Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic
ISBN: 9780691631776 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill maintains that political abuse exercised real powers of persuasion over Roman audiences and he demonstrates how public humor both creates and enforces a society's norms. Previous scholarship has offered two explanations for why abusive language proliferated in Roman oratory. The first asserts that public rhetoric, filled with extravagant lies, was unconstrained by strictures of propriety. The second contends that invective represents an... Although numerous scholars have studied Late Republican humor, this is the first book to examine its social and political context. Anthony Corbeill... |
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637,57 zł |
India's Democracy: An Analysis of Changing State-Society Relations
ISBN: 9780691630861 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of December 1989. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly... Nine contributors analyze state-society relations in India. A new epilogue covers the Rajiv Gandhi period, leading up to the important elections of... |
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925,87 zł |
From the Outside in: World War II and the American State
ISBN: 9780691630342 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government. The book argues that the wartime and immediate postwar experiences of the 1940s transformed and redirected the policies and government institutions of the New Deal. In a work that makes significant contributions to the study of U.S. politics and history, Bartholomew Sparrow proposes a new model of the state and of "state-building." The author applies this model, which derives from the resource dependence perspective, to the historical record of four areas of public policy: social security,... From the Outside In examines the profound impact of World War II on American government. The book argues that the wartime and immediate post... |
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925,87 zł |
Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders: Exclusive Interviews on Crisis, Comebacks & Character
ISBN: 9789814663939 / Angielski / Twarda / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders is an in-depth look at leadership issues first-hand with 30 prominent leaders in the Asia Pacific region.
Heart to Heart with Asian Leaders is an in-depth look at leadership issues first-hand with 30 prominent leaders in the Asia Pacific region.
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289,92 zł |
Women Presidents of Latin America: Beyond Family Ties?
ISBN: 9781138782716 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) were generally limited to daughters and wives of male executives or opposition leaders. With the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, these traditional patterns appeared to be shifting. This book asks: what conditions allowed for a broadening of routes, beyond family ties, for women in Latin America? Do women presidents of Latin America use their powers to enhance women's representation? While providing valuable insight into... Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) ... |
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227,73 zł |
Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization
ISBN: 9781138939042 / Angielski / Twarda / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Southeast Asia, an economically dynamic and strategically vital region, seemed until recently to be transiting to more democratic politics. This progress has suddenly stalled or even gone into reverse, requiring that analysts seriously rethink their expectations and theorizing. The "Routledge Handbook of Southeast Asian Democratization" provides the first book-length account of the reasons for democracy s declining fortunes in the region today. Combining theory and case studies, it is structured in four major sections:
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1138,95 zł |
Maverick Unchanged, Unrepentant
ISBN: 9788129123916 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ram Jethmalani, respected and feared for his candour in matters political, remains an enigma to many. As a public figure-a politician always in demand, the highest rated criminal lawyer in the country and an international legal authority-he is held in high esteem. In over fifty years of being an active politician, he has never allowed political allegiance to compromise his values. Controversy therefore neither leaves him, nor intimidates him. This volume is a compilation of the author's insights into the state of Indian politics today, expressed with clarity and frankness, laying bare the...
Ram Jethmalani, respected and feared for his candour in matters political, remains an enigma to many. As a public figure-a politician always in demand...
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94,49 zł |
Love, Not Guns: A Case For Changing the Focus of America's Gun Debate
ISBN: 9781942731030 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussion surrounding America's violence problem often centers on the gun debate, an issue with no acceptable solution for half the population. Author Jay Breitlow, D.C., who lost his father in a school shooting, makes the case that addressing issues completely separate from the gun debate may provide more sustainable answers. Dr. Breitlow takes a comprehensive look at the benefits that supportive home environments and enhanced mental healthcare can have on troubled individuals, and suggests grassroots changes you can make in your home and community to eliminate violence. Community...
Discussion surrounding America's violence problem often centers on the gun debate, an issue with no acceptable solution for half the population. Autho...
