Tag: World

Soda Science Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola


Free Download Susan Greenhalgh, "Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola"
English | ISBN: 0226834735 | 2024 | 364 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs.

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Mapmatics A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World


Free Download Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World by Paulina RowiƄska
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0674294238 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 14.84 MB
"I love maps. I love math. And gosh, do I love this book, which so beautifully and clearly sounds the depths of both." -Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad Drawings

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The Politics of China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization


Free Download Hui Feng, "The Politics of China’s Accession to the World Trade Organization"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0415650984, 0415369215 | EPUB | pages: 216 | 0.9 mb
Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s decision-making mechanisms, the book argues that China’s WTO policy making is a state-led, leadership driven, and top-down process. Feng explores how China’s determined political elite partly bypassed and partly restructured a largely reluctant and resistant bureaucracy, under constant pressure from an increasingly globalized international system.

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Planning World Cities Globalization and Urban Politics


Free Download Peter Newman, "Planning World Cities: Globalization and Urban Politics"
English | 2011 | ISBN: 0333693469, 0230247326 | EPUB | pages: 352 | 0.6 mb
This major comparative text on urban planning, and the global and regional context in which it takes place, examines what have been traditionally regarded as ‘world cities’ (New York, London, Tokyo) and also a range of other important cities in America, Europe and Asia. The authors show the role planning has played in the way cities have responded to the forces of globalization, and argue for the importance of diverse – rather than one-size-fits-all – planning practices.

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