Authors:David Held, Anthony McGrew, David Goldblatt, Jonathan
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Keywords: culture, economics, politics, transformations, global
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0804736278
ISBN-13: 9780804736275

This book throws new light on the complex processes that are reshaping the contemporary world. All too often debates about globalization - and about whether it implies the end of the nation-state - have descended into polemics and confusion. Global Transformations overcomes these difficulties. Based on many years of original research, it maps the shape and scope of globalization and provides a comprehensive introduction to the subject, presenting its material in a clear and accessible way. This is the most systematic account available of the process of globalization. It will be illuminating no

Authors:David S. Potter, David Goldblatt, Margaret Kiloh, Pau
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: present, times, classical, democracy, democratization
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 1997-04-28
List price: $44.95
ISBN-10: 0745618154
ISBN-13: 9780745618159

In 1760 no polity in the world was democratic in any way we would now recognize. In 1995 there were democratic states on every continent and in every region. The struggle to create, sustain, and entrench democratic political systems is one of the central narratives of modernity. Democratization is the first textbook comprehensively to survey, explore and engage with this story. In Part I, the introduction to the book as a whole, an overview and elaboration is offered of the key explanatory models of democratization; this section also refines the description of a regime’s democratic statu

Author: David Goldblatt
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: soccer, history, global, round, ball
Number of Pages: 992
Published: 2008-01-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1594482969
ISBN-13: 9781594482960

The definitive book about soccer. With a new foreword for the American edition. There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of soccer’s rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world’s most popular sport-now poised to fully establish itself in the USA. Already celebrated i

Author: David Goldblatt
Publisher: DK ADULT
Keywords: book, soccer
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-08-31
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0756650984
ISBN-13: 9780756650988

Whether you want to bend it like Beckham or dribble like Ronaldinho, The Soccer Book is the ultimate visual guide to soccer skills, rules, tactics, and coaching, illustrating every aspect of every variant of the sport more clearly, and in more detail, than any other book has done before.

Author: Joe Goldblatt
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: event, wiley, management, world, series, new, events, leadership, special
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2004-10-14
List price: $80.25
ISBN-10: 0471450375
ISBN-13: 9780471450375

From the foremost authority on event management A comprehensive, totally up-to-date guide to your career in the rapidly changing global event management business With the event planning industry’s emergence as a mainstream career choice--combined with new global economic realities--those who work in this exciting field must keep up with the times in order to grow and succeed. Event professionals must master the specialized skills to transition from event manager to event leader. In this new Fourth Edition, Dr. Joe Goldblatt, CSEP, imparts all the logistical know-how and theoretical under

Authors:Hua Gu, Howard Goldblatt,
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Keywords: china, modern, fiction, widows, virgin
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 1996-04
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824818024
ISBN-13: 9780824818029

Author: Andrew Goldblatt
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: one, rivalry, teams, cities, dodgers, four, giants
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-06
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0786416408
ISBN-13: 9780786416400

The Giant-Dodger rivalry was considered the best in baseball by 1890 and remains the game’s oldest and most storied rivalry today. It’s remarkable how often both teams have been good, how rarely they’ve both been bad, and how tenaciously the underdog has battled in between. Through 12 decades (and in two sets of cities 3,000 miles apart) Giant and Dodger partisans have rooted so passionately against each other that, just as during the Civil War, conflicting loyalties have divided neighbors and even families. This is the definitive account of the rivalry, from its roots in amate