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The Future of Police Reform – The U.S. Justice Department and the Promise of Lawful Policing
ISBN: 9781479826025 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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146,02 zł |
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Property Investment for Beginners
ISBN: 9781914380181 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,15 zł |
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Hate Speech: The History of an American Controversy
ISBN: 9780803297517 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other county in the world offers the same kind of protection to offensive speech. How did this free speech tradition develop? Hate Speech provides the first comprehensive account of the history of the hate speech controversy in the United States. Samuel Walker examines the issue, from the conflicts over the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s and American Nazi groups in the 1930s, to the famous Skokie episode in 1977-78, and the campus culture wars of the 1990s....
The First Amendment protects even the most offensive forms of expression: racial slurs, hateful religious propaganda, and cross-burning. No other coun...
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67,77 zł |
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Taming the System: The Control of Discretion in Criminal Justice, 1950-1990
ISBN: 9780195078206 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials. Taming the System is a history of the forty-year effort to control the discretion. It examines the discretion problem from the initial "discovery" of the phenomenon by the American Bar Foundation in the 1950s through to the most recent evaluation research on reform measures. Of enormous value to scholars, reformers, and criminal justice professionals, this book approaches the discretion problem through a detailed examination...
It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other o...
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436,29 zł |
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ACC Basketball: The Story of the Rivalries, Traditions, and Scandals of the First Two Decades of the Atlantic Coast Conference
ISBN: 9781469619088 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league's basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference's rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972.
Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games and the tensions of bitter recruiting battles without losing sight of the central off-court questions the league wrestled... Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the l...
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196,22 zł |
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The New World of Police Accountability
ISBN: 9781412909433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The New World of Police Accountability is the first book to provide an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developments in policing over the past ten years. Esteemed author Samuel Walker synthesizes the major developments in the area of police accountability and argues that these developments represent a new period in the history of police reform that promises to address the historic problems of police abuse. This text assesses both the achievements and limitations of police accountability and reshapes the conventional wisdom on this topic. The book covers... The New World of Police Accountability is the first book to provide an original and comprehensive analysis of some of the most important developmen... |
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367,93 zł |
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Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians
ISBN: 9781107016606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.
This is the first book to examine the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama.
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673,52 zł |
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
ISBN: 9780520246836 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appears to be a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. In a spectacular coincidence, on March 28, 1979, less than two weeks after the movie came out, the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power in the United States occurred at Three Mile Island. For five days, the citizens of central Pennsylvania and the entire world, amid growing alarm, followed the efforts of authorities to prevent the crippled plant from spewing dangerous...
Twenty-five years ago, Hollywood released The China Syndrome, featuring Jane Fonda and Michael Douglas as a TVnews crew who witness what appear...
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169,52 zł |
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Popular Justice: A History of American Criminal Justice
ISBN: 9780195074512 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspective. Walker identifies the major periods in the development of the American system of criminal justice, from the small institutions of the colonial period to the creation of the police, the prison, and the juvenile court in the nineteenth century and the search for professionalism in the twentieth century. He argues that the democratic tradition is responsible for the worst as well as the best in the history of criminal justice in the United...
This popular one-volume analysis of the evolution of American criminal justice places contemporary issues of crime and justice in historical perspecti...
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630,05 zł |
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Presidents and Civil Liberties from Wilson to Obama: A Story of Poor Custodians
ISBN: 9781107677081 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, and that several have perpetrated some of the worst violations. Some Democratic presidents (Wilson and...
This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil ...
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194,06 zł |
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Civil Liberties in America: A Reference Handbook
ISBN: 9781576079270 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Written for a general audience, this work clearly defines civil liberties and explains their legal basis in the Bill of Rights, state constitutions, legal statutes, and administrative regulations. It reviews the subject's history from 1917 to the present, and covers the full range of civil liberties issues: the First Amendment, due process, equal protection, and privacy. In addition to extensive material on past controversies such as the "Scopes" trial and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the book discusses important contemporary issues such as censorship on the... Written for a general audience, this work clearly defines civil liberties and explains their legal basis in the Bill of Rights, state constitutions... |
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302,03 zł |
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The Rights Revolution: Rights and Community in Modern America
ISBN: 9780195090253 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse?
