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Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray in the last decade as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. The United States and Venezuela attempts to place the events of the past ten years in historical perspective and to explain the reasons why the changes occurred. It also examines the impact of new actors on the international scene: drug traffickers, common citizens, human rights and environmental activists and the media.
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The September 11 attacks transformed all of New York City, not just the historic financial district of Lower Manhattan. In After the World Trade Center, the eminent social critics Michael Sorkin and Sharon Zukin call on eighteen of New York's best urbanists to consider the attack and its aftermath in the broadest context. These essays provide a panoramic social portrait of the city at a new crossroads, one that both reflects New York's pre-eminent role as a financial and cultural capital and reveals the fault lines under the last few years of rapid growth. The essays point to a manifesto for a democratically planned New York, where all the city's communities-from Tribeca to Chinatown and Jackson Heights-count.
But while the city still digs through the debris, contrary forces shaping its future are at work. Developers jockey to control the right to rebuild "ground zero." Financial firms line up for sweetheart deals. Architects and planners debate surveillance schemes over New York's boisterous public life, and proposals for memorials are gaining in appeal.
Though these processes are taking form, none has achieved a political consensus. Through a multitude of perspectives on the emerging city, After the World Trade Center provides alternative visions to the expected landscape of power.
Customer Reviews:
Rushing to press..........2004-03-15
...and saying next to nothing. Only Marshall Berman has something to say - my one star is for his essay. Go read his piece in the copy at your local library, but whatever you do, don't buy this turkey!
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This new volume argues that globalization is not a new and exotic phenomenon. Instead it emphasizes that globalization is something that has been with us as long as there have been people who are both interdependent and aware of that fact.
Contemporary concerns about globalization are hard to avoid. Growing interdependence benefits some and marginalizes others. History is often described from a local perspective, making events seem particularistic and disconnected, rather than being enmeshed in a much larger network of interdependent events. Studying globalization from the vantage point of long-term global history permits theoretical and empirical investigation allowing the contributors to this volume to assess the extent of ongoing transformations and to compare them to earlier iterations. With this historical advantage, the extent of ongoing changes - which previously appeared unprecedented - can be contrasted to similar episodes in the past.
This interdisciplinary volume includes chapters written by historians, sociologists and political scientists. It will appeal to anyone interested in globalization and its origins.
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Over the past decade a small group of economists has challenged traditional wisdom about international trade. Rethinking International Trade provides a coherent account of this research program and traces the key steps in an exciting new trade theory that offers, among other possibilities, new arguments against free trade.
Krugman's introduction is a valuable guide to research that has delved anew into the causes of international trade and reopened basic questions about the international pattern of specialization, the effects of protectionism, and what constitutes an optimal trade policy. In the four sections that follow, he takes a revisionary look at the causes of international trade, and discusses growth and the role of history, technological change and trade, and strategic trade policy.
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The tension between trade liberalisation and environmental protection has received remarkable attention since the establishment of the WTO. It has been the subject of a wide-ranging debate, and is one of the central themes of the anti-globalisation movement. This book explores that debate. It argues that by focusing on the WTO, the debate has failed to recognise the institutional and discursive complexity in which the trade-environment conflict is embedded. A legal investigation of this nexus requires a framework of inquiry, in which this complexity can be elucidated - a model of global legal pluralism.
The first theoretical part of the book (Chapters One and Two) responds to this challenge by developing a pluralistic model, which recognises the trade and environment conflict as the product of multiple dilemmas, constituted and negotiated by a myriad of institutional and discursive networks. As such, this conflict cannot be understood or addressed through one-dimensional models. Viewing the trade-environment conflict through a pluralistic perspective yields important practical insights. It means that this conflict cannot be resolved by uniform economic or legal formulae. Dealing with this conflict requires, rather, polycentric and contextual strategy.
The empirical part of the book (Chapters Three to Seven) explicates this thesis by examining several global legal domains, ranging from the WTO to 'private' transnational regimes such as transnational litigation, international construction law and international financial law. This part demonstrates how the different discursive and institutional structures of these domains have influenced the contours of the trade-environment conflict, and considers the policy implications of this diversity from a pro-environmental perspective.
