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  • Asia Pacific and Human Rights

    A Global Political Economy Perspective

    par Paul Close, David Askew ...
    Collections series New Regionalisms Series
    Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as ... En savoir plus

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Beijing Olympiad

    The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event

    par Paul Close, David Askew, Xu Xin ...
    The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

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  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    par Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Modern China

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Rana Mitter ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    China today is never out of the news: from international finance to human rights controversies, global coverage of its rising international presence, and the Chinese 'economic miracle'. It seems to be a country of contradictions: a peasant society with some of the world's most futuristic cities, heir to an ancient civilization that is still trying to find a modern identity. This Very Short ... En savoir plus

    $7.19 CAD

  • What Does China Think?

    par Mark Leonard ...
    An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It challenges all of our assumptions about China.We know everything and nothing about China. We know that China is changing so fast that the maps in Shanghai ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • 10 Days That Shaped Modern Canada

    par Aaron W. Hughes ...
    Revisiting ten notable days from recent history, Aaron W. Hughes invites readers to think about the tensions, events, and personalities that make Canada distinct. These indelible dates interweave to offer an account of the political, social, cultural, and demographic forces that have shaped the modern nation. The diverse episodes include the enactment of the War Measures Act, hockey’s Summit ... En savoir plus

    $22.99 CAD

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  • China in the 21st Century

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    par Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham ...
    Collections series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    In this fully revised and updated third edition of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Maura Elizabeth Cunningham provide cogent answers to urgent questions regarding the world's newest superpower and offer a framework for understanding China's meteoric rise from developing country to superpower. Framing their answers through the historical legacies ... En savoir plus

    $8.69 CAD

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Modifié par John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... En savoir plus

    $97.55 CAD

  • Post-Soviet Civil Society

    Democratization in Russia and the Baltic States

    par Anders Uhlin ...
    Collections series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The development of civil society has varied greatly across the former Soviet Union. The Baltic states have achieved a high level of integration with the West and European Union membership, while some regions in Russia lag far behind.Now for the first time there is a comparative study of civil society and democratization across post-Soviet national borders. Acknowledging the enormous variation ... En savoir plus

    $63.20 CAD

  • Power Games

    A Political History of the Olympics

    par Jules Boykoff ...
    A timely, no-holds barred, critical political history of the modern Olympic GamesThe Olympics have a checkered, sometimes scandalous, political history. Jules Boykoff, a former US Olympic team member, takes readers from the event’s nineteenth-century origins, through the Games’ flirtation with Fascism, and into the contemporary era of corporate control. Along the way he recounts vibrant alt ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Olympics: The Basics

    par Andy Miah, Beatriz Garcia ...
    Collections series The Basics
    The Olympics: The Basics is an accessible, contemporary introduction to the Olympic movement and Games. Chapters explain how the Olympics transcend sports, engaging us with a range of contemporary philosophical, social, cultural and political matters, including:peace development and diplomacymanagement and economicscorruption, terror and activismthe rise of human enhancementethics and ... En savoir plus

    $46.71 CAD

  • Olympic Legacies: Intended and Unintended

    Political, Cultural, Economic and Educational

    Modifié par J A Mangan, Mark Dyreson ...
    Collections series Sport in the Global Society
    For more than a century, the Olympics have been the modern world's most significant sporting event. Indeed, they deserve much credit for globalizing sport beyond the boundaries of the Anglo-American universe, where it originated, into broader global realms. By the 1930s, the Olympics had become a global mega-event that occupied the attention of the media, the interest of the public and the ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD