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Take the Power to Change the World: Globalisation and the Debate on Power
ISBN: 9780902869943 / Angielski / Miękka / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this 144-page collection of essays, some of today's most important progressive thinkers - including John Holloway, well-known Marxist philosopher Daniel Bensaid and theorist of liberation theology and the national question, Michael Lowy - discuss strategies to change the world. The Zapatista rebels and the Seattle demonstrators were the tip of an iceberg of social and political revolt against the injustices of corporate-led globalisation. In 2002 John Holloway, working in Puebla, Mexico, came forward with his book Change the World without Taking Power. The book took up a phrase used by...
In this 144-page collection of essays, some of today's most important progressive thinkers - including John Holloway, well-known Marxist philosopher D...
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51,79 |
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Greece and Italy: Ancient Roots & New Beginnings
ISBN: 9780934675536 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The XXXIII Conference of the American Italian Historical Asso-ciation was held in Lowell Massachusetts, where Greek immi-grants settled at the turn of the century and established a vibrant community. Italians from Calabria, Naples and Sicily soon followed. Throughout the years the two ethnic groups collaborated in many cultural activities, among which the Lowell Opera Company, under the directorship of Vito Selvaggio, originally from "Magna Graecia" in Italy, became a community leader in the cultural life of Lowell. Selvaggio, with his directorship of The Lowell Opera Company, provided a...
The XXXIII Conference of the American Italian Historical Asso-ciation was held in Lowell Massachusetts, where Greek immi-grants settled at the turn of...
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Greece and Italy: Ancient Roots & New Beginnings
ISBN: 9780934675543 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The XXXIII Conference of the American Italian Historical Asso-ciation was held in Lowell Massachusetts, where Greek immi-grants settled at the turn of the century and established a vibrant community. Italians from Calabria, Naples and Sicily soon followed. Throughout the years the two ethnic groups collaborated in many cultural activities, among which the Lowell Opera Company, under the directorship of Vito Selvaggio, originally from "Magna Graecia" in Italy, became a community leader in the cultural life of Lowell. Selvaggio, with his directorship of The Lowell Opera Company, provided a...
The XXXIII Conference of the American Italian Historical Asso-ciation was held in Lowell Massachusetts, where Greek immi-grants settled at the turn of...
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96,34 |
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Welfare Reform in West Virginia
ISBN: 9780937058824 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and its effects, socially and economically, in West Virginia.
Explores the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 and its effects, socially and economically, in West Virginia.
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117,50 |
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States-Within-States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era
ISBN: 9781403963857 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse because they face challenges from cohesive groups within their borders. Such groups form ""states-within-states"" having many of the functional characteristics of states-including administrative structures, defined territories, and armed militias-but their status remains contested and unclear. From Colombia to Lebanon, from Iraqi Kurdistan to the Sudan, the contests between central control and regional autonomy often turn violent and pose severe humanitarian challenges problematic to the international community given the...
Many states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse because they face challenges from cohesive groups within their borders. Such group...
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201,24 |
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Promises Kept
ISBN: 9781557287540 / Angielski / Twarda / 476 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award. Sidney Sanders McMath was a pivotal figure not only in Arkansas history but in the history of the Democratic Party and of American law. Still vibrant and engaged in his nineties, he sets out his story in full for the first time: how he rose and fell in public office, and rose again as a lawyer seeking justice for ordinary people. McMath divides his story into four parts. In the first, he describes how his early life in rural Arkansas sparked his commitment to people. The second section describes his... Winner of the 2006 Booker Worthen Literary Prize and the 2004 Ragsdale Award. Sidney Sanders McMath was a pivotal figure not only in Arkansas... |
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Brotherly Love: Murder and the Politics of Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Rhode Island
ISBN: 9781558491632 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On New Year's Eve in 1843, Rhode Island textile manufacturer Amasa Sprague was shot and beaten to death. Within two days, three Irish immigrant brothers were arrested, charged with murder, and eventually brought to trial. Brotherly Love is a graphic reconstruction of the crime, its social and economic background, and the subsequent trials. The story reveals the antagonism between native-born Yankees, who commanded great power, and the growing number of Irish Catholic immigrants, most of whom worked in the textile mills. Indeed, the economic, political, and religious dimensions of the... On New Year's Eve in 1843, Rhode Island textile manufacturer Amasa Sprague was shot and beaten to death. Within two days, three Irish immigrant bro... |
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Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration, and Californa's Proposition 187
ISBN: 9781566399166 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as a result of undocumented immigration."
How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permeates the liberal social policy world? Shifting Borders uses an evaluation of the debate over California Proposition 187 to demonstrate how this quandary is best understood by close interrogation of mainstream reports and debates and by bringing to the fore... "Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as ...
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293,86 |
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Shifting Borders: Rhetoric, Immigration and Prop 187
ISBN: 9781566399173 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as a result of undocumented immigration."
How do we learn to recognize the damning effects of good rhetorical intentions? And where will we find arguments which escape this trap that permeates the liberal social policy world? Shifting Borders uses an evaluation of the debate over California Proposition 187 to demonstrate how this quandary is best understood by close interrogation of mainstream reports and debates and by bringing to the fore... "Like articles representing the positions of proponents of the measure, those representing opponents construct the nation as potentially in danger as ...
