recent years have seen possibly irrevocable change in the politics of Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America.This entirely revised and updated 11th edition describes the people, factions, and events that have shaped the modern world from the Second World War to the present day. International issues and conflicts are ... Leer más

    $998 MXN

  • Democracy in Retreat

    The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

    Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some ... Leer más

    $347 MXN

  • Dreaming in Public

    Building the Occupy Movement

    Since September 2011, the Occupy movement has captured the world's imagination. The media has been flooded with accounts of demonstrations, descriptions of the encampments, interviews with Occupiers, and discussions of Occupy's merits, political and otherwise. But what do its participants have to say?Dreaming in Public gathers together dispatches, essays, blog posts, and images from within the ... Leer más

    $248 MXN

  • The Price of Thirst

    Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos

    de Karen Piper ...
    “There's Money in Thirst,” reads a headline in the New York Times. The CEO of Nestlé, purveyor of bottled water, heartily agrees. It is important to give water a market value, he says in a promotional video, so “we're all aware that it has a price.” But for those who have no access to clean water, a fifth of the world's population, the price is thirst. This is the frightening landscape that Karen ... Leer más

    $272 MXN

  • Buoyancy on the Bayou

    Shrimpers Face the Rising Tide of Globalization

    Over the past several decades, shrimp has transformed from a luxury food to a kitchen staple. While shrimp-loving consumers have benefited from the lower cost of shrimp, domestic shrimp fishers have suffered, particularly in Louisiana. Most of the shrimp that we eat today is imported from shrimp farms in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. The flood of imported shrimp has sent dockside prices plummeting ... Leer más

    $359 MXN

  • Global Governance

    Series series Key Concepts
    In today’s uncertain world, the concept of global governance has never been more relevant or widely discussed. But what does this elusive idea really mean, and why has it become so important? This pacey introduction sheds new light on the issues involved, offering readers a comprehensive account of competing conceptions of global governance, and evaluating the ways in which rival theories strive ... Leer más

    $328 MXN

  • Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities

    Resisting a Dangerous Order

    de Shawna Ferris ...
    “Our voices scrubbed out and forgotten. There are those who research and write about sex workers who often forget we are human.” —Amy Lebovitch Shawna Ferris gives a voice to sex workers who are often pushed to the background, even by those who fight for them. In the name of urban safety and orderliness, street sex workers face stigma, racism, and ignorance. Their human rights are ignored, and ... Leer más

    $347 MXN

  • Translation, Globalization and Translocation

    The Classroom and Beyond

    Edición de Concepción B. Godev ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the spaces where translation and globalization intersect, whether they be classrooms, communities, or cultural texts. It foregrounds the connections between cultural analysis, literary critique, pedagogy and practice, uniting the disparate fields that operate within translation studies. In doing so, it offers fresh perspectives that will encourage the reader to reappraise ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • The Political Economy of Capital Market Reforms in Southeast Asia

    de X. Zhang ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    In this book, Xiaoke Zhang addresses two fundamental political and policy questions: why do politicians have heterogeneous incentives to pursue public-regarding policies through capital market reforms and why do they differ in their abilities to initiate and implement market reform policies decisively and resolutely? ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • The International Political Economy of Work and Employability

    de P. Moore ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    International competition and skills shortages caused by technological advancement have raised entirely new issues for workers, not least how responsibility is increasingly being transferred to them. This book looks at how workers are expected to survive unstable job market conditions in three locations: the UK, Singapore, and South Korea. ... Leer más

    $920 MXN