“…Land Degradation and Desertification - a Global Crisis…”

“…Human Papillomavirus - Research in a Global Perspective…”

Materias:

Tabla de Contenidos: “…FROM VULNERABILITY TO VIRTUOSITY: Responding to the realities of global terrorism; 8. EDUCATING FOR VIRTUOSITY; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Encapsulating security : pharmaceutical defenses against biological danger -- Discovering a virus's achilles heel : flu fighting at molecular scale -- The pill always wins: Gilead Sciences, Roche and the birth of Tamiflu -- What a difference a day makes : the margin call for regulatory agencies -- Virtual blockbuster : bird flu and the pandemic of preparedness planning -- In the eye of the storm : global access, generics and intellectual property -- 'Ode to Tamiflu' : side effects, teenage 'suicides' and corporate liabilities -- Data backlash : Roche and Cochrane square up over clinical trial data -- 'To boldly go...' : pharmaceutical enterprises and global health security -- Epilogue : pharmaceuticals, security and molecular life…”

“…It is argued that current social forces, such as globalization and the preeminence of postmodern and multicultural ideologies, changed both the role of government and of citizens in democracy, paving the road for the introduction of markets in all public spheres. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: The Postcolonial in/as the Global -- 2 The Postcolonial Exotic: The Cult of Authenticity -- 3 Re-Orientalism: The Indigene and the Subaltern -- 4 Thirdworldism: The Transnational Literary-Ethnic Chic -- 5 Postcolonial Texts: Towards a New Humanism -- 6 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index…”

“…Iron Will lays bare the role of extractivist policies and efforts to resist these policies through a deep ethnographic exploration of globally important iron ore mining in Brazil and India. …”

“…Entries from the five continents presented in this volume are samples of the truly global and ever-growing collection, made possible by a remarkable collaboration of over 200 scholars across disciplines and area studies. …”

“…Leading Cities is a global review of the state of city leadership and urban governance today. …”

“…Hydropolitics and the global economy…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…section I. Global virtual team -- section II. Culture and its meaning -- section III. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…An Introduction to the Global Segregation Book -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Approach and Justification -- 1.3 Income Inequality and Segregation -- 1.4 Main Results in Five Conclusions -- 1.5 A Global Segregation Thesis -- Appendix 1: Guidelines for Authors, Data, and Methods -- Appendix 2: Summary Table of Data Used for Each Case Study City -- Appendix 3: Occupational Structure of Comparable Case Study Cities (Source Individual Chapters in This Book) -- Appendix 4: Dissimilarity Indices Between Top and Bottom Socio-economic Status Groups, in All Years Provided by the Authors (Source Individual Chapters in This Book) -- References -- 2 Residential Segregation Between Income Groups in International Perspective -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Challenges of Comparing Segregation Across Borders -- 2.3 Method and Data -- 2.4 Results -- 2.5 Discussion and Conclusion -- References -- Part II Africa -- 3 Income Inequality, Socio-Economic Status, and Residential Segregation in Greater Cairo: 1986-2006 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Social Geography of GCR -- 3.3 GCR as a Case in Point -- 3.4 Factors Influencing Residential Segregation in GCR -- 3.4.1 Income Inequality -- 3.4.2 Welfare Regime Politics -- 3.4.3 Centralized Urban Governance -- 3.4.4 Settlement Types: Formal and Informal -- 3.4.5 Housing Policies -- 3.5 Landscape of Residential Segregation in GCR, 1986-2006 -- 3.6 Spatial Distribution of Occupational Groups -- 3.7 Neighborhoods' Leading Specializations -- 3.8 Patterns of Socio-Economic Intermixing -- 3.9 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Social Inequality and Spatial Segregation in Cape Town -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Determinants of Residential Patterns -- 4.2.1 Racial Segregation: 1950s-1980s…”

“…"The space economy is expanding and becoming increasingly global, driven by the development of ever-more governmental space programmes around the world, the multiplication of commercial actors in value chains, durable digitalisation trends, and new space systems coming of age. …”

“…This book explores the multi-faceted world of aid and development co-operation – a range of global, and sometimes contested, efforts aimed at reducing the impact of poverty. …”