Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe write by Mieke Gerritzen. This book was released on 2020-07-14. Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When everything is destined to be designed, design disappears into the everyday. We simply do not see it anymore because it is everywhere. This is the vanishing act of design. At this moment, design registers its redundancy: our products, environments and services have been comprehensively improved. Everything has been designed to perfection and is under a permanent upgrade regime.Within such a paradigm, design is taken over by the capitalist logic of reproduction. But this does not come without conflicts, struggles and tensions. The most obvious of these, is that design is constantly being replaced. Our dispense culture prompts a yearning for longevity. The compulsion to delete brings alive a desire to retrieve objects, ideas and experiences that refuse to become obsolete. Society is growing more aware of sustainability and alert to the depletion of this world. For the ambitious designer, it is time to take the next step: designing the future with a more holistic consideration and approach. The book is a critical look at the design world with its various design disciplines and how these have developed in the past 10 years. Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europeis for professional designers that care about design, the environment and how we live.
Orientalism
Orientalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Orientalism write by Edward W. Said. This book was released on 2014-10-01. Orientalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.
The Great Divergence
The Great Divergence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Divergence write by Kenneth Pomeranz. This book was released on 2021-04-13. The Great Divergence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe? Historian Kenneth Pomeranz shows that as recently as 1750, life expectancy, consumption, and product and factor markets were comparable in Europe and East Asia. Moreover, key regions in China and Japan were no worse off ecologically than those in Western Europe, with each region facing corresponding shortages of land-intensive products. Pomeranz’s comparative lens reveals the two critical factors resulting in Europe's nineteenth-century divergence—the fortunate location of coal and access to trade with the New World. As East Asia’s economy stagnated, Europe narrowly escaped the same fate largely due to favorable resource stocks from underground and overseas. This Princeton Classics edition includes a preface from the author and makes a powerful historical work available to new readers.
A Power Audit of EU-China Relations
A Power Audit of EU-China Relations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Power Audit of EU-China Relations write by John Fox. This book was released on 2009. A Power Audit of EU-China Relations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization
Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization write by Yi Wen. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Making Of An Economic Superpower, The: Unlocking China's Secret Of Rapid Industrialization available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of economic development based on a dichotomy of extractive vs. inclusive political institutions, is highly inadequate in explaining China's rise. This book argues that only a radical reinterpretation of the history of the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the West (as incorrectly portrayed by the institutional theory) can fully explain China's growth miracle and why the determined rise of China is unstoppable despite its current 'backward' financial system and political institutions. Conversely, China's spectacular and rapid transformation from an impoverished agrarian society to a formidable industrial superpower sheds considerable light on the fundamental shortcomings of the institutional theory and mainstream 'blackboard' economic models, and provides more-accurate reevaluations of historical episodes such as Africa's enduring poverty trap despite radical political and economic reforms, Latin America's lost decades and frequent debt crises, 19th century Europe's great escape from the Malthusian trap, and the Industrial Revolution itself.
