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The War on Terror in Comparative Perspective: Us Security and Foreign Policy After 9/11
ISBN: 9780230007291 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers a thoughtful analysis of the international and domestic political impact of the global war on terrorism through the prism of US security relations in the wake of 9/11. Focused on regional and country-specific responses and consequences, the book considers the change and continuity in the international system.
This book offers a thoughtful analysis of the international and domestic political impact of the global war on terrorism through the prism of US secur...
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201,72 zł |
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The 9/11 Commission Report with Related Documents
ISBN: 9780312450991 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left Americans wondering how such a breach of security could have occurred. Relatives and friends of the victims pushed for the creation of a National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States to investigate the government's preparedness for and response to the attacks and to provide recommendations for preventing future disasters. As Senior Advisor to the 9/11 Commission, Ernest R. May provides students with a firsthand account of the commission's methods and actions. His introduction, which describes the drafting process and the...
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left Americans wondering how such a breach of security could have occurred. Relatives and friends of the v...
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169,73 zł |
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The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib
ISBN: 9780521853248 / Angielski / Twarda / 1284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. These documents present for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The Bush Administration, concerned about the legality of harsh interrogation techniques, understood the need to establish a legally viable argument to justify such procedures. The memos and reports document the systematic...
The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coe...
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154,48 zł |
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After The Towers Fell: Lest We Forget
ISBN: 9780595276660 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "After the Towers Fell" is a contemporary account of the nation's ordeal from the destruction of the World Trade Center to the invasion of Iraq. Written in the form of letters addressed to the Old World from the New, this book tells the story of America's fateful metamorphosis through eyewitness detail, breaking news, and social commentary.
Who is the Enemy? What does War demand? How must we change to win? Provocative, passionate, insightful, and sobering, "After the Towers Fell" presents the unforgiving history of world-changing times. In case you have forgotten. "After the Towers Fell" is a contemporary account of the nation's ordeal from the destruction of the World Trade Center to the invasion of Iraq. Writt...
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53,76 zł |
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Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace
ISBN: 9780595347322 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, the first new "Star Wars" movie in sixteen years came to theater screens worldwide. Leading up to the release of the film, the hype and media coverage reached epic proportions. "The Phantom Menace" graced every cover from Vanity Fair to Newsweek to Entertainment Weekly. Fans began camping in line for more than a month in Los Angeles just to be first to see the new film. "Anticipation" tells the real-life story of a movie that faced expectations unlike those of any other film in history, but had the advantage of years of anticipation and excitement from eager fans and the public. "The...
In 1999, the first new "Star Wars" movie in sixteen years came to theater screens worldwide. Leading up to the release of the film, the hype and media...
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76,88 zł |
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Aliens and Cowboys: (Bush's Legacy of Lies)
ISBN: 9780595367733 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first four years the Bush White House allowed a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global warming, editing out scientific conclusions he didn't like. Bush's Interior Department offered to overpay a wealthy Republican donor for oil and gas rights on Everglades land that the government already owns. The Pentagon's inspector general released a report on a lucrative Air Force contract for Boeing that cost too much for planes the military didn't want. Perhaps the White House pushed for the contract because Boeing was a generous...
In the first four years the Bush White House allowed a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global ...
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69,17 zł |
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What Mean These Stones?: Lessons of Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, The Million Man March The Millions More Movement
ISBN: 9780595374045 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the Million Man March.
As different as the three of these events might be, all of them prompt important questions. What did they mean at the time they occurred, and what do they mean today? Author Gilbert H. Caldwell takes a deeper look into the existence of racism and historical events in America. He uses four key events in American history-the Million Man March of October 1995, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina-in his dissection of racism's relationship to poverty, discord, and national disunity. Through a powerful mix of letters from those who participated... Hurricane Katrina, 9/11, and the Million Man March.
As different as the three of these events might be, all of them prompt important questions. Wha... |
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53,76 zł |
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A Season to Remember 2005-2006
ISBN: 9780595397617 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,32 zł |
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Anticipation: The Real Life Story of Star Wars: Episode I-The Phantom Menace
ISBN: 9780595671489 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, the first new "Star Wars" movie in sixteen years came to theater screens worldwide. Leading up to the release of the film, the hype and media coverage reached epic proportions. "The Phantom Menace" graced every cover from Vanity Fair to Newsweek to Entertainment Weekly. Fans began camping in line for more than a month in Los Angeles just to be first to see the new film. "Anticipation" tells the real-life story of a movie that faced expectations unlike those of any other film in history, but had the advantage of years of anticipation and excitement from eager fans and the public. "The...
