Latin America and global capitalism

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Guy Poitras

"In the face of potent domestic and global forces, the United States, Canada, and Mexico - the North American three - have devised an enterprise that promises to draw them closer together in the twenty-first century. Inventing North America is an attempt to understand the three states' unique brand of regionalism within an increasingly globalized world.". "Poitras dissects the commonalities and differences among the North American three that have created the foundation for - and set limits to - the integration of the region. He also explores how states use regionalism for their own purposes and how the North American enterprise must deal with predicaments about unity and diversity, gains and losses, and gaps between North and South. Testing the proposition that the North and South can play by the same rules within a regional regime, he portrays North America as essentially a two-level alliance between the dominant center and each of the smaller periphery states. Its fate, he argues, depends on whether and how this alignment changes and whether the three states of North America can embrace a comprehensive vision of the region as a community."--BOOK JACKET.

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Patrick Murphy and Marwan Kraidy

"Global Media Studies explores the theoretical and methodological threats that are defining global media studies as a discipline. Emphasizing the connection of globalization to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop with and through the media. Through ethnographic case studies from Brazil, Denmark, the UK, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey and the United States, the contributors address such questions as what links media consumption to a lived global culture; what role cultural tradition plays globally in confronting transnational power; and how global elements of mediated messages acquire class, regional and local characteristics."

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Pauline Bell

What DCI Mitchell does know is that the fire in an office complex was deliberately started, but what he doesn't know is if it is the work of a serial arsonist he is chasing. One victim of the fire was an Asian woman, the other a white man. Could the fire be a copycat arson attack, to mask the real crime, a racially motivated murder? Or is Mitchell dealing with an incident involving family dishonour and revenge?

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(han) zheng duo yan zhu

Ben shu fen si bu fen, nei rong bao gua shen zhan : chuang zao zui mei shen ti de jian shen cao ; zheng duo yan jian shen cao zhu ni gao bie fan nao ; yi zhao yi shi yi xin sheng, shen zhan cao jing sui fen jie ; 12 zhou, wo de mei li shen ti ri zhi deng.