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The book is readable, easy to follow and use. Too much of this book seemed like I'd stumbled across her diary and was now reading it. It's just more of the same without any surprises or hope. The selection of the terrible cover art is baffling. The paper back edition is from John Hopkins University Press.In age of Viagra and Howard St

• Title : How "American" Is Globalization?
• Author : William H. Marling
• Rating : 4.59 (125 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-6-20
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 248 Pages
• Asin : 0801883539
• Language : English

The book is readable, easy to follow and use. Too much of this book seemed like I'd stumbled across her diary and was now reading it. It's just more of the same without any surprises or hope. The selection of the terrible cover art is baffling. The paper back edition is from John Hopkins University Press.In age of Viagra and Howard Stern, Giacomo Casanova image is benign. It discusses ways on how to lose fats and gain muscles. Turcotte explains and applies fractals to a wide variety of geological and geophysical phenomena. It has slow cooker recipes for breakfast, lunch and dinner main courses. Wonderful, interesting and inspiring!. The booklet then transitions into photos of wool flowers. I think he does a great job explaining things also. The book is well written, wide ranging in its research and scope, supported with plenty of illustrative and useful tables and with comprehensive notes and references. The print is washed outand in some cases the font are of a very small size.So far, we covered the first few chapters, and there seems to be much devoted to simpleopcodes as MOV, but not enough detail on the

In a first-rate book about a topic of major importance, Marling challenges the conventional wisdom about how the world is becoming 'Americanized.' Extraordinarily impressive. (Richard Pells, University of Texas)If you were engaged by Thomas Friedman's The Earth is Flat, you will enjoy How 'American' Is Globalization? (Plain Dealer)Intriguing analysis of the influence of American technology and culture on foreign societies. (Midwest Book Review)A provocatively offbeat and intermittently persuasive entry in the Americanization debate. (Future Survey)

William Marling's provocative work analyzesin specific termsthe impacts of American technology and culture on foreign societies. But Marling shows, in a series of case studies, that local cultures are intrinsically resilient and that local languages, eating habits, land use, education systems, and other social patterns determine the extent to which American culture is imported and adapted to native needs. These technologies convey American attitudes about work, leisure, convenience, credit, and travel, but as Marling shows, they take root overseas in ways that are anything but "American.". He argues that globalization can actually accentuate local cultures, which often put their own imprint on what they importfrom translating films and television into hundreds of languages to changing the menu at a McDonalds to i

He once worked as a financial journalist for Fortune and Money magazines and has taught at universities in Japan, France, Austria, and Spain.

. Marling is a professor of English and world literature at Case Western Reserve University.

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