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117,50 |
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South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865
ISBN: 9781570035609 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865 stands as the only institutional and political history of the Palmetto State's secession from the Union, entry into the Confederacy, and management of the war effort. Charles Edward Cauthen's germinal study offers a thorough examination of the state's political leadership and policymaking during the secession crisis and the subsequent four years of war. Notable for its attention to the precursors of war too often neglected in other studies, the volume devotes half of its chapters to...
First published in 1950 and long sought by collectors and historians, South Carolina Goes to War, 1860-1865 stands as the only institutional and polit...
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83,21 |
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Tennessee Political Humor: Some of These Jokes You Voted for
ISBN: 9781572331020 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost 175 years ago, Congressman Davy Crockett encountered a Massachusetts colleague in Washington. The New Englander, pointing to a farmer driving some mules along Pennsylvania Avenue, quipped: Hello, there, Crockett, here s a lot of your constituents on parade. Where are they going? The Tennessee frontiersman shot back, They are going to Massachusetts to teach school.
Ever since Crockett s day, Volunteer State politicians have used humor to deflate their rivals, garner votes, and keep the public amused. Often the public has laughed at them sometimes even when they were not telling... Almost 175 years ago, Congressman Davy Crockett encountered a Massachusetts colleague in Washington. The New Englander, pointing to a farmer driving s...
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112,60 |
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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
ISBN: 9781586484545 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local authorities, was based on the work of one notoriously unreliable undercover officer. At trial, the prosecution relied almost solely on the uncorroborated, and contradictory, testimony of that officer, Tom Coleman. Despite the flimsiness of the evidence against them, virtually all of the defendants were convicted and given sentences as high as...
In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powd...
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121,34 |
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The Illusion of American Justice
ISBN: 9781587215988 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,31 |
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The Evolution of Ethiopian Absolutism: The Genesis and the Making of the Fiscal Military State, 1696-1913
ISBN: 9781599070209 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book synthesis the development of the Ethiopian state and society at a particular historical stage: the appearance of a new type of power centralization synchronized with Ethiopia's integration into an international state system and capitalist world economy. Adopting a system approach and analysis as a method of cognition, this book reviews major interpretation of the historical process and presents an alternative understanding as well as explanation of the period. It identifies the distinct fiscal systems of the state, reveals the secrets of the Ethiopian independence and presents a...
This book synthesis the development of the Ethiopian state and society at a particular historical stage: the appearance of a new type of power central...
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100,95 |
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Foreign Bondholders and American State Debts
ISBN: 9781893122949 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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160,27 |
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Cities and Regions as Self-Organizing Systems: Models of Complexity
ISBN: 9789056990718 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed series of modelling case studies compiled over the last couple of decades. Based on the new complex systems thinking, mathematical models are developed which attempt to simulate the evolution of towns, cities, and regions and the complicated co-evolutionary interaction there is both between and within them. The aim of these models is to help policy analysis and decision-making in urban and regional planning, energy policy, transport policy, and...
A clear methodological and philosophical introduction to complexity theory as applied to urban and regional systems is given, together with a detailed...
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274,23 |
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Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence
ISBN: 9780136032656 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence, reveals how lobbying is a complex process that involves more than just relationships, friends, access, favors, and influence. This book offers a broader perspective on this important dimension of American public policymaking. As a person who straddles the worlds of Washington insider and interest group scholar, author Gary Andres hopes to use his experience and insight in in the lobbying world to help readers navigate beyond the conventional wisdom, and guide them to a deeper, broader understanding. Lobbying Reconsidered: Politics Under the Influence, reveals how lobbying is a complex process that involves more than just relationships, ... |
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The New Nativism : Proposition 187 and the Debate over Immigration
ISBN: 9780816650279 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A very well-crafted, important book. I recommend it highly." --Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race
In 1994, California voters flocked to the polls in record numbers because of a ballot measure-Proposition 187-that was designed to deny social services to undocumented immigrants. A majority of voters favored the proposition, and accusations of racism flew in all directions. A U.S. District Court ultimately overturned it, but to this day Proposition 187 represents a watershed moment in the immigration debate.
Examining the dynamics of that... "A very well-crafted, important book. I recommend it highly." --Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race
In 1994, Calif... |
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244,89 |
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The New Nativism: Proposition 187 and the Debate Over Immigration
ISBN: 9780816650286 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A very well-crafted, important book. I recommend it highly." --Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race
In 1994, California voters flocked to the polls in record numbers because of a ballot measure-Proposition 187-that was designed to deny social services to undocumented immigrants. A majority of voters favored the proposition, and accusations of racism flew in all directions. A U.S. District Court ultimately overturned it, but to this day Proposition 187 represents a watershed moment in the immigration debate.
Examining the dynamics of that... "A very well-crafted, important book. I recommend it highly." --Howard Winant, author of The New Politics of Race
In 1994, Calif... |
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78,32 |
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All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good Thesis
ISBN: 9780739122174 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. VirginiaOs most prominent statesman had a profound influence on the American Founding. Of the first five presidents elected, four of them were Virginians. Old Dominion thus held an influential position in the Union. The Founders held a reluctant tolerance of slavery, yet every leading Founder believed that slavery was wrong. They based this argument on the natural rights all men, all humans, possessed. With a natural rights understanding of the American Founding, it is an inescapable conclusion that slavery is a violation of those rights. However, the Founders expressed their distaste of the...
VirginiaOs most prominent statesman had a profound influence on the American Founding. Of the first five presidents elected, four of them were Virgini...
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