Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama
ISBN: 9780374536442 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History. A necessary and unprecedented account of America's changing relationship with Israel When it comes to Israel, U.S. policy has, for some time, emphasized the unbreakable bond between the two countries and our ironclad commitment to Israel's security. Today our ties to Israel are close--so close that when there are differences, they tend to make the news. But it was not always this way. Dennis Ross has been a direct participant in shaping U.S.... Winner of the National Jewish Book Award's Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History. A necessary and ... |
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The Subprime Virus: Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps
ISBN: 9780199398287 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core. How did it happen? Where was the government? Did anyone see the crisis coming? Will the new financial reforms avoid a repeat performance? In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy answer these questions as they tell the story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and the economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. The Subprime...
The subprime crisis shook the American economy to its core. How did it happen? Where was the government? Did anyone see the crisis coming? Will the ne...
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123,87 zł |
God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
ISBN: 9780520291164 / Angielski / Twarda / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How did that happen and what are the implications? Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the "greening" of religion, God and the Green Divide examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the daily lives of urban Americans. Baugh demonstrates how complex dynamics related to race,...
American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have ...
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577,47 zł |
God and the Green Divide: Religious Environmentalism in Black and White
ISBN: 9780520291171 / Angielski / Miękka / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have helped instill concern about the earth among groups diverse in religion, race, ethnicity, and class. How did that happen and what are the implications? Building on scholarship that provides theological and ethical resources to support the "greening" of religion, God and the Green Divide examines religious environmentalism as it actually happens in the daily lives of urban Americans. Baugh demonstrates how complex dynamics related to race,...
American environmentalism historically has been associated with the interests of white elites. Yet religious leaders in the twenty-first century have ...
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186,36 zł |
Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
ISBN: 9781439913703 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to Never Forget. Recuber explains how a specific and real kind... Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ... |
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133,30 zł |
Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America's Decade of Disaster
ISBN: 9781439913697 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and the 2008 financial crisis. In Consuming Catastrophe, Timothy Recuber presents a unique and provocative look at how these four very different disasters took a similar path through public consciousness. He explores the myriad ways we engage with and negotiate our feelings about disasters and tragedies from omnipresent media broadcasts to relief fund efforts and promises to Never Forget. Recuber explains how a specific and real kind... Horrified, saddened, and angered: That was the American people s reaction to the 9/11 attacks, Hurricane Katrina, the Virginia Tech shootings, and ... |
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Why the Right Went Wrong: Conservatism--From Goldwater to Trump and Beyond
ISBN: 9781476763804 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and "notably fair-minded" (The New York Times Book Review), story of the GOP's fracturing--from the 1964 Goldwater takeover to the Trump spectacle. Why the Right Went Wrong offers an "up to the moment" (The Christian Science Monitor) historical view of the right since the 1960s. Its core contention is that American conservatism and the Republican Party took a wrong turn when they adopted Barry Goldwater's worldview during and after the 1964 campaign. The radicalism of today's...
From the author of Why Americans Hate Politics, the New York Times bestselling and "notably fair-minded" (The New York Times Book Rev...
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"Guns Don't Kill People, People Kill People": And Other Myths About Guns and Gun Control
ISBN: 9780807088845 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debunking the lethal logic behind the pervasive myths that have framed the gun control debate
The gun lobby s remarkable success in using engaging slogans to frame the gun control debate has allowed it to block lifesaving gun legislation for decades. But is there any truth to this bumper-sticker logic? Dennis Henigan exposes the mythology and misguided thinking at the core of these pro-gun catchphrases, which continue to have an outsized influence on public attitudes toward guns and gun control. He counters the gun lobby s messages by weaving together the most compelling current... Debunking the lethal logic behind the pervasive myths that have framed the gun control debate
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77,39 zł |
Tell Me Another War Story
ISBN: 9781498465731 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tell Me Another War Story is about the life and legacy of Evans Garcia, who was born in 1913 in Dona Ana, New Mexico, and who fought in World War II with New Mexico National Guard's 200th Coast Artillery (AA) in the Philippines. His unit was the first to fire on the enemy in the Pacific and, on April 9, 1942, the last unit to lay their arms down in the Battle of Bataan when they were surrendered, subsequently taken captive as prisoners of war, and forced on the ruthless, inhumane Bataan Death March.The story begins by tracing Evans' rural upbringing with families who worked in Mesilla...
Tell Me Another War Story is about the life and legacy of Evans Garcia, who was born in 1913 in Dona Ana, New Mexico, and who fought in World War II w...
