The Lexus And The Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization
 From Amazon.com: One day in 1992, Thomas Friedman toured a Lexus factory in Japan and marveled at the robots that put the luxury cars together. That evening, as he ate sushi on a Japanese bullet train, he read a story about yet another Middle East [... more]
CDN$34.50
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The European Miracle: Environments, Economies and ...
Explaining the past illuminates the present: The European Miracle is a book I have been meaning to read for years. Having finally done so, I found it a pleasure to read, a work which explains much of the past in ways which illuminate the present. If you [... more]
CDN$26.95
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The Challenge of Global Capitalism: The World Economy in ...
From Amazon.com: "Capitalism is the most successful wealth-creating economic system the world has ever known," declares Robert Gilpin. Yet it has skeptics. "Individual nations and powerful groups within nations that believe the world [... more]
CDN$35.37
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Parecon
2 points for effort, 1 for result: Credit to Albert for exploring new ideas. A few good insights. But I haven't been able to finish. I found the writing style tedious. The vision described feels stifling and bureaucratic. It does not appear to put a lot [... more]
CDN$35.00
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Free Trade Under Fire: Second Edition
Necessity to arguing: Doesnt it always seem that your friends subscribe to the wrong views, and you to the right one? Well, at least for me it is. Whether your pals are from the anarchist wing or the Pat Buchanan camp, or even deviate just a little from [... more]
CDN$25.99
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XML Internationalization and Localization
Well worth the money - essential for Product Globalizers: This is a great book for the 'doers' in the product globalization technology fields. Well worth the money. Extremely credible combination of industry guru Yves Savourel's content with some [... more]
CDN$65.99
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Free Trade Under Fire
Necessity to arguing: Doesnt it always seem that your friends subscribe to the wrong views, and you to the right one? Well, at least for me it is. Whether your pals are from the anarchist wing or the Pat Buchanan camp, or even deviate just a little from [... more]
CDN$18.70
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The End of the American Era: U.S. Foreign Policy and the ...
Possibly one of the silliest things I have ever read: Between the book and several reviews here, I'm just astounded. I'll try to take on several matters here: 1) America will never 'fade from the world stage'. She may eventually no longer be the _sole_ [... more]
CDN$23.95
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Dated and fatally flawed, but sweeping: I wanted to read this book because I wanted to pursue the idea of "creative destruction" to its source. However, Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (CS & D) was not what I expected. [... more]
CDN$70.23
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Parecon
2 points for effort, 1 for result: Credit to Albert for exploring new ideas. A few good insights. But I haven't been able to finish. I found the writing style tedious. The vision described feels stifling and bureaucratic. It does not appear to put a lot [... more]
CDN$21.00
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The Saturated Self: Dilemmas Of Identity In Contemporary ...
Bewildered, Breathless and Not Grounded: I found this book very interesting to read. I did not find it disturbing or brilliant. Anyone who uses the internet, watches television and videos and has been jet lagged from global travel will find this an [... more]
CDN$32.00
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Dated and fatally flawed, but sweeping: I wanted to read this book because I wanted to pursue the idea of "creative destruction" to its source. However, Schumpeter's Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (CS & D) was not what I expected. [... more]
CDN$19.00
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