Joseph Gilbert: 41 books
Ethics for Managers
Philosophical Foundations and Business Realities
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ethics for Managers introduces students to the philosophical underpinnings of business ethics and translates this theory into practical terms, demonstrating the moral implications of the decisions managers make. This edition features new material on global ethics, the financial downturn, and ethical...
Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution
Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students;...
by Marcel Allain, Grant Allen, John Buchan
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
This collection contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The first table of contents lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll...
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
by JOSEPH CONRAD, GILBERT TEROL
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Le Nellie, une yole1 de croisière, se balançait à l'ancre sans un battement des voiles, et était au repos. L'inondation avait fait, le vent était presque calme, et être lié en bas de la rivière, la seule chose qu'il devait venir et attendre pour le tour de la marée.
La mer-portée...
Movement Disorders in Childhood - E-Book
Expert Consult - Online and Print
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Experts in the field, Drs. Singer, Mink, Gilbert, and Jankovic, fill the gap in the market by offering the only comprehensive text devoted solely to the diagnoses and treatment of all pediatric movement disorders. Discussions of common and rare disorders such as movements that occur in sleep and psychogenic...
Rediscovering The Past at Mexico's Periphery
Essays on the History of Modern Yucatan
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Increasingly, the modern era of Mexican history (c. 1750 to the present) is attracting the attention of Mexican and international scholars. Significant studies have appeared for most of the major regions and Yucatán, in particular, has generated an unusual appeal and an abundant scholarship. This...
From Silver to Cocaine
Latin American Commodity Chains and the Building of the World Economy, 1500–2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2006
Demonstrating that globalization is a centuries-old phenomenon, From Silver to Cocaine examines the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for five hundred years. In clear, accessible essays, historians from Latin America, England, and the United...
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras
Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women’s Movement, “María Elena Cuadra” (mec), which emerged...
FDR and the Spanish Civil War
Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2007
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America’s rise to global power, and the 1936–39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt’s...
Emperors in the Jungle
The Hidden History of the U.S. in Panama
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2003
Emperors in the Jungle is an exposé of key episodes in the military involvement of the United States in Panama. Investigative journalism at its best, this book reveals how U.S. ideas about taming tropical jungles and people, combined with commercial and military objectives, shaped more than a century...
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
The American Colonial State in the Philippines
Global Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2003
In 1898 the United States declared sovereignty over the Philippines, an archipelago of seven thousand islands inhabited by seven million people of various ethnicities. While it became a colonial power at the zenith of global imperialism, the United States nevertheless conceived of its rule as exceptional—an...
Crude Chronicles
Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2004
Ecuador is the third-largest foreign supplier of crude oil to the western United States. As the source of this oil, the Ecuadorian Amazon has borne the far-reaching social and environmental consequences of a growing U.S. demand for petroleum and the dynamics of economic globalization it necessitates....