» książki » Political Science - General
topmenu
 |
Rational Choice and Criminal Behavior: Recent Research and Future Challenges
ISBN: 9780815336785 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text deals with the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice. This collection of essays by experts in the field of criminal justice examines various aspects of the rational choice framework.
This text deals with the degree to which criminal behaviour represents a rational choice. This collection of essays by experts in the field of crimina...
|
cena:
757,61 |
 |
The Coming Age of Scarcity: Preventing Mass Death and Genocide in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780815627449 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ethnic cleansing and the world's expanding killing fields. They anticipate mass death and genocide for the 21st century and provide responses to this impending catastrophe.
Showing how scarcity and surplus populations can lead to disaster, the contributors to this text discuss ethnic cleansing and the world's expanding ki...
|
cena:
136,80 |
 |
Cracking the Code: Making Sense of the Corporate Alternative Minimum Tax
ISBN: 9780815753230 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT) was hailed in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as instrumental to ensuring that tax loopholes would not permit corporations to avoid paying their fair share of tax liability. In 1995, less than ten years later, repeal of the AMT was pledged as part of the Republican Party's "Contract with America" and passed by the House of Representatives. Opponents of the AMT object that it penalizes new investment by firms and prevents the use of legitimate deductions. Its defenders tout the ability of the AMT to address public perceptions of unfairness in the tax...
The corporate alternative minimum tax (AMT) was hailed in the Tax Reform Act of 1986 as instrumental to ensuring that tax loopholes would not permit c...
|
cena:
92,82 |
 |
Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation
ISBN: 9780815781776 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author recasts the widely accepted view of the tension between scientific understanding and use and builds a convincing case that by recognizing the importance of use-inspired basic research, we can frame a new contract between science and government.
The author recasts the widely accepted view of the tension between scientific understanding and use and builds a convincing case that by recognizing t...
|
cena:
92,82 |
 |
Persons with Disabilities: Issues in Health Care Financing and Service Delivery
ISBN: 9780815793793 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This book offers perspectives on several important facets of this problem, including regulation of private long-term care insurance, catastrophic out-of-pocket costs, and use of long-term and acute care services by the chronically disabled elderly.
A key issue in the debate about reforming the U.S. health care system is how to finance and organize the delivery of long-term care. This book offers ...
|
cena:
92,82 |
 |
Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads: Social, Economic, and Political Change
ISBN: 9780816516346 / Angielski / Miękka / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dubbed the "decade of the Hispanic," the 1980s was instead a period of retrenchment for Chicanas/os as they continued to confront many of the problems and issues of earlier years in the face of a more conservative political environment. Following a substantial increase in activism in the early 1990s, Chicana/o scholars are now prepared to take stock of the Chicano Movement's accomplishments and shortcomings--and the challenges it yet faces--on the eve of a new millennium.
Chicanas/Chicanos at the Crossroads is a state-of-the-art assessment of the most significant... Dubbed the "decade of the Hispanic," the 1980s was instead a period of retrenchment for Chicanas/os as they continued to confront many of the p...
|
cena:
122,15 |
 |
Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil
ISBN: 9780816523306 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by Nancy Scheper-Hughes "Very occasionally, a book happens along which is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise dispassionate subject (in this case drought) that it can move the reader to tears. Nicholas Arons has accomplished just such a rare feat in his poetry-studded narrative of the reasons for, and the multi-layered reactions to, the cyclical phenomenon of drought in northeastern Brazil." --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute When droughts hit northeastern Brazil, thousands of rural workers are forced to abandon their homes...
Foreword by Nancy Scheper-Hughes "Very occasionally, a book happens along which is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise disp...
|
cena:
102,60 |
 |
Waiting for Rain: The Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil
ISBN: 9780816524334 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
-Very occasionally, a book happens along which is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise dispassionate subject (in this case drought) that it can move the reader to tears. Nicholas Arons has accomplished just such a rare feat in his poetry-studded narrative of the reasons for, and the multi-layered reactions to, the cyclical phenomenon of drought in northeastern Brazil.- --Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute When droughts hit northeastern Brazil, thousands of rural workers are forced to abandon their homes... Foreword by Nancy Scheper-Hughes
-Very occasionally, a book happens along which is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise dispa... |
cena:
185,73 |
 |
Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender, and Race in U.S. Culture
ISBN: 9780816628131 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. Here, scholar-activist Joy James provides such a voice. Taking the convergence of race, gender, and class as fundamentals trajectories.
As the political climate of the United States moves rightward, effective and visionary voices from the left become both rarer and more essential. Here...
|
cena:
107,48 |
 |
Abolition's Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780816640898 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Echoes of Thomas Paine and Enlightenment thought resonate throughout the abolitionist movement and in the efforts of its leaders to create an anti-slavery reading public. In Abolition's Public Sphere Robert Fanuzzi critically examines the writings of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Sarah and Angelina Grimke and their massive abolition publicity campaign--pamphlets, newspapers, petitions, and public gatherings--geared to an audience of white male citizens, free black noncitizens, women, and the enslaved. Including provocative readings of Thoreau's Walden...
Echoes of Thomas Paine and Enlightenment thought resonate throughout the abolitionist movement and in the efforts of its leaders to create an anti-sla...
|
cena:
307,93 |
 |
History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie: Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South
ISBN: 9780817353209 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region's poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform.History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and public advocate in modern America. In a time when the nation's eyes have been focused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita onto the vulnerability and dire condition of poor people in the...
