Globalization

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<p><b>Updated to reflect recent global developments, the second edition of<i>Globalization: A Basic Text</i> presents an up-to-date introduction to major trends and topics relating to globalization studies.</b></p><ul><li>Features updates and revisions in its accessible introduction to key theories and major topics in globalization</li><li>Includes an enhanced emphasis on issues relating to global governance, emerging technology, global flows of people, human trafficking, global justice movements, and global environmental sustainability</li><li>Utilizes a unique set of metaphors to introduce and explain the highly complex nature of globalization in an engaging and understandable manner</li><li>Offers an interdisciplinary approach to globalization by drawing from fields that include sociology, global political economy, political science, international relations, geography, and anthropology</li><li>Written by an internationally recognized and experienced author team<</li></ul>

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<p><b>George Ritzer</b> is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland. He has authored numerous books, including<i>The McDonaldization of Society</i> (Seventh Edition, 2012); and is editor of<i>The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology</i> (2007) and<i>The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization</i> (2012).</p><p><b>Paul Dean</b> is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ohio Wesleyan University. He is co-editor of<i>The Sociological Cinema</i>, a website promoting video to teach and learn sociology.</p>

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