Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Falling off the edge	Alex Perry	Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits. What if that's not the…	OL11971124W
The anxieties of mobility	Johan A. Lindquist	Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converg…	OL11989445W
Network power	David Singh Grewal	For all the attention globalization has received in recent years, little consensus has emerged concerning how best to understand it. For some, it is the happy product of free and rational choices; fo…	OL12479760W
De wereldburger bestaat niet	René Cuperus	Kritische analyse van de maatschappelijke gevolgen van de huidige snelle culturele en technische veranderingen en de neoliberale mondialisering.	OL14988602W
Seeing the elephant	Peter Marber	Thanks to globalization, more countries depend on each other for trade, capital, and ideas than ever before. Yet politically, these countries are drifting further apart. In Seeing the Elephant, autho…	OL1856976W
20:21 Vision	Bill Emmott	"The attacks on September 11, 2001, shook the rich West out of its complacency: suddenly, peace seemed to be in peril. Already it had become clear that prosperity was endangered. Campaigns were being…	OL2676398W
The World Is Flat	Thomas L. Friedman	When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of tec…	OL3740423W
Surviving globalization in three Latin American communities	Denis Lynn Daly Heyck	"This book tells the important story of three Latin American communities experiencing globalization at the point of contact between tradition and modernity: Brazil's rubber tappers, Bolivia's Guarani…	OL6011099W