Globalization Books
Dietrich Reimer Fasten, Lehren, Heilen: Die Indienreise Des
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£54.15
Brill U Schoningh Varianten Des Wandels: Die Region in Der Jungsten
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£91.20
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Human Rights and Ethics / Derechos Humanos Y
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£77.00
Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH Globalization, Law and Economy / Globalizacion,
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£77.00
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Fußball in England und Deutschland von 1961 bis
Book SynopsisFußball ist heute ein Milliardengeschäft: hochprofessionell, extrem kommerzialisiert und weltweit populär. Bis Anfang der 1990er Jahre steckte er jedoch in einer Krise: rückläufige Zuschauerzahlen, marode Stadien, verschuldete Vereine. Wie war es möglich, dass es in Deutschland und England um 1990 fast zeitgleich zu einer radikalen Neuausrichtung des Spiels unter den Vorzeichen von Vermarktlichung und Globalisierung kam? Hannah Jonas untersucht die Geschichte des Fußballs und bettet sie in den zeitgeschichtlichen Kontext von Konsum, Medien, Globalisierung und politisch-kulturellen Trends ein.
£80.60
Campus Verlag Managing Natural Catastrophies: Viable Systems to
Book SynopsisNatural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide and their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before, or could we merely be seeing the effects of globalization? The rising interconnectedness and dependency within human systems increase in complexity while the nature of those connections gets more complicated and the number of system elements increases. "Managing Natural Catastrophes" argues that the key to finding a more effective response to natural disasters is to understand their many preventable causes.
£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Kulturelle Dynamik Der Globalisierung: Ost- Und
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£70.30
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Going Digital?: Citizen Participation and the
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£79.80
V&R Unipress Jenseits Der Hauptstadte: Stadtebilder Der
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£52.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Challenges of Good Governance in the European
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£60.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Internationale Politische Okonomie
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£999.99
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Transatlantic Relations in Times of Change: Past,
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£36.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Migration, Stability and Solidarity
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£56.95
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Innovations in Gender Equality and Women's
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£40.50
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft The Political Economy of International
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£72.00
Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Globalisation and Solidarity: Transformations in
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£94.50
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Expuestos / Exposed
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£15.96
Ediciones Paidos Iberica Globalización Antiglobalización
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£20.91
Aarhus University Press Global Turn: National Encounters with the World
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£9.75
NIAS Press Asian Cities: Globalization, Urbanization and
Book SynopsisThis book questions the centrality of globalization in explaining change in Asian cities and examines developing Asian cities in their own terms rather than as variants of Western urbanization. It explores middle cities 'off the radar' as well as well-known metropolises. It uses both quantitative and ethnographic research. Asian Cities challenges Western paradigms of urban growth with a fresh and stimulating look at cities in developing Asia. It questions the status accorded to globalization in explaining contemporary Asian cities, arguing instead that they are being transformed by three major forces - urbanization and nation-building as well as globalization. The latter two are not dependent variables of globalization, although all, in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, are shaped by capitalism. The book reaches beyond the usual focus on metropolitan centres to examine urban life in a sample of middle-sized cities representative of hundreds of such urban centres throughout the Asian continent. An introductory chapter outlines the arguments and introduces the sample cities. Chapters two and three explore two principal facets of urbanization: the material transformation that comes in its train and the impact that it has on the lives of the newly-urbanized. Chapters four to seven explore the way that the national framework shapes cities - including business enterprises, migration, travel and commercial popular culture. In a final chapter the book surveys likely trends in Asian cities over the next quarter century and considers the implications of the study for our understanding of globalization generally. This is a nuanced study grounded in quantitatively-based findings but enriched by qualitative research that both provides additional evidence and brings the findings alive.Table of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Urbanization and the Asian city; 3. Urbanism and the Asian city; 4. Businesses and cities; 5. Migrants and cities; 6. Travellers and cities; 7. Commercial popular culture and cities; 8. Asian cities and twenty-first century globalization; Bibliography; Index.
£999.99
Gregorian & Biblical Press A Changing Humanity: Fast-Paced Living as a New
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£26.00
Peeters Publishers Building Towers: Perspectives on Globalisation
Book SynopsisThis volume contains the papers delivered at a colloquium on globalisation at the UFSIA in 2002. The book takes a multidisciplinary approach in the context of which several perspectives on globalisation are developed. The starting-point of the colloquium was a paper by Hendrik Opdebeeck with the title 'The globalisation discourse and the waning of ethical endeavour'. The issue at stake in this text is a personalistic approach towards a socially and economically most pressing phenomenon. This approach also occurs within a critical atmosphere which clearly points to distortions with respect to ethics. Within a personalistic perspective, founded in a Christian tradition of ethical discourse, it is not a sheer adaptation or legitimisation that is opted for, but a profound and critical reading of the signs of the times.Table of ContentsPrologue: Introduction: Globalisation and the Tragedy of Ethics: Christianity and Globalisation: Community Building and Economic Globalisation: Towards a Sustainable Global Welfare Society: On the Urgency of Broadening the Ethic Dimension in Globalisation: Does Globalisation Make Us Reconsider Marx: Globalism and the Idea of Europe: Culture versus Globalisation in Europe: Globalisation and the Human Genome Project: Globalisation and Securitisation of Risk Bearing: Technology and Globalisation: Epilogue.
£42.20
Peeters Publishers Transnationality, Internationalism and
Book SynopsisNew means of transport and communication allowed unprecedented mobility of people, goods and ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which contributed to far-reaching economic, social and political changes in a first wave of globalisation. In its genuine transnationality, the European historical avant-garde can be seen as a product of this development. Cosmpolitanism, internationality and internationalism became emblems of the avant-garde in its pursuit of a 'new', modern international culture trangressing 'old' borders and limitations dictated by conceptions of nationhood, linguistic restrictions, and state boundaries. Simultaneously, national and nationalist reflexes can be traced in the avant-garde as well - in a European context marked by a plethora of competing nationalisms. This collection of essays focuses on the transnationality and inter-nationalisms in the European avant-garde as well as on conflicts, paradoxes and debates in the avant-garde as genuinely transnational configuration of artistic movements, which possessed nevertheless many nationalist edges. The book presents a panorama of the historical avant-garde oscillating and operating between transnationality, internationalism and nationalisms of different kinds, both in national cultural fields and a transnational European arena - from Iceland to Greece and from the Pale of Settlement to the Atlantic.
£64.34
