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Why the current Bretton Woods-like international financial system, featuring large current account deficits in the center country, the United States, and massive reserve accumulation by the periphery, is not sustainable.

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"Trade in the modern world economy is dominated by manufactured goods, fast-moving technology and large corporations. This book adapt classical trade models, originating from a largely agricultural world, to analyze the problems inherent in international trade"--

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Seeking new definitions of ecology in the tar sands of northern Alberta and searching for the sweetness of life in the face of planetary crises.

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Kevin O'Rourke and Jeffrey Williamson present a coherent picture of trade, migration, and international capital flows in the Atlantic economy in the century prior to 1914the first great globalization boom, which anticipated the experience of the last fifty years.

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Can religion cure poverty The first book to explore the ideas about God and government behind the faith-based initiative.

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A summation and extension of Lynch's vision for the exploration of city form.

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"An original examination of the relevance of behavioral economics for the practice of medical ethics"--

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Experts discuss moving beyond the notion of electronic government and its focus on technology and efficiency to a broader concept of information government that incorporates the role of information flows within government, between government and citizens, and among citizens themselves.

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An analysis of the political consequences of special district governance in drinking water management that offers new insights into the influence of political structures on local policymaking.

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A theoretical and case-study exploration of water politics demonstrates the emergence of alternative institutional forms of global environmental governance that go beyond traditional interstate regimes.

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Efforts to contend with tensions inherent in multiethnic societies; case studies of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines, China, Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Vanuatu, and the Federated States of Micronesia.

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A concise history of GPS, from its military origins to its commercial applications and ubiquity in everyday life.

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The career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers that sparked the information age.

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Presents the "great ideas" of computer science that together represent the heart of the field. This second edition of the text includes extra chapters on simulation, operating systems, and networks. In addition, the author has upgraded many of the original chapters.

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A new framework for understanding computing: a coherent set of principles spanning technologies, domains, algorithms, architectures, and designs.

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How the environmental provisions in US preferential trade agreements affect both the environmental policies of trading partners and the effectiveness of multilateral environmental agreements.

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Case studies from cities on five continents demonstrate the advantages of thinking comparatively about urban environments.

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Experts from academia, government, and nonprofit organizations offer an environmental justice perspective on Smart Growth, discussing equitable solutions to suburban sprawl and urban decay.

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How the unaccountable, unmonitorable, and unchecked actions of regulators precipitated the global financial crisis; and how to reform the system.

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Critical texts, translations, documents, and photographs on the work of the Situationist International.

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In this book, scholars from a wide range of disciplines respond to Habermas's most directly relevant work, The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere.

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Video games as both a departure from and a development of traditional games; an analysis of the interaction between rules and fiction in video games.