Strong social policy is essential for sustainable growth. This book is an extremely useful overview of social policy issue for policy makers and anyone who wants to understand the true roots of successful sustainable development. Contents: 1. Social policy for development : Local, national and global dimensions 2. Poverty, inequality and development: The challenge for social policy 3. Soci…
This book is a New York Times Bestseller. 'Conventional analysis suffers from a profound failure of imagination. It imagines passing clouds to be permanent and is blind to powerful, long-terms shifts taking place in full view of the world' - George Friedman. In his long-awaited and provocative new book, George Friedman turns his eye on the future - offering a lucid, highly readable forecast of …
This book tells the story of the seven-year reign of terror by the military junta that took over Greece in 1967 and of the brave resistance groups that fought it. The text reveals how the CIA manipulated Greek politics for its own ends, and how America and England betrayed the Greek nation.
In this vivid portrait of the new business world, Thomas L. Friedman shows how technology, capital, and information are transforming the global marketplace, leveling old geographic and geopolitical boundaries. With bold reporting and acute analysis, Friedman dramatizes the conflict between globalizing forces and local cultures, and he shows why a balance between progress and the preservation of…
Don't They Know it's Friday? has been the definitive guide to business culture and etiquette in the Gulf since it was first published in 1998. This exciting and informative book has been reprinted thirteen times. Motivate Publishing is now releasing a new edition fully updated with new information, maps and illustrations. This modern and enlarged second edition is packed with remarkable insight…
The Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2009 analyses how three global crises of 2008 – Great Recession in developed countries, food and fuel price volatility and climate change - threaten the development in the Asia-Pacific region. The publication also talks about subregional variations in performance and policy responses. It concludes with converging crises and redirecting po…
This text uses social science perspectives to examine the various dimensions of globalization, the social problems of inequality, war and violence, and environmental sustainability that are occurring on a global scale. The book was designed for courses such as Global Issues, Contemporary Problems, Social Problems, Social Stratification, World Cultures, and Social Change. This book contains: C…
Indonesian and US political scholars explore the impact of economic growth on twelve major Indonesian institutions, including private and public enterprises, formal political institutions, the armed forces, the bureaucracy, non-governmental organizations, the media, and trade unions. They find that the growing gap between a governing structure that is slow to change and a dynamic broader societ…
From colonial times until the late 1970s the driving force of the Peninsular Malaysia economy was the production and export of primary products--first tin, than rubber and timber, and finally petroleum. In the 1980s export-oriented industrial production took over as the leading sector economy, enabling Malaysia to become a world-class economic performer. This volume shows how a small country wi…
Mengisahkan tentang perjuangan Dubes Safzen Noerdin bersama jajaran KBRI Baghdad, dalam menjalankan tugas negara di bawah bayang-bayang ancaman bom, serangan ISIS, stres, kebosanan, kesepian, dan terpisah jauh dari keluarga. Berbagai suka duka dan duka mereka alami, demi membela kepentingan Indonesia di Irak.