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Absurdistanby Gary ShteyngartISBN 0812971671 (0-8129-7167-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Act Of Creation: The Founding of the United Nations A Story of Superpowers, Secret Agents, Wartime Allies and Enemies, and Their Quest for a Peaceful Worldby Stephen C. SchlesingerISBN 0813332753 (0-8133-3275-3)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Tripby Jim RogersISBN 0812967267 (0-8129-6726-7)
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The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed the Indiana Jones of finance by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile. While I have never patronized a prostitute, he writes, I know that one can learn more about a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister.
Behind the wheel of a sunburst-yellow, custom-built convertible Mercedes, Rogers and his fiancée, Paige Parker, began their Millennium Adventure on January 1, 1999, from Iceland. They traveled through 116 countries, including many where most have rarely ventured, such as Saudi Arabia, Myanmar, Angola, Sudan, Congo, Colombia, and East Timor. They drove through war zones, deserts, jungles, epidemics, and blizzards. They had many narrow escapes.
They camped with nomads and camels in the western Sahara. They ate silkworms, iguanas, snakes, termites, guinea pigs, porcupines, crocodiles, and grasshoppers.
Best of all, they saw the real world from the ground upthe only vantage point from which it can be truly understoodeconomically, politically, and socially.
Here are just a few of the authors conclusions:
" The new commodity bull market has started.
" The twenty-first century will belong to China.
" There is a dramatic shortage of women developing in Asia.
" Pakistan is on the verge of disintegrating.
" India, like many other large nations, will break into several countries.
" The Euro is doomed to fail.
" There are fortunes to be made in Angola.
" Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are a scam.
" Bolivia is a comer after decades of instability, thanks to gigantic amounts of natural gas.
Adventure Capitalist is the most opinionated, sprawling, adventurous journey youre likely to take within the pages of a bookthe perfect read for armchair adventurers, global investors, car enthusiasts, and anyone interested in seeing the world and understanding it as it really is.
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After the Revolution: Waking to Global Capitalismby Arif DirlikISBN 0819562793 (0-8195-6279-3)
Softcover, Wesleyan Univ Pr
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Against Empireby Michael ParentiISBN 0872862984 (0-87286-298-4)
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Agenda for the Nationby Henry J. Aaron, Pietro S. Nivola, James M. LindsayISBN 0815701268 (0-8157-0126-8)
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American Trade Politicsby I.M. DestlerISBN 0881323829 (0-88132-382-9)
Softcover, Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakhby Helena Norberg-HodgeISBN 0871566435 (0-87156-643-5)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and the Neoliberal Crisisby Francine MasielloISBN 0822328186 (0-8223-2818-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Blood And Oil: The Dangers And Consequences of America's Growing Dependency on Imported Petroleumby Michael T. KlareISBN 0805079386 (0-8050-7938-6)
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Can We Put an End to Sweatshops?by Joel Rogers, Charles F. Sabel, Joshua Cohen, Archon Fung, Dara O'RourkeISBN 0807047155 (0-8070-4715-5)
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Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolutionby Robert W. McChesney, John Bellamy Foster, Ellen Meiksins WoodISBN 0853459894 (0-85345-989-4)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Changing Fortunes: The Shaping of the International Monetary Orderby Paul A. VolckerISBN 081292018X (0-8129-2018-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Chaos and Governance in the Modern World Systemby Giovanni Arrighi, Iftikhar Ahmad, Beverly J. Silver, Arrighi GiovanniISBN 0816631522 (0-8166-3152-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Clash of Civilizations?: The Debateby Samuel P. HuntingtonISBN 0876091648 (0-87609-164-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Cocoa and Chaos in Ghanaby Gwendolyn MikellISBN 0882581538 (0-88258-153-8)
Softcover, Howard Univ Pr
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Communication and Global Societyby Guo-Ming Chen, William J. StarostaISBN 0820448656 (0-8204-4865-6)
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Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Localby Carlos Torres, Robert ArnoveISBN 084768461X (0-8476-8461-X)
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Consumers and Citizens: Globalization and Multicultural Conflictsby Nestor Garcia Canclini, George YudiceISBN 0816629870 (0-8166-2987-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Translated and with an Introduction by George Yúdice
An essential analysis of the ways consumerism and globalization intersect with political power.
