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Contemporary readings in globalization /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sernau, Scott
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : Pine Forge Press, c2008.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0723/2007029748.html
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245 0 0 |a Contemporary readings in globalization /  |c editor Scott R. Sernau. 
260 |a Thousand Oaks :  |b Pine Forge Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a xiii, 226 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 28 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
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