Global Issues: An Introduction

by JohnL.Seitz (Author), KristenA.Hite (Author)

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  2012

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  Extensively revised and updated, the new Fourth Edition of Global Issues: An Introduction offers a unique approach to the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. * Revised and updated to reflect the latest global developments * Examines the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life * The only book of its kind to use the concept of development to illustrate how different global issues are interrelated * Includes a new section on nuclear energy * Chapter boxes examine ways that individuals can have a positive impact on the issues examined within the text * Key features include a glossary of terms; guides to further reading, media, and Internet resources; and suggestions for discussing and studying the material

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  Paperback
  2007

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  Global Issues, Third Edition is an introduction to many of the most important environmental, economic, social, and political concerns of modern life. * Offers a unified perspective on a complex range of global issues in a variety of societies, both developed and developing* Includes new sections on foreign aid and development assistance, terrorism, the relationship between geography and wealth and poverty, food and the overweight, and the Millennium Development Goals* Features an updated and expanded section on climate change, as well as a new glossary* Illustrates key topics and issues with diagrams and photographs* Provides guides to further reading, media, and internet resources, and suggestions for discussing and studying the material