In Consumers and Citizens, Nestor García Canclini, the best-known and most innovative cultural studies scholar in Latin America, maps the critical effects of urban sprawl and global media and commodity markets on citizens-and shows at the same time that the complex results mean not only a shrinkage of certain traditional rights (particularly those of the welfare or client state) but also new openings for expanding citizenship.
García Canclini focuses on the diverse ways in which democratic societies recognize markets of citizen opinions, however heterogeneous and dissonant, as in the fashion and entertainment industries. He shows how identity issues, brought to the fore by the aligning of citizenship and consumption, can no longer be understood strictly within the purview of territory or nation. Rather, the postmodern citizen-consumer inhabits a transterritorial and multilingual space, structured more along the lines of markets than states. Defining this space, García Canclini seeks to formulate a participatory and critical approach to consumption in which national culture, far from being extinguished, is reconstituted in transnational, cultural interactions.
Néstor García Canclini is the author of Hybrid Cultures (Minnesota, 1995), the original Spanish edition of which won the 1992 Premio Iberoamericano. He is director of the Program of Studies on Urban Culture at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana in Mexico City.
George Yúdice teaches in the American Studies Program and in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University. [via]
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The Corporate Planet - Ecology and Politics in the Age of Globalizationby Joshua KarlinerISBN 0871564343 (0-87156-434-3)
Softcover, Sierra Club Books
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Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling Beyond the Nationby Social Text Collective, Bruce Robbins, Pheng CheahISBN 0816630682 (0-8166-3068-2)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Culture, Globalization and the World-System: Contemporary Conditions for the Representation of Identityby Anthony D. KingISBN 0816629536 (0-8166-2953-6)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Cultures of United States Imperialismby Amy Kaplan, Donald E. PeaseISBN 0822314134 (0-8223-1413-4)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cultures of United States Imperialism'Book summary:Cultures of United States Imperialism represents a major paradigm shift that will remap the field of American Studies. Pointing to a glaring blind spot in the basic premises of the study of American culture, leading critics and theorists in cultural studies, history, anthropology, and literature reveal the "denial of empire" at the heart of American Studies. Challenging traditional definitions and periodizations of imperialism, this volume shows how international relations reciprocally shape a dominant imperial culture at home and how imperial relations are enacted and contested within the United States.[via]
Drawing on a broad range of interpretive practices, these essays range across American history, from European representations of the New World to the mass media spectacle of the Persian Gulf War. The volume breaks down the boundary between the study of foreign relations and American culture to examine imperialism as an internal process of cultural appropriation and as an external struggle over international power. The contributors explore how the politics of continental and international expansion, conquest, and resistance have shaped the history of American culture just as much as the cultures of those it has dominated. By uncovering the dialectical relationship between American cultures and international relations, this collection demonstrates the necessity of analyzing imperialism as a political or economic process inseparable from the social relations and cultural representations of gender, race, ethnicity, and class at home.Contributors. Lynda Boose, Mary Yoko Brannen, Bill Brown, William Cain, Eric Cheyfitz, Vicente Diaz, Frederick Errington, Kevin Gaines, Deborah Gewertz, Donna Haraway, Susan Jeffords, Myra Jehlen, Amy Kaplan, Eric Lott, Walter Benn Michaels, Donald E. Pease, Vicente Rafael, Michael Rogin, José David Saldívar, Richard Slotkin, Doris Sommer, Gauri Viswanathan, Priscilla Wald, Kenneth Warren, Christopher P. Wilson
