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From Bin Laden to Facebook: 10 Days of Abduction, 10 Years of Terrorism
ISBN: 9781908979537 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal (High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight) and Channel NewsAsia (Terrorism Goes Online) The two most wanted terrorists in Southeast Asia - a Malaysian and a Singaporean - are on the run in the Philippines, but they manage to keep their friends and family updated on Facebook. Filipinos connect with al-Qaeda-linked groups in Somalia and Yemen. The black flag - embedded in al-Qaeda lore - pops up on websites and Facebook pages from around the world, including the Philippines, Indonesia, the Middle East,...
Maria A Ressa has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal (High-Profile Journalist Reshapes Her Role in Terrorism Fight) and Channel NewsAsia (Ter...
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Maoist Insurgency and India's Internal Security
ISBN: 9789381411278 / Angielski / Twarda / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Maoists have taken up arms. Their focus is on tribals and lower caste people for support. Stress is on militarisation with hierarchy and building of People s Guerrilla Army capable of destroying the state machinery. Violence and breakdown of law and order is causing loss of innocent lives and damage to property. The book has been covered in five chapters by the contributors. The first chapter deals with the Maoist insurgency in India and analyses the reasons that led to the Communist Party of India (CPI) taking up the cause of the lower castes and scheduled tribes. The second chapter...
The Maoists have taken up arms. Their focus is on tribals and lower caste people for support. Stress is on militarisation with hierarchy and building ...
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215,80 |
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Social Security Reform
ISBN: 9780199247899 / Angielski / Twarda / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social security reform is a hot topic in many countries -- one which leads to much debate (and some widespread agreement) among economists. In this book, Peter Diamond explores social security policy, social security and the labour market, and social security and the capital market from an economic point of view.
Social security reform is a hot topic in many countries -- one which leads to much debate (and some widespread agreement) among economists. In this bo...
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Security Studies : A Reader
ISBN: 9780415326018 / Angielski / Miękka / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers students an informed overview of significant work in security studies. This book is divided into the following sections: What is Security; Theories of Security; Security Dimensions and Issues; Security Frameworks and Actors; and, The Future of Security. It is suitable for students of security studies and international relations.
Offers students an informed overview of significant work in security studies. This book is divided into the following sections: What is Security; Theo...
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The Sociology of Terrorism: People, Places and Processes
ISBN: 9780415572668 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern, local and global, and social processes for a range of individuals, groups and societies. Individual behaviour and dispositions are embedded within these broader relationships and activities, allowing a more holistic account of terrorism to emerge. In addition, the shifting forms of identification and interwoven attitudes to political violence are discussed in order to explain the emergence, continuation, and end of 'terrorist' careers. The... This is the first terrorism textbook based on sociological research. It adopts an innovative framework that draws together historical and modern, l... |
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The Future of Social Security
ISBN: 9780815758952 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive analysis of social security in relation to other sources of retirement income, reviewing and projecting financing problems, benefit structures, and ambivalent goals.
A comprehensive analysis of social security in relation to other sources of retirement income, reviewing and projecting financing problems, benefit st...
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Reinventing Social Security Worldwide: Back to Essentials
ISBN: 9781847426406 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to the onset of the recent financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialised societies were indicating a progressive disengagement of the State, in favour of tax-financed measures similar to social assistance, which may fail to ensure a basic standard of living. In this timely book the author, with his life-long experience of international social security, advocates reinstating social insurance by reducing the volume of income redistribution, increasing the transparency of money flows and improving citizen information. It will be of interest to a wide audience,...
Prior to the onset of the recent financial crisis, global trends of social security in industrialised societies were indicating a progressive disengag...
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How Social Security Works: An Introduction to Benefits in Britain
ISBN: 9781847428103 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How social security works is an introduction to the much-misunderstood system of benefits in Britain. The book is an accessible, broadly based and sometimes controversial text which can help readers to make sense of the system in practice. It explains the guiding principles, outlines the social context, considers the development and political dimensions of benefits, and reviews how the system operates now. There are detailed discussions of the types of benefit, and the contingencies covered by the benefits system.Paul Spicker examines whether the system offers value for money, how it could be...
How social security works is an introduction to the much-misunderstood system of benefits in Britain. The book is an accessible, broadly based and som...
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Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order
ISBN: 9780415747677 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this third edition of "Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia," Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. Building on the framework from the first edition, which inspired the establishment of the ASEAN Political-Security community, this new edition has been extensively updated and revised based on new primary sources that are not publicly available. Updates for this edition include:
In this third edition of "Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia," Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the e... |
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Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order
ISBN: 9780415747684 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolution of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) norms and the viability of the ASEAN way of conflict management. Building on the framework from the first edition, which inspired the establishment of the ASEAN Political-Security community, this new edition has been extensively updated and revised based on new primary sources that are not publicly available. Updates for this edition include: Expanded and updated coverage of the South...
In this third edition of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia, Amitav Acharya offers a comprehensive and critical account of the evolut...
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Whither Southeast Asia Terrorism?
