ilość książek w kategorii: 37601
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Britain's Experience of Empire in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780198794646 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century Britain. The contributors explore different aspects of Britain's imperial experience as the empire weathered the storms of the two world wars, was subsequently dismantled, and then apparently was gone. How widely was the empire's presence felt in British culture and society? What was the place of imperial questions in British party politics? Was Britain's status as a global power enhanced or underpinned by the existence of its empire? What was...
Written by specialists from various fields, this edited volume is the first systematic investigation of the impact of imperialism on twentieth-century...
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Performing Capital: Toward a Cultural Economy of Popular and Global Finance
ISBN: 9781349537402 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural reality but as a category itself, which needs to be made and performed in the spaces where is does not already exist. 'Culture' is used to intervene into everyday spaces to develop capital there.
This books reviews forms of capital 'popular finance' and argues that it is important, as a site at which capital is visible not as a macro-structural...
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Gendering Urban Space in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa
ISBN: 9781349535866 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.
The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African...
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201,24 |
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The CNN Effect in Action: How the News Media Pushed the West Toward War in Kosovo
ISBN: 9781349535804 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditions in which the media acts as an independent factor with significant influence. It provides a novel interpretation of the factors that drove Western policy towards military intervention in this area.
This project advances the existing theoretical work on the CNN effect, a claim that innovations in the speed and quality of technology create conditio...
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201,24 |
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Corporate Social Responsibility and the Shaping of Global Public Policy
ISBN: 9781349535224 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces readers to the dynamic networks made up of businesses, NGOs and multilateral organizations that, for better and for worse, define corporate social responsibility (CSR) today. It examines the work of these CSR networks that are taking on the "heavy-lifting" of global governance.
This book introduces readers to the dynamic networks made up of businesses, NGOs and multilateral organizations that, for better and for worse, define...
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201,24 |
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Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan: Bentuhua
ISBN: 9781349531820 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume analyzes what is arguably the single most important aspect of cultural and political change in Taiwan over the past quarter-century: the trend toward 'indigenization' (bentuhua).
This volume analyzes what is arguably the single most important aspect of cultural and political change in Taiwan over the past quarter-century: the t...
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201,24 |
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The Core of Japanese Democracy: Latent Interparty Politics
ISBN: 9781349530991 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the author's bilayer theory or dual power structure theory.
This book seeks to explain how politics actually operates in the Japanese Diet using the author's bilayer theory or dual power structure theory.
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201,24 |
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Cyber China: Reshaping National Identities in the Age of Information
ISBN: 9781349529124 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An edited collection that examines the impact of the internet and information technology on Chinese politics and economics
An edited collection that examines the impact of the internet and information technology on Chinese politics and economics
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201,24 |
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The Information Revolution in Military Affairs in Asia
ISBN: 9781349528257 / Angielski / Miękka / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The contributors to this volume seek to explore the multi-dimensional (institutional, cultural, technological, and political) environments of several Asian states to determine the amenability of those host environments for the adoption/adaptation of the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMS).
The contributors to this volume seek to explore the multi-dimensional (institutional, cultural, technological, and political) environments of several ...
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201,24 |
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Religion in Disputes: Pervasiveness of Religious Normativity in Disputing Processes
ISBN: 9781349458240 / Angielski / Miękka / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative registers and moral susceptibilities in disputes? This book examines such questions through cases in Europe, the United States, Israel, Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
How are time-honored tenets of faith, different ritual sensibilities, and newly emerging eschatological imaginaries articulated with other normative r...
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Sinicizing International Relations: Self, Civilization, and Intellectual Politics in Subaltern East Asia
ISBN: 9781349450169 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of international relations and related terms in East Asia and the intrinsic relation of international relations to individual choices of scholarly identity.
The book brings civilizational politics back to the studies of international relations and foreign policy through a study of the multiple meanings of ...
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201,24 |
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African Independence: How Africa Shapes the World
ISBN: 9781442216426 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future of America and the globe. In a world where much of the power and wealth remains concentrated in the hands of a very few people, this book looks at how the history of African independence has touched all people-from refugees to heads of state. Author Tukufu Zuberi weaves exclusive interview excerpts and stories from many Africans he has met with old newsreels, current news and reports, and research into a larger narrative that takes readers...
African Independence highlights the important role Africa has played in recent history and the significant role it will continue to play in the future...
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Challenges of Constructing Legitimacy in Peacebuilding: Afghanistan, Iraq, Sierra Leone, and East Timor
ISBN: 9781138239852 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implementation strategies to generate legitimacy in "host states" by either international relations (IR) theorists or practitioners. The objective of this book is to develop an understanding of the mechanisms for constructing or eroding the legitimacy of newly created governments in post-conflict peacebuilding environments. The book argues that although existing accounts in the literature contend that compliance with key political programs, and... Peacebuilding is a critical issue in world politics. Surprisingly, however, there has not been a full examination of concrete policies and implemen... |
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Europe's Last Chance: Why the European States Must Form a More Perfect Union
ISBN: 9780465096855 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in the mold of the United States' own federal government
Europe is caught in its greatest crisis since the Second World War. The catalog of ills seems endless: an economic crisis spread through most of Europe's Mediterranean tier that has crippled Greece and driven a wedge between northern and southern Europe; terrorist attacks in Paris, Cologne, Brussels, and Nice; growing aggression from Russia in Ukraine and the Baltic states; and... In the heart of Europe's current crisis, one of the continent's foremost statesmen issues a clarion call to radically remake the European Union in ...
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The Cause of All Nations: An International History of the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780465096978 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance--that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered model of democracy, would indeed "perish from the earth." In The Cause of All Nations, distinguished historian Don H. Doyle explains that the Civil War was viewed abroad as part of a much larger struggle for democracy that spanned the Atlantic Ocean, and had begun with the American and French...
When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the ...
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Emergency Contraception: The Story of a Global Reproductive Health Technology
ISBN: 9781349287277 / Angielski / Miękka / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite its safety and efficacy, emergency contraception (EC) continues to spark political controversy worldwide. In this edited volume, authors explore how emergency contraception has been received, interpreted, and politicized, through the in-depth examination of the journey of EC in 16 individual countries.
Despite its safety and efficacy, emergency contraception (EC) continues to spark political controversy worldwide. In this edited volume, authors explo...
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Africa and the New World Era: From Humanitarianism to a Strategic View
ISBN: 9781349287352 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US importmuch of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations."
Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US importmuch of their oil from Africa which is clearly ...
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201,24 |
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Toward a Common European Union Energy Policy: Problems, Progress, and Prospects
ISBN: 9781349294893 / Angielski / Miękka / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy. This book takes stock of these developments, evaluating how much progress has actually been made and what remains to be done, what factors explain these recent advances and their limitations.
Since the mid-2000s, the European Union has made unprecedented strides toward the creation of a common energy policy. This book takes stock of these d...
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241,50 |
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Nonviolent Resistance in the Second: Activism and Advocacy
ISBN: 9781349297351 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering diverse perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and activists, this bookillustrates the potential strengths and challenges of unarmed resistance in Palestine by Palestinians as well as of internationals and Israelis acting in solidarity.
Offering diverse perspectives from scholars, practitioners, and activists, this bookillustrates the potential strengths and challenges of unarmed resi...
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201,24 |
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War, Peace and International Security: From Sarajevo to Crimea
ISBN: 9781137601490 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, this book compares globalization with the interwar period. It examines how the first decade's positive peace, diplomacy, and hopes were replaced by negative peace, and explains the growing role of military strategy in that period.
Examining the dialectic of war and peace between the outbreak of WWI and the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014, this book compares globalization wi...
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