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The Death of Distance: How the Communications Revolution Will Change Our Livesby Frances CairncrossISBN 0875848060 (0-87584-806-0)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Discourse on Colonialismby Aime CesaireISBN 0853452261 (0-85345-226-1)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Dissent from the Homeland: Essays After September 11by Stanley Hauerwas, Frank LentricchiaISBN 0822332213 (0-8223-3221-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Contributors. Michael Baxter, Jean Baudrillard, Robert Bellah, Daniel Berrigan, Wendell Berry, Vincent Cornell, Stanley Hauerwas, Fredric Jameson, Frank Lentricchia, Catherine Lutz, Jody McAuliffe, John Milbank, James Nachtwey, Peter Ochs, Anne Rosalind Slifkin, Rowan Williams, Susan Willis, Slavoj Zizek
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Economic Development in the Republic of Korea: A Policy Perspectiveby Lee-Jay Cho, Yoon Hyung KimISBN 0866381317 (0-86638-131-7)
Hardcover, Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Economic Strategy and National Security: A Next Generation Approachby Patrick J. DesouzaISBN 0813368340 (0-8133-6834-0)
Hardcover, Westview Pr
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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchyby Robert KaplanISBN 084467124X (0-8446-7124-X)
Hardcover, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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The Evolving Global Economy: Making Sense of the New World Orderby Kenichi OhmaeISBN 0875846408 (0-87584-640-8)
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Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Antiglobal Activists and Multinational Enterprisesby Edward M. GrahamISBN 0881322725 (0-88132-272-5)
Softcover, Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Financial Derivatives and the Globalization of Riskby Edward Lipuma, Benjamin LeeISBN 0822334186 (0-8223-3418-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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First World, Ha Ha Ha!: The Zapatista Challengeby Elaine KatzenbergerISBN 0872862941 (0-87286-294-1)
Softcover, City Lights Books
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From Global to Metanational: How Companies Win in the Knowledge Economyby Yves L. Doz, Peter Williamson, Jose SantosISBN 0875848702 (0-87584-870-2)
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Global Strategies: Insights from the World's Leading Thinkersby Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Percy BarnevikISBN 0875845614 (0-87584-561-4)
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Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economyby Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell HochschildISBN 0805075097 (0-8050-7509-7)
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The 15 detailed and well-researched essays collected here range from personal recollections to broad economic analysis spanning the globe from Taiwan to Mexico and from Thailand to the Dominican Republic. They cover such topics as the transfer of emotional resources, the pressures global capitalism puts on women and their families and the ways that women's migration has modified relationships between men and women--both through marriage and through the global sex trade. Most importantly, the contributors have brought the personal stories of those the authors call "the world's most invisible women" into the light. This is essential and disturbing reading for all those interested in the effects of global capitalism, along with Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed--Undercover in Low-wage America. --Larry Brown [via]
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Globalizationby Arjun AppaduraiISBN 0822327236 (0-8223-2723-6)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Globalization : Challenge and Opportunityby J.F. HogeISBN 0876093187 (0-87609-318-7)
Softcover, Norton & Company Limited, W. W.
