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“rob alkemade”

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  • Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications

    Edited by Yongyut Trisurat, Rajendra P. Shrestha, Rob Alkemade ...
    How humans use terrestrial land affects the earth and all life forms on it. Biodiversity loss and climate change are consequences of the same inappropriate and careless uses of land that negatively impact ecosystems on a smaller scale. Land Use, Climate Change and Biodiversity Modeling: Perspectives and Applications combines state-of-the-art modeling approaches at various scales with case studies ... Read more

    $189.99 CAD

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  • The Quest

    Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World

    by Daniel Yergin ...
    **“A sprawling story richly textured with original material, quirky details and amusing anecdotes . . .” —Wall Street Journal“It is a cause for celebration that Yergin has returned with his perspective on a very different landscape . . . [I]t is impossible to think of a better introduction to the essentials of energy in the 21st century. The Quest is . . . the definitive guide to how we got here.” ... Read more

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  • The Collapse of Globalism Revised Edition

    And The Reinvention Of The World

    by John Ralston Saul ...
    In 1999, John Ralston Saul began predicting that globalism would collapse. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism: and the Reinvention of the World Now he has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. In this new edition, Saul describes the current financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more serious problem is ... Read more

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  • Limits of Global Governance

    by Jim Whitman ...
    Are we creating an ungovernable world? Can we be confident that our existing modes of global governance are sufficient, or adaptable enough, to meet the challenges of globalization?This new study powerfully tackles these key questions, delivering a provocative examination of the cognitive, practical and political limits on our ability to exercise systems of regulation and control on the same scale ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD

  • Against Corruption: A book of essays

    by David Cameron ...
    Corruption is the cancer at the heart of many of the world’s problems. It destroys jobs and holds back growth. It fuels instability and terrorism. It traps the poorest in poverty. It even corrodes trust in the sports we love.In this collection of essays leading politicians, activists, journalists and academics begin a global debate about how we can fight back.Foreword by David Cameron, Prime ... Read more

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  • Globalization and Migration

    A World in Motion

    by Eliot Dickinson ...
    Series series Globalization
    Focusing on the intersection between globalization and migration, this powerful text traces a dynamic, contradictory process that has set the world in motion and incorporated millions of migrants into an economic market whose dimensions are unprecedented in human history. Eliot Dickinson emphasizes recent developments in global politics, such as the massive number of refugees from wars in the ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Empire of Corruption

    The Russian National Pastime

    by Vladimir Soloviev ...
    Empire of Corruption is Vladimir Soloviev's attempt to share his opinions on Russia's ways of dealing with corruption. With a certain irony, Soloviev calls the issue 'the Russian national pastime', explaining why in the country where everyone is supposedly fighting corruption, corruption still rules. The author's detailed research into the corruption structure in Russia, with concrete examples and ... Read more

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  • Institutionalizing East Asia

    Mapping and Reconfiguring Regional Cooperation

    Edited by Cheng-Chwee Kuik, Sueo Sudo, Alice Ba ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Institutional activities have remarkably transformed East Asia, a region once known for the absence of regionalism and regime-building efforts. Yet the dynamics of this Asian institutionalization have remained an understudied area of research. This book offers one of the first scholarly attempts to clarify what constitutes institutionalization in East Asia and to systematically trace the origins, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • From Civil Strife to Peace Building

    Examining Private Sector Involvement in West African Reconstruction

    Edited by Hany Besada ...
    Series series Studies in International Governance
    From Civil Strife to Peace Building examines peace-building efforts in the fragile West African states of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Côte d’Ivoire, with a focus on the role of the private sector in leading the reconstruction initiatives. Given that aid and debt relief, the traditional remedies for dependency and underdevelopment, have not been effective, the private sector is increasingly viewed ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • Revitalizing Liberal Values in a Globalizing World

    by Ruud Lubbers ...
    Series series Heritage
    The longest serving Dutch Prime Minister (1982-94), Professor Lubbers is known for his support of liberal values, social equity, human rights, democratic governments, and spirituality. In this book he explores ways to conciliate these values with global economization.Dr. Lubbers argues that the global economy created by new information technologies has led to a competitive world atmosphere that ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Heroes of the 90s: People and Money. The Modern History of Russian Capitalism

    by Valeria Bashkirova, Vladislav Dorofeev, Alexander Solovev ...
    Heroes of the 90s is a book composed by journalists of the newspaper Kommersant. The book sheds light on the transformation of the USSR and the country’s social, state, financial, economic and civic institutions into a new state — the Russian Federation. The book covers Russia’s first decade as a new country, the turbulent 90s that formed Russia’s reality today. The book revisits the storming of ... Read more

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  • The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan

    by Tianjian Shi ...
    Tianjian Shi shows how cultural norms affect political attitudes and behavior through two causal pathways, one at the individual level and one at the community level. Focusing on two key norms - definition of self-interest and orientation to authority - he tests the theory with multiple surveys conducted in mainland China and Taiwan. Shi employs multi-level statistical analysis to show how, in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD