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In a compelling new set of interviews, Noam Chomsky identifies the "dry kindling" of discontent around the world that could soon catch fire. In wide-ranging discussions with David Barsamian, his...

"The established narrative of art history is traditionally narrated through national or cultural lenses that focus on specific artistic practices characteristic of a given nation or culture: bronze...

Preface / Otras Negras . . . y ¡Feministas! -- Introduction / Silvia Federici, Liz Mason-Deese, Susana Draper -- Part I: Contextualizing and conceptualizing feminicide -- Editors' introduction /...

"Inequality and Globalisation focusses on how this problem can be resolved with the effective curation and analysis of integrated and consistent financial accounts. Using data from extensive...

How international organizations can combat populist opposition—and the implications for institutional resilience, legitimacy, and accountabilityPopulist leaders around the world increasingly reject...

Political theorists consider the challenge of global climate change from a range of perspectives, including conceptual analysis, critical theory, critical legal studies, and neo-Marxism.Climate...

In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based...

Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.Confounded by global warming and in search of an...

With luxury and concise styles as the key tone, the book collects contemporary projects which contain perfect appearances and interior decor, with a wealth of colour pictures, floor plans, diagrams,...

The advance of economic globalization has led many academics, policy-makers, and activists to warn that it leads to a 'race to the bottom'. In a world increasingly free of restrictions on trade and...

Since economists traditionally focus on market activities, women's non-wage labour has not been registered in works on economic development. On the other hand, women's wage labour has been described...

How much of global warming is due to human activities? How far will it be possible to adapt to changes of climate? Sir John Houghton's definitive, full colour guide to climate change answers these...

Global realities of human inequality, poverty, violence and ecological destruction call for a twenty-first-century Christian response which links cross-cultural and interreligious cooperation for...

The first comprehensive look at the global dilemma of child migrationWhy, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the...

Why do so many people worldwide suffer hunger and poverty when there is enough food and other resources globally to prevent it? This book shows how famine and food insecurity are an essential part of...

"In this lively introduction to the science of biomechanics, Steven Vogel invites readers to wonder about the design of the plants and animals around us"--

"Human rights, environmentalism, and global justice: these transnational movements today face fierce opposition from networks of conservative activists promoting contrary aims. In this groundbreaking...

This ambitious book provides a new framework for analysing global international society (GIS). In doing so, it also links the English School's approach more closely to classical sociology,...