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Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Tradeby Gary T. Burtless, Brookings Institution, Progressive Policy Institute (U.S.), Twentieth Century FundISBN 0815711891 (0-8157-1189-1)
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Has Globalization Gone Too Far?by Dani RodrikISBN 0881322415 (0-88132-241-5)
Softcover, Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalismby Benedict R. O'G. AndersonISBN 0860915468 (0-86091-546-8)
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In A New Land: A Comparative View Of Immigrationby Nancy FonerISBN 0814727468 (0-8147-2746-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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International Ethics: Concepts, Theories, and Cases in Global Politicsby Mark R. AmstutzISBN 0847691535 (0-8476-9153-5)
Softcover, Univ Pr of Amer
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Introduction to Globalization: Political and Economic Perspectives for the New Centuryby Rosa Gomez DierksISBN 083041570X (0-8304-1570-X)
Softcover, Burnham Inc Pub
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Is Global Capitalism Working?by Council on Foreign Affairs StaffISBN 0876092520 (0-87609-252-0)
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Islands in the Netby Bruce SterlingISBN 0877959528 (0-87795-952-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Islands in the Net'Book summary:Slightly dated science fiction about the near future can be fun, especially when it evokes a strange, chaotic, and dangerous world that's uncomfortably close to our present one. Bruce Sterling's 1988 book, Islands in the Net, is a thrilling blend of high tech and low humanity. The glue that binds together this world of data pirates, mercenaries, nanotechnology, weaponry, and post-millennial voodoo is the global electronic net. You'll find jarring references to pre-Microsoft Windows computer technology, the Soviet Union, and that fancy new wonder machine--the fax. But this book has enough cool stuff to keep even a jaded cyberpunk interested. The characters are far more than mere constructs used to show off the technology, and the plot is fast, complicated, and mysterious. Veteran Sterling fans will enjoy this taste of his pre-fame style. [via]
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Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women: Commodification, Consumption, and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabweby Timothy BurkeISBN 0822317621 (0-8223-1762-1)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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With particular attention to cosmetic products and the contrast between colonial and pre-colonial ideas of cleanliness, Burke examines the role played by commodity culture, changing patterns of consumption, and the spread of advertising in the making of modern Zimbabwe. His work combines history, anthropology, and political economy to show how the development of commodification in the region relates to the social history of hygiene. Within this framework, and drawing on a wide variety of historical sources, Burke explores dense interactions between commodity culture and embodied aspects of race, gender, sexuality, domesticity, health, and aesthetics in a colonial society. Rather than viewing the production of needs simply as an imposition from above, Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women shows what heterogeneous and complex processes, involving the aims and histories of both colonizers and colonized, produced these changes in Zimbabwean society.
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Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Businessby Graham HancockISBN 0871134691 (0-87113-469-1)
Softcover, Atlantic Monthly Pr
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Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solutionby Sumantra Ghoshal, Christopher BartlettISBN 0875848494 (0-87584-849-4)
Hardcover, Perseus Distribution Services
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Managing Across Borders: The Transnational Solutionby Christopher BartlettISBN 0875843034 (0-87584-303-4)
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Markets of Dispossession: Ngos, Economic Development, And the State in Cairoby Julia ElyacharISBN 0822335719 (0-8223-3571-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Megatrends 2000by John NaisbittISBN 0831743727 (0-8317-4372-7)
Softcover, Smithmark Pub
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Millennium Challenges for Development and Faith Institutionsby Katherine Marshall, Richard MarshISBN 0821355902 (0-8213-5590-2)
Softcover, World Bank
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Networking the World, 1794-2000by Armand Mattelart, Liz Carey-Libbrecht, James A. ChenISBN 081663288X (0-8166-3288-X)
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The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Ageby David ThornburgISBN 0871206560 (0-87120-656-0)
Softcover, Assn for Supervision & Curriculum
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age'Book summary:The increasing globalization of work--coupled with rapid advancements in communications technology--is making age-old teaching methods irrelevant. To thrive in the plugged-in future workplace, students today need to learn a whole new set of fundamental skills.
According to David Thornburg, we are on the cusp of a completely new era. The conventions of interoffice hierarchies, deskbound workers, and long-term employment contracts will quickly give way to a "telematic" model of work, in which workers are free to hop from client to client and country to country at the speed of a DSL connection.
Today's curriculum is predicated on yesterday's realities, and must be reexamined to better reflect the digital age. This book explores
The foundations of the future economy,
The characteristics needed to succeed in the emerging world, and
The changes we need to make in education to ensure that all students leave school prepared to face the challenges of a redefined world.
