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**Over 1 million copies sold worldwide** MAJOR NEW EDITION From Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz, Globalization and its Discontents is the …
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Globalization brings growth? Think again. Debt — engineered by the IMF and World Bank — sucks countries dry.
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A comprehensive treatment of model-based fuzzy control systems This volume offers full coverage of the systematic framework for the stability …
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Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People's Republic of China during the …
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Twenty years since the publication of the Second Edition and more than thirty years since the publication of the original …
