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Bringing Solvency To Social Security: A Solution For Future GenerationsThe Series SS Bond
ISBN: 9780595356744 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The picture on the front cover is a portrait of myself when I was seven or eight years old. It was drawn in charcoal, by my father. I am using this picture for a couple of reasons. The first, is that I wanted to showcase and honor my father's artistic talent. I can still remember how uncomfortable I was, sitting stiffly in a chair for 20 minutes while he completed the drawing. I was not at all happy. And now, I can honestly say that this picture is one of my most cherished possessions. The second reason for using the picture, is that I wanted to illustrate that the past is now the future....
The picture on the front cover is a portrait of myself when I was seven or eight years old. It was drawn in charcoal, by my father. I am using this pi...
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Who Killed Detroit?: Other Cities Beware!
ISBN: 9780595357987 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Who Killed Detroit" explains how the automobile industry, migration of blacks, housing segregation, riot of 1967, rise of radical groups, and the resulting reactions since then have left this great city in shambles. No other American city has offered so much to so many in the first half of the twentieth century. And no other city has collapsed as completely as Detroit in the second half of the twentieth century. "Who Killed Detroit" explores what can be learned to prevent a similar fate in other cities. Former Detroit Police Commissioner Spreen reveals secret documents that explain the...
"Who Killed Detroit" explains how the automobile industry, migration of blacks, housing segregation, riot of 1967, rise of radical groups, and the res...
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The Problem of Dar Fur
ISBN: 9780595365029 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main purpose of this book is to present comprehensive information about the Dar Fur region, covering the geographical, economical, historical, and ethnical facts related to the region, to provide every interested person with a complete impression of Dar Fur in the past, present, and future and, moreover, to offer help with understanding the background of the ongoing ethnical conflict in this region. Whereas Dar Fur is only a part of the whole country of Sudan, it is necessary to mention related, shared geographical, economical, historical, and ethnical facts here.
The main purpose of this book is to present comprehensive information about the Dar Fur region, covering the geographical, economical, historical, and...
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The 10 Most Popular Un-American Attitudes
ISBN: 9780595387045 / Angielski / Miękka / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America did not rise to the top of the heap with these attitudes, and we will not stay at the top very much longer with them. We have become conditioned to speaking in riddles because to talk plainly will inevitably offend someone. How can we claim that diversity is an asset when we constantly argue over our differences? The right to choose means nothing if we don't have the right to prefer. We are all shareholders in the government-Uncle Sam Incorporated. What better source of cash than all you other taxpayers-uh, sorry, I meant to say the government. We want warning labels on...
America did not rise to the top of the heap with these attitudes, and we will not stay at the top very much longer with them. We have become condition...
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The Rise Of The Right Wing 1964-2006
ISBN: 9780595422869 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Confessions of an American Sheriff: The Nicest Sheriff in America?
ISBN: 9780595444625 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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What Freedom Is
ISBN: 9780595656134 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Life of the Mind: Political Essays of Shahzad Najmuddin
ISBN: 9780595672004 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "He lived life with indefatigable zest, read widely and wrote with authenticity-without hypocrisy or cant. His particular fields of interest were English literature and political theory. While Shakespeare was almost a second language to him he had read in depth the works of almost every political philosopher from Plato to Fukyama. Shahzad was deeply disturbed with the poverty of the many. He saw the dominant powers in the world moving towards greater affluence while the deprived and oppressed continued to subsist in acute poverty and misery. He was firm in his view that this was not 'the end...
"He lived life with indefatigable zest, read widely and wrote with authenticity-without hypocrisy or cant. His particular fields of interest were Engl...
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Negro President: Jefferson and the Slave Power
ISBN: 9780618485376 / Angielski / Miękka / 32 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jefferson's presidency and political life, revealing how the might of the slave states remained a concern behind his most important policies and decisions.
Moving beyond the recent revisionist debate over Jefferson's own slaves and his relationship with Sally Hemings, Wills instead probes the heart of Jef...
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Modern Political Thought
ISBN: 9780631142249 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stimulating introduction to central issues of political theory, including liberty, rights and the state, and the claims of need and politics.
A stimulating introduction to central issues of political theory, including liberty, rights and the state, and the claims of need and politics.
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Political Theory and Modernity
ISBN: 9780631170341 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a frame that supports some arguments and rules other possibilities out of contention. If late-modernity is a time of danger as well as significant achievement, it is necessary to ask: how can we become more reflective about the economies of thought which have governed modern political discourse?
William Connolly clarifies the affinities binding together disparate theorists who have sought to comprehend the shape and prospects of... Modernity is marked by acrimonious debate over the form of the good society and the proper shape of politics. But these struggles are set within a fra...
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History Political Thought
ISBN: 9780631186526 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates. The author strikes a balance between trying to understand the philosophical cogency of medieval and Renaissance arguments on the one hand, elucidating why historically-suited medieval and Renaissance thinkers thought the ways they did about politics; and why we often...
This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of...
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Political Thought
ISBN: 9780631186533 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of the practices that underpinned medieval political theories and which continued to play crucial roles in the eventual development of early-modern political institutions and debates. The author strikes a balance between trying to understand the philosophical cogency of medieval and Renaissance arguments on the one hand, elucidating why historically-suited medieval and Renaissance thinkers thought the ways they did about politics; and why we often...
This volume continues the story of European political theorising by focusing on medieval and Renaissance thinkers. It includes extensive discussion of...
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Discourses of Power
ISBN: 9780631190936 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this accessible yet provocative text Barry Hindess provides a new interpretation of concepts of power within Western social thought, from Hobbes' notion of "sovereign power" to Foucault's account of "government." This book will be welcomed as an important contemporary contribution to one of the key debates in social and political theory.
In this accessible yet provocative text Barry Hindess provides a new interpretation of concepts of power within Western social thought, from Hobbes' n...
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Politics and Feminism
ISBN: 9780631198130 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses the question of gender and feminism in western political theory and practise. It provides students with both the theoretical and historical underpinnings of women's exclusion from politics, and the feminist response to this exclusion.
This book addresses the question of gender and feminism in western political theory and practise. It provides students with both the theoretical and h...
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Liberals and Communitarians
ISBN: 9780631198192 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.
This is a substantially updated edition of the established guide to this key debate in modern political philosophy.
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Relocating Postcolonialism
ISBN: 9780631208044 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry. Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and... |
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Relocating Postcolonialism
ISBN: 9780631208051 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and assesses its relationship to other academic disciplines and fields of inquiry. Relocating Postcolonialism is a major new collection that challenges many of the assumptions and discursive maneuvers of postcolonialism and... |
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Women and Men Political Theorists
ISBN: 9780631209805 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This much-anticipated work is a rich and insightful collection of essays that restores women and minorities to the arena of political theory and debate. Philosophers such as Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft argue alongside traditional theorists, including Rousseau and Locke, in a unique historical dialogue. Arranged by several key themes, each covered by both men and women theorists, the book amounts to a rediscovery of women's political philosophy in arguments over both traditional and feminist concepts. Also provided are substantial biographical details about the writers, and secondary...
This much-anticipated work is a rich and insightful collection of essays that restores women and minorities to the arena of political theory and debat...
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The Tocqueville Reader: A Life in Letters and Politics
ISBN: 9780631215462 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Tocqueville Reader includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, and diary entries not originally intended for the public. It includes twenty-nine pieces never before translated into English, and a wide-ranging editorial introduction that gives an account of Tocqueville's life as a politician and inspirations as a writer. The Tocqueville Reader includes not only Tocqueville's major writing but also travel letters, conversations with ministers and politicians, ... |
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