Extensively revised & updated edition of the bestselling textbook provides an overview of recent global airline industry evolution & future challenges Examines the perspectives of the many stakeholders in the global airline industry including airlines airports air traffic services governments labor unions in addition to passengers Describes how these different players have contributed to the evolution of competition in the global airline industry & the implications for its future evolution
Includes: many facets of the airline industry not covered elsewhere in any single book for example safety & security labor relations & environmental impacts of aviation Highlights recent developments such as changing airline business models growth of emerging airlines plans for modernizing air traffic management & opportunities offered by new information technologies for ticket distribution Provides detailed data on airline performance & economics updated through 2013
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The final installment in the critically-acclaimed trilogy on globalization & art explores the growing dominance of Asian centers of art This book takes readers on a fascinating journey around five Asian centers of contemporary art & its myriad institutions agents forms materials & languages while posing vital questions about the political economy of culture & the power of visual art in a multi-polar world He analyzes the financial powerhouse of Art Basel Hong Kong new media art in South Korea the place of the Kochi Biennale within contemporary art in India transnational art & art education in China & the geo-politics of art patronage in Palestine & he develops a highly original synthesis of theoretical perspectives & empirical research Drawing on detailed case studies & personal insights gained from his extensive experience of the contemporary art scene in Asia Professor Harris examines the evolving relationship between the western centers of art practice collection & validation & the emerging peripheries of Asian Tiger societies with burgeoning art centers & he arrives at the somewhat controversial conclusion that dominance of the art world is rapidly slipping away from Europe & North America The Global Contemporary Art World is essential reading for undergraduates & postgraduate students in modern & contemporary art art history art theory & criticism cultural studies the sociology of culture & globalization studies It is also a vital resource for research students academics & professionals in the art world ...

This revised & updated second edition of The Globalization & Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world It combines selected readings & editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage reflecting new theoretical & empirical developments Main text & core reference for students & professionals studying the processes of social change & development in third world countries Carefully excerpted materials facilitate the understanding of classic & contemporary writings Second edition

Includes:: 33 essential readings including 21 new selections New pieces cover the impact of the recession in the global North global inequality & uneven development gender international migration the role of cities agriculture & on the governance of pharmaceuticals & climate change politics Increased coverage of China & India help to provide genuinely global coverage & for a student readership the materials have been subject to a higher degree of editing in the new edition

Includes:: a general introduction to the field & short insightful section introductions to each reading New readings include selections by Alexander Gershenkron Alice Amsden Amartya Sen Anne-Marie Slaughter Cecile Jackson Dani Rodrik David Harvey Greta Krippner Kathryn Sikkink Leslie Sklair Margaret E Keck Michael Burawoy Nitsan Chorev Oscar Lewis Patrick Bond Peter Evans Philip Mc Michael Pranab Bardhan Ruth Pearson Sarah Babb Saskia Sassen & Steve Radelet



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The Globalization of World Politics is the bestselling introduction to international relations offering the most comprehensive coverage of the key theories & global issues in world politics The seventh edition features several brand new chapters that reflect the very latest developments in the field including those on Feminism & Race to ensure the book continues to cover those topics that will define the key issues in IR into the future New pedagogical features help readers to evaluate key IR debates & apply theory & IR concepts to real world events Leading scholars in the field introduce readers to the history theory structures & key issues in IR providing students with an ideal introduction & a constant guide throughout their studies Students & lecturers are further supported by the following online resources Student resources IR simulations IR theory in practice case studies Video podcasts from the contributors Guidance on how to evaluate the opposing opinions feature Interactive library of links to journal articles blogs & video content Flash card glossary Multiple choice questions Revision guide Instructor Resources Case studies Test bank
- a fully customisable resource containing ready-made assessments with which to test your students Question bank
- a bank of short answer & essay questions for testing your students Power Point slides Figures & tables from the book

