Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
The Economist Book of Vital World Statistics
Author: The Economist Book of Vital World Statistics
Author: Publisher: Random House Business Books
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
A view of how the countries of the world compare on everything from economic strength to energy consumption, industrial output to inflation, export trends to education standards, freezer ownership to financial institutions, CCF emissions to the cost of living and meat production to murder rates.
Figuring Out the Past
Author: Peter TurchinPublisher: The Economist
ISBN: 1541736761
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Discover the world records that define our history and jump headfirst into the past using scientific data that reveals accurate and insightful answers to life’s biggest questions. What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the plumbing like in medieval Byzantium? The average wage in the Mughal Empire? Where did scientific writing first emerge? What was the bloodiest ever ritual human sacrifice? We are used to thinking about history in terms of stories. Yet we understand our own world through data: cast arrays of statistics that reveal the workings of our societies. In Figuring Out the Past, radical historians Peter Turchin and Dan Hoyer dive into the numbers that reveal the true shape of the past, drawing on their own Seshat project, a staggeringly ambitious attempt to log every data point that can be gathered for every society that has ever existed. This book does more than tell the story of humanity: it shows you the big picture, by the numbers.
The Economist
Author: 
Author: Publisher: Minority Rights Group
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
The Gulf Conflict and International Relations
Author: Ken MatthewsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134904576
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive analysis and review of the major events and the leading actors of the Gulf War. Copies of key documents and essential factual information build up a picture of the realities of war in the Middle East but the material is set in a strong theoretical framework. This allows the author to see the conflict within the context of the international system and to relate it to the changes of the post-cold-war world. Matthews looks at the shifts in international order which dictated the nature of the international response to the war, but also at the new conditions created by the war itself. What scope is there for Arab socialism after the fall of European socialism? Has the conflict made Israel stronger or weaker? Can the UN be entrusted with the post of global peace-keeper?
Privatizing: A Social Milestone or Millstone?
Author: Herbert SiegelPublisher: Universal-Publishers
ISBN: 1581121970
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
When politicians redistribute public wealth by privatizing State-Owned Enterprises ( SOE ), they divest themselves of public accountability, and profoundly affect laws, economics, and social behavior. Data gathered from respondents in twenty-eight countries including lawyers, investment bankers, bureaucrats, and educators, identify beneficiaries and victims of privatizing processes. Results are then explained by statistical analysis, concluding with compensatory arrangements that can humanize privatizing.
Segregation and Mistrust
Author: Eric M. UslanerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119315X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
By examining social networks in North America, Europe and Australia, this book argues segregation, not diversity reduces trust between people.
The Politics of International Environmental Management
Author: A. UnderdalPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401149461
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Many of the major environmental challenges facing governments and societies today are collective problems, calling for joint solutions. However, even when effective solutions can be found only through joint efforts, international cooperation is often hard to establish and maintain. This makes it all the more important to understand the conditions for `success' and the causes of `failure'. This book examines some of the political mechanisms at work in the formation and operation of international environmental regimes. What are the major factors that shape the national positions that governments bring to the negotiating table? How do the international institutions and negotiation processes through which these preferences and positions are adjusted and aggregated affect outcomes? What are the main mechanisms determining whether or not international environmental agreements are successfully implemented at the domestic level? The Politics of International Environmental Management is published in cooperation with the European Science Foundation.
International Environmental Governance
Author: PeterM. HaasPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351562428
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
International Environmental Governance reviews the contentious approaches to addressing global and transboundary environmental threats. The volume collects together the most influential and important literature on the major political approaches to dealing with these problems, their histories, major debates, and research frontiers. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction which reviews the evolution of the academic contribution to environmental governance, focusing on a wide array of international environmental problems.