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Which Side of History?: How Technology Is Reshaping Democracy and Our Lives
ISBN: 9781797205168 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,04 |
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The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed
ISBN: 9781598130218 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Delving into the concept ofthe United Statesas an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world from the Spanish-American War to the invasion of Iraq demonstratinghow theynot only contradict the principles of both liberals and conservatives but also make a mockery of the Founding Fathers' vision for a free republic. In recent years, "blowback" and the enormous expansion of federal power have threatened the American homeland itself, curtailing the liberties these interventions were supposed to protect. This book, however, exposes the flaws of U.S. interventionism... Delving into the concept ofthe United Statesas an empire, this investigation examines U.S. interventions around the world from the Spanish-American... |
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Precarious Security
ISBN: 9780393334579 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism
ISBN: 9780231188487 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jeffrey D. Sachs presents timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth and shift from war making to peacemaking. A New Foreign Policy explores both the danger of the "America first" mindset and the concrete steps the United States must take to build a multipolar world that is prosperous, peaceful, fair, and resilient.
Jeffrey D. Sachs presents timely and achievable plans to foster global economic growth and shift from war making to peacemaking. A New Foreign Policy ...
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The Governance Report 2019
ISBN: 9780198821502 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Social Traps and Social Trust: Institutional Transformations in an American City Following a Natural Disaster
ISBN: 9781663214454 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,19 |
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Healing for a Broken World: Christian Perspectives on Public Policy
ISBN: 9781581349610 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do today's believers know how to be not simply good citizens but good Christian citizens? Are they ready to respond to contemporary public policy issues such as genocide, global AIDS, global warming, and human trafficking according to Scripture rather than any particular political agenda? A growing segment of them are, even if they aren't quite sure how to accomplish it. This book is for them. With American evangelicals having more political influence today than ever before, this book is especially important. The opening chapters establish the foundational biblical... Do today's believers know how to be not simply good citizens but good Christian citizens? Are they ready to respond to contemporary public... |
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The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality
ISBN: 9781541647107 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Quest for Cosmic Justice
ISBN: 9780684864631 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rejects both "merit" and historical redress as principles for guiding public policy. It shows how "peace" movements have led to war and to needless casualties in those wars. It argues that "equality" is neither right nor wrong, but meaningless.
The Quest for Cosmic Justice shows how confused conceptions of justice end up promoting injustice, how confused conceptions of equality end up promoting inequality, and how the tyranny of social... This is not a comforting book -- it is a book about disturbing issues that are urgently important today and enduringly critical for the future. It rej...
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Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia
ISBN: 9781501187353 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Grand New Party: How Republicans Can Win the Working Class and Save the American Dream
ISBN: 9780307277800 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and needs of working-class voters.Grand New Party lays bare the failures of the conservative revolution and presents a detailed blueprint for building the next Republican majority. Blending history, analysis, and fresh, often controversial recommendations, Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam argue that it is time to move beyond the Reagan legacy and the current Republican power structure. With specific proposals covering such hot-button topics as...
In a provocative challenge to Republican conventional wisdom, two of the Right's rising young thinkers call upon the GOP to focus on the interests and...
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Personal Liability of Public Officials in Virginia's Local Governments and Its Impact on Their Willingness to Serve
ISBN: 9781498239653 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These are challenging times, and perhaps it is here that humans are viewed at their best and their worst. Everyone is accountable for what they say and do. And since government at all levels and its officials are not exempted, and who operate in a more open environment than they once did, primarily as a result of legislation providing for open meetings, more accessible public information, and under more open and recordable visibility, public officials must be more cautious and more aware of the decisions they make. Although a conscious effort on the part of public officials to avoid personal...
These are challenging times, and perhaps it is here that humans are viewed at their best and their worst. Everyone is accountable for what they say an...
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Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It
ISBN: 9781419775079 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tools for Policy Analysis and Management: A Practitioner'S Guide
ISBN: 9781546290476 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,58 |
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Aviation Safety: FAA and DOD Response to Similar Safety Concerns: Report to the Honorable Norman Y. Mineta, Secretary of Transportation
ISBN: 9781495216602 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report details the case study approach supplemented by a review of FAA's and Department of Defense's (DOD) aviation safety oversight processes and related interdepartmental communication efforts to (1) examine different responses by FAA and DOD/military services to similar aviation safety concerns and (2) assess the processes used by FAA and DOD to communicate information about similar aviation safety concerns.
This report details the case study approach supplemented by a review of FAA's and Department of Defense's (DOD) aviation safety oversight processes an...
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Crowdsourcing in the Public Sector
ISBN: 9781626163799 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public through an open call for solutions over the internet or social media. Crowdsourcing works to generate new ideas or develop innovative solutions to problems by drawing on the wisdom of the many rather than the few. US local government experimented with rudimentary crowdsourcing strategies as early as 1989, but in the last few years local, state, and federal government have increasingly turned to crowdsourcing to enhance citizen participation in... Crowdsourcing is a term that was coined in 2006 to describe how the commercial sector was beginning to outsource problems or tasks to the public th... |
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Aviation Security: Status of Transportation Security Inspector Workforce
ISBN: 9781495216008 / Angielski / Miękka / 58 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This report details the operation of the transportation security inspector (TSI) program since it has been located at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) within the Department of Homeland Security, including the size of the TSI workforce, the roles and responsibilities of TSIs, and the extent to which TSA has a reasonable basis for determining the size of the workforce needed to achieve inspection goals.
This report details the operation of the transportation security inspector (TSI) program since it has been located at the Transportation Security Admi...
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Aviation Security: TSA Is Enhancing Its Oversight of Air Carrier Efforts to Identify Passengers on the No Fly and Selectee Lists, but Exp
ISBN: 9781495216114 / Angielski / Miękka / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GAO reviewed domestic air carriers' watch-list-matching processes. GAO examined (1) the watch-list-matching requirements air carriers must follow that have been established by TSA, and (2) the extent to which TSA has assessed air carriers' compliance with these requirements. GAO reviewed TSA's security directives, internal guidance used by TSA's inspectors to assess air carriers' compliance with requirements, and inspection results, as well as interviewed staff from 14 of 95 domestic air carriers (selected to reflect a range in operational sizes). This report is the public version of a...
GAO reviewed domestic air carriers' watch-list-matching processes. GAO examined (1) the watch-list-matching requirements air carriers must follow that...
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American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
ISBN: 9780300261516 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Nomadismo Na Cultura: Entre A Fixa??o E A Andan?a No Espa?o
ISBN: 9786599835674 / Portugalski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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