Globalization

Almost unknown to the rest of the globe, Xiaomi has become the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer.

Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?

"e;The Salvaging of Civilization"e; is a 1921 work by legendary English author H.

As the financial crisis continues to shake the economy it has begun to expose cracks in the ideology long used to justify neoliberal policies.

Framing the Global explores new and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of global issues.

*; The book that takes a comprehensive look at the threat to our food supply from genetic engineering.

While half the world swept west,we trickled eastward, one by one,single-file, like fugitives.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Solomon Islands.

This edition of Kipling's "e;The Song of the English"e; was originally published in November 1909.

'Before the current global era it is impossible to imagine that comparable events [like September 11] could have occurred, reflecting as they do our new-found interdependence.

CONNEXITY is the philosophical counterpart to Will Hutton's essentially political book.

In Ordo Pluriversalis, Leonid Savin, provides some possible Non-Western alternatives in international relationships brought about by the rise of China as a superpower, and a new world order where US hegemony no longer exists.

Is there an alternative to the neoliberal globalization that is ravaging our planet?

Mehr Freihandel, das bedeutete früher mehr Mangos, mehr Handys - mehr Wohlstand.

»Ein tolles Buch, das sich sehr zu lesen lohnt.

Endlich kommt die Wahrheit ans LichtBanker, Topanwälte, Wissenschaftler – ein perfides Netzwerk von Experten hat sich formiert, um deutsche Steuerzahler zu bestehlen.

En Caminando por la cornisa Ernesto Ottone explora la compleja transición entre el siglo XX y el XXI, marcando los hitos, contradicciones y dilemas de un mundo en constante transformación.

For years, China has served as the "e;factory floor"e; for global production, driving down prices for consumers worldwide.

A history of the English East India company.

Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States?

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark.

Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States?

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.

International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark.

Islam has become a potent political force around the world since it reemerged in the late 1960's and 1970's as a religio-political alternative to failed nationalist ideologies.

Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit cards, and hyper-consumerist shopping malls.

The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams.

In Duty Free Art, filmmaker and writer Hito Steyerl wonders how we can appreciate, or even make art, in the present age.

In this brilliant, very original survey of the politics and meanings of urban landscapes, leading sociologist G,ran Therborn offers a tour of the world's major capital cities, and the forces that have shaped them.

An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of 'High Tide'.

From the author of the acclaimed 'Mr.

Selected as one of LitHub's 38 Favorite Books of 2022Finalist for the 2022 Big Other Book Award for NonfictionIn this uncompromising essay, Jonathan Crary presents the obvious but unsayable reality: our 'digital age' is synonymous with the disastrous terminal stage of global capitalism and its financialization of social existence, mass impoverishment, ecocide, and military terror.

'If there is one dominant myth about the world, one huge mistake we all make .

Emanzipation oder neues Untertanentum?

From the author of Resource Wars, a landmark assessment of the critical role of petroleum in America's actions abroad In his pathbreaking Resource Wars, world security expert Michael T.

Shortlisted for the J.

Noch nie in der Menschheitsgeschichte war Sklaverei und Menschenhandel so verbreitet.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, in which new infectious diseases spread across continents at lightning speed, and in which complex social forces are increasingly impacted by digital technology.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, in which new infectious diseases spread across continents at lightning speed, and in which complex social forces are increasingly impacted by digital technology.