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59,08 zł |
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan: Beyond Islam and Security
ISBN: 9781138903470 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power through successive regimes has created a system of 'authoritarian clientalism.' This book offers comparative, historicist, and multidisciplinary views on the role of identity politics in the development of Pakistan. Bringing together perspectives on the dynamics of state-building, the book provides insights into contemporary processes of national contestation which are crucially affected by their... Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests, operationalized through vio... |
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750,67 zł |
Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey: Fragmentations, Mobilizations, Participations & Repertoires
ISBN: 9781138918870 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kurdish conflict is an acknowledged long-standing issue in the Middle East, and the emergence of radical Kurdish nationalist movements in the 20th century played a decisive role in the evolution of political violence. Political Violence and Kurds in Turkey examines how this political violence impacts Kurds in contemporary Turkey, and explores the circumstances that move human beings to violent acts. It looks at the forms political violence takes and in which times and spaces it occurs, as well as the roles played by micro and macro factors. It takes a theoretical... The Kurdish conflict is an acknowledged long-standing issue in the Middle East, and the emergence of radical Kurdish nationalist movements in the 2... |
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776,56 zł |
Political Marketing: Strategic 'Campaign Culture'
ISBN: 9781138943056 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guiding principle in creating Political Marketing has been to examine the ways in which culture, politics, and society interrelate in the field of political marketing. In the course of the book, the editors and contributors consider culture as a distinctive concept with transformative capacities that need further and deeper development in the engineering of the political marketing process. This may be introduced and, consequently, lead to broad formulation of a campaign culture . Indeed, understanding and adapting a broader campaign culture, political marketing models may be seen... A guiding principle in creating Political Marketing has been to examine the ways in which culture, politics, and society interrelate in the ... |
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196,68 zł |
Provinces: Canadian Provincial Politics, Third Edition
ISBN: 9781442633995 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The authors of each chapter draw on their particular expertise to examine themes and issues pertaining to all the provinces from a comparative perspective. The book is organized into four major sections - political landscapes, the state of democracy in the provinces, political structures and processes, and provincial public policy. The third edition features eleven new chapters, including: province building, provincial constitutions, provincial... Provinces is now established as the most comprehensive yet accessible exploration of Canadian provincial politics and government. The author... |
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217,43 zł |
Legal Realism and American Law
ISBN: 9781501309212 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and the relationship between law and politics in the United States. These legal realists borrowed methods from the social sciences to carefully study the law as experienced by lawyers, judges, and average citizens and promoted a progressive vision for American law and society. Legal realism investigated the nature of legal reasoning, the purpose of law, and the role of judges. The movement asked questions which reshaped the study of jurisprudence and... In the first part of the 20th century, a group of law scholars offered engaging, and occasionally disconcerting, views on the role of judges and th... |
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196,68 zł |
Practicing Democracy: Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War
ISBN: 9780813937700 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between political parties and popular participation, and the place that parties occupied within the wider world of United States politics. In recent years, historians of the early republic have... In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new pe... |
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295,18 zł |
Women Presidents of Latin America: Beyond Family Ties?
ISBN: 9781138782709 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) were generally limited to daughters and wives of male executives or opposition leaders. With the election of Michelle Bachelet in Chile, these traditional patterns appeared to be shifting. This book asks: what conditions allowed for a broadening of routes, beyond family ties, for women in Latin America? Do women presidents of Latin America use their powers to enhance women's representation? While providing valuable insight into... Women are gaining ground as presidents of Latin America. Women leaders in presidential systems (particularly women directly elected by the public) ... |
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698,90 zł |
Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and change
ISBN: 9781138786509 / Angielski / Twarda / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduction to the complexities of a region in constant flux. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns of politics with individual chapters dedicated to specific countries, the book places the very latest developments and long-standing issues within an historical context, introducing key concepts from comparative politics to further explore the interaction between Middle Eastern history and the region's contemporary political... This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduct... |
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854,21 zł |
Government and Politics of the Contemporary Middle East: Continuity and change
ISBN: 9781138786523 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduction to the complexities of a region in constant flux. Combining a thematic framework for examining patterns of politics with individual chapters dedicated to specific countries, the book places the very latest developments and long-standing issues within an historical context, introducing key concepts from comparative politics to further explore the interaction between Middle Eastern history and the region s contemporary political... This exciting new edition of the successful textbook for students of Middle Eastern politics provides a highly relevant and comprehensive introduct... |
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248,44 zł |
Politics of the 'Other' in India and China: Western Concepts in Non-Western Contexts
ISBN: 9781138851184 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social change, in order to develop a predictive model of linear progress for developing countries following a Western prototype. Under this hegemonic paradigm of development the world tends to get divided into simplistic binary oppositions between the West and the rest, us and them and self and other . Proposing to shift the discussion on what constitutes the Other as opposed to the Self from philosophy and cultural studies to the social... The social sciences have been heavily influenced by modernization theory, focusing on issues of economic growth, political development and social c... |
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750,67 zł |
Globalisation and Governance in India: New Challenges to Institutions and Society
ISBN: 9781138853232 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the impact of globalization on some vital aspects of Indian politics, its structures and processes, and identifies the challenges to globalization itself, in order to highlight India's complex and fascinating story. In 1991, India officially embraced the policy of neo-liberal reforms by signing the GATT agreement, which exposed the country, its society, culture and institutions to the various forces of globalization. Globalization as such may not be new to India, for the country has been embracing the influence of external cultures and civilisations for millennia, but... This book examines the impact of globalization on some vital aspects of Indian politics, its structures and processes, and identifies the challenge... |
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750,67 zł |
Ngo Governance and Management in China
ISBN: 9781138909977 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global system there will be continuing pressure to acknowledge and engage with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Suffice to say, without a clear understanding of the state's interaction with NGOs, and vice versa, any political, economic and social analysis of China will be incomplete. This book provides an urgent insight into contemporary state-NGO relations. It brings together the most recent research covering three broad themes, namely the conceptualizations and subsequent functions of NGOs; state-NGO... As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global system there will be continuing pressure to acknowledge and engage with non-govern... |
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217,38 zł |