wyszukanych pozycji: 10
Arms and the University: Military Presence and the Civic Education of Non-Military Students
ISBN: 9780521156707 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the citizen soldier. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical...
Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian c...
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216,16 zł |
Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment
ISBN: 9780268009687 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked survivor community rose in protest and the issue went to court, with the ACLU defending the Nazis’ right to free speech. The court ruled in the Nazis’ favor. According to the “content neutrality doctrine” governing First Amendment jurisprudence, the Nazis’ insults and villifications were “neutral”--not the issue, as far as the law was concerned. But to Downs, they are at issue. In Nazis in Skokie he challenges the doctrine of...
In 1977, a Chicago-based Nazi group announced its plans to demonstrate in Skokie, Illinois, the home of hundreds of Holocaust survivors. The shocked s...
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433,01 zł |
Arms and the University
ISBN: 9780521192323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian control of the military and the long-standing ideal of the citizen soldier. Nowhere is this issue more predominant than at many major universities, which began turning their backs on the military during the chaotic years of the Vietnam War. Arms and the University probes various dimensions of this alienation, as well recent efforts to restore a closer relationship between the military and the university. Through theoretical and empirical...
Alienation between the U.S. military and society has grown in recent decades. Such alienation is unhealthy, as it threatens both sufficient civilian c...
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327,56 zł |
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
ISBN: 9780521839877 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the last decade and a half and with what needs to be done to reverse this trend. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs analyzes the origins and development of the problem, and shows how political organization of students and faculty can lead to constructive change. He presents four case studies that illustrate this thesis.
This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the l...
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401,69 zł |
More Than Victims: Battered Women, the Syndrome Society, and the Law
ISBN: 9780226161600 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "In More Than Victims," Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a legal defense, ultimately revealing how the syndrome's logic actually harms those it is trying to protect. A persuasive account of how constitutional freedom and individual justice can be threatened by current legal standards, this thorough yet accessible work presents a dramatic rethinking of the criminal justice system.
""More Than Victims" is a powerful step in the right direction. Women as well as men need to be protected from violence, and... "In More Than Victims," Donald Downs offers a sympathetic and powerful analysis of the problems attending the use of battered-woman syndrome as a lega...
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164,75 zł |
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus
ISBN: 9780521689717 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the last decade and a half and with what needs to be done to reverse this trend. Drawing on personal experience as well as research, Downs analyzes the origins and development of the problem, and shows how political organization of students and faculty can lead to constructive change. He presents four case studies that illustrate this thesis.
This book deals with the decline of respect for free speech, academic freedom, and civil liberty that has swept higher education in America over the l...
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159,46 zł |
Cornell '69
ISBN: 9780801436536 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty defiant members of the campus's Afro-American Society. Marching out Sunday night, the protesters brandished rifles, their maxim: "If we die, you are going to die." Cornell '69 is an electrifying account of that weekend which probes the origins of the drama and describes how it was played out not only at Cornell but on campuses across the nation during the heyday of American liberalism.Donald Alexander Downs tells the story of how Cornell...
In April 1969, one of America's premier universities was celebrating parents' weekend and the student union was an armed camp, occupied by over eighty...
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259,34 zł |
The New Politics of Pornography
ISBN: 9780226161631 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Fresh empirical evidence of pornography's negative effects and the resurgence of feminist and conservative critiques have caused local, state, and federal officials to reassess the pornography issue. In "The New Politics of Pornography," Donald Alexander Downs explores the contemporary antipornography movement and addresses difficult questions about the limits of free speech. Drawing on official transcripts and extensive interviews, Downs recreates and analyzes landmark cases in Minneapolis and Indianapolis. He argues persuasively that both conservative and liberal camps are often...
Fresh empirical evidence of pornography's negative effects and the resurgence of feminist and conservative critiques have caused local, state, and fed...
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153,76 zł |
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives
ISBN: 9780367591021 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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208,62 zł |
The Value and Limits of Academic Speech: Philosophical, Political, and Legal Perspectives
ISBN: 9781138479890 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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704,29 zł |