Catálogo de libros: Globalización

1073 Catálogo de libros: Globalización

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  • Critical Inquiries in the Sociolinguistics of Globalization
    This book seeks to examine the notions of ’linguistic diversity’ and ’hybridity’ using new critical theoretical frameworks embedded within the broader discussion of the sociolinguistics of globalization. The research took place in contexts that include linguistic landscapes, schools, classrooms, neighborhoods and virtual spaces around the world. ...
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    181,84 €

  • Major Business and Technology Trends Shaping the Contemporary World
    K.H. Yeganeh / K.HYeganeh
    This book builds upon a wide variety of academic and professional resources to offer an in-depth analysis of the nature, causes, and consequences of major business and technology trends of our time. First, prospects for energy, commodities, water, food, and healthcare services are explored. Then, leading business transformations such as the sharing economy, Fourth Industrial Re...
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    22,73 €

  • Virtual Local Manufacturing Communities
    William Sims Bainbridge
    This book deeply explores production-capable social media channels, based on thousands of hours of observation and extensive collection of statistical data, extracting hypotheses that may generalize to the real-world distributed manufacturing of the near future. Distributed manufacturing offers the promise of bringing jobs back to local communities, producing goods that are per...
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    22,65 €

  • International Firms’ Economic Nationalism and Trade Policies in the Globalization Era
    The current world economy is interconnected; however, due to recent economic crises, trade deficits, and nationalist movements, there is a political trend of economic nationalism that is taking root in countries around the world. As such, global economies around the world are decreasing their international trade and introducing import tariffs and economic protectionism. Interna...
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    281,94 €

  • Heidegger and the Global Age
    Offering the first full assessment of Heidegger’s philosophy in the fields of International Studies and International Political Theory, this important volume provides a fresh intervention into the debate on globalization from a critical theory perspective. ...
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    60,85 €

  • INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN GOODS
    JOACHIM WAGNER
    For a couple of years, more and more micro-econometric studies in international trade use data on exports and imports on goods that are based on transaction level data collected by the customs. These data cover detailed information on the goods traded, its value, its weight, and the country of destination (for exports) or origin (for imports). In contrast to data from surveys o...
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    194,54 €

  • Mobility Between Africa, Asia and Latin America
    Trade connections and cultural exchange between Africa and the rest of the global South have existed for centuries. Since the end of the Cold War, these connections have expanded and diversified dramatically, with emerging economies such as China, India, and Brazil becoming increasingly important both as sources of trade and as a destination for African migrants. But while thes...
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    39,10 €

  • Corporate Power, Class Conflict, and the Crisis of the New Globalization
    Ronald W Cox / Ronald W. Cox / Ronald WCox
    This book examines how corporations have expanded their market and political power on a global scale by internationalizing production on terms highly favorable to investors. It also details how corporate profits are increasingly dependent on a global exploitation of labor that has led to the latest crisis of global capitalism. ...
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    122,29 €

  • Vanguardia
    Marc James Léger
    Vanguardia chronicles and theorises changing forms of socially engaged art and radical politics since the rise of the anti-globalisation movement. From Occupy Wall Street to Black Live Matter and MeToo, Vanguardia detects signs of avant-garde praxis in the new social movements and activist collectives that challenge global capitalism. ...
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    34,31 €

  • CROSSROADS OF GLOBALIZATION, THE
    ALFREDO TORO HARDY
    Two powerful forces measure their strength by acting upon globalization. One of them pushes globalization forward, while the other hinders its advance and promotes its decline.In which of those directions should Latin America move? Uncertainty hinders the region’s strategic vision. If the future entails re-launching of globalization, it seems obvious that Latin America should f...
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    93,52 €

  • The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead
    Bernd Reiter
    Political representation and democracy are at odds and we need new models to organize politics without relying so heavily on elected representatives. Similarly, capitalism undermines markets, as the rich and wealthy shield their assets and make them untenable for average earners. Elitism thus undermines both democracy and markets and we need to devise ways to limit the power of...
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    54,24 €

  • Camps Revisited
    This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary democracies. ...
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    170,30 €

  • Transitional Justice in Troubled Societies
    This book discusses the crucial strategic topic for the practical implementation of transitional justice in post-conflict societies by arguing that the dilemma is defined by the extent to which the actual achievement of the political goals of transition is a necessary condition for the long-term observance and implementation of justice. ...
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    170,60 €

  • Camps Revisited
    This book focuses on past and present camp geographies and on the dispositifs that make them an ever-present spatial formation in the management of unwanted populations characterizing many authoritarian regimes as well as many contemporary democracies. ...
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    56,78 €

  • ESSENCE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE THEORY, THE
    NORITSUGU NAKANISHI
    This textbook aims to explain the principles in international trade theory and show how some useful trade models work. The book concentrates on two fundamental issues in international trade, that is, the "determinants of trade patterns" and the "welfare gains from trade" in various economic environments. Chapters 1 through 3 assume perfect competition and explore the workings o...
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    117,83 €

