R. Grant - Böcker

These essays cover topics as radically diverse as Charles Rennie, Mackintoch, Vaclav Hevel, The Magic Flute and Viz magazine. All have been published before, and many have already proved controversial. The author, a leading Oakeshott scholar, contributes frequently to the TLS. Witty, moving and erudite, his prose is also conspicuously graceful and clear. This collection is addressed as much to the educated general reader as to the academic specialist. It includes an otherwise almost unobtainable exchange with Sir Isaiah Berlin.

This sixth volume in the Academy of International Buiness Series presents leading-edge research on contemporary themes in international business.

Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of recent times. A variety of case studies provide a unique assessment of the issue of globalization and offer a new look at the relationship between the global and the local.

Globalization has become one of the dominant ideas of the beginning of the 21st century. However, is the debate on globalization as global as it ought to be? In this book Richard Grant and John Rennie Short have brought together prominent experts in the field to consider how globalization affects marginalized countries and groups. A variety of case studies provides an assessment of the issue of globalization and offers a fresh look at the relationship between the global and the local.

Throughout its ten related essays, "Imagining the Real" contrasts our abstract imaginings about the human world with the imaginative insights provided by art and experience. It questions, variously, the relevance of game theory and sociobiology to politics, the supposed intrinsic values of liberal freedom, cultural change, and democratic action and the claims of marxism, deconstruction and "theory" generally to be non-ideological. Positively, it reinterprets fiction as a specific invitation to imagine,