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Divisible Cities: Acting Local in a Transient World

December 2018

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This book attempts to chart one particular Heideggerian path from building to dwelling to being in the global Diaspora, exposing as it does the vulnerabilities of modern 'locality'..

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Conclusions: A Global Polity

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Evan Luard

The developments we have traced in this book are mainly the result of one fundamental change in the environment within which political activity takes place: the decline of distance in the modern world.

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Social Contagion of Global Consumers

January 2013

A. Coskun Samli

Modern consumers experience an impressive connectivity in the form of information-sharing and influence about products and brands. This process is almost similar to the spread of a virus within a population; therefore, recently it has been referred to as social contagion (Van den Bulte 2011). Although social contagion is a very active process, it does not mean there are no other alliances among ... [Show full abstract] consumers. In my earlier book (Samli 1995), I discussed, Wa, Inhwa, and Quanxis, factors which are still very much in existence alongside the new activity of social contagion.

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A MODERNITY BEYOND THE WEST

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FOREWORD This book studies the relationship between the West and the East starting with an analysis of the conceptual theories of modernity and its global nature. It describes how the modern western world functions, internally and externally; how it began; how it relates to the rest of the world; and what effect this has culturally on non-Western countries.

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Holes in the Whole Introduction to the Urban Revolutions

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