ISBN: 9781783263899 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a comprehensive assessment of what the countries in Southeast Asia have achieved is overdue. We need to consider whether the strategies against both the domestic and transnational terrorist and extremist threat have been appropriate and have yielded desired results. The aim of this book is to make a comprehensive assessment of the threats of terrorism and extremism in the region and of the policies and practices adopted by the regional countries to counter the same. It is also necessary...
More than 11 years after the 9/11 attacks and 10 years after the October 2002 Bali bombings, the need for a comprehensive assessment of what the count...
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Social Security Reform: Current Issues and Legislation
ISBN: 9781481907712 / Angielski / Miękka / 44 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Rooseveltcare: How Social Security is Sabotaging the Land of Self-Reliance
ISBN: 9780979466175 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today we are at a crossroads. America's entitlement state is threatening to bankrupt us, and new schemes such as ObamaCare are hastening the collapse. What should we do? In this provocative look at America before and after Social Security, Don Watkins argues that the answer is as simple as it is controversial: Abolish the entitlement state, starting with the retirement program that created it. This is not another book for policy wonks about the financial trouble the entitlement state is in. This is the story of the role that Social Security has played in eroding the eagerness, energy and...
Today we are at a crossroads. America's entitlement state is threatening to bankrupt us, and new schemes such as ObamaCare are hastening the collapse....
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Recreating Sustainable Retirement: Resilience, Solvency, and Tail Risk
ISBN: 9780198719243 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession alerted those seeking to protect old-age security, about the extreme risks confronting the financial and political institutions comprising our retirement system.
The workforce of today and tomorrow must count on longer lives and deferred retirement, while at the same time it is taking on increased responsibility for managing retirement risk. This volume explores new ways to think about, manage, and finance longevity risk, capital market risk, model risk, and regulatory risk. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the 'black swans'... The financial crisis and the ensuing Great Recession alerted those seeking to protect old-age security, about the extreme risks confronting the financ...
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Wars from Within: Understanding and Managing Insurgent Movements
ISBN: 9781783265565 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wars from Within brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioner-researchers specializing in the study of insurgent movements in order to provide a deeper understanding of the violent manifestations of insurgencies in different parts of the world.
Wars from Within brings together an international and multidisciplinary group of academics and practitioner-researchers specializing in the study of i...
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Social Security Reform: Current Issues and Legislation
ISBN: 9781503012332 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Security reform is an issue of interest to policy makers that arises in various contexts, from improving retirement security to reducing federal budget deficits. In 2011, for example, Social Security program changes were discussed by the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction established by the Budget Control Act of 2011 . The Joint Committee was tasked with recommending ways to reduce federal budget deficits by at least $1.5 trillion over the fiscal year period 2012 to 2021. Social Security program changes were among the measures considered by the Joint Committee; however, no...
Social Security reform is an issue of interest to policy makers that arises in various contexts, from improving retirement security to reducing federa...
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Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) Reform: An Overview of Proposals to Manage the Growth in the SSDI Rolls
ISBN: 9781507543337 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides benefits to nonelderly workers with certain disabilities and their eligible dependents. As in Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI)-Social Security's retirement program-SSDI benefits are based on a worker's past earnings. To qualify, individuals must have worked and paid Social Security taxes for a certain number of years and be unable to engage in substantial gainful activity (SGA) due to a severe mental or physical impairment that is expected to last for at least one year or result in death. In 2015, the monthly SGA earnings limit for...
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) provides benefits to nonelderly workers with certain disabilities and their eligible dependents. As in Old...
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The Predictable Surprise: The Unraveling of the U.S. Retirement System
ISBN: 9780190240394 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock market in the worst shape since the Great Depression. In The Predictable Surprise, Sylvester J. Schieber shows that forewarnings of the coming retirement crisis have been apparent for decades, but we have never mustered the political will to address the problem. This book explains how we have gotten into the retirement predicament and where we can go from here. Schieber, a renowned authority on this topic, provides a compact, insightful...
Social Security is in jeopardy, private pension systems have fallen apart, and workers are trying to save on their own for retirement with the stock m...
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Organizational Change Within the Social Security Administration: An Assessmen of the National Partnership for Reinvention Policy in the Southern Regio
ISBN: 9780974322636 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the National Partnership for Reinvention (NPR) policy within the Southern Region of the Social Security Administration (SSA). The NPR policy was a part of the Clinton Administration's objective of "reinventing government" by creating a government that "works better and costs less." By using the case study approach, the author examined the implementation of NPR within the Southern Region of the SSA to determine if NPR created organizational change. This dissertation brings attention and understanding to the important relationship between...
The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of the National Partnership for Reinvention (NPR) policy within the Southern Region of the Social S...
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80,92 |
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Religion, Spirituality, and the Refugee Experience in Melbourne, Australia, 1990s-2010
ISBN: 9781137563774 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth study of selected refugees from Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan, this book examines the relationship between the refugees religious and spiritual beliefs and the refugee experience. Susan P. Ennis takes a close look at the circumstances of refugees flight, their asylum, and their initial period of settlement in Melbourne, Australia during the period between the nineteen nineties and the early twenty-first century. Ennis finds that a sense of religiosity seemed to aid the refugees, in some way, during all stages of their journey. Furthermore, nearly half of the refugees she...
An in-depth study of selected refugees from Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, and Sudan, this book examines the relationship between the refugees religious and...
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