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The Torture Report: A Graphic Adaptation
ISBN: 9781568585758 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 576-page report that strongly condemns the CIA for its secret and brutal use of torture in the treatment of prisoners during the George W. Bush Administration after 9/11. This deeply researched and fully documented investigation caused monumental controversy, interest, and concern, yet much of the American public found the report to be dense and inaccessible to the general reader. Using their tried, tested, and celebrated graphic storytelling method, Sid Jacobson and Ernie Colon have summarized, illustrated, and made accessible...
On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a 576-page report that strongly condemns the CIA for its secret and brutal use of tort...
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Essential Documents of American History, Volume II: From Reconstruction to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780486809083 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which ratified women's right to vote; the Supreme Court's decision on Brown v. Board of Education; and the "Heroism and Horror" portion of the 9/11 Commission Report; as well as presidential speeches, Acts and Declarations of Congress, essays, letters, and much more.
The compilation of more than 70 documents opens with nineteenth-century speeches by Red Cloud ("The Great Spirit Made Us Both") and Chief Joseph ("I Will Fight No More Forever") and... This compact volume offers a broad selection of the most important documents in American history: the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, which ...
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Watchdog: The Real Stories Behind the Headlines from the Congressman Who Exposed Washington's Biggest Scandals
ISBN: 9781455591985 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. You might think you had a front-row seat to the shocking scandals of Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, Fast & Furious, illegal email servers, mishandling America's secrets and cover-ups at the EPA. The rest of the story, told here for the first time, is even more troubling. In WATCHDOG, Congressman Darrell Issa reveals some of the worst of Washington, pulls back the curtain on business as usual in the Capitol, and lets in the sunshine of accountability.
As Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Issa led a years-long fight to uncover what was really... You might think you had a front-row seat to the shocking scandals of Benghazi, the IRS targeting of conservatives, Fast & Furious, illegal email serve...
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United States of Jihad: Who Are America's Homegrown Terrorists, and How Do We Stop Them?
ISBN: 9780804139564 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A riveting, panoramic look at -homegrown- Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present
Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere--have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight abroad: an American was among those who planned the attacks in Mumbai, and more than eighty U.S. citizens have been charged with ISIS-related crimes. Others have acted on American soil, as with the attacks at Fort Hood, the Boston Marathon, and in San Bernardino. What motivates them, how are they trained,... A riveting, panoramic look at -homegrown- Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present
Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans--born ... |
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Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House
ISBN: 9781250158062 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Battle for the White House from Bush to Obama: Volume II Nominations and Elections in an Era of Partisanship
ISBN: 9781349443512 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only presidential nominations and elections, but the American presidency and politics itself.
Anthony Bennett guides us through the events of the four elections of the 21st century, showing how this era of partisanship has reshaped not only pre...
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The Mirror Test: America at War in Iraq and Afghanistan
ISBN: 9780345806949 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Military Times Best Book of the Year J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan working for the U.S. State Department. Upon returning home, traveling throughout the United States to pay his respects to the dead and wounded, he wondered what lessons, if any, could be learned from these wars. In this essential book, Weston questions, interprets, and explains our wars in the Middle East through a tapestry of voices--Iraqi, Afghan, and American--taking readers across California and Fallujah,... A New York Times Editors' Choice
A Military Times Best Book of the Year J. Kael Weston spent seven years on the gro... |
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Religion and the Bush Presidency
ISBN: 9781349538706 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. George W. Bush's religiosity has invited much analysis and controversy about the impact of religion on government. This collection of leading scholars' essays first examines the impact of various religions voting groups on the 2004 presidential campaign, and then reviews and assesses the impact of religion on the policies of the Bush presidency.
George W. Bush's religiosity has invited much analysis and controversy about the impact of religion on government. This collection of leading scholars...
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US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Truman to Kennedy: Responses to International Challenges
ISBN: 9781349451630 / Angielski / Miękka / 249 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book has three objectives: to expose students to the ways different US presidents handled major foreign policy making problems; to test the explanatory value of alternative decision-making models; And to reintroduce students to a wide range of critical US foreign policy issues.
The book has three objectives: to expose students to the ways different US presidents handled major foreign policy making problems; to test the explan...
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US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Kennedy to Obama: Responses to International Challenges
ISBN: 9781349485062 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the foreign policy decision-making processes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama during military intervention by way of contemporary foreign policy decision-making models (FPDMs).
This book analyzes the foreign policy decision-making processes of Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, Geo...
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Bad Presidents: Failure in the White House
ISBN: 9781349455133 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bad Presidents seeks to interpret the meaning of presidential 'badness' by investigating the ways in which eleven presidents were 'bad.' The author brings a unique, and often amusing perspective on the idea of the presidency, and begins a new conversation about the definition of presidential success and failure.
Bad Presidents seeks to interpret the meaning of presidential 'badness' by investigating the ways in which eleven presidents were 'bad.' The author br...
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194,97 zł |