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Competition and Efficiency in International Food Supply Chains
Improving Food Security
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Why have food crises seemingly become more frequent in recent years, compared to the last few decades? This book examines an array of different issues and distortions that are causing food supply chain dysfunction in many countries, particularly for staple non-perishable foods such as grains, oilseeds,...
BRICS or Bust?
Escaping the Middle-Income Trap
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Once among the fastest developing economies, growth has slowed or stalled in Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. What policies can governments enact to jump-start the rise of these middle-income countries? Hartmut Elsenhans and Salvatore Babones argue that economic catch-up requires investment...
Management and Culture in an Enlarged European Commission
From Diversity to Unity?
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
This book explores how the European Commission faced the challenge of enlargement. Based on extensive interviews, the work provides a lively and readable picture of life within the Commission, exploring how thousands of newcomers were recruited and socialized and how they changed the organization, including its gender balance.
Make America Great Redefined
Saving A sick Nation From Economy Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2019
This book is carefully written to help you understand how the American economy began in the 18th Century and the various economic policies that have helped the country in the league of industrialized nations. You will also discover the mistakes that government has committed over several decades that...
by Ian Whitmarsh, David S. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2010
How race as a categoryreinforced by new discoveries in geneticsis used as a basis for practice and policy in law, science, and medicine.
The Conflicted Superpower
America’s Collaboration with China and India in Global Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
For decades, leadership in technological innovation has sustained U.S. power worldwide. Today, however, processes that undergird innovation increasingly transcend national borders. Cross-border flows of brainpower have reached unprecedented heights, while multinationals invest more and more in high-tech...
Water, Peace, and War
Confronting the Global Water Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Now in an updated edition, this pioneering and authoritative study considers the profound impact of the growing global water crunch on international peace and security as well as possible ways to mitigate the crisis. Although water is essential to sustaining life and livelihoods, geostrategist Brahma...
by Christopher Findlay, Shujiro Urata
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2009
Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) have proliferated in East Asia as regional economies rush to catch up with the rest of the world — but what difference do they make? This book answers that question by providing an up-to-date assessment of the quality and impact of FTAs in the region. Featuring a collection...
by Anja Carolin Gebel
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2013
During the past two decades fighting corruption became an important objective of manifold international and transnational actors. Yet this powerful international anticorruption agenda has so far avoided detailed scholarly scrutiny of the ways in which it potentially contributes to the construction...
How to Write a Love Letter
Putting What's in Your Heart on Paper
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2010
No one can resist a love letter
Love letters are largely a lost and forgotten art. Not long ago suitors used the written word to work magic, and people were swept off their feet by a sweet, sincere note. How to Write a Love Letter teaches us, once again, how to reinvent this most meaningful...
Disabled Upon Arrival
Eugenics, Immigration, and the Construction of Race and Disability
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
In North America, immigration has never been about immigration. That was true in the early twentieth century when anti-immigrant rhetoric led to draconian crackdowns on the movement of bodies, and it is true today as new measures seek to construct migrants as dangerous and undesirable. This premise...
Medicine Unbundled
A Journey through the Minefields of Indigenous Health Care
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
A shocking exposé of the dark history and legacy of segregated Indigenous health care in Canada.
After the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his...
NATO in Afghanistan
Fighting Together, Fighting Alone
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Modern warfare is almost always multilateral to one degree or another, requiring countries to cooperate as allies or coalition partners. Yet as the war in Afghanistan has made abundantly clear, multilateral cooperation is neither straightforward nor guaranteed. Countries differ significantly in what...
by Elizabeth R. DeSombre
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Global Environmental Institutions continues to provide the most accessible and succinct overview of the major global institutions attempting to protect the natural environment. Fully updated throughout to reflect the latest environmental issues, the second edition includes substantial new material...