wyszukanych pozycji: 17
The Good Fight: Life Lessons from a Chicago Progressive
ISBN: 9780998442945 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,85 zł |
The Politics of Compassion and Transformation: And Transformation
ISBN: 9780804009041 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of progress, we might expect to look with confidence to the scientific disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization. We might also look to the older disciplines of religion and ethics to determine our values and to tell us what we ought to do. But the sad truth is that the dominant paradigms, methods, and conclusions of the social sciences and humanities are inadequate to this task. We need a new politics of...
In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of progress, we might e...
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131,74 zł |
Political Action: Key to Understanding Politics
ISBN: 9780804008341 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Without a new focus on action, political science will remain sterile; and without a more human politics, citizens will remain misinformed, apathetic, helpless. "Political Action" is controversial because it challenges the profession of political science. It suggests a paradigm shift which is important for allied social science disciplines as well. For political strategists it provides the methodological tool of political action propositions, which allow a careful calculation of the effects of alternative strategies.
Without a new focus on action, political science will remain sterile; and without a more human politics, citizens will remain misinformed, apathetic, ...
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203,46 zł |
Far, Far from Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson Third South Carolina Volunteers
ISBN: 9780195086645 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two.
Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply... In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunt...
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110,04 zł |
Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago
ISBN: 9780252044304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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474,74 zł |
Political Action: Key to Understanding Politics
ISBN: 9780804008358 / Angielski / Miękka / 1984 / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Without a new focus on action, political science will remain sterile; and without a more human politics, citizens will remain misinformed, apathetic, helpless. "Political Action" is controversial because it challenges the profession of political science. It suggests a paradigm shift which is important for allied social science disciplines as well. For political strategists it provides the methodological tool of political action propositions, which allow a careful calculation of the effects of alternative strategies.
Without a new focus on action, political science will remain sterile; and without a more human politics, citizens will remain misinformed, apathetic, ...
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119,94 zł |
Far, Far from Home: The Wartime Letters of Dick and Tally Simpson, Third South Carolina Volunteers
ISBN: 9780195086638 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunteers of the Confederate army. Their letters home--published here for the first time--read like a historical novel, complete with plot, romance, character, suspense, and tragedy. In their last year of college when the war broke out, Dick and Tally were hastily handed their diplomas so they could volunteer for military duty. Dick was twenty; Tally was twenty-two.
Well educated, intelligent, and thoughtful young men, Dick and Tally cared deeply... In April 1861, Dick and Tally Simpson, sons of South Carolina Congressman Richard F. Simpson, enlisted in Company A of the Third South Carolina Volunt...
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525,25 zł |
Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council, 1863 to the Present
ISBN: 9780367098759 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war. At the same time, the author provides a window into the broader struggle for democracy and justice.Simpson points out that through analyzing city council floor fights, battles at the ballot box, and street demonstrations, one can begin to see certain patterns of conflict emerge. These patterns demonstrate that before the Great Depression, fragmented city councils were dominant. The...
In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of t...
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704,29 zł |
The Politics of Compassion and Transformation: And Transformation
ISBN: 9780804009034 / Angielski / Twarda / 1988 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of progress, we might expect to look with confidence to the scientific disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization. We might also look to the older disciplines of religion and ethics to determine our values and to tell us what we ought to do. But the sad truth is that the dominant paradigms, methods, and conclusions of the social sciences and humanities are inadequate to this task. We need a new politics of...
In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of progress, we might e...
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255,63 zł |
Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps: The Politics of the Chicago City Council, 1863 to the Present
ISBN: 9780813397634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic story of the civic wars in the Chicago City Council since the civil war. At the same time, the author provides a window into the broader struggle for democracy and justice.Simpson points out that through analyzing city council floor fights, battles at the ballot box, and street demonstrations, one can begin to see certain patterns of conflict emerge. These patterns demonstrate that before the Great Depression, fragmented city councils were...
In Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps, Dick Simpson challenges and recasts current theories of Regime Politics as he chronicles the dramatic sto...
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260,80 zł |
Democracy's Rebirth: The View from Chicago
ISBN: 9780252086380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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83,42 zł |
Chicago's Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot
ISBN: 9780252087714 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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104,29 zł |
Chicago's Modern Mayors: From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot
ISBN: 9780252045608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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474,74 zł |
Winning Elections in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780700622764 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tell you: Yes you can And the book she recommends for candidates, campaign staff, volunteers, and citizens is Winning Elections in the 21st Century, a handbook for anyone who wants to know how campaigns are run and won today. Written by longtime political veterans, both former elected officials, Winning Elections is steeped in old-fashioned political know-how and savvy about the latest campaign techniques, methods, and...
A national cochair of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama when few thought he could ever be elected, Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky is here to tel...
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187,93 zł |
Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality
ISBN: 9780252078552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Where's mine?" and the public apathy it engenders has made our state and local politics a disgrace.
In "Corrupt Illinois," veteran political observers Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson take aim at business-as-usual. Naming names, the authors lead readers through a gallery of rogues and rotten apples to illustrate how generations of chicanery have undermined faith in, and hope for, honest government. From there, they lay out how to implement... Public funds spent on jets and horses. Shoeboxes stuffed with embezzled cash. Ghost payrolls and incarcerated ex-governors. Illinois' culture of "Wher...
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83,42 zł |
Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen
ISBN: 9781878147400 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 556 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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143,84 zł |
The City, Revisited : Urban Theory from Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York
ISBN: 9780816665754 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The City, engaging in a spirited debate about whether the major theories of twentieth-century urban development are relevant for studying the twenty-first-century metropolis.
Contributors: Janet Abu-Lughod, Northwestern U and New School for Social Research; Robert Beauregard, Columbia U; Larry Bennett, DePaul U; Andrew A. Beveridge, Queens College and CUNY; Amy Bridges, U of California, San Diego; Terry Nichols Clark, U of Chicago; Nicholas... The contributors to The City, Revisited trace an intellectual history that begins in 1925 with the publication of the influential classic The C...
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323,45 zł |