The Origins of Globalization, Paperback - Pim de Zwart

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

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What determines the flow of labor and capital in this new global information economy?

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

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

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

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

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

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Between 1949 and 1997, Hong Kong transformed from a struggling British colonial outpost into a global financial capital. Made in Hong Kong delivers...

How ideas moved the world from post-war to pre-war once more.

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Greek Vase-Painting and the Origins of Visual Humour - Alexandre G. Mitchell

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A selection of science-fiction tales from the close of the 'Romantic' period to the end of the First World War. It gathers together classic short s...

DescriptionThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.Th...

Reducere. In the half-century since the appearance of Hannah Arendt's seminal work The Origins of Totalitarianism, innumerable historians have detailed the h...

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Reducere. It is now forty years since the discovery of AIDS, but its origins continue to puzzle doctors, scientists and patients. Inspired by his own experie...

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This book offers a new sort of theory textbook that looks back to trace the development of our understanding of crime and deviance throughout the a...

Reducere. In this profound and lyrical book, one of our most celebrated biologists offers a sweeping examination of the relationship between the humanities a...

In this revealing study, now available in a revised and expanded new edition, Christopher Wood shows how Altdorfer prised landscape out of its subs...

Reducere. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the "daughters of men"?Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war?Th...