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Rethinking Employment Policy
Felicity Skidmore
Manufacturer: University Press of America
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ASIN: 0877664587 |
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This book stands back from the details of labor market scholarship and, in nontechnical language, takes a hard look at what we know and don't know about the labor market problems that face us as we move into the decade of the 1990s. Contributing authors include "Isabel V. Sawhill, George E. Johnson, Robert Eisner, Marc Bendick, Jr., Burt S. Barnow, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Leroy D. Clark, Ray Marshall, Daniel Burton," and "Forrest Chisman".
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Rethinking Global Production
Ian M. Taplin
Manufacturer: Ashgate Publishing
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ASIN: 1859725848 |
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World Trade: Toward Fair and Free Trade in the Twenty-First Century (Rethinking Bretton Woods)
Manufacturer: Pluto Press (UK)
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ASIN: 0745310532 |
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This digital document is an article from Houston Journal of International Law, published by University of Texas at Houston on March 22, 1997. The length of the article is 6458 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Free trade in the Americas: a perspective from the organization of American states.(International Law in the Americas: Rethinking National Sovereignty in an Age of Regional Integration)
Author: Jeannette M.E. Tramhel
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Houston Journal of International Law (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 1997
Publisher: University of Texas at Houston
Volume: 19
Issue: n3
Page: 595-614
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This digital document is an article from American Review of Canadian Studies, published by Association for Canadian Studies in the United States on September 22, 1999. The length of the article is 7680 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: From fur trade to free trade: rethinking the inland empire.
Author: Daniel E., III Turville
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American Review of Canadian Studies (Refereed)
Date: September 22, 1999
Publisher: Association for Canadian Studies in the United States
Volume: 29
Issue: 3
Page: 447-71
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In today's business world, it's extremely important to effectively communicate your ideas. Whether you're selling a product, outlining a proposal, or attempting to generate support for a project, a superior presentation will get superior results.
Presentations equips you with the tools you need to create a winning presentation, from proposals to sales pitches to motivational speeches. It offers step-by-step instructions on developing and delivering the perfect presentation, including how to:
Organize your speech and perfect your delivery
Access and engage your audience
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Use your surroundings to maximize the impact of your presentation
Field questions and use them to your advantage
With its easy-to-apply, tried-and-true methodology, Presentations is an indispensable guide for anyone who needs to get an important point across.
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An easy-to-read and use guide to presentations........1997-12-23
In 10 chapters, Bowman gives lots of practical advice on how to plan and deliver presentations. The table of contents gives a good sense of what's in this book, so I will include it here: 1. Types of Presentations 2. Know Your Audience 3. The Presentation: Putting It All Together 4. Tone and Delivery: How to Engage the Audience 5. Visuals 6. Logistics 7. Write for Speaking 8. The Personal You 9. Special Situations 10. The Media Appendix: Quotations for Speeches
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Presentations, Second Edition takes the anxiety out of creating dynamic presentations with a commonsense, step-by-step plan for success.
The book starts you off on the right foot by introducing the critical but often overlooked basics of preparation, including how to:
- Assess the purpose of the presentation
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- Organize the topic for maximum effect
- Choose the best type of presentation
With these essential concepts mastered, you learn how to prepare both the presentation and yourself. This book discusses rehearsals, checklists, and handling challenges--and even the post-presentation evaluation--in a clear and upbeat manner.
Presentations is up-to-the-minute with the latest technologies and techniques such as video and computer conferencing, and Web site production so that you can choose the best medium and application for your presentation. A list of resources is included for further reading.
Now you can create winning presentations like an expert with Presentations!
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Tourism Development: Issues For A Vulnerable Industry (Aspects of Tourism)
Manufacturer: Multilingual Matters Limited
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- A multidisciplinary approach to current topics
- Examines threats to tourism development
- Concludes with a look at the future of tourism development
This book takes a multidisciplinary look at various hot issues in present day tourism development, including studying how global the industry has become; new forms of travel like space tourism; new trends in marketing and promotion. It also deals with the threats posed to tourism development by wars, global terrorism, and epidemics and concludes with an optimistic view of the industry's resilience.
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a road map to the future.......2004-11-25
This is perhaps the most solid roadmap to the future of tourism that's available today. Regional planners, development officers and tourism officials cannot responsibly discharge their duties without a grasp of the concepts and methods presented here.
--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books. ISBN 9781601640005
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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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