The New Basics: Education and the Future of Work in the Telematic Age provides an in-depth discussion of the skills necessary for professional success in the coming years, along with strategies on how best to teach them in the classroom. Filled to capacity with visionary observations, practical suggestions for innovative instruction, and engaging discussions of the historical precedents for remodeled curriculum, this book is essential for those seeking to address the pressing issues of the new millennium. [via]
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Our Continent, Our Future: African Perspectives on Structural Adjustmentby P. Thandika Mkandawire, Charles Chukwuma SoludoISBN 0865437041 (0-86543-704-1)
Hardcover, Africa World Pr
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crimeby James E. GoodmanISBN 0865475814 (0-86547-581-4)
Hardcover, North Point Pr
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The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crimeby William LangewiescheISBN 0865477221 (0-86547-722-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime'Book summary:The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free.[via]
With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism.
This is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.More editions of The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime:
Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalismby Fredric JamesonISBN 0822310902 (0-8223-1090-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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PowerDown: Options And Actions For A Post-Carbon Worldby Richard HeinbergISBN 0865715106 (0-86571-510-6)
Softcover, New Society Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'PowerDown: Options And Actions For A Post-Carbon World'Book summary:[via]If the US continues with its current policies, the next decades will be marked by war, economic collapse, and environmental catastrophe. Resource depletion and population pressures are about to catch up with us, and no one is prepared. The political elites, especially in the US, are incapable of dealing with the situation and have in mind a punishing game of Last One Standing.
The alternative is Powerdown, a strategy that will require tremendous effort and economic sacrifice in order to reduce per-capita resource usage in wealthy countries, develop alternative energy sources, distribute resources more equitably, and reduce the human population humanely but systematically over time. While civil society organizations push for a mild version of this, the vast majority of the worlds people are in the dark, not understanding the challenges ahead, nor the options realistically available.
Powerdown speaks frankly to these dilemmas. Avoiding cynicism and despair, it begins with an overview of the likely impacts of oil and natural gas depletion and then outlines four options for industrial societies during the next decades:
Last One Standing: the path of competition for remaining resources;
Powerdown: the path of cooperation, conservation and sharing;
Waiting for a Magic Elixir: wishful thinking, false hopes, and denial;
Building Lifeboats: the path of community solidarity and preservation.Finally, the book explores how three important groups within global societythe power elites, the opposition to the elites (the antiwar and antiglobalization movements, et al: the Other Superpower ), and ordinary peopleare likely to respond to these four options. Timely, accessible and eloquent, Powerdown is crucial reading for our times.
Richard Heinberg is an award-winning author of five previous books, including The Partys Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies. A member of the Core Faculty of New College of California, he lives in Santa Rosa, California.
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Purchasing Power: Black Kids and American Consumer Cultureby Elizabeth ChinISBN 0816635110 (0-8166-3511-0)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Queer Migrations: Sexuality, U.S. Citizenship, And Border Crossingsby Eithne Luibheid, Lionel CantuISBN 0816644667 (0-8166-4466-7)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Race to the Bottom: Why a Worldwide Worker Surplus and Uncontrolled Free Trade Are Sinking American Living Standardsby Alan TonelsonISBN 0813340241 (0-8133-4024-1)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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Recentering Globalization: Popular Culture and Japanese Transnationalismby Koichi IwabuchiISBN 0822328917 (0-8223-2891-7)
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Religions/Globalizations: Theories and Casesby Eduardo Mendieta, Dwight N. Hopkins, Lois Ann Lorentzen, David BastoneISBN 0822327953 (0-8223-2795-3)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle Eastby Rashid KhalidiISBN 0807002356 (0-8070-0235-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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We all know that those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Sadly, as Khalidi reveals with clarity and surety, America's leaders seem blindly committed to an ahistorical path of conflict, occupation, and colonial rule. Our current policies ignore rather than incorporate the lessons of experience. American troops in Iraq have seen first hand the consequences of U.S. led "democratization" in the region. The Israeli/Palestinian conflict seems intractable, and U.S. efforts in recent years have only inflamed the situation. The footprints America follows have led us into the same quagmire that swallowed our European forerunners. Peace and prosperity for the region are nowhere in sight.
