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Contemporary readings in globalization /
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| Médium: | Printed Book |
| Jazyk: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
Pine Forge Press,
c2008.
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| On-line přístup: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0723/2007029748.html |
Obsah:
- A changing world
- Awakening giants, feet of clay / Pranab Bardhan
- The Wal-Mart you don't know / Charles Fishman
- The radical thesis on globalization and the case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez / Steve Ellner
- A coffee connoisseur on a mission / Michaele Weissman
- The great turning: from empire to earth community / David Korten
- Inequality and poverty
- Always with us: Jeffrey Sachs's plan to eliminate poverty / John Cassidy
- Born into bondage / Paul Raffaele
- Pulling rickshaws in the city of Dhaka / Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen
- The good samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates / Nancy Gibbs
- Violencia femicida: violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera
- How one company brought hope to the poor / Marco Visscher
- Education
- The right to education in a globalized world / Ronald Lindahl
- Breaking down notions of us and them: answering globalization with global learning / Angelo Carfagna
- A would-be pilot, hitting turbulence on the ground / Michael Wines
- Conflict
- France: the riots and the republic / Graham Murray
- Torture: the struggle over a peremptory norm in a counter-terrorist era / Rosemary Foot
- Peace and democracy for Haiti: a UN mission impossible? / David M. Malone
- Globalization and the study of international security / Victor D. Cha
- The biggest failure: a new approach to help the world's internally displaced people / Ray Wilkinson
- Health
- Outsourcing your heart / Unmesh Kher
- Rumor, fear and fatigue hinder final push to end polio / Celia W. Dugger and Donald. G. McNeil, Jr
- Aids and health-policy responses in European welfare states / Monika Steffen
- US plan to lure nurses may hurt poor nations / Celia W. Dugger
- Energy
- Exploitation of energy resources in Africa / Julia Maxted
- While Washington slept / Mark Hertsgaard
- Some convenient truths: stopping global warming / Gregg Easterbrook
- Environment
- Slum like it not: in the world's slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide / Mike Davis
- Tropic of answer: ecotourism / Charles Munn
- Strangers in the forest / Lawrence Osborne
- In American waters / Scott Sernau
- Index.