<P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>For global studies courses across the curriculum, Ann Kelleher and Laura Klein's<I> Global Perspectives</I> provides a broad analytical framework for understanding cultural, economic, environmental, and political issues.</B></P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px"> </P> <P style="MARGIN: 0px">This brief multidisciplinary primer introduces the basic concepts needed to study global issues as well as the differing perspectives that scholars, policymakers, and individuals bring to these issues.<I> Global Perspectives</I> helps students make sense of short and long-term problems facing the world in the twenty-first century, historical and current events that led to and fuel these problems, and the consequences of their choices in an era of globalization.</P>