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For a century economists have driven forward the cause of globalization in financial institutions labour markets & trade Yet there have been consistent warning signs that a global economy & free trade might not always be advantageous Where are the pressure points? What could be done about them? Dani Rodrik examines the back-story from its seventeenth-century origins through the milestones of the gold standard the Bretton Woods Agreement & the Washington Consensus to the present day Although economic globalization has enabled unprecedented levels of prosperity in advanced countries & has been a boon to hundreds of millions of poor workers in China & elsewhere in Asia it is a concept that rests on shaky pillars he contends Its long-term sustainability is not a given The heart of Rodrik's argument is a fundamental 'trilemma' that we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy national self-determination & economic globalization Give too much power to governments & you have protectionism Give markets too much freedom & you have an unstable world economy with little social & political support from those it is supposed to help Rodrik argues for smart globalization not maximum globalization ...

It was perhaps inevitable that Richard Halliburton such a romantic imaginative wanderer would follow in the footsteps of another legendary traveller
- Odysseus Halliburton's second book The Glorious Adventure describes his journey through the Mediterranean in the shadow of his mythical hero In Greece Halliburton charged Mount Olympus 'in order to visit the gods that dwelled there'; he swam the Hellespont as Byron had before him & journeyed on to Troy where Odysseus's long adventure began He sailed to Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea home of Aeolus god of the winds; then to the Bay of Naples Circeo
- 'island' of Circe
- & Li Galli the siren isles that shimmered off the Amalfi coast Battling through the Straits of Messina Odysseus's Scylla & Charybdis he explored Sicily & Corfu before setting out for the shores of Ithaca long-forgotten home for one the end of an adventure for another As epic & eventful as The Odyssey itself & one of the most captivating travel books of the 20th century The Glorious Adventure evokes the romance of another time when heroes & gods walked the earth


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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS' WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOT PRIZE 2016 We all do stupid things when we're kids Ryan Cusack's grown up faster than most
- being the oldest of six with a dead mum & an alcoholic dad will do that for you And nobody says Ryan's stupid Not even behind his back It's the people around him who are the problem The gangland boss using his dad as a 'cleaner' The neighbour who says she's trying to help but maybe wants something more than that The prostitute searching for the man she never knew she'd miss until he disappeared without trace one night The only one on Ryan's side is his girlfriend Karine If he blows that he's all alone But the truth is you don't know your own strength till you need it
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From the bestselling author of THE ONE DOLLAR HORSE trilogy a sensational st&-alone equestrian thriller & romance about a girl on the run from the law a boy on a mission to save a life & a race from Colorado to Oregon that they both have to win A Girl on the Run from the Law Alexandra Blakewood has everything any teenager could wish for apart from the horse she'd love but she won't stop getting into trouble Sent to a US boot camp she dreams of escaping It seems impossible until she's told about a gruelling 1200 mile horse race across the American West A Boy on a Mission to Save a Life Will Greyton was the star student at his Tennessee high school until his father was laid off Now Will works at a burger joint When his dad falls ill it seems things can't get any worse An operation will save him but there's no way to pay for it Then Will hears about The Glory a deadly endurance race with a 250000 purse open to any rider daring enough to attempt it ...

When the first edition of The Glory Game was published in 1972 it was instantly hailed as the most insightful book about the life of a football club ever published Hunter Davies was & still is the only author ever to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top-level football team (Tottenham Hotspur) & his pen spared nothing & no one ' His accuracy is sufficiently uncanny to be embarrassing' wrote Bob Wilson in the New Statesman ' Brilliant vicious unmerciful' wrote The Sun Davies spent a whole season with the team training with them visiting the players' homes & witnessing the dressing-room confrontations In the modern era of painstaking media management & tight security no sportswriter will ever again be granted such unprecedented access While some features of the game have changed beyond all recognition
- notably the all-consuming role that money now plays
- inside every club the dramas & tensions revealed by Davies remain making the book a timeless classic & securing its position as one of the best books about football ever written

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Track Listings 1 Like An Animal 2 Looking Glass Girl 3 Sex-Eye-Make-Up 4 Mr Alphabet Says 5 A Blues In Drag ...