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Love Entrepreneurs By:Phil Nicks Published on 2008 by Monsoon Books Pte Limited In the style of Freakonomics, Bangkok-based economist Phil Nicks explores the economic aspects of cross-cultural relationships in Thailand with his new book, Love Entrepreneurs. Supported by original research, facts and interviews with high-profile residents of the region, Nicks focuses his attention on the major relationship issues affecting foreigners and their Thai partners. This Book was ranked at 18 by Google Books for keyword Deals in Books. Book ID of Love Entrepreneurs's Books is RBfaAAAAMAAJ, Book which was written byPhil Nickshave ETAG "TEgG/neufJM" Book which was published by Monsoon Books Pte Limited since 2008 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9789810592110 and ISBN 10 Code is 9810592116 Reading Mode in Text Status is false and Reading Mode in Image Status is false Book which have "296 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science This Book was rated by Raters and ...

The Death of Expertise By:Tom Nichols Published on 2017-02-01 by Oxford University Press People are now exposed to more information than ever before, provided both by technology and by increasing access to every level of education. These societal gains, however, have also helped fuel a surge in narcissistic and misguided intellectual egalitarianism that has crippled informed debates on any number of issues. Today, everyone knows everything: with only a quick trip through WebMD or Wikipedia, average citizens believe themselves to be on an equal intellectual footing with doctors and diplomats. All voices, even the most ridiculous, demand to be taken with equal seriousness, and any claim to the contrary is dismissed as undemocratic elitism. As Tom Nichols shows in The Death of Expertise, this rejection of experts has occurred for many reasons, including the openness of the internet, the emergence of a customer satisfaction model in higher education, and the transformation of the news indu...

The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals By:Ben White,Saturnino M. Borras Jr.,Ruth Hall,Ian Scoones,Wendy Wolford Published on 2013-09-13 by Routledge This collection explores the complex dynamics of corporate land deals from a broad agrarian political economy perspective, with a special focus on the implications for property and labour regimes, labour processes and structures of accumulation. This involves looking at ways in which existing patterns of rural social differentiation – in terms of class, gender, ethnicity and generation – are being shaped by changes in land use and property relations, as well as by the re-organization of production and exchange as rural communities and resources are incorporated into global commodity chains. It goes further than the descriptive ‘what’ and ‘who’ questions, in order to understand the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of these patterns. It is empirically solid and theoretically sophisticated, making it a robust and boundary-changing w...