globalization

Tables, maps, charts, photographs, and easy-to-read bulleted text teach children what it means to be an active citizen.

"What would the world look like if America were to reduce its role as a global leader in order to focus all its energies on solving its problems at home? And is America really in decline? Robert Kagan ... paints a vivid, alarming picture of what the world might look like if the United States were truly to let its influence wane"--Flap p. 1 of dust jacket.

Discusses the definition and origins of globalization, issues surrounding the developing world, migration, international stability, human rights, and the effects of the potential integration of economic, political, cultural, technological, and social aspects of various countries on health, culture, and the environment.

Journalist Ethan Watters argues that Western concepts of mental illness, from clinical depression to anorexia and schizophrenia, have impacted cultures around the world, covering American culture's "export" of mental health treatments and classifications, and theories of the human psyche, into places such as Hong Kong, Zanzibar, and Sri Lanka.

Explores the emotional impact of globalization in the early twenty-first century, and discusses how the varying emotions impact the political, cultural, and social conflicts in regions and populations around the world.

Explains the science and technology behind Global Positioning Systems and provides information on how they arebuilt, the technology and materials that make them work, and how they are used.

Reviews the history of airplanes, looks at how airplanes are manufactured in the twenty-first century, and discusses how the industry affects the global economy.

Explores the concept of trade in developed and undeveloped countries, discussing the World Trade Organization, free trade versus protectionism, and the environmental impacts of free trade.