For more than half a century, the U.S. dollar has been not just America's currency but the world's. It is used globally by importers, exporters, investors, governments and central banks alike. Nearly three-quarters of all 00 bills circulate outside the United States. The dol…
Genetically modified (GM) (or transgenic) crops are produced using plant biotechnology to select desirable characteristics in plants and transfer genes from one organism to another. As a result, crops can survive under harsher conditions, costs are lowered, chemical application…
Marketing Channels shows students how to design, develop, maintain and manage effective relationships among worldwide marketing channels to achieve sustainable competitive advantage by using strategic and managerial frames of reference.
"The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of our selves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. This timely and vibrant book provides frameworks for thinking critically about the roles o…
The blockbuster New York Times bestseller and the companion volume to the wildly popular radio series Neil MacGregor has blazed an unusual path to international renown. As director of the British Museum, he organized an exhibit that aimed to tell the history of humanity through …
Ha-Joon Chang has some startingly original things to say about the future of globalization. He argues that, although in theory, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies, in practice they …
Ha-Joon Chang has some startingly original things to say about the future of globalization. He argues that, although in theory, the world's wealthiest countries and supra-national institutions want to see all nations developing into modern industrial societies, in practice they …
