Globalization: The Essentials (USED)

Description: Product Description : Globalization: The Essentials A concise exploration of globalization and its role in the contemporary eraDriven by technological advancements and global corporations more and more people are swept up by globalizing processes creating new winners and losers Globalization The Essentials explores the flows structures processes and consequences of globalization in the modern economic political and cultural landscape This comprehensive introduction offers balanced coverage of areas such as global economic and cultural flows environmental sustainability the impact of technology and racial economic and gender inequality providing readers with foundational knowledge of globalizationExtensively revised and updated this second edition includes expanded coverage of human trafficking and migration global climate change fake news and information wars and transnational social movements with increased emphasis on examples from Central and South America Africa and Asia Offers a straightforward approach to the multiple facets of globalization and their positive and negative influences on contemporary society Employs unique metaphors and a coherent narrative structure to promote intuitive understanding of abstract concepts Introduces cuttingedge research updated statistics and realworld examples in areas such as rising global populism social justice movements blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies Provides an efficient and flexible pedagogical structure allowing integration with instructors own course materialEmphasizing student comprehension a wide range of source material is incorporated including empirical research relevant theories newspaper and magazine articles and popular books and monographs Examples of current research and recent global developments such as emerging economies and global health concerns encourage classroom discussion and promote independent study Globalization The Essentials a compact edition of the authors fullsized textbook Globalization A Basic Text provides concise coverage of the central concepts of this dynamic field Offering a multidisciplinary approach this textbook is an invaluable primary or supplemental resource for undergraduate study in any social science field as well as coursework on economics migration inequality and stratification and politics( it is an used product )

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