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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781861978257
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides rankings on more than 200 topics that take into account over 180 countries, together with detailed statistical profiles of more than 65 of the world's major economies, together with profiles of the world and the euro area.
Author: Joseph N. Weatherby
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1317343107
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa and the Middle East, Central Asia and the Southern Near Abroad, and Asia. Highlighting similarities and differences among these regions and focusing on enduring problems, The Other World is a practical look at the issues affecting the majority of the world's population.
Author: Ivan T. Berend
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-02-12
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 052149365X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An authoritative study that covers the social and economic history of Central and Eastern Europe since 1973.
Author: Ashley J. Tellis
Publisher: NBR
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0971393877
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Monbiot
Publisher: Anchor Canada
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0307371980
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →George Monbiot’s Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning marks an important moment in our civilization’s thinking about global warming. The question is no longer whether climate change is actually happening. The question is what to do about it. Monbiot offers an ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping away from catastrophe. (But not before he devotes a chapter to unmasking the vested interests that have spent fortunes funding the specious science of the climate change deniers.) It now seems certain that we need a 90% cut in our emissions by 2030 to prevent runaway climate change from taking place. For the first time, this book explains how the cut could be achieved without bringing industrial civilisation to an end. Combining his unique knowledge of political campaigning and environmental science, Monbiot analyses the potential of energy efficiency, renewable resources, carbon burial, nuclear power and new transport and building systems to discover what works, what doesn't, what costs the least and what needs to be done to make change happen. He is not afraid to attack anyone—friend or foe—whose claims are false or whose figures have been fudged. His original, sometimes shocking programme shows that we can reconcile our demands for comfort and security with the survival of the biosphere. Rigorous, passionate and totally surprising, this book could change the world. It is possible to slow the momentum of this global crisis—if we act decisively. In this riveting, fiery book, the No Logo of the environmental movement, George Monbiot shows us how.
Author: Alan Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-05-15
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1351912402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The rise of China is probably the most significant shift in the international power structure this generation. China's leaders have so far committed themselves to a 'peaceful rising' but serious tensions are inevitable in such a rapid transformation. Dialogue on peace and conflict issues at this juncture is invaluable. This volume focuses on developments in peace research in a number of key countries, and in particular introduces for the first time in English the perspectives of a number of Chinese scholars who have started to engage with peace studies agendas. Comparisons are drawn from the UK, USA, Mexico, Japan and South Africa to provide a better understanding of the debates on a global level and the discussion among different countries. Some of the outstanding peace researchers who contribute to the volume include Andrew Rigby, Johan Galtung - who is generally considered to have founded the discipline in its current form - and Ursula Oswald. The volume is a valuable and unique contribution to the contemporary peace research agenda and will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership in peace studies, sociology, politics, international relations, religious studies, philosophy and Asian studies.