Global Cities: Past, Present and Future (Zhenhua Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

Global Cities: Past, Present and Future (Zhenhua Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

The pivotal nodes in the world city network are global cities---cities of supreme strategic value in global economy and politics, science and technology, culture, and society. Global Cities: Past, Present and Future explores the evolution of global cities---their formation, rise, development and

Plastic - past, present, and future (Kim Eun-ju)(Pevná vazba)

How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future (Eichengreen Barry)(Pevná vazba)

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuanAt first glance, the modern history of the global economic system seems to support the long-held view that the leading world power's currency--the British pound, the U.S. dollar, and perhaps someday the

Future Cities: A Visual Guide (Dunn Nick)(Pevná vazba)

What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these

How Global Currencies Work: Past, Present, and Future (Eichengreen Barry)(Paperback)

A powerful new understanding of global currency trends, including the rise of the Chinese yuan At first glance, the history of the modern global economy seems to support the long-held view that the currency of the world's leading power invariably dominates international trade and finance. But in

Privacy: Past, Present, and Future (Gruis Leslie N.)(Pevná vazba)

Top analyst Leslie Gruis's timely new book argues that privacy is an individual right and democratic value worth preserving, even in a cyberized world. Since the time of the printing press, technology has played a key role in the evolution of individual rights and helped privacy emerge as a formal

Africa Reimagined: Reclaiming Prosperity for the Continent (Biko Hlumelo)(Pevná vazba)

Africa Reimagined is a thoughtful analysis of Africa's past, present and future, a sobering assessment of where it stands today, and where it needs to go, at once unnervingly candid and inspiring. Imagine if in the year 2040, 40 of Africa's 55 nations have chosen to join together in a Pan African

Sports in Africa, Past and Present (Cleveland Todd)(Pevná vazba)

These groundbreaking sports studies essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa's dynamic place in the world.Since the late-nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political,

Heritage and Debt: Art in Globalization (Joselit David)(Pevná vazba)

How global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.If European modernism was premised on the new--on surpassing the past, often by assigning it to the 'traditional' societies of the Global South--global contemporary art

Eternal Season - Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future (Rutt Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

A soaring celebration of summer and a poignant journey into the changing nature of the British season - from the award-winning author of Wintering and The Seafarers. Summer is traditionally a time of plenty, of warmth, of breeding; a time to celebrate the abundance of nature teeming in our

Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future (Schtz Albert J.)(Paperback)

Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major characters in this book make up a diverse cast: Dutch merchants, Captain Cook's naturalist and philologist William Anderson, 'Ōpūkaha'ia (the inspiration

Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense(Paperback / softback)

A wide-ranging survey of how marriage relates to social change. A series of global case studies, Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense unravels the ever-changing intimate and institutional questions united by marriage. Traversing politics, economics, and religion, the authors explore how

Cities and crisis (Konvitz Josef W.)(Pevná vazba)

Cities have been missing from analyses of the global economic crisis and debates about how to generate a sustainable recovery. Cities and crisis provides a fresh assessment of what has changed since 1990 and what has not, of policy assumptions about urban economies, and of lessons of experience. A

Plastic - past, present, and future (Kim Eun-ju)(Paperback / softback)

Revelation: A Mentor Expository Commentary (Kelly Douglas F.)(Pevná vazba)

There is so much in the past, present and future that we do not understand. The book of Revelation helps us understand who is in full and sovereign control, the victorious Lamb on his throne. And what a great unveiling of the glorious Saviour is revealed in this apocalyptic book In 65 expositional

New Silk Roads - The Present and Future of the World (Frankopan Peter)(Pevná vazba)

The Global Cryosphere: Past, Present, and Future (Barry Roger G.)(Paperback)

Recent studies indicate that - due to climate change - the Earth is undergoing rapid changes in all cryospheric components, including polar sea ice shrinkage, mountain glacier recession, thawing permafrost, and diminishing snow cover. This book provides a comprehensive summary of all components of

Anish Kapoor: Past, Present, Future (Baume Nicholas)(Pevná vazba)

The first major American publication on this important contemporary sculptor.Anish Kapoor is one of a highly inventive generation of sculptors who emerged in London in the early 1980s. Since then he has created a remarkable body of work that blends a modernist sense of pure materiality with a

Doctor Who: At Childhood's End (Aldred Sophie)(Paperback)

Past or future, which path do you choose? Past, present and future collide as the Thirteenth Doctor meets classic Doctor Who companion Ace in the first epic novel from the woman who played her, Sophie Aldred. Once a girl called Ace travelled the universe with the Doctor until, in the wake of a

Paleoclimates: Understanding Climate Change Past and Present (Cronin Thomas)(Pevná vazba)

The field of paleoclimatology relies on physical, chemical, and biological proxies of past climate changes that have been preserved in natural archives such as glacial ice, tree rings, sediments, corals, and speleothems. Paleoclimate archives obtained through field investigations, ocean sediment

The Dress (Fogg Marnie)(Pevná vazba)

Through 100 groundbreaking dresses, The Dress traces the past and present influences and reinterpretations in clothing design. From the Victorian crinoline to Vivienne Westwood's mini-crini of 1985, from Herve Leger's 1985 bandage dress to Christopher Kane's 2006 neon version, each landmark dress

Repentance (Diaz Eloisa)(Pevná vazba)

Past and present collide in this sharp and darkly funny crime novel set in

Cities - Then & Now (Lonely Planet Kids)(Pevná vazba)

This fun and colourful lift-the-flap book gives a unique insight into how cities looked in the past, compared to how they look now. With ancient cities and ruins including Pompeii, Great Zimbabwe and Babylon, discover how history has shaped our planet's urban areas and changed them over

'I Know Who Caused Covid-19': Pandemics and Xenophobia (Xun Zhou)(Pevná vazba)

A timely exploration of the global explosion in xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through a close analysis of four cases from around the world, this book explores prejudice toward groups who are thought to have caused and spread COVID-19: the residents of Wuhan and Black African communities