{"product_id":"falling-off-the-edge","title":"Falling Off the Edge","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSecond-Hand\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExcellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Globalization, World Peace and Other Lies\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the fall of the Berlin Wall, international corporations and governments have embraced the idea of a global village: a shrinking, booming world in which everyone benefits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if that's not the case?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlex Perry, award-winning foreign correspondent, travels from the South China Sea to the highlands of Afghanistan to the Sahara to see first-hand globalization at the sharp end - -and it's not pretty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether it's Shenzen, China's boom city where sweatshops pay under-age workers less than $4 a day, or Bombay, where the gap between rich and poor means million-dollar apartments overlook million-people slums, or on the high seas with the pirates of southeast Asia who prey on the world's central trade artery, or South Africa, where Mandela's dream for a Rainbow Nation is being crushed by a new economic apartheid, Perry demonstrates, vividly and chillingly, that for every winner in our brave new world, there are hundreds of millions of losers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd be they Chinese army veterans, Indian Maoist rebels or the Somali branch of al Qaeda, they are all very, very angry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eFalling Off the Edge is an adrenaline-charged journey through the developing world, which reveals with clarity that globalization starts wars. Far from living in a time of peace and prosperity, Perry suggests, the boom is about to go bang.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780330456821\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Perry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43136630456489,"sku":"","price":7.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/edge.webp?v=1688788456","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/falling-off-the-edge","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}