Losing Control?. Sovereignty in the Age of Globalization, Paperback - Saskia Sassen

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DescriptionAttitudes to fashion have changed radically in the twenty-first century. Dress is increasingly approached as a means of self-expression,...

Reducere. Today's religious violence challenges our understanding of religion. Do we need special notions such as 'cult' and 'fundamentalism' to come to term...

DescriptionWhat are protest politics and social movement activism today? What are their main features? To what extent can street citizens be seen a...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Alexander TzonisIllustration(s): 79 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 2011D...

The rise of populism in the West and the rise of China in the East have stirred a rethinking of how democratic systems work--and how they fail. The...

DescriptionThis classic work chronicles how New York, London, and Tokyo became command centers for the global economy and in the process underwent ...

DescriptionCities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new social formation. As sites of rapid and widesp...

Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radical...

During the past twenty years, the world's most renowned critical theorist--the scholar who defined the field of postcolonial studies--has experienc...

Publisher: Scholars' PressAuthor(s): Ibrahim MahmoodNumber of pages: 160Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 19Cover type: Paperback / sof...

The new edition of this accessible and wide-ranging book demonstrates the distinctive insights that sociology has to bring to the study of globaliz...

DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

Reducere. In the passionate debate that currently rages over globalization, critics have been heard blaming it for a host of ills afflicting poorer nations, ...

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Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Arjun AppaduraiNumber of pages: 248Collection: Public WorldsPublication date: 1996Dimensions: 22...

This book provides an up-to-date guide to managing Country Risk. It tackles its various and interlinked dimensions including sovereign risk, socio-...

In design history, globalization is deeply intertwined with a long-held bias towards Western, industrialized nations. By reassessing the role of re...

Publisher: Rowman & LittlefieldAuthor(s): Michael VesethNumber of pages: 238Collection: GlobalizationPublication date: 2010Dimensions: 153 x 227 x ...

The term 'film noir' still conjures images of a uniquely American malaise: hard-boiled detectives, fatal women, and the shadowy hells of urban life...

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Publisher: Intellect BooksAuthor(s): Doctor Gjoko (University of Cincinnati) MuratovskiIllustration(s): 12 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Reducere. In the last century philosophy has undergone essential transfor-mations. Some spoke of the death of philosophy. Others argued about the absorption ...

Trucking in the Age of Information provides a comprehensive overview of the contemporary trucking industry. Prior research on trucking has focused ...

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Contributor(s): Editor: Santiago Iniguez De OnzonoEditor: Kazuo IchijoGlobalization has been a key force in the development of business in recent d...

Futurists predict that in the next ten years the profession of "lawyer" will splinter into job titles like "legal process analyst" or "legal knowle...

Texts and Readers in the Age of Marvell offers fresh perspectives from leading and emerging scholars on seventeenth-century British literature, wit...

Shakespeare wrote most of his plays with a court audience in mind. This volume sheds fresh light on court entertainment and provides fascinating in...

Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to...

Veteran Poetics: British Literature in the Age of Mass Warfare, 1790–2015 - Kate McLoughlin

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Addresses the very notion of what creative practice research is, its challenges within the academy and the ways in which it contributes to scholars...

Reducere. A lively and provocative look at the modern culture of motherhood and at the social, economic, and political forces that shaped current ideas about...

This book brings together international experts to discuss questions and challenges relating to the legal articulation of the emerging right to gen...