wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Public Persons
ISBN: 9781412810616 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This set of brief pieces examines the relation of power to knowledge. Lippmann paid little homage to the innate wisdom of the people. While he had no wish to disenfranchise citizens, he believed elites drove the engines of power. His point was that liberty and democracy require government that will, when necessary, "swim against the tides of private feelings." Because the public is too divided, poorly informed, and too self-regarding, authority has to be delegated, perhaps to "intelligence bureaus," or at least to those who are wiser than the many that have the power to decide vexing... This set of brief pieces examines the relation of power to knowledge. Lippmann paid little homage to the innate wisdom of the people. While he had ... |
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228,18 zł |
Parts of a Past
ISBN: 9781440149290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gilbert Harrison's memoir includes stories of his early family life in Los Angeles in the 1920's and 30's, an astonishing description of his being the first of two Americans in Nagasaki after the bomb dropped, and gripping accounts of his role in starting the American Veterans Committee, with its attendant battles with the Communist party. There was work for Eleanor Roosevelt, a stint as part of an ecumenical religious organization, and a brief tenure in the CIA. Of primary interest are his years as owner and editor of The New Republic magazine between 1954 and 1976, which put him at the...
Gilbert Harrison's memoir includes stories of his early family life in Los Angeles in the 1920's and 30's, an astonishing description of his being the...
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86,93 zł |
Parts of a Past
ISBN: 9781440149306 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Gilbert Harrison's memoir includes stories of his early family life in Los Angeles in the 1920's and 30's, an astonishing description of his being the first of two Americans in Nagasaki after the bomb dropped, and gripping accounts of his role in starting the American Veterans Committee, with its attendant battles with the Communist party. There was work for Eleanor Roosevelt, a stint as part of an ecumenical religious organization, and a brief tenure in the CIA. Of primary interest are his years as owner and editor of The New Republic magazine between 1954 and 1976, which put him at the...
Gilbert Harrison's memoir includes stories of his early family life in Los Angeles in the 1920's and 30's, an astonishing description of his being the...
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130,50 zł |
Public Persons
ISBN: 9780871401960 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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82,57 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court VII: 2000-2005
ISBN: 9781880780282 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume VII of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers fourteen cases decided from 2000-2005 on violence against women, the contested Presidential election; partial-birth abortion, the gay Boy Scout leader, executing the mentally retarded, internet pornography, affirmative action, sodomy, the Al Qaeda cases, medical marijuana, private property rights, and the Ten Commandments cases.
Volume VII of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers fourteen cases decided from 2000-2005 on violence against women, the cont...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court VIII
ISBN: 9781880780343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume VIII of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases decided from 2006-2010 on physician-assisted suicide, execution by lethal injection, the al Queda detainee, partial birth abortion, crack cocaine, age discrimination, reverse discrimination, campaign finance reform, sexually dangerous persons, and the right to keep and bear arms.
Volume VIII of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases decided from 2006-2010 on physician-assisted suicide, executio...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court I
ISBN: 9780962801419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume I of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on school desegregation, obscenity, school prayer, fair trials, sexual privacy, censorship, abortion, affirmative action, book banning, and flag burning.
Volume I of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on school desegregation, obscenity, school prayer, fair trials, s...
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114,16 zł |
Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court
ISBN: 9781880780152 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" contains the actual text of thirteen major United States Supreme Court Criminal Justice Decisions edited into plain non-legal English. Topics include the right to remain silent, preventive detention, protecting children in court, illegal search and seizure, the right to counsel, double jeopardy, the fruit of the poisonous tree, coerced confessions, the fundamental right to a fair trial, indigent defendants, the right to confront your accuser, victim impact statements, and ineffective counsel.
"Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" contains the actual text of thirteen major United States Supreme Court Criminal Justic...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court III
ISBN: 9780962801433 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume III of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on executive privilege, clear and present danger, forced sterilization, mob justice, the Pledge of Allegiance, illegal search and seizure, interracial marriage, monkey trials, sexual harassment, and separation of church and state.
Volume III of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on executive privilege, clear and present danger, forced steril...
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114,16 zł |
Winter and Spring in Spain and Portugal, with a Cursory Account of a Tour in the Autumn of 1884.
ISBN: 9781241596767 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,34 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court VI
ISBN: 9781880780213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume VI of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on the Aaron Burr conspiracy, Dartmouth College, women's work, the right to bear arms, the "sick chicken" case, the law of war, un-American activities, "one person, one vote," the Presidential line item veto, and the right to die.
Volume VI of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on the Aaron Burr conspiracy, Dartmouth College, women's work, t...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court II
ISBN: 9780962801426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume II of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on slavery, women's suffrage, Japanese-American concentration camps, bible reading in the public schools, the book banned in Boston, rights of the accused, the death penalty, homosexuality, offensive speech, and the right to die.
Volume II of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on slavery, women's suffrage, Japanese-American concentration ca...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court V
ISBN: 9780962801488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume V of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on the slave ships, religious liberty, treason, military justice, marijuana, birth control, baseball, equal pay for equal work, child abuse, and the "Son of Sam" law.
Volume V of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on the slave ships, religious liberty, treason, military justice,...
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114,16 zł |
Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court IV
ISBN: 9780962801471 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume IV of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on federal supremacy, the Trail of Tears, Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus, separate but equal, trust busting, child labor, the atomic spies, libel, conscientious objection, and hate crimes.
Volume IV of "Landmark Decisions of the United States Supreme Court" covers ten cases on federal supremacy, the Trail of Tears, Lincoln's suspension o...
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114,16 zł |
Civil War Speeches: The South
ISBN: 9781880780336 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No television, no internet, no twitter. 150 years ago public opinion was shaped, not by 30-second sound bytes, banner ads, or 140-character messages. It was shaped by people climbing upon the stage and speaking persuasively to audiences large and small. One speech, carefully constructed, passionately given, and widely circulated, could and did turn obscure politicians into national figures. Civil War Speeches is a collection of passionate words spoken by the people most intimately involved in the great debates of their time. There is an unmistakable truth that one man's traitorous zealot is...
No television, no internet, no twitter. 150 years ago public opinion was shaped, not by 30-second sound bytes, banner ads, or 140-character messages. ...
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114,16 zł |
Civil War Speeches: The North
ISBN: 9781880780329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No television, no internet, no twitter. 150 years ago public opinion was shaped, not by 30-second sound bytes, banner ads, or 140-character messages. It was shaped by people climbing upon the stage and speaking persuasively to audiences large and small. One speech, carefully constructed, passionately given, and widely circulated, could and did turn obscure politicians into national figures. Civil War Speeches is a collection of passionate words spoken by the people most intimately involved in the great debates of their time. There is an unmistakable truth that one man's traitorous zealot is...
No television, no internet, no twitter. 150 years ago public opinion was shaped, not by 30-second sound bytes, banner ads, or 140-character messages. ...
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114,16 zł |
The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 9781880780275 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" is an anthology of twenty memorable speeches and two famous letters from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The history of the country's most turbulent time is brought to us in the stirring words of our sixteenth president. An easy-to-use authoritative collection of President Lincoln's most memorable speeches, edited down to their essential elements, "The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" includes: "A House Divided Against Itself," "The Cooper Institute Address," "The Emancipation Proclamation," "The Gettysburg Address," "A Day Of Thanksgiving," "The Second Inaugural...
"The Speeches of Abraham Lincoln" is an anthology of twenty memorable speeches and two famous letters from the life of Abraham Lincoln. The history of...
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114,16 zł |
John F. Kennedy: Word for Word
ISBN: 9781880780039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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114,16 zł |