Contemporary readings in globalization
By: editor Scott R. Sernau.
Contributors: Sernau, Scott.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9781412944717
Subjects: Globalization; Globalization -- Social aspects; Poverty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A changing world; title: Awakening giants, feet of clay / Pranab Bardhan; title: The Wal-Mart you don't know / Charles Fishman; title: The radical thesis on globalization and the case of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez / Steve Ellner; title: A coffee connoisseur on a mission / Michaele Weissman; title: The great turning: from empire to earth community / David Korten; title: Inequality and poverty; title: Always with us: Jeffrey Sachs's plan to eliminate poverty / John Cassidy; title: Born into bondage / Paul Raffaele; title: Pulling rickshaws in the city of Dhaka / Sharifa Begum and Binayak Sen; title: The good samaritans: Melinda Gates, Bono, and Bill Gates / Nancy Gibbs; title: Violencia femicida: violence against women and Mexico's structural crisis / Mercedes Olivera; title: How one company brought hope to the poor / Marco Visscher; title: Education; title: The right to education in a globalized world / Ronald Lindahl; title: Breaking down notions of us and them: answering globalization with global learning / Angelo Carfagna; title: A would-be pilot, hitting turbulence on the ground / Michael Wines; title: Conflict; title: France: the riots and the republic / Graham Murray; title: Torture: the struggle over a peremptory norm in a counter-terrorist era / Rosemary Foot; title: Peace and democracy for Haiti: a UN mission impossible? / David M. Malone; title: Globalization and the study of international security / Victor D. Cha; title: The biggest failure: a new approach to help the world's internally displaced people / Ray Wilkinson; title: Health; title: Outsourcing your heart / Unmesh Kher; title: Rumor, fear and fatigue hinder final push to end polio / Celia W. Dugger and Donald. G. McNeil, Jr; title: Aids and health-policy responses in European welfare states / Monika Steffen; title: US plan to lure nurses may hurt poor nations / Celia W. Dugger; title: Energy; title: Exploitation of energy resources in Africa / Julia Maxted; title: While Washington slept / Mark Hertsgaard; title: Some convenient truths: stopping global warming / Gregg Easterbrook; title: Environment; title: Slum like it not: in the world's slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide / Mike Davis; title: Tropic of answer: ecotourism / Charles Munn; title: Strangers in the forest / Lawrence Osborne; title: In American waters / Scott Sernau; title: Index.