Library Guide for Globalisation and Development: Books

The author offers readers, students, activists, environmentalists, and policy makers the tools, metrics, and practical pathways they need to achieve Sustainable Development Goals. Far more than a rhetorical exercise, this book is designed to inform, inspire, and spur action. It is a landmark publication and clarion call for all who care about our planet and global justice.

This leading textbook in this field provides you with a complete and balanced introduction to the requisite theory, driving policy issues, and latest research. Todaro and Smith take a policy-oriented approach, presenting economic theory in the context of critical policy debates and country-specific case studies, to show how theory relates to the problems and prospects of developing countries.

Global Environmental Politics has provided an accurate, up-to-date, and unbiased understanding of the world's most pressing environmental issues for over twenty-five years. The eighth edition continues this practice as it covers critical new developments in the field. Case studies on key issues such as climate change, toxic chemicals, and biodiversity detail the creation, expansion, and implementation of major environmental regimes and the continuing challenges they face.

The book presents a number of studies analysing the links between external interventions and domestic governance in the areas of economic, social and security policy. It examines the many controversies relating to long-run growth and development, problems of transitions from socialism to capitalism, international competitiveness and the impacts of globalsation.

This book provides a comprehensive and jargon-free introduction to the field’s basic concepts and themes. It draws examples from the U.S. and other countries to introduce the entire field of political science to new readers. The authors stress how exciting politics can be, balancing practical and theoretical knowledge.

Known as the gold standard for research methods, the book gives you a definitive guide to research as practiced by social scientists. Combining a straightforward approach with the author's renowned sense of humor, this student-friendly text equips you with the tools and knowledge to apply research concepts as both researcher and consumer. The author emphasizes the process by showing you how to design and construct projects, introducing today's various observation modes and answering critical questions about research methods, such as how to conduct online surveys and analyze both qualitative and quantitative data.

Emerging countries are exposed to conditions which differ quite substantially from the dominant OECD model of innovation policy for development and welfare. This Research Handbook contributes to the debate by looking at how innovation theory, policy and practice interact, and explains different types of configurations in countries that are characterized by two contrasting but mutually reinforcing features: systemic failure and resourcefulness. Focusing on innovation governance and public policies, it aims to understand related governance failures and to explore options for alternative, more efficient approaches.

Extremely reader friendly and practical, the book illustrates the relevance of sociology to daily life through the use of images and photos. The engaging "What Does a Sociologist See?" feature demonstrates how sociological concepts apply to the everyday world. Reflecting the latest developments from the field, the Third Edition includes such contemporary topics as globalization's connection to technology and gay rights, the anti-aging industry, and The Affordable Care Act, and many others.

It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures and religions. From the rise and fall of empires to the spread of Buddhism and the advent of Christianity and Islam, right up to the great wars of the twentieth century—this book shows how the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.

This book is a sophisticated and broad theoretical orientation to the study of world politics, giving students the tools they need to adapt to the rapid change associated with international relations.