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The book debuted at number 12 on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending June 18, 2022. [1] Kirkus Reviews acknowledged the book's points, but regarded its forecast as excessively pessimistic: [2] Zeihan is enthusiastic in his writing, and he covers a great deal of territory, some of it in superficial or questionable ...
The book deals mainly with the effects of globalization. It describes a growing social divide as a result of "delimitation" of the economy and a loss of political control by the state over the economic development, which is increasingly controlled by global corporations. The authors warn of a so-called "20-to-80-society". [3]
Manfred B. Steger is an American academic and author.He is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. [1]Steger is most known for his work in social and political theory, primarily focusing on the crucial role of ideas, images, language, beliefs, and other symbolic systems in shaping discourses of globalization.
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Glocalization of education has been proposed in the specific areas of politics, economics, culture, teaching, information, organization, morality, spirituality, religion and "temporal" literacy. [ clarification needed ] The recommended approach is for local educators to consult global resources for materials and techniques and then adapt them ...
A second form is agency-extended globalization, the circulation of agents of different institutions, organizations, and polities, including imperial agents. Object-extended globalization, a third form, is the movement of commodities and other objects of exchange. He calls the transmission of ideas, images, knowledge, and information across ...
Jihad vs. McWorld: How Globalism and Tribalism Are Reshaping the World is a 1995 book by American political scientist Benjamin Barber, in which he puts forth a theory that describes the struggle between "McWorld" (globalization and the corporate control of the political process) and "Jihad" (Arabic term for "struggle", here modified to mean tradition and traditional values, in the form of ...
The contents of the book report, for a work of fiction, typically include basic bibliographical information about the work, a summary of the narrative and setting, main elements of the stories of key characters, the author's purpose in creating the work, the student's opinion of the book, and a theme statement summing up the main idea drawn ...