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Conversations with Ulrich Beck

by Pollak, Michael, Beck, Ulrich,, socioloog, Willms, Johannes

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new book, Ulrich Beck and the journalist Johannes Willms engage in a series of accessible conversations that reveal and explore the key elements in Beck's thought. Ulrich Beck, one of the most important and influential contemporary social thinkers, reveals and expands his work i…

Managing in Recovering Markets

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The changing dynamics of business worldwide have led organizations to look beyond traditional managerial practices while at the same time attempting to retain their core competitive advantages. This development has called upon academicians and practitioners alike to reassess the…

Managing in recovering markets

by Global Conference on Managing in Recovering Markets, Gurgaon, India)

fromSpringer Proceedings in Business and Economics

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The changing dynamics of business worldwide have led organizations to look beyond traditional managerial practices while at the same time attempting to retain their core competitive advantages. This development has called upon academicians and practitioners alike to reassess the…

Politics as usual: what lies behind the pro-poor rhetoric

by Pogge, Thomas W., filosofie,, (Thomas Winfried Menko)

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Product Description Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in digni…

The Pusan International Film Festival, South Korean cinema, and globalization

by Ahn, SooJeong

fromTransAsia--screen cultures

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This volume provides a political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea since its inception in 1996. By paying attention to the organizers use of an Asian regionalization strategy, the author reveals how the festival staked out a unique …

Japanese cinema goes global: filmworkers' journeys

by Tezuka, Yoshiharu

fromTransAsia--screen cultures

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Japan's film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unprecedented engagement with global trends. With careful research and also unique first-person observations drawn from years of work…

The cosmopolitan vision

by Beck, Ulrich

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In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses …

The Cosmopolitan Vision

by Beck, Ulrich

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In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses …

The cosmopolitan vision

by Beck, Ulrich

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"In this new book, Ulrich Beck develops his now widely used concepts of second modernity, risk society and reflexive sociology into a radical new sociological analysis of the cosmopolitan implications of globalization. Beck draws extensively on empirical and theoretical analyses…

Global capitalism and the crisis of humanity

by Robinson, William I.

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"This exciting new study provides an original and provocative exposé of the crisis of global capitalism in its multiple dimensions - economic, political, social, ecological, military, and cultural. Building on his earlier works on globalization, William I. Robinson discusses the…

Globalization: a basic text

by Ritzer, George, Dean, Paul

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Updated to reflect the latest global developments, the second edition of 'Globalization: A Basic Text' presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.

World at risk

by Beck, Ulrich

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Twenty years ago, Ulrich Beck published "Risk Society", a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new forms a…