Brave New Digital Classroom: Technology and Foreign Language Learning, Third Edition, Blake Robert J., Guillen Gabriel

Автор: Guillen Mauro F
Название: Architecture of Collapse
ISBN: 0198804431 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198804437
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Using a variety of economic, financial, and political indicators, this book demonstrates that the global system has become an `architecture of collapse`. The global financial crisis of 2008, the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and China, and the European sovereign debt crisis illustrate the causes and the consequences of global instability

Автор: Guillen Michael
Название: Amazing Truths: How Science and the Bible Agree
ISBN: 0310343755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780310343752
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Does science disprove or discredit the Bible, God, religious faith? Not according to Dr. Michael Guillen, former Harvard physics instructor and ABC News Science Editor. In Amazing Truths, Dr. Guillen shows how science and faith are not at odds and, in fact, represent the ultimate power couple.

Автор: Guillen, Michael
Название: Five Equations That Changed the World
ISBN: 0786881879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780786881871
Издательство: Hachette Book Group
Цена: 1880.00 р.
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Описание: A Publishers Weekly best book of 1995

Dr. Michael Guillen, known to millions as the science editor of ABC's Good Morning America, tells the fascinating stories behind five mathematical equations.

As a regular contributor to daytime's most popular morning news show and an instructor at Harvard University, Dr. Michael Guillen has earned the respect of millions as a clear and entertaining guide to the exhilarating world of science and mathematics.

Now Dr. Guillen unravels the equations that have led to the inventions and events that characterize the modern world, one of which -- Albert Einstein's famous energy equation, E=mc2 -- enabled the creation of the nuclear bomb. Also revealed are the mathematical foundations for the moon landing, airplane travel, the electric generator -- and even life itself.

Praised by Publishers Weekly as "a wholly accessible, beautifully written exploration of the potent mathematical imagination," and named a Best Nonfiction Book of 1995, the stories behind The Five Equations That Changed the World, as told by Dr. Guillen, are not only chronicles of science, but also gripping dramas of jealousy, fame, war, and discovery.

Автор: Guillen Mauro F.
Название: Rude Awakening: Threats to the Global Liberal Order
ISBN: 0812250443 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812250442
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were established—the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of the World Trade Organization), and the World Bank in the economic sphere, and the United Nations in the geopolitical realm. Although these organizations were far from perfect, their actions promoted rising living standards and political freedoms for all. Liberalism thus reengineered represented a fundamental bet on the supremacy of democracy and the market economy, and spurred the transformation of North America, Western Europe, and Japan into prosperous societies, each with a large and vibrant middle class and a social safety net.
Now, however, this liberal geopolitical and economic order is under attack. The free movement of goods, services, money, people, and information that once formed the recipe for progress under liberalism is blamed by many for rising inequality, mass migrations, and the declining legitimacy of political parties, as well as the fragmentation of global superpower relations. Nationalism, xenophobia, and populism continue to advance at the right and left ends of the political spectrum, eroding the moderate middle ground.
In Rude Awakening, Mauro F. Guillén argues for an improved international arrangement to provide for stability and prosperity. He offers key considerations that a reinvented global liberal order must address—from finding a balance between markets and governments to confronting present realities, such as rapid technological change and social inequality, to recognizing that Europe and the United States can no longer attempt by themselves to steer the global economy. Rude Awakening affirms the potential of liberalism still to provide a flexible framework for governments, businesses, workers, and citizens to explore and make necessary compromises and coalitions for a better future.