Author: United Nations
Publisher: United Nations
Keywords: review, cepal
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 2003-06-06
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 9211213649
ISBN-13: 9789211213645
Cepal Review is the leading journal for the study of economic and social development issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Edited by the Economic Commission for Latin America, each issue focuses on economic trends, industrialization, income distribution, technological development and monetary systems, as well as the implementation of reforms and transfer of technology. Written in English and Spanish (Revista De La Cepal), each tri-annual issue brings you approximately 12 studies and essays undertaken by authoritative experts or gathered from conference proceedings.
Author: Montserrat Guibernau
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: nations, identity
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0745626629
ISBN-13: 9780745626628
What is national identity? What are the main challenges posed to national identity by the strengthening of regional identities and the growth of cultural diversity? How is right-wing nationalism connected to the desire to preserve a traditional image of national identity? Can we forge a new kind of national identity that responds to the challenges of globalization and other deep-seated changes? In this important new book, Montserrat Guibernau answers these and other compelling questions about the future of national identity. For Guibernau, the nation-states traditional project to unify
Author: Julia Kristeva
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Keywords: nationalism, nations
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 1993-04-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0231081049
ISBN-13: 9780231081047
Kristeva points to Montesquieu’s esprit général -- his notion of the social body as a guaranteed hierarchy of private rights -- in this humanistic plea for tolerance and commonality.
Author: George W. Cox
Publisher: Obscure Press
Keywords: vol, nations, aryan, mythology
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $40.95
ISBN-10: 1443739545
ISBN-13: 9781443739542
Originally published in 1870. Author: George, W., Cox, M.A. Language: English. Keywords: Religion / Mythology / Folklore Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author: Adam Smith
Publisher: Digireads.com
Keywords: nations, wealth
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1420932063
ISBN-13: 9781420932065
The foundation for all modern economic thought and political economy, "The Wealth of Nations" is the magnum opus of Scottish economist Adam Smith, who introduces the world to the very idea of economics and capitalism in the modern sense of the words. Smith details his argument in the following five books: Book I. Of the Causes of Improvement in the productive Power of Labour, Book II. Of the Nature, Accumulation, and Employment of Stock Introduction, Book III. Of the Different Progress of Opulence in Different Nations, Book IV. Of Systems of Political Economy, and Book V. Of the Revenue of the
Author: Christie Davies
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Keywords: nations, mirth
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2010-10-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 141281457X
ISBN-13: 9781412814577
The Mirth of Nations is a social and historical study of jokes told in the principal English-speaking countries. It is based on use of archives and other primary sources, including old and rare joke books. Davies makes detailed comparisons between the humor of specific pairs of nations and ethnic and regional groups. In this way, he achieves an appreciation of the unique characteristics of the humor of each nation or group. A tightly argued book, The Mirth of Nations uses the comparative method to undermine existing theories of humor, which are rooted in notions of hostility, conflict,
Author: D K Miles
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Keywords: nations, wealth, understanding, macroeconomics
Number of Pages: 632
Published: 2004
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0470868929
ISBN-13: 9780470868928
