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by
Baker, James Michael.
Call Number
959.57
Publication Date
2002
Physical Description
96 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Summary
Provides an overview of the geography, history, government, lifestyle, language, art, and food of Singapore, exploring its customs and current issues.
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Countries of the world Countries of the world (Milwaukee, Wis.)
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Edition
First edition.
by
Khanna, Parag,
Call Number
303.49 KHANNA PARAG
Publication Date
2016
Physical Description
xxv, 466 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Summary
"Mankind is reengineering the planet, investing up to ten trillion dollars per year in transportation, energy, and communications infrastructure linking the worlds burgeoning megacities together. This has profound consequences for geopolitics, economics, demographics, the environment, and social identity. Connectivity, not geography, is our destiny. Khanna argues that new energy discoveries and technologies have eliminated the need for resource wars; ambitious transport corridors and power grids are unscrambling Africas fraught colonial borders; even the Arab world is evolving a more peaceful map as it builds resource and trade routes across its war-torn landscape. At the same time, thriving hubs such as Singapore and Dubai are injecting dynamism into young and heavily populated regions, cyber-communities empower commerce across vast distances, and the worlds ballooning financial assets are being wisely invested into building an inclusive global society. Beneath the chaos of a world that appears to be falling apart is a new foundation of connectivity pulling it together." --
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Mapping the future of global civilization
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