  • Western Higher Education in Global Contexts
    Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar
    This book invites faculty teaching at international branch campuses (IBCs), and international institutions using western curricula, to consider the opportunities and challenges of implementing American-style education in non-western contexts. ...
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    122,51 €

  • Translation and Global Spaces of Power
    This book focuses on the role of translation in a globalising world. It presents a series of case studies that explore the ways in which translation is subject to ideology and power play across diverging domains and genres. Broadly based on a discussion of ’translation and the economies of power’, the chapters examine an array of contextual and textual factors, ranging from glo...
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    60,29 €

  • Dynamic Perspectives on Globalization and Sustainable Business in Asia
    Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos
    In the increasingly turbulent political climate, there has been growing interest in economic and international relations with Asia. Understanding the business practices in countries of this region, particularly uncertainties, risks, and opportunities associated with doing business in Asia, will be key for competing in a global economy. Dynamic Perspectives on Globalization and ...
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    282,35 €

  • Labour, state and society in rural India
    Jonathan Pattenden
    Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade, the book uses a ’class-relational’ approach that focuses on ’the poor’s’ iniquitous relations with others. ...
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    46,92 €

  • In Search for the Soul of International Business
    Michael R. Czinkota / Michael RCzinkota
    A New World Order has begun for trade and globalization. Inundated with constant information, new concepts, and endless data, individuals are caught in the whirlwind of a fast-paced world, often without the ability to stop and think, particularly when it comes to issues of the soul. I consider the soul the center of our activities and inspirations. If one says of an individual,...
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    18,54 €

  • International Migration and Challenges in the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
    This book analyzes the latest developments in international migration in the twenty-first century through an interdisciplinary perspective. Işıl Zeynep Turkan İpek and Gökçe Bayındır Goularas use sociological, economic, judicial, political, and geopolitical approaches to present the evolution of the contemporary international migration process. ...
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    129,11 €

  • The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
    Denis Cenusa / Michael Emerson / Tamara Kovziridze
    The book develops conclusions and recommendations addressed to both the EU and the three states on how to inject renewed momentum into their ‘Europeanisation’ process. ...
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    67,93 €

  • The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
    Michael Emerson
    The book develops conclusions and recommendations addressed to both the EU and the three states on how to inject renewed momentum into their ‘Europeanisation’ process. ...
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    163,42 €

  • Interregionalism and the Americas
    This book addresses the question of how the American continent engages with various forms of interregionalism, including how different regions within the Americas deal with other regions of the world as well as how they relate among themselves. ...
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    129,07 €

  • Human Rights and Wrongs
    Adrianne Aron
    — 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK PRIZE FOR NONFICTION —A gift of truth for a generation of Dreamers, a vault of memories for their parents, and a record of shame, pride, sorrow, humor, and forgotten fact for a nation of immigrants.One comes away from Human Rights and Wrongs knowing more about motivation, fear, risk-taking, and problem solving than when one began. But more than that, one kno...
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    16,42 €

  • Human Rights and Wrongs
    Adrianne Aron
    — 2017 SUNSHOT BOOK PRIZE FOR NONFICTION —A gift of truth for a generation of Dreamers, a vault of memories for their parents, and a record of shame, pride, sorrow, humor, and forgotten fact for a nation of immigrants.One comes away from Human Rights and Wrongs knowing more about motivation, fear, risk-taking, and problem solving than when one began. But more than that, one kno...
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    28,37 €

  • POLICY EXTERNALITIES AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE AGREEMENTS
    NUNO LIMAO
    The book Policy Externalities and International Trade Agreements is a selection of published articles examining how policy externalities motivate and can be addressed by international trading institutions. The studies provide groundbreaking evidence of the role of international market power and policy uncertainty as motives for trade agreements and on the potential clash betwee...
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    190,90 €

  • OFFSHORING
    HOLGER GORG & AOIFE HANLEY
    This volume brings together research papers dealing with the causes and consequences of offshoring. The first part considers causes and motives of offshoring. Using firm level data for countries such as Ireland, France, and the UK, this book looks at issues such as the increasing availability of business services or the internet, and improvements in intellectual property rights...
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    177,52 €

  • From Bogotá to Beijing
    David Jacoby
    This book examines the author’s experiences with reckless over-development in nine cities across the globe in 2010, and a trip in which governments, businesses, and individuals live by new rules in a socially and environmentally conscious world of renewable resources and aesthetic landscapes. ...
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    122,40 €

  • Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel
    Ari Ofengenden
    The book looks at the ways in which Israel’s integration into the global economy has affected its main stream culture. Ofengenden uses works of Israeli film, literature, and television, from the past 30 years to conceptualize the changes in Israel’s culture. ...
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    122,32 €


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