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  • 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
    Facing the current growing global archipelago of encampments, this book project intends to develop a geographical reflection on ’the camp’, as a modern institution and as a spatial bio-political technology. 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 char...
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    56,78 €

  • 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 €

  • The Essence of International Trade Theory
    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 €

  • 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
    International migration has been subject to many studies, conducted by academics, students, policy makers, and in civil society. As the migration flows continue to increase amongst countries, new dynamics shape international politics, economy, and culture. In this context, the main purpose of this book is to present a contemporary understanding of international migration throug...
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    129,11 €

  • The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
    Denis Cenusa / Michael Emerson / Tamara Kovziridze
    At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe - Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova - are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association Agreements with the European Union.This book offers an in-depth analysis of this chall...
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    67,93 €

  • The Struggle for Good Governance in Eastern Europe
    Michael Emerson
    At a time when many regions of the world, including Europe, see a resurgence of authoritarianism, three countries of Eastern Europe - Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova - are struggling to counter this trend with the aim of developing European-style democracies in the framework of their Association Agreements with the European Union.This book offers an in-depth analysis of this chall...
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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. The presence of different political, economic, and cultural sub-regions within the Americas makes the continent a perfect setting to ex...
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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 Limão
    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 €

  • From Bogotá to Beijing
    David Jacoby
    In two interwoven trips around the globe-one in 2010 and another in 2030-this book discovers Bogotá, Cartagena, Detroit, New York, Abuja, Cairo, Dammam, Abu Dhabi, Marseille, Hanover, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Shenzhen, Beijing, and other cities along the way. The people and experiences along the way tell a fascinating, unique and insightful story. The 2010 trip at the he...
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    122,40 €

  • Liberalization and Culture in Contemporary Israel
    Ari Ofengenden
    In this book Ari Ofengenden examines the ways that Israel’s integration into 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. He analyzes the central phenomena associated with Israel’s integration into the global economy including: the ...
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    122,32 €

  • Ecumenical & Interreligious Perspectives
    Dr. Robert E. Reber
    Ecumenical & Interreligious Perspectives: Globalization in Theological Education is a collection of articles on the wide-ranging effects of ecumenism on theological education. Fifteen eminent historians, theologians, missiologists, Christian educators, and ecumenists in the United Methodist Church and other denominations have addressed such topics as the critical redefinition o...
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    20,45 €

  • Offshoring
    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 €

  • Entrepreneurship
    Alan S. Gutterman / Alan SGutterman
    This book provides an introduction to a number of important topics relevant to the study and understanding of entrepreneurship and the process of creating, or giving birth to, a new business. Entrepreneurship has become a popular career path in developed and developing countries, a phenomenon that has contributed to the intense interest in the subject shown by researchers and p...
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    18,37 €

  • Transnational Migrations in the Asia-Pacific
    This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences. While there has been work on the various ways in which internet communication technologies (ICTs) particularly mobile communication allows fo...
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    170,60 €

  • Edges of Global Transformation
    Through nine ethnographic case-studies, Edges of Global Transformation explores situations where global transformations associated with neoliberalism meet local realities. The 'edge' of transformation is characterized by uncertainty, as old patterns are consumed and new formed. The nine case studies from Africa, Europe and the Middle East shed light on how uncertainty plays an ...
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    129,19 €

  • Walking the Invisible Gemba
    Sam Yankelevitch
    Gemba is a Japanese term that refers to “the real place”. In business, when we walk the gemba, we are searching for any nonvalue added activity directly at the source where it is happening. Every day, people in business make mistakes that can be costing them thousands and even millions of dollars. Some of these mistakes are caused by invisible factors, one of them is miscommuni...
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    12,40 €

  • The Peaceful Revolution
    Laurence J. Brahm / Laurence JBrahm
    Alternative models for grass roots economic development such as micro-financing are now being widely adopted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere. New views on measuring development such as GDH (gross domestic happiness) have been adopted by Bhutan rather than GDP, and China's own hybrid approach combining market and planned policy to achieve economic transformation...
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    18,08 €

  • The Peaceful Revolution
    Laurence J. Brahm / Laurence JBrahm
    Alternative models for grass roots economic development such as micro-financing are now being widely adopted in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and elsewhere. New views on measuring development such as GDH (gross domestic happiness) have been adopted by Bhutan rather than GDP, and China's own hybrid approach combining market and planned policy to achieve economic transformation...
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    24,79 €

  • New Humanism and Global Governance
    New Humanism and Global Governance is the first in this subject to study how a variety of factors related to globalization will shape the future of the human community. It discusses the major challenges to today's world order and governance, as well as international experience in responding to these challenges. It covers a wide range of issues including unequal distribution...
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    166,57 €

  • Édouard Glissant
    Sam Coombes
    Édouard Glissant was a leading voice in debates centering on the postcolonial condition and on the present and future of globalisation. Prolific as both a theorist and a literary author, Glissant started his career as a contemporary of Frantz Fanon in the early days of francophone postcolonial thought. In the latter part of his career Glissant’s vision pushed beyond the boundar...
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    193,65 €

  • How China Thinks
    Jacob Ghazarian
    This book attempts to describe how China in the past - as well as in our time - utilizes the applied practices of its vast ancient cultural heritage to gain ascendency in the global political and economic arenas, with its focus on the world’s major capitalist countries. It is inescapable that such practices will inevitably have militaristic overtones as China strives to become ...
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    12,08 €

  • Do We Live in a Crazy Epoch?
    Magnus Ivarsson
    The old philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), now more than 100 years ago, prognotized that mankind would now and then enter into what is known as “Crazy Epochs” and, perhaps we are in such a one now? Aren’t our times, rather peculiar, that first occurrence began in “The Disastrous 1970’s” and we, shall be considering that time to be when the Nietzsche Crazy Period start...
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    12,42 €

  • Do We Live in a Crazy Epoch?
    Magnus Ivarsson
    The old philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), now more than 100 years ago, prognotized that mankind would now and then enter into what is known as “Crazy Epochs” and, perhaps we are in such a one now? Aren’t our times, rather peculiar, that first occurrence began in “The Disastrous 1970’s” and we, shall be considering that time to be when the Nietzsche Crazy Period start...
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    24,55 €


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