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2019 was the last great year for the world economy.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it.

America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

Globe-spanning

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"Wine is an art, a craft, a science, and a delicious part of life enjoyed by millions of people. But it is a global industry, too. In Wine Wars II economist Mike Veseth shows how globalization, commodification, and the "revenge of the terroirists" help determine what's in your wine glass - and how wine's triple crisis threatens the soul of wine"-- Provided by publisher.

In today's increasingly interconnected world, how do we prepare our children to succeed and to become happy, informed global citizens? A mother of three, author Tavangar has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad. Here, she shares her "parenting toolbox" to help give our children a vital global perspective. Whether you're mastering a greeting in ten different languages,...

The syndicated columnist and best-selling author of Culture of Corruption outlines controversial perspectives about how special-interest groups are deliberately keeping America’s borders open to provide cheap labor to the nation’s elite and promote Democratic agendas.

Grief-stricken after his mother's death and three years of wandering the world, Victor is longing for a family and a sense of purpose. He believes he's found both when he returns home to Seattle only to be swept up in a massive protest. With young, biracial Victor on one side of the barricades and his estranged father--the white chief of police--on the opposite, the day descends into chaos, capturing in its confusion the activists, police, bystanders,...

Globalization is exposing social fissures between those with the education, skills, and mobility to flourish in an unfettered world market-the apparent "winners" and those without. These apparent "losers" are increasingly, anxious about their standards of living and their precarious place in an integrated world economy. The result is severe tension between the market and broad sectors of society, with governments caught in the middle. Compounding...

*Shortlisted for the BBC Radio 4 Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography 2015* This book follows the global trail of one of the world's most unremarkable and ubiquitous objects - flip-flops. Through this unique lens, Caroline Knowles takes a ground level view of the lives and places of globalisation's back roads, providing new insights that challenge contemporary accounts of globalisation. Rather than orderly product chains, the book shows...

At one time, Razor was a strapping, athletic, and active young man. Now, many years later, he has finally come to the realization that getting older really pisses him off. Now pear-shaped, slow, and forgetful, Razor is convinced he is not a pretty sight. Worse yet, Squatty Body his lovely, strong-willed wife is a real pain in his butt. In his first collection of humorous anecdotes and satirical commentary, based on real-life situations and current...

El libro compila las ponencias expuestas los días 5 y 6 de septiembre de 2002, en Paipa (Boyacá), entorno a los procesos de globalización. El evento contó con la presentación del ex presidente Ernesto Samper Pizano, Carmenza Kline y Almabeatriz Rengifo entre otros. Organizado por el Politécnico Grancolombiano, en asocio con la corporación Escenarios y la Universidad de Salamanca, el seminario agrupó a varios analistas que se dedicaron a explorar...