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Introducing Globalization – Ties, Tensions, and Uneven Integration

Autor M Sparke
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 ian 2013
Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, inviting them to become participants rather than just passive learners. * Identifies and explores the major economic, political and social ties that comprise contemporary global interdependency * Examines a broad sweep of topics, from the rise of transnational corporations and global commodity chains, to global health challenges and policies, to issues of worker solidarity and global labor markets, through to emerging forms of global mobility by both business elites and their critics * Written by an award-winning teacher, and enhanced throughout by numerous empirical examples, maps, tables, an extended bibliography, glossary of key terms, and suggestions for further reading and student research * Supported by additional web resources - available upon publication at www.wiley.com/go/sparke - including hot links to news reports, examples of globalization and other illustrative sites, and archived examples of student projects Engage with fellow readers of Introducing Globalization on the book's Facebook page at www.facebook.com/IntroducingGlobalization, or learn more about this topic by enrolling in the free Coursera course Globalization and You at www.coursera.org/course/globalization
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780631231295
ISBN-10: 0631231293
Pagini: 508
Ilustrații: illustrations
Dimensiuni: 166 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Wiley
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

Public țintă

First and second year undergraduate students in universities and community
colleges. It will serve either as a primary textbook for courses on
globalization and/or the contemporary world system or as a commplementary
textbook for introductory courses in Human Geography, International
Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, and, to a lesser extent, Political
Science. The book will also have secondary general readership for students
who are searching for an accessible road map to the globlization debates.

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Notă biografică

Matthew Sparke is Professor of Geography and International Studies at the University of Washington, where he also serves as the Director of the undergraduate program in Global Health. He has authored over 60 scholarly publications, including the book In the Space of Theory (2005), but he is also dedicated to teaching about globalization as well as writing about it. He has multiple awards for his work as a teacher, including the lifetime Distinguished Teaching award from the University of Washington.