HOW TO GO GLOBAL WITHOUT COMPLETELY SCREWING IT UP It's a remarkable fact that up to 70 percent of international ventures fail due to cultural issues. The Accidental Business Nomad shows you how to av
*注意：此書為POD (Print on Demond)少量印製。Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is best known as the voice of the GAA. But his interests and enthusiasms - sporting and non-sporting - go far beyond the fields of Gaelic game
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses, an eye-opening road trip through 5,500 years of humans on the go, revealing how transportation shapes civilization.Tom Standage’s fleet-footed global histories have delighted readers and cemented his reputation as one of our leading interpreters of technologies past and present. Now, he returns with a provocative account of a sometimes-overlooked form of technology―personal transportation―and explores how it has shaped societies and cultures over millennia.Beginning around 3,500 BCE with the wheel―a device that didn’t catch on until a couple thousand years after its invention―Standage zips through the eras of horsepower, trains, and bicycles, revealing how each mode of transit embedded itself in the world we live in, from the geography of our cities, to our experience of time, to our notions of gender. Then, delving into the history of the automobile’s development, Standage explores the social resistance to cars and th
The latest book by journalist and author Paul Blustein to go behind the scenes at the highest levels of global economic policy making, Laid Low chronicles the International Monetary Fund’s role in the
A fascinating look --- in maps and stories --- at neighborhoods around the world!This unique illustrated map book explores the neighborhoods of 16 real children from around the world. Each child's story highlights what's important to them in their community, from their homes and schools to the places they play and the sights and sounds they encounter every day. Whether it's a big city, such as Amsterdam or Beijing, or a small community, such as Salt Spring Island in Canada or the village of Komanyana in Zambia, these places are special to the children who live there!This fascinating look at 16 children's neighborhoods around the world broadens readers' understanding of global cultures.This unique illustrated map book explores the neighborhoods of 16 real children from around the world. Author Margriet Ruurs, who met many of these children in her travels, tells the story of each child's neighborhood by highlighting the places that are important to them, such as where they live, go to sc
This book analyses the present global financial and economic crisis, the most severe in nearly a century, and a wider set of multiple and converging crises with aspects and repercussions that go well
The year is 2017, and a crisis of cata?strophic proportions is in the making. A conflict over oil has brought China and Japan to the brink of war—igniting a global chain reaction; the Saudi Arabian go
How Calvin Harris go from stacking shelves in his local supermarket to such astonishing global success? He's come a long way from making music in his bedroom in his native Dumfries but since bursting
Liberals take great pride in their supposed open-mindedness. Yet when it comes to hot-button issues like radical Islam, global warming, and abortion, open-minded” liberals go to great lengths to discr
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become a hugely influential institution. It is the authoritative voice on the science on climate change, and an exemplar of an intergovernmental science-policy interface. This book introduces the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence. Discussing its internal workings and operating principles, it shows how IPCC assessments are produced and how consensus is reached between scientific and policy experts from different institutions, countries, and social groups. A variety of practices and discourses – epistemic, diplomatic, procedural, communicative – that make the institution function are critically assessed, allowing the reader to learn from its successes and failures. This volume is the go-to reference for researchers studying or active within the IPCC, as well as invaluable for students concerned with global environmental problems and climate governance. This title