In 1999, the first new "Star Wars" movie in sixteen years came to theater screens worldwide. Leading up to the release of the film, the hype and media...
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115,42 zł |
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Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism
ISBN: 9780714653136 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in the light of the events of September 11 2001. The collection argues that terrorism now promises to enter the terrain of global grand strategy.
This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in...
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782,04 zł |
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11 September and its Aftermath : The Geopolitics of Terror
ISBN: 9780714655727 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A series of 11 original essays discussing the impacts of 11 September 2001 on foreign policies and international relations. The authors draw from a variety of perspectives to discuss America and emerging world orders, terrorism, environmental security, civil society and the visual and print media.
A series of 11 original essays discussing the impacts of 11 September 2001 on foreign policies and international relations. The authors draw from a va...
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782,04 zł |
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Grand Strategy in the War Against Terrorism
ISBN: 9780714682686 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in the light of the events of September 11 2001. The collection argues that terrorism now promises to enter the terrain of global grand strategy.
This collection of essays examines the strategic dimensions of contemporary terrorist threats. It evaluates the changing nature of modern terrorism in...
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273,66 zł |
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11 September 2001: War, Terror and Judgement
ISBN: 9780714684031 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What special vulnerabilities does the world of the 21st century have to terrorist attacks? What kind of role does the United States see itself playing as the world's only superpower in the coming decades? How should we now characterize the conduct of the US foreign policy? Answers to such questions are perhaps not much clearer now than they were immediately after the attacks, but one of the more positive effects of these attacks has been to stimulate much serious discussion about them, and thus about the place of violence about changing forms of warfare, about different forms of terror, and...
What special vulnerabilities does the world of the 21st century have to terrorist attacks? What kind of role does the United States see itself playing...
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244,34 zł |
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11 September and its Aftermath: The Geopolitics of Terror
ISBN: 9780714684543 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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244,34 zł |
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Women Journalists at Ground Zero: Covering Crisis
ISBN: 9780742519435 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women Journalists at Ground Zero tells the rich and moving stories of 24 journalists who reported from New York City, Washington, D.C., and the Pittsburgh area during and following the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Recounting their professional and personal experiences in reporting a disaster of great magnitude, these television, radio, newspaper, magazine, and photojournalists--from local reporters to journalists and producers at major media organizations like CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, the New York Times, and the Associated Press--show us how the news...
Women Journalists at Ground Zero tells the rich and moving stories of 24 journalists who reported from New York City, Washington, D.C., and the Pittsb...
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307,93 zł |
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Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age
ISBN: 9780742536524 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans looked to President Bush for words of leadership. In his most formal reply of the day, he said, 'Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.' The stark tone of Bush's speech suggested the promise of more words to...
Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans looked to President Bush for words of leadership. In his most formal reply of the day, ...
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508,33 zł |
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Bush's War: Media Bias and Justifications for War in a Terrorist Age
ISBN: 9780742536531 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans looked to President Bush for words of leadership. In his most formal reply of the day, he said, "Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers; moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by evil, despicable acts of terror." The stark tone of Bush's speech suggested the promise of more words to...
Immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001, Americans looked to President Bush for words of leadership. In his most formal reply of the day, ...
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185,73 zł |
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Media in an American Crisis: Studies of September 11, 2001
ISBN: 9780761831846 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and pervasive media coverage of our time. The need for information is the instinctive human reaction to crisis.
September 11, 2001, represents not only the most tragic event of modern times on American soil but also the event that garnered the most intense and p...
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325,27 zł |
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Wealth and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich
ISBN: 9780767905343 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the...
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestsell...
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84,78 zł |
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Who's Looking Out for You?
ISBN: 9780767913805 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions who are letting Americans down and what we should do about it.
Bill O Reilly is mad as hell and he s not going to let you take it anymore. In his most powerful and personal book yet, this media powerhouse and unstoppable truth-teller takes on those individuals and institutions in American life who are failing in their duties big-time. In his inimitable style, mixing wit, pugnacity, and plain common sense, O Reilly kicks butt and... From the mega-bestselling author of The O'Reilly Factor and The No Spin Zone, a no-holds-barred expose of the people and institutions...
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77,07 zł |
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