This cogent and highly accessible book provides the historical and cultural perspective so vital to understanding our present situation and to finding and pursuing a more effective and just foreign policy. [via]More editions of Resurrecting Empire: Western Footprints And America's Perilous Path In The MIddle East:
Rising from the Ashes: Labor in the Age of Global Capitalismby Michael Yates, Peter Meiksins, Ellen Meiksins WoodISBN 0853459398 (0-85345-939-8)
Softcover, New York Univ Pr
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Searching for a Different Future: The Rise of a Global Middle Class in Moroccoby Shana CohenISBN 0822333872 (0-8223-3387-2)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Shell Global Scenarios to 2025: The Future Business Environmenttrends, Trade-offs And Choicesby NaISBN 0881323837 (0-88132-383-7)
Softcover, Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Small Is Beautiful: Economics as If People Matteredby E. F. SchumacherISBN 0881791695 (0-88179-169-5)
Softcover, Hartley & Marks Publishers, Incorporated
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Stand on Zanzibarby John BrunnerISBN 0837604389 (0-8376-0438-9)
Hardcover, Bentley Pub
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Sustaining the Asia Pacific Miracle: Environmental Protection and Economic Integrationby Daniel C. Esty, Andre DuaISBN 0881322504 (0-88132-250-4)
Softcover, Peterson Inst for Intl Economics
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Tokens of Exchange: The Problem of Translation in Global Circulationsby Lydia He LiuISBN 0822324245 (0-8223-2424-5)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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Trade Liberalization in Aviation Services: Can the Doha Round Free Flight?by Brian HindleyISBN 0844771716 (0-8447-7171-6)
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United Nations for Beginnersby Ian Williams, Christian ClarkISBN 0863161855 (0-86316-185-5)
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What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of Americaby Thomas FrankISBN 080507774X (0-8050-7774-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Women and the World Economic Crisisby Jeanne VickersISBN 0862329752 (0-86232-975-2)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The World News Prism: Global Media in an Era of Terrorismby James F. Scotton, William A. HachtenISBN 0813827884 (0-8138-2788-4)
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World Bank Literatureby Amitava Kumar, John BergerISBN 0816638373 (0-8166-3837-3)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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World Development Report 2006: Equity And Developmentby World BankISBN 0821362496 (0-8213-6249-6)
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Yellow Music: Media Culture and Colonial Modernity in the Chineese Jazz Ageby Andrew F. JonesISBN 0822326949 (0-8223-2694-9)
Softcover, Duke Univ Pr
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Timesby Howard ZinnISBN 0807071277 (0-8070-7127-7)
Softcover, Beacon Pr
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It begins with his 1956 acceptance of a teaching post at Atlanta's Spelman College, a school for black women that would soon be caught up in the civil rights movement. Zinn, who had already been radicalized on the streets of Brooklyn as a teenager, got caught up along with his students (who included the future head of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, and author Alice Walker), and was kicked out in 1963 for "insubordination." He moved to Boston University, where he became an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and would prove a constant thorn in the side of university president John Silber throughout the 1970s and 1980s.
Zinn writes in plain language that brooks no nonsense when it speaks of moral urgency, but he isn't above a sense of humor. Noting that the FBI was watching him constantly during the war era, he wryly observes that, "I have grown to depend on them for accurate reports on my speeches." Individual scenes leap out at the reader: Zinn's horror when he realized, years after WWII, that he had dropped napalm bombs on German troops; a meeting in a college classroom with the sister and parents of one of the victims of the Kent State massacre; Selma, Alabama, police beating blacks attempting to register to vote while federal agents stand by and do nothing. Through it all, Zinn writes, "I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience." --Ron Hogan [via]
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