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This book is an update on globalization, its history, successes, and discontents. It discusses a wide range of topics, from the September 11 terrorist attacks to the growth of the middle class in both China and India. This new edition is the author's account of the great changes taking place in our time, as lightning-swift advances in technology and communications put people all over the globe in touch as never before, creating an explosion of wealth...
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Carnivalesque Films
Pub. Date
2005.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (73 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Winner of twenty-one national and international awards, Mardi Gras: Made in China follows the path of Mardi Gras beads from the streets of New Orleans during Carnival - where revelers party and exchange beads for nudity - to the disciplined factories in Fuzhou, China - where teenage girls live and sew beads together all day and night. Blending curiosity with comedy, Mardi Gras: Made in China is the only film to explore how the toxic products directly...
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
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1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 23 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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Imagine a world where ubiquitous connectivity joins all global citizens to the people, products and services they need - anytime, anyplace and anywhere. This vision of the not-too-distant future is presented in a groundbreaking book titled, Anywhere: how global connectivity is revolutionizing the way we do business, by author Emily Nagle Green. Ms. Green is President and CEO of Yankee Group, a Boston Massachusetts based technology research and consulting...
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"A Year Without 'Made in China': One Family's True Life Adventure in the Global Economy" is a thought-provoking and engaging book that chronicles the captivating journey of the Nogales family as they embark on a remarkable year-long experiment to live without purchasing any products made in China. Through their entertaining and eye-opening experiences, the Nogales family delves into the complex web of global trade, exposing the far-reaching influence...
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"In this collection of essays, renowned management thinker and teacher Peter F. Drucker guides leaders on how to find opportunities and make the right decisions in a business context that is increasingly global. This collection delivers a set of urgently needed lessons on how business leaders today can manage through complexit--and volatility, and make the wisest possible choices while balancing the perils and promise of globalization."--Jacket
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Rather than defining emerging markets by particular size or growth qualifications, the authors argue that the primary exploitable characteristic of these markets is their lack of developed infrastructures and institutions that might enable efficient business operations.
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Writing with wit and verve, Mike Veseth (a.k.a. the Wine Economist) tells the compelling story of the war between the market trends that are redrawing the world wine map and the terroirists who resist them. Wine and the wine business are at a critical crossroad today, transformed by three powerful forces. Veseth begins with the first force, globalization, which is shifting the center of the wine world as global wine markets provide enthusiasts with...
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For decades, Clotaire Rapaille's work focused on how people's relationships with the most important concepts in their lives-love, health, and money, for instance-are guided by subconscious cultural messages. But recently, he has uncovered a new phenomenon: a "global unconscious," or core values and feelings that are consistent worldwide-the result of our constant interconnectedness. He has also identified a new group who are paving the way for the...
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The author offers a brief history of globalization through the stories of the people and companies that built global supply chains. The two spheres - the private sector and government - did not go global in tandem, and many developments in one sphere were far more impactful in the other than imagined at the time. The book narrates the development of global supply chains in response to trends in both, telling stories ranging from a Prussian-born trader...
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Oxford University Press
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The World for Sale lifts the lid on one of the least scrutinized corners of the world economy: the billionaire commodity traders who buy, hoard, and sell the earth's resources. It is the story of how a handful of swashbuckling businessmen became indispensable cogs in global markets, enabling an enormous expansion in international trade and connecting resource-rich countries - no matter how corrupt or war-torn - with the world's financial centers....
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Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2008
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viii, 374 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
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English
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Globalization is not flattening the world; in fact, place is increasingly relevant to the global economy and our individual lives. Who's Your City? offers the first available city rankings by life-stage, rating the best places for singles, families, and empty-nesters to reside.--From amazon.com.
20) Barbarian spring
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Haus Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
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132 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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Preising finds himself in Tunisia attending the wedding of two City traders from London. At an old Berber oasis transformed into a luxury resort, the bride rides in on a camel to take her vows. As the guests carouse the night away, sterling stands on the brink of collapse and Britannia looks set to slip beneath the waves of bankruptcy and chaos.
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