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The International Bank of Bob: Connecting Our Worlds One $25 Kiva Loan at a Time by Bob Harris Publisher Comments Hired by ForbesTraveler.com to review some of the most luxurious accommodations on Earth, and then inspired by a chance encounter in Dubai with the impoverished workers whose backbreaking jobs create such opulence, Bob Harris had an epiphany: He would... (read more) Your price: $26.00 New - Hardcover
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Nuclear War and Environmental Catastrophe by Noam Chomksy Publisher Comments “There are two problems for our species’ survival—nuclear war and environmental catastrophe, ” says Noam Chomsky in this new book on the two existential threats of our time and their points of intersection since World War II.... (read more) Your price: $13.95 New - Trade Paper
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Why Growth Matters: How Economic Growth in India Reduced Poverty and the Lessons for Other Developing Countries by Jagdish Bhagwati Publisher Comments In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehrus pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses Indias, and... (read more) Your price: $28.99 New - Hardcover
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Every Nation for Itself: What Happens When No One Leads the World by Ian Bremmer Publisher Comments G-Zero \JEE-ZEER-oh\ n A world order in which no single country or durable alliance of countries can meet the challenges of global leadership. What happens when the G20 doesnt work and the G7 is history. If the worst threateneda... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles by Ruchir Sharma Publisher Comments To identify the economic stars of the future we should abandon the habit of extrapolating from the recent past and lumping wildly diverse countries together. We need to remember that sustained economic success is a rare phenomenon. After years of rapid... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation by Paul Farmer, M.d. Publisher Comments "Paul Farmer's deserved fame as global health expert, medical anthropologist, and advocate for the poor and the marginal centers on his moral commitment to doing good in the world and on the extraordinary influence of his personal call to a generation of... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power by David E. Sanger Publisher Comments "This astonishingly revealing insider's account of the Obama administration's foreign policy process is a triumph." —Foreign Affairs President Obama's administration came to office with the world on fire. Confront and Conceal is the story of... (read more) Your price: $17.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Dispensable Nation: American Foreign Policy in Retreat by Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr Publisher Comments In a brilliant and revealing book destined to drive debate about the future of American power, Vali Nasr questions America’s dangerous choice to engage less and matter less in the world. Vali Nasr, author of the groundbreaking The Shia Revival... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism by Elizabeth Becker Publisher Comments Tourism, fast becoming the largest global business, employs one out of twelve persons and produces $6.5 trillion of the worlds economy. In a groundbreaking book, Elizabeth Becker uncovers how what was once a hobby has become a colossal enterprise with... (read more) Your price: $28.00 New - Hardcover
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Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions by Paul Mason Publisher Comments Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It’s Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent events in the wave of revolt and revolution sweeping the planet—riots in Athens, student... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead by Shannon K. O'neil Publisher Comments Five freshly decapitated human heads are thrown onto a crowded dance floor in western Mexico. A Mexican drug cartel dismembers the body of a rival and then stitches his face onto a soccer ball. These are the sorts of grisly tales that dominate the media,... (read more) Your price: $27.95 New - Hardcover
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The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South by Vijay Prashad Publisher Comments In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and told the story of the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left it. Since the '70s, the... (read more) Your price: $26.95 New - Hardcover
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Turnaround: Third World Lessons for First World Growth by Peter Blair Henry Publisher Comments The future prosperity of the global economy depends on economic growth in emerging markets, yet no one can agree on how best to help these emerging economies grow. On one side are subscribers to the so-called Washington Consensus, whose market-driven... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being in Charge Isn't What It Used to Be by Moises Naim Publisher Comments Power is shifting from large, stable armies to loose bands of insurgents, from corporate leviathans to nimble start-ups, and from presidential palaces to public squares. But power is also changing, becoming harder to use and easier to lose. As a... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government--And the Reckoning That Lies Ahead by David Rothkopf Publisher Comments The worlds largest company, Wal-Mart Stores, has revenues higher than the GDP of all but twenty-five of the worlds countries. Its employees outnumber the populations of almost a hundred nations. The worlds largest asset manager, a secretive New York... (read more) Your price: $16.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Asylum: Inside the Rise and Ruin of the Global Oil Market by Leah Mcgrath Goodman Publisher Comments For the first time, hear the story of the rise and ruin of the global oil market— in the words of the oil traders who built it. Meet the self-anointed kings of the New York Mercantile Exchange, the place where global oil prices are set to this... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Can the World Tolerate an Iran with Nuclear Weapons?: The Munk Debate on Iran by Amos Yadlin Synopsis In this edition of the Munk Debates, four of the worlds leading thinkers square off to debate one of the most important geopolitical issues of the time: are Irans nuclear ambitions a global threat? The Munk Debates are Canadas premier public policy event.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Divided Nations Why Global Governance Is Failing & What We Can Do About It by Ian Goldin Publisher Comments The UN, World Bank, and the IMF were all created in a post-war world radically different from today's. It is becoming increasingly apparent that these global structures are struggling to cope with the challenges faced by the globalized, interconnected... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Empire of Humanity: a History of Humanitarianism (11 Edition) by Michael Barnett List Price $24.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Quest for Security: Protection Without Protectionism and the Challenge of Global Governance by Joseph E Stiglitz Your price: $39.50 New - Hardcover
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