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Twenty Observations on a World in Turmoil
Wiley 2013; US$ 14.95Translated by Ciaran Cronin. The world is a state of turmoil. From the financial crisis to the chaos in the eurozone, from the Arab uprisings to protests in Athens, Barcelona, New York and elsewhere, many of the familiar frameworks are collapsing and we have to find new ways to orient ourselves in a world undergoing rapid change. Of course,... more...
Individualization
SAGE Publications 2001; US$ 70.00Individualization argues that we are in the midst of a fundamental change in the nature of society and politics. This change hinges around two processes: globalization and individualization. The book demonstrates that individualization is a structural characteristic of highly differentiated societies, and does not imperil social cohesion, but actually... more...
German Europe
Wiley 2013; US$ 19.95The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency... more...
Global America?
Liverpool University Press 2003; US$ 75.00Many contemporary issues cannot be readily or fully understood at the level of the nation state and the concept of globalization is used to develop understanding through the analysis of global (transnational) processes. This volume explores the phenomenon of Americanization, and its worldwide impact, and the cultural consequences of globalization. more...
The Risk Society and Beyond
SAGE Publications 2000; US$ 67.00Offers an introduction to the main arguments in Risk Society and develops a range of critical discussions of Ulrich Beck's thought. more...
Plant Desiccation Tolerance
Springer 2011; US$ 139.99Desiccation tolerance was essential when plants first began to conquer land, roughly 400 million years ago. While most desiccation-tolerant plants belong to basal phylogenetic taxa, this capacity has also evolved among some vascular plant species. In this volume, renowned experts treat plant desiccation tolerance at the organismic as well as at the... more...
KlimaKulturen
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 26.95Hauptbeschreibung Viel zu lange glaubte man, für die Erforschung des Klimawandels seien ausschließlich Meteorologen, Meereskundler und Gletscherforscher zuständig. Doch die Klimaerwärmung konfrontiert Menschen, Kulturen und Gesellschaften mit neuen und in ihrer Tragweite noch kaum begriffenen Herausforderungen. Deren Bewältigung stellt nicht nur... more...
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