Social and political history of the modern South. This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider t...
|
cena:
97,70 |
 |
Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South
ISBN: 9780820328973 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historians have widely studied the late-nineteenth-century southern agrarian revolts led by such groups as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's (or Populist) Party. Much work has also been done on southern labor insurgencies of the same period, as kindled by the Knights of Labor and others. However, says Matthew Hild, historians have given only minimal consideration to the convergence of these movements. Hild shows that the Populist (or People's) Party, the most important third party of the 1890s, established itself most solidly in Texas, Alabama, and, under the guise of the earlier... Historians have widely studied the late-nineteenth-century southern agrarian revolts led by such groups as the Farmers' Alliance and the People's (... |
cena:
244,69 |
 |
Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau, 1945-1953: Eastern African Studies
ISBN: 9780821408841 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining the social and economic causes of the Kikuyu revolt. Dr. Throup combines traditional Imperial History with its emphasis on the high politics of "The Official Mind" in the Colonial Office or in Government House with the new African historiography that concentrates on the people themselves. Sir Philip Mitchell was the proconsul chosen to reassert metropolitan authority. Under Kenyatta's leadership the Kenya African Union mobilized a popular...
This story of Kenya in the decade before the outbreak of the Mau Mau emergency presents an integrated view of imperial government as well as examining...
|
cena:
138,86 |
 |
Developing Uganda
ISBN: 9780821412084 / Angielski / Twarda / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This book assesses the question of whether the reality lives up to the image that has so impressed the supporters of its recovery. What has actually happened? How successful have the reforms been thus far? What are the prospects for Uganda's future?
Essays by the top scholars in the Weld span the breadth of the issue, from Uganda's growth out of poverty to development at the grass roots level. Developing Uganda replaces... Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense c...
|
cena:
327,48 |
 |
Developing Uganda
ISBN: 9780821412091 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense coverage to disasters. This book assesses the question of whether the reality lives up to the image that has so impressed the supporters of its recovery. What has actually happened? How successful have the reforms been thus far? What are the prospects for Uganda's future?
Essays by the top scholars in the Weld span the breadth of the issue, from Uganda's growth out of poverty to development at the grass roots level. Developing Uganda replaces... Uganda's recovery since Museveni came to power in 1986 has been one of the heartening achievements in a continent where the media have given intense c...
|
cena:
127,03 |
 |
The UDF: A History of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991
ISBN: 9780821413364 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The new South Africa cannot be understood without a knowledge of the history of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy.
This is the first major study of an organization that transformed South African politics in the 1980s. By coordinating popular struggles on the ground and promoting the standing of the African National Congress, the UDF played a central role in the demise of apartheid and paved the way for South Africa's transition to democracy. Based on extensive documentary and interview sources, the book traces the UDF's birth, career, and dissolution. It is a... The new South Africa cannot be understood without a knowledge of the history of the UDF and its role in the transition to democracy.
This is the f... |
cena:
136,80 |
 |
Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945
ISBN: 9780821413838 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community within this new environment. In... The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of isla... |
cena:
327,48 |
 |
In Search of a Nation: Histories of Authority & Dissidence in Tanzania
ISBN: 9780821416709 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored by sixteen historians, focusing on the experience of Tanzania. The narrative of the nation of Tanzania, which was created by the anticolonial nationalist movement, expanded by the Union after the Zanzibar Revolution, and fused by the ideology of Ujamaa by Julius Nyerere, has shaped Tanzanian political discourse for decades, but has not obliterated the great wealth of political discourses and identities which exist within the nation."
The double-sided nature of African nationalism its capacity to inspire expressions of unity, and its tendency to narrow political debate are explored ...
|
cena:
327,48 |
 |
Cracked Coverage: Television News, the Anti-Cocaine Crusade, and the Reagan Legacy
ISBN: 9780822314912 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, "Cracked Coverage" stands as a bold indictment of the backlash politics of the Reagan coalition and its implicit racism, the mercenary outlook of the drug control establishment, and the enterprising reporting of crusading journalism. Blending theoretical and empirical analyses, Jimmie L. Reeves and Richard Campbell explore how TV news not only interprets "reality" in ways that reflect prevailing ideologies, but is in many respects responsible for constructing that reality. Their...
Carefully documenting the deceptions and excesses of television news coverage of the so-called cocaine epidemic, "Cracked Coverage" stands as a bold i...
|
cena:
136,80 |
 |
AIDS TV: Identity, Community, and Alternative Video
ISBN: 9780822316831 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political video work made possible by new accessible technologies. As Alexandra Juhasz looks at this phenomenon why and how video has become the medium for so much AIDS activism she also tries to make sense of the bigger picture: How is this work different from mainstream television? How does it alter what we think of the media s form and function? The result is an eloquent and vital assessment of the role media activism plays in the development of...
Camcorder AIDS activism is a prime example of a new form of political expression an outburst of committed, low-budget, community-produced, political v...
|
cena:
479,00 |
Czytaj nas na:
Zobacz: Księgarnia Czeska | Wydawnictwo Książkowe Klimaty | Mapa strony | Lista autorów
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
KrainaKsiazek.PL - Księgarnia Internetowa
