Author: Thomas W. Simons Jr.
Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
Keywords: world, globalizing, islam
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0804748330
ISBN-13: 9780804748339

Pocket-size text explores the development of Islam in the context of a changing world. Written on the basis of the Payne Memorial Lectures given at the Institute for International studies at Stanford University in the winter quarter of 2002. Softcover, hardcover available from the publisher. DLC: Islam--History.

Author: Cindy Patto
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Pre
Keywords: bounds, theory, aids, globalizing
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-04-30
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0816632804
ISBN-13: 9780816632800

As AIDS began to appear around the "global village" in the early 1980s, the closeness brought by new technologies no longer promised wondrous cultural exchange; instead it made possible the transmission of a frightening new kind of disease. International scientific institutions and news organizations quickly constructed a "place" for AIDS in the global imaginary: from the heart of Africa and gay bathhouses in San Francisco to the back streets of Southeast Asia and poverty-stricken neighborhoods in the United States. Such simplistic accounts helped recycle racist ideas about Africans and Asians

Author: Manuel A. Vasquez
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Keywords: americas, across, religion, sacred, globalizing
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-07-16
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 081353285X
ISBN-13: 9780813532851

Drawing on case studies in the United States and Latin America, Manuel A. Vásquez and Marie Friedmann Marquardt explore the evolving roles of religion in the Americas in the face of globalization, transnational migration, the rapid growth of culture industries, the rise of computer mediated technologies, and the crisis of modernity. Combining ethnographic research in local congregations, studies of material culture and sacred space, textual analyses, and approaches to mass and electronic media, the authors challenge dominant paradigms in sociology of religion.

Author: Ajit K. Ghose
Publisher: International Labour Office
Keywords: world, globalizing, incomes, jobs
Number of Pages: 150
Published: 2003-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 9221127176
ISBN-13: 9789221127178

Presenting results of new research, the author shows that, contrary to popular perceptions, global income inequality is actually declining, South-North migration is falling, and job opportunities and wages are rising in a significant number of developing countries. Moreover, the author finds no evidence of falling labour standards in integrating economics, nor that globalization can be blamed for the labour market disadvantages of low-skilled labour in industrialized countries. While showing many of the public concerns about globalization to be unfounded, the analysis exposes other serious pr

Author: Jeffrey Haynes
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: world, globalizing, politics, comparative
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-06-18
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0745630936
ISBN-13: 9780745630939

This book offers an accessible and broadly conceived examination of the impact of globalization on comparative politics. Written in a lucid and lively style, it assumes no prior knowledge of either globalization or comparative politics, and is the ideal textbook for students who want to know more about these crucial topics. The world has changed substantially since the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s. There is much debate - but little agreement - about what precisely has happened, and how it affects what goes on politically and economically within co

Author: Mark Pelling
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: world, globalizing, development, disaster, natural
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-04-11
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0415279585
ISBN-13: 9780415279581

Natural Disaster and Development in a Globalizing World makes clear that there are links between global scale processes and local experiences of disaster, but underlies the difficulty of attributing blame for individual disasters on specific global pressures. It argues that action to reduce disaster needs to be coordinated at the local, national and global scales and that there is a need for greater integration across the physical and social sciences. In this context, the human rights agenda is seen as a way of moving disaster reduction efforts forward.

Author: Carolyn Cartier
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: book, series, ibg, rgs, south, china, globalizing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-01-28
List price: $41.95
ISBN-10: 1557868883
ISBN-13: 9781557868886

This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic ’miracle’s. Find out more information about the RGS-IBG journals by following the links below:AREA:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894The Geographical Journal: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers:http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754