wyszukanych pozycji: 22
Hazardous to Our Health?: FDA Regulation of Health Care Products
ISBN: 9780945999416 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 113 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most powerful of federal regulatory agencies, if not the most powerful, regulating about 25 per cent of all consumer goods in the United States. It routinely makes decisions that determine the well-being of millions of people in the United States and around the world concerning foods, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. Although the FDA was created to protect the public, could its actual operations have the opposite effect, causing enormous harm to public health? Assembling the work of three outstanding scholars, Hazardous...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is one of the most powerful of federal regulatory agencies, if not the most powerful, regulating about 25 pe...
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79,12 zł |
Voices from the Hills: Selected Readings of Southern Appalachia
ISBN: 9780787286736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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585,13 zł |
Great Wars and Great Leaders (Large Print Edition): A Libertarian Rebuttal
ISBN: 9781478385479 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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51,86 zł |
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
ISBN: 9780945999966 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empirical evidence, the book attacks the data on which governments base their economic management and their responses to an ongoing stream of crises. Among the topics discussed are domestic economic busts, foreign wars, welfare programs such as social security, the arts of political leadership, the intrusive efforts of governments to protect people from themselves, and the...
An unflinching critical analysis of government is contained in this work, which distills complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Comb...
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100,29 zł |
Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy
ISBN: 9780195182927 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoint. In Depression, War, and Cold War, Robert Higgs, a highly regarded economic historian, makes pointed, fresh economic arguments against war, showing links between government policies and the economy in a clear, accessible way. He boldly questions, for instance, the widely accepted idea that World War II was the chief reason the Depression-era economy recovered. The book as a whole covers American economic history from the Great...
Other books exist that warn of the dangers of empire and war. However, few, if any, of these books do so from a scholarly, informed economic standpoin...
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358,74 zł |
Delusions of Power: New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy
ISBN: 9781598130454 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the growing authority--and corruption--of the American state. Covering topics from the Lyndon Johnson presidency to the provocatively titled article "Military-Economic Fascism" on the military-industrial-congressional complex, it argues that the U.S. government consistently exploits national crises and then invents timely rhetoric that limits the rights and liberties of all citizens for the benefit of the few, be they political leaders or various...
Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the grow...
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116,16 zł |
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American Economy 1865-1914
ISBN: 9780521088404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865 1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipation. Its central theme is that economic competition and racial coercion jointly determined the material condition of the blacks. The book identifies a number of competitive processes that played important roles in protecting blacks from the racial coercion to which they were peculiarly vulnerable. It also documents the substantial economic gains realized by the black population between 1865 and 1914. Professor Higgs's account is iconoclastic....
Competition and Coercion: Blacks in the American economy, 1865 1914 is a reinterpretation of black economic history in the half-century after Emancipa...
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205,66 zł |
Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government
ISBN: 9781598131116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Discussing how government has continually grown in size and scope during the past century, this account demonstrates that the main reason lies in government s responses to national crises (real or imagined), including economic upheavals and, especially, war. The result, this book argues, is the ever-increasing government power, which endures long after each crisis has passed, impinging on both civil and economic liberties and fostering extensive corporate welfare. Offering ideological explanations for the ascension of the role of government out of a capitalist, free-market economy, it will...
Discussing how government has continually grown in size and scope during the past century, this account demonstrates that the main reason lies in gove...
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105,58 zł |
The Cowboy Way: The Western Leader in Film, 1945-1995
ISBN: 9780313308710 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as "Red River," "Shane," "Unforgiven," "The Wild Bunch," "Wyatt Earp," and "Dances with Wolves," this work examines traditional leadership theories as reflected in the western film genre. The western vividly portrays a variety of leadership styles, motifs, and characteristics giving perspective on several traditional leadership theories. The different leadership styles the films exhibit are categorized and described through content analysis. Some of the concepts and underlying theories and styles reveal a universal quality about... Analyzing a sample of 25 films, including such notables as "Red River," "Shane," "Unforgiven," "The Wild Bunch," "Wyatt Earp," and "Dances with Wol... |
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553,73 zł |
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11
ISBN: 9780945999560 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical pieces lambasts the highest officials in the executive branch for incompetence and moral blindness. Analyses of both wars and the crisis following 9/11 portray the conflicts as opportunities for special interests to entrench themselves in the U.S. government at the expense of U.S. citizens civil liberties and tax dollars, and the lives of numerous Afghan and Iraqi non-combatants. Pulling no punches, this work holds George W. Bush and members of...
Exploring the politics and morality that pulled the United States into wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, this collection of essays, stories, and satirical...
