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  • - Racism and the End of Anthropology
    av Peter Rigby
    596 - 1 896,-

    Features an African response to the stereotyping of African people and people of African descent by prominent white scholars. This work highlights how the media contributes to the growth of racist ideas, and demonstrates how some of America's revered intellectuals cloak racist ideologies in ostensibly egalitarian discourses.

  • av Michael Crowley
    1 690,-

    This book explores how revolutionary developments and convergence of the chemical, life and associated sciences are impacting contemporary toxin and bioregulator research, and examines the risks of such research being misused for malign purposes. Investigating illustrative cases of dual use research of potential concern in China, India, Iran, Russia, Syria and the USA, the authors discuss how states can ensure such research and related activities are not utilised in weapons development. Although toxins and bioregulators are, in theory, covered by both the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and Chemical Weapons Convention, this apparent overlap in reality masks a dangerous regulatory gap - with neither Convention implemented effectively to address threats of weaponisation. This book highlights the potentially damaging consequences for international peace and security, and proposes realistic routes for action by states and the scientific community.  

  • - International Dissidence
     
    1 726,-

    This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions.

  • av Malcolm Dando
    770,-

    During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

  • - From Research Agendas to Global Strategy
     
    1 300,-

    This book explores the absent and missing in debates about science and security. Through varied case studies, including biological and chemical weapons control, science journalism, nanotechnology research and neuroethics, the contributors explore how matters become absent, ignored or forgotten and the implications for ethics, policy and society.

  • - Corporations versus People
    av Ann-Christin Sjölander Holland
    406,-

    The story of water business around the world.

  • - Ideas for a New World Economy
    av Walden Bello
    456 - 1 830,-

    A landmark work in dissecting global capitalism's multitude of failings and offering a viable, more equitable, alternative.

  • - Social Justice in the Age of the Market
    av Koen De Feyter
    516,-

    An examination of how globalisation has harmed human rights.

  • - The Threat of GM Crops to Farmers
    av Robert Ali Brac de la Perriere & Franck Seuret
    330,-

    Consumers have taken the lead in rejecting genetically modified crops. Giving a voice to farmers who are being pressured by half a dozen giant corporations to grow these crops, this book provides an explanation of what is happening and what is at stake, and a statement of principles.

  • - An Alternative Economic Policy Manual
    av Ha-Joon Chang & Ilene Grabel
    396,-

    After half a century of disappointed hopes, where do developing countries go from here? In this volume, two economists refute some of the main myths of free market globalization in trenchant fashion. introducing the alternative economic policies that can be and have been successfully pursued.

  • - The Politics of Wealth, Health and Air Pollution
    av Judith A. Cherni
    1 346 - 1 456,-

    Cherni presents a critical text of interdisciplinary research and a theoretical argued case for analyzing a physical/social problem with a political economic approach. The author identifies the convergence of global economic growth trends and the localization of environmental and health risks.

  • av Moira Feil
    770 - 1 080,-

    Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and theoretical expectations of corporate engagement and governance contributions.

  • - Britain, Trident and the Challenges Ahead
    av Nick Ritchie
    686 - 770,-

    President Obama and the UK Labour and Coalition governments have all backed the renewed momentum for serious progress towards a world free of nuclear weapons, whilst the UK finds itself embarked on a controversial and expensive programme to renew its Trident nuclear weapons system. What does the UK process tell about the prospects for disarmament?

  • - Science and Its Uses
    av Robert Boardman
    686 - 770,-

    Science and politics are closely connected in today's global environmental issues. This book focuses on these links in relation to climate change, the threats to wildlife species, and natural hazards and disasters. Study of these reveals the need for more effective international cooperation and the limits of global governance.

  • - Power in the Everyday Life of Mexican Tomato Workers
    av Gabriel Torres
    570,-

    As part of the "Global Issues" series, this volume examines such areas as: searching for new ways of understanding farmworkers; plunging into the garlic - methodological issues and challenges; tomato work; and the politics of tomato work - agribusiness in Autlan history.

  • - Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice
    av Judith Kapferer
    570 - 1 910,-

    In a postcolonial age of globalizing economies, the political quest for national identity has become increasingly urgent. This text traces the ways the Australian state and people struggle to represent social and cultural practices to which class, gender and ethnicity are fundamental.

  • - Ethnicity, Nation-building and Compromise in Mauritius
    av Thomas Hylland Eriksen
    570 - 1 910,-

    Mauritius is the focus for this study of social identity and political culture. The book seeks to enhance comparative understanding of ethnicity, to refine theories of nationalism, and to contribute to ongoing debates on multiculturalism, identity politics and creolization.

  • av Robert Deliege
    666 - 1 910,-

    Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

  • av Raquel E. Aldana
    850,-

  • av Frank Caso
    744,-

  • av Kathy Wilson Peacock
    744,-

  • av Phillip Margulies
    786,-

    When Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1867, he never could have predicted the unprecedented devastation that would occur as a result of his discovery. This title explores the threat of nuclear production and the potential for solutions in four regions of the world - the United States, South Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia.

  • av Natasha Thomsen
    744,-

    Examines the status of women's rights in the United States and abroad, namely Denmark, China, Afghanistan, and Kenya. This volume highlights the means by which women challenge their respective situations and cause change within their countries.

  • - Food, Symbol and Conflict of Knowledge in Ecuador
    av Eduardo P. Archetti
    570 - 1 910,-

    Presents a description of the range of cultural practices surrounding the guinea pig, ranging from the way the animals are reared, through a cuisine, to their role in ritual life. This book highlights the way the gender dimension is central to understanding resistances to 'modernization' and the power of 'experts'.

  • - The Rwandan Genocide of 1994
    av Christopher C. Taylor
    570 - 1 896,-

    In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. This text attempts to understand the atrocities of the genocide.

  • av Faith Merino
    744,-

  • av Natalie Goldstein
    796,-

    Offers an objective account of the science behind climate change, the potential harm that industrial economies cause to the environment, the international debates that have emerged, and the potential for mitigation. This title explores specific case studies, including the United States, Brazil, Australia, Germany, and China.

  • av Natalie Goldstein
    360,-

    Outlines the history of the expansion and globalization of national economies and explains how globalization evolved. This volume reviews issues surrounding globalization, and presents case studies on several countries - including the US, East Asia, Brazil, Russia, and China - to illustrate promise and the problems inherent in globalized markets.

  • av Regina Anne Kelly
    360,-

    Examines the history behind industrialized nations' dependence on natural resources, particularly fossil fuels, as well as developing nations' increasing consumption of these resources. This guide surveys energy consumption and production trends, and presents evidence of the need to harness alternative, renewable sources of energy.

  • - Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology
    av Gavin Smith
    600,-

    Shrinking distances and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology?

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