The athletic shoes on your feet came from around the world: the American cowhide was tanned in South Korea, the Taiwanese synthetic rubber was derived from Saudi Arabian petroleum, the shoe box was made in the United States and Indonesian rainforest trees provided the tissue paper inside the box.

To understand this growing global-market network, Philip McMichael, Cornell University professor and chair of development sociology, has updated his textbook, Development and Social Change: A Global Perspective , in a third edition recently published by Pine Forge Press/Sage. McMichael donates royalties earned from use of the book in his international development class to nonprofit development organizations.

Development and Social Change provides a coherent explanation of the roots of "globalization," and the way it is affecting development in non-Western societies. The book, used widely internationally, was written for undergraduate and graduate students studying globalization, social development and social change in sociology, political science, anthropology and international studies.

"Globalization is ultimately experienced locally. It is difficult to imagine the changing web of social networks across the world that produce our market culture," says McMichael. "We do not think about the global dimensions of the product we purchase at the supermarket or store, and we do not think about the power of transnational firms that shape the global market and its rules."

This new edition has been updated and revised to include new information on patterns of global subcontracting, fundamentalism, terrorism, HIV-AIDS, resource politics and the developing world, as well as the rise of global justice movements. The book provides a series of case studies of dilemmas and paradoxes relating to development and globalization.