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

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

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

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

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

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

Juvenile Justice in Europe: Past, Present and Future (Goldson Barry)(Paperback)

At a time when Europe is witnessing major cultural, social, economic and political challenges and transformations, this book brings together leading researchers and experts to consider a range of pressing questions relating to the historical origins, contemporary manifestations and future prospects

Children's Solution Work (Berg Insoo Kim)(Pevná vazba)

Focusing on solutions and not problems, thinking about the future and not the past, and understanding the effects of miracles--children do these things naturally. Here, leaders in the solution-focused approach to therapy provide clinicians with a guide to a kind of therapy that fits with children's

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

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

Materials: Archea Associati / Marco Casamonti (Giovannini Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

This book features present and past architectural projects by Archea Associati that demonstrate how materials can be used in innovative ways while still maintaining their unique

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

Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs (Martin Jeanette)(Pevná vazba)

Business people who work internationally or work with people who are international need to know how to act before they can get the business--and keep it. Proper business communication includes everything from emails to eye contact, and the rules of what is 'right' in other countries can be daunting

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

Can Financial Markets Be Controlled? (Davies Howard)(Pevná vazba)

The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been

The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World (Herman Arthur)(Pevná vazba)

'A stirring investigation of the Scandinavian influence on our times, both past and present. You won't look at the world the same way again.'--Neal Bascomb, New York Times best-selling author of The Winter Fortress From a New York Times best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a

Russia as Empire: Past and Present (Boterbloem Kees)(Pevná vazba)

Covering more than one thousand years of tumultuous history, Russia as Empire shows how the medieval empire of Kyivan Rus' metamorphosed into today's Russian Federation. Kees Boterbloem vividly and lucidly describes Russia's various incarnations and considers how the concept of empire evolved from

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

The Reset: Ideas to Change How We Work and Live (Uviebinen Elizabeth)(Pevná vazba)

It's time to reset how we work - and