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68,53 zł |
The Challenge of Liberty: Classical Liberalism Today
ISBN: 9781598130027 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Smith stressed the inherent worth of the individual, inalienable rights, and the benevolent consequences of the cooperative, peaceful pursuit of one's own happiness. These ideas became the intellectual scaffolding for much of the West's most fundamental institutions and achievements. Yet after its 19th-century high-water mark, classical liberalism lost much of its passion, focus, and popular support. Intellectual trends increasingly began to...
The quest for freedom has always been as much a battle of ideas as it is a popular struggle. Classical liberal pioneers such as John Locke and Adam Sm...
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105,58 zł |
God in the Stadium-Pa
ISBN: 9780813108537 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in American society far out of proportion to their traditional value. In this powerful critique of present-day American popular culture, Robert J. Higgs examines the complex and increasingly pervasive control that sports wield in shaping the national self-image. He provides a thoughtful history and analysis of how sports and religion have become intertwined and offers a stinging indictment of the sports-religion-media-education complex. Beginning... From the worship of Michael Jordan to the downfall of O.J. Simpson, it has become clear that sports and sports heroes have assumed a role in Americ... |
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164,23 zł |
Delusions of Power: New Explorations of the State, War, and Economy
ISBN: 9781598130522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the growing authority--and corruption--of the American state. Covering topics from the Lyndon Johnson presidency to the provocatively titled article Military-Economic Fascism on the military-industrial-congressional complex, it argues that the U.S. government consistently exploits national crises and then invents timely rhetoric that limits the rights and liberties of all citizens for the benefit of the few, be they political leaders or various...
Taking a close look at the dense fabric that our government weaves between war, state power, and economics, this collection of essays reveals the grow...
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184,96 zł |
Sports: A Reference Guide
ISBN: 9780313213618 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "[A] useful, lucid, intelligent contribution to sports scholarship." Journal of Sport History
"[A] useful, lucid, intelligent contribution to sports scholarship." Journal of Sport History
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484,58 zł |
Laurel and Thorn: The Athlete in American Literature
ISBN: 9780813152486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Wolfe, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams. Higgs views the athlete in literature not as an artistic creation but as one who reflects the tastes, attainments, beliefs, and ideals of his society. The athletes he describes as Apollonian are the know-it-alls, of whom Lardner's Busher Keefe is an example; the Dyonisian, as exemplified by Irwin Shaw's Christian... To examine the social and cultural significance of the athlete hero in American literature, Robert J. Higgs turns to the works of Ring Lardner, Ern... |
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136,86 zł |
The Flying Fish
ISBN: 9781425185114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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102,90 zł |
Unholy Alliance
ISBN: 9780865549562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen a spate of books that might be classified by a genre called "Sports Apologetics," that is, arguments defending or celebrating in one way or another the familiar and ongoing alliance in America between sports and religion. Recently, claims have been made by scholars that sports are an authentic religion in and of themselves. They make this startling assertion not by showing connections with the teachings of Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed, or Moses, but...
An Unholy Alliance offers a dissenting view to the claim by a growing number of scholars that Sports are a new religion. The last few years have seen ...
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142,33 zł |
Researching Practice : A Discourse on Qualitative Methodologies
ISBN: 9789460911811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Researching practice: A discourse on qualitative methodologies explores issues, strategies and challenges associated with researching practice. The authors bring a wealth of research practice wisdom and experience to this task. The book provides critical and creative input to the discourse on qualitative research methodologies. It is divided into four sections. The first section explores the issues that frame qualitative research on practice in the 21st century. Section Two is concerned with locating the questions, practices and issues of qualitative research on practice in researchers'...
Researching practice: A discourse on qualitative methodologies explores issues, strategies and challenges associated with researching practice. The au...
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237,55 zł |
Taking a Stand: Reflections on Life, Liberty, and the Economy
ISBN: 9781598132038 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government s shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Administrative State. For several decades he has unstintingly chronicled the federal, state, and local governments malfeasance in these many areas of life that all levels of government have intruded upon without Constitutional mandate. In this book, however, are essays that show a whimsical, introspective, and personal side of this world renowned scholar. From the myth that the government has derived its powers from the consent of the governed to...
In his academic work, Robert Higgs has dissected the government s shrewd secret excesses that lead to the Welfare State, the Warfare State, and the Ad...
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147,91 zł |
Researching Practice : A Discourse on Qualitative Methodologies
ISBN: 9789460911828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Researching practice: A discourse on qualitative methodologies explores issues, strategies and challenges associated with researching practice. The authors bring a wealth of research practice wisdom and experience to this task. The book provides critical and creative input to the discourse on qualitative research methodologies. It is divided into four sections. The first section explores the issues that frame qualitative research on practice in the 21st century. Section Two is concerned with locating the questions, practices and issues of qualitative research on practice in researchers'...
Researching practice: A discourse on qualitative methodologies explores issues, strategies and challenges associated with researching practice. The au...
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427,60 zł |