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  • Post-Covid Transformations

    Edición de Kevin Gray, Barry K. Gills ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    This volume explores the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for the sustainability of the present global political and economic system and the extent to which that system may as a result be undergoing transformation. Towards this aim, the contributing authors raise a number of key questions. First, what is likely to be the impact of the pandemic on the current global order based on neoliberal ... Leer más

    $1,055 MXN

  • Labour and Development in East Asia

    Social Forces and Passive Revolution

    de Kevin Gray ...
    Series series Rethinking Globalizations
    The Chinese Communist Party’s response to the wave of factory strikes in the early summer of 2010 has raised important questions about the role that labour plays in the transformation of world orders. In contrast to previous policies of repression towards labour unrest, these recent disputes centring round wages and working conditions have been met with a more permissive response on the part of ... Leer más

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    A Citizen's Guide to Policy and Politics

    Health Care in Canada examines the challenges faced by the Canadian health care system, a subject of much public debate. In this book Katherine Fierlbeck provides an in-depth discussion of how health care decisions are shaped by politics and why there is so much disagreement over how to fix the system.Many Canadians point to health care as a source of national pride; others are highly critical of ... Leer más

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  • The Butterfly Defect

    How Globalization Creates Systemic Risks, and What to Do about It

    How to better manage systemic risks—from cyber attacks and pandemics to financial crises and climate change—in a globalized worldThe Butterfly Defect addresses the widening gap between the new systemic risks generated by globalization and their effective management. It shows how the dynamics of turbo-charged globalization has the potential and power to destabilize our societies. Drawing on the ... Leer más

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  • Introducing Globalization

    Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

    Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners.Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependencyExamines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of ... Leer más

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  • When Politics Comes Before Patients

    Why and How Canadian Medicare is Failing

    How Successive Governments Have Weakened the Foundation of All Canadian's Social and Economic SecurityAt some point you will find yourself lying in a hospital bed. There is a good chance that your bed will be a firm, rubber pad held secure between two rails and parked along a corridor in a busy emergency department. Moans of “Nurse!” will echo from the beds ahead of you in line. Those pleas will ... Leer más

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  • Tomorrow's People

    The Future of Humanity in Ten Numbers

    de Paul Morland ...
    ‘Morland predicts the future of humanity in 10 illuminating statistics (could the Japanese and Italians now go the way of the dodo?) and looks back to how ebbs and flows of population have shaped history, such as the Soviet Union’s plummeting birth rate in the 1960s, which hastened the end of the Cold War.’ - The Daily Telegraph ‘The Best Books for Summer 2022’The great forces of population change ... Leer más

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  • 8 Billion and Counting

    How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World

    A provocative description of the power of population change to create the conditions for societal transformation.As the world nears 8 billion people, the countries that have led the global order since World War II are becoming the most aged societies in human history. At the same time, the world’s poorest and least powerful countries are suffocating under an imbalance of population and resources. ... Leer más

    $342 MXN

  • Reproductive Rights and Wrongs

    The Global Politics of Population Control

    "Those involved in women's health issues, Third World studies, and economic development should find food for thought" ( Kirkus Reviews).This is an updated edition of the "influential study" ( Publishers Weekly) of issues surrounding childbirth and the history of population control programs.Challenging conventional wisdom about overpopulation, and uncovering the deeper roots of poverty, ... Leer más

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  • Governing Global Health

    Who Runs the World and Why?

    The past few decades have seen a massive increase in the number of international organizations focusing on global health. Campaigns to eradicate or stem the spread of AIDS, SARS, malaria, and Ebola attest to the increasing importance of globally-oriented health organizations. These organizations may be national, regional, international, or even non-state organizations-like Medicins Sans Frontieres ... Leer más

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  • Profit Is Not the Cure

    A Citizen's Guide to Saving Medicare

    de Maude Barlow ...
    On July 12, 1966, the Medical Care Insurance Act was passed by the federal House of Commons after a ferocious public debate that pitted the vast majority of Canadians against a powerful alliance of business, insurance companies, and doctors.More than thirty years later, the same battle is being fought all over again. Only now, the forces opposed to medicare are more ideologically unified, more ... Leer más

    $186 MXN

  • Why Demography Matters

    Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.'Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per adult: our population is about to stabilize, though we do not know when or at what number, or what will happen after that. It will be ... Leer más

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