Climate change and food security: adapting agriculture to a warmer world

Roughly a billion people around the world continue to live in state of chronic hunger and food insecurity. Unfortunately, efforts to improve their livelihoods must now unfold in the context of a rapidly changing climate, in which warming temperatures and changing rainfall regimes could threaten the basic productivity of the agricultural systems on which most of the world’s poor directly depen…

Globalization and national security

In this book, top scholars of international relations assess the consequences of globalization for national security, identifying three distinct ‘processes’ of globalization - the intensification of economic exchange, the flow of information, and marketization (the expansion of the set of social relations governed by market forces)-exploring how they can affect the capacity and power of sta…

The handbook of economic sociology

The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, soon established itself as the definitive presentation of the field, and has been widely read, re…

The network society: a cross-cultural perspective

Manuel Castells - one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists - has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional transformation of societies around the world in terms of the critical role of electronic communication netwo…

Globalization: a critical introduction

This is a systematically revised and updated new edition of a highly-acclaimed text which was an immediate bestseller on courses around the world. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased coverage of other dimensions of globalization alongside its core focus on the rise of supraterritoriality which the author argues is globalization's most distinctive feature.

Seeing the invisible: national security intelligence in an uncertain age

Intelligence is critical to ensuring national security, especially with asymmetric threats making up most of the new challenges. Knowledge, rather than power, is the only weapon that can prevail in a complex and uncertain environment awash with asymmetric threats, some known, many currently unknown. This book shows how such a changing national security environment has had profound implications …

Integrated advertising, promotion, and marketing communications

Edition

Seventh edition, global edition

ISBN/ISSN

9781292093635

Collation

496 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

[KOM-LIB-186]

Liquidity management: a funding risk handbook

Robust management of liquidity risk within the changingregulatory framework Liquidity Management applies current risk managementtheory, techniques, and processes to liquidity risk control andmanagement to help organizations prepare in case of future economiccrisis and changing regulatory framework. Based on extensiveresearch conducted on banks' datasets, this book addresses thepractical challe…

Essentials of systems analysis and design

Edition

5th ed.

ISBN/ISSN

9780133546231

Collation

xxv, 418 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

[SIF-LIB-98]

Systems analysis and design

Alan Dennis' 5th Edition of Systems Analysis and Design continues to build upon previous issues with it hands-on approach to systems analysis and design with an even more in-depth focus on the core set of skills that all analysts must possess. Dennis continues to capture the experience of developing and analyzing systems in a way that readers can understand and apply and develop a rich foundati…