In The Rights Revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The "rights revolution," says Walker, is the embodiment of the American ideals of morality and community. He argues that the critics of personal... The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution"...
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124,87 zł |
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Jonathan Edwards und Charles Finney, Unterschiedliche Theologien der Erweckung im Spannungsfeld zwischen göttlicher und menschlicher Kraft
ISBN: 9789403643687 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Dies ist eine der ersten wissenschaftlichen Studien dieser Art von einem deutschen Theologen, der die zwei gegensätzlichen Erweckungstheologien von Jonathan Edwards und Charles Finney miteinander vergleicht.Durch eine intensive Betrachtung der ersten und zweiten großen Erweckung in Nordamerika und ihrer zentralen Figuren Edwards und Finney wird klar, warum sich die evangelikale Erweckungstheologie im 19. Jahrhundert grundsätzlich verändert hat. Das Leben von Edwards und Finney, ihr Verständnis von Erweckung und insbesondere ihre Theologie und Methodik werden systematisch untersucht und...
Dies ist eine der ersten wissenschaftlichen Studien dieser Art von einem deutschen Theologen, der die zwei gegensätzlichen Erweckungstheologien von J...
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68,10 zł |
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Jonathan Edwards und Charles Finney, Unterschiedliche Theologien der Erweckung im Spannungsfeld zwischen göttlicher und menschlicher Kraft
ISBN: 9789403643670 / Niemiecki / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Dies ist eine der ersten wissenschaftlichen Studien dieser Art von einem deutschen Theologen, der die zwei gegensätzlichen Erweckungstheologien und Methoden von Jonathan Edwards und Charles Finney miteinander vergleicht.Durch eine intensive Betrachtung der ersten und zweiten großen Erweckung in Nordamerika und ihrer zentralen Figuren Edwards und Finney wird klar, warum sich die evangelikale Erweckungstheologie im 19. Jahrhundert grundsätzlich verändert hat. Das Leben von Edwards und Finney, ihr Verständnis von Erweckung und insbesondere ihre Theologie und Methodik werden systematisch...
Dies ist eine der ersten wissenschaftlichen Studien dieser Art von einem deutschen Theologen, der die zwei gegensätzlichen Erweckungstheologien und M...
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77,61 zł |
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Universities, Employability and Human Development
ISBN: 9781137584519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability research and to capabilities and education research. The book moves beyond the simplistic conception of alleged 'gaps' in graduate skills and 'mismatches' between employers and universities, and instead provides an innovative multi-dimensional and intersectional human capabilities conceptualisation of graduate employability. The book challenges an individualised notion of employability, instead locating employability issues in social and economic conditions, and argues that...
The book makes a significant contribution to critical higher education studies, specifically to graduate employability research and to capabilities an...
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427,02 zł |
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The Road to Yucca Mountain: The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
ISBN: 9780520260450 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems associated with radioactive waste. From the Manhattan Project through the designation in 1987 of Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a high-level waste repository, Walker thoroughly investigates the approaches adopted by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He explains the growing criticism of the AEC's waste programs, such as the AEC's embarrassing failure in its first serious effort to build a high-level waste repository in a Kansas salt mine....
In The Road to Yucca Mountain, J. Samuel Walker traces the U.S. government's tangled efforts to solve the technical and political problems ass...
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521,09 zł |
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The Day That Shook America: A Concise History of 9/11
ISBN: 9780700632619 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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206,10 zł |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan (Easyread Large Edition)
ISBN: 9781442994751 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the roles of U.S.-Soviet relations and of American domestic politics. In this new e...
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most c...
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154,99 zł |
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Permissible Dose: A History of Radiation Protection in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780520223288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts to ensure radiation safety for nuclear workers and for the general public. The risks of radiation--caused by fallout from nuclear bomb testing, exposure from medical or manufacturing procedures, effluents from nuclear power, or radioactivity from other sources--have aroused more sustained controversy and public fear than any other comparable industrial or environmental hazard. Walker clarifies the entire radiation debate, showing that...
How much radiation is too much? J. Samuel Walker examines the evolution, over more than a hundred years, of radiation protection standards and efforts...
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291,05 zł |
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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
ISBN: 9781469628974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research--mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available--that provides fresh insight on the strategic considerations that led to dropping the bomb. From the debate about whether to invade or continue the...
In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most c...
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163,25 zł |
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