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Publisher
Editoral Planeta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"La resistencia es un libro para aquellos que saben leer los símbolos que se abisman entre uno y el universo: la incomunicación, el narcisismo, la reverencia a los dioses de la televisión, el trabajo deshumanizado, el imperio de la máquina sobre el ser, el sometimiento y la masificación, el creciente sentimiento de orfandad, la competencia feroz y el vértigo apocalíptico en el que toda posibilidad de diálogo desaparece. Entonces la pregunta...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"How can leaders faced with tremendous global upheaval create more resilient and trustworthy systems? In The Great Remobilization, Olaf Groth, Mark Esposito, and Terence Tse (along with research partner Dan Zehr) diagnose tectonic shifts in the global economy with an eye toward designing a smarter “operating system” for the world. Through their FLP-IT (forces, logic, phenomena, impact, and triage) framework for strategic leadership, the authors...
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"We raise our children in a fragile world. Climate change, pandemics, superbugs resistant to antibiotics. Extreme inequality, endemic poverty, institutionalized racism and sexism. What does it mean to be a "good parent" in the face of all this? This book is one woman's quest for an answer, as a philosopher and as a mother"--
Author
Publisher
Wonderwell
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Part inspiration, part how-to, this guide to embarking on a life-changing, long-term journey filled with education and adventure--a trailblazing approach known as worldschooling--helps you transform your dream into a well-planned reality for your family and weaves travelogues and photos from families sharing worldschooling experiences throughout.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Carol Roth investigates what would happen if a new financial world order took hold, one in which global elites own everything and you own nothing--and yet you are somehow happy. When Carol Roth first heard that one of the World Economic Forum's predictions for 2030 was "You will own nothing, and be happy," she thought it was an outlandish fantasy. Then, she researched it. What she found was that a number of businesses, governments, and global elites...
Author
Publisher
Black Lawrence Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Set entirely in the Bangalore region of South India, Boomtown Girl explores the ambitions, delusions, and struggles of people navigating a rapidly developing city. A rebellious teenager and her workaholic father confront their mutual distrust while dining at a newly opened Pizza Hut; a tailor nostalgic for his past glory in the employ of an Englishman grows obsessed with an American customer; a techie, his fianc�ee having broken off their engagement,...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"English teacher by day, Maddie Ryan spends her nights and weekends as the rhythm guitarist of Bunny Bloodlust, a queer punk band living in a warehouse-turned-venue called "The Lab" in Houston's Eighth Ward. When Maddie learns that the Eighth Ward is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the wealthy, white suburbs, she joins "Save the Eighth," a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. At first, she's only...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"As the pandemic waned, we returned to sparsely populated offices and empty conference rooms. Our working life had been transformed, seemingly overnight. But the truth is that the ever-growing digital wave has long been breaking down organizational boundaries and increasing open innovation, including the use of crowdsourcing platforms as a talent solution. Now the imperative is clear: adapt to and leverage this new, digitally enabled world of "open...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Every year, millions of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, made to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. Generating huge profits for their exploiters, sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, the female body requires no such "processing" and can be...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"Populist rage, ideological fracture, economic and technological shocks, war, and an international system studded with catastrophic risk―the early decades of the twenty-first century may be the most revolutionary period in modern history. But it is not the first. Humans have lived, and thrived, through more than one great realignment. What are these revolutions, and how can they help us to understand our fraught world? In this major work, Fareed...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A bold new account of the state of globalisation today-and what its collapse might mean for the world economy. After the Cold War, globalisation accelerated at breakneck speed. Manufacturing, transport, and consumption defied national borders, companies made more money, and consumers had access to an ever-increasing range of goods. But in recent years, a profound shift has begun to take place. Business executives and politicians alike are realising...
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today's world, creating both opportunity and peril--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Truth. The twenty-first century is experiencing a watershed moment defined by chaos and uncertainty, as one emergency cascades into another, underscoring the larger...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Empires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and set the terms of international politics. With the collapse of empire came a fundamental reorganization of our world. Decolonization unfolded across territories as well as within them. Its struggles became internationalized and transnational, as much global campaigns of moral disarmament against colonial injustice as local contests of arms. In this expansive history,...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The eminent economic historian Harold James presents a new perspective on financial crises, dividing them into "good" crises, which ultimately expand markets and globalization, and "bad" crises, which result in a smaller, less prosperous world. Examining seven turning points in financial history-from the depression of the 1840s through the Great Depression of the 1930s to the Covid-19 crisis-James shows how crashes prompted by a lack of supply, like...
Author
Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Japan's Quiet Leadership provides a sweeping look at Japan's domestic economic and political evolution, its economic statecraft, and the array of geopolitical challenges that have triggered a gradual but substantial shift in the country's security profile"--
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The inside story of Biden's foreign policy team and their struggle to restore America's global influence in the aftermath of Trump. When Joe Biden assumed the United States presidency, he brought with him a team of all-star talent, perhaps the most experienced ensemble of policy experts in modern U.S. history. Their mission: repair America's damaged reputation abroad and decide the course of its global future. The challenges and risks could not have...
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China ended two decades of Cold War isolation, China’s trade relations veered in a very different direction. Elizabeth Ingleson shows how the interests of US business and the Chinese state aligned to reframe the China market: the old dream of plentiful customers gave way to a new vision of low-cost workers...
Author
Publisher
BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In America's New Map: Restoring Global Leadership in an Era of Climate Change and Demographic Collapse, Thomas P.M. Barnett, bestselling author of The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in the Twenty-First Century and acclaimed geo-strategist, offers seven throughlines to frame and redefine the ambitions and posture of these United States, setting our Union on a bold-but-entirely-familiar national trajectory"--
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The rural roads that led to our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. That region's impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms--Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America--to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy. Drawing on...
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