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The World of the Policy Analyst: Rationality, Values, and Politics
ISBN: 9781889119359 / Angielski / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By stressing the need of the analyst to recognize the political, social, and ideological forces that operate in the policy process while retaining analytical integrity, the authors bring a real world awareness to the understanding of the environment in which analysts must function.
By stressing the need of the analyst to recognize the political, social, and ideological forces that operate in the policy process while retaining ana...
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Write Winger: Solutions for the Politically Oblique
ISBN: 9781929072644 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Write Winger: Solutions for the Politically Oblique is for those of us who believe it's okay to think for ourselves and who can hear the words 'self-reliance' without assigning a negative connotation. It is forwinners, competitors, and thinkers.
Write Winger: Solutions for the Politically Oblique is for those of us who believe it's okay to think for ourselves and who can hear the words 'self-r...
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Jeffersonian Principles
ISBN: 9781931541473 / Angielski / Miękka / 147 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jefferson's general thoughts on politics, government, religion, education, and the art of living selected from his writings by the great American historian.
Jefferson's general thoughts on politics, government, religion, education, and the art of living selected from his writings by the great American hist...
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Trotsky's Marxism and Other Essays
ISBN: 9781931859035 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for today in clear, sharp prose. Includes essential writings by Hallas about the development of Trotskyism after Trotsky's assassination in 1940. In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for today in clear, sh... |
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Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader
ISBN: 9781931859226 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -We in South Africa needed the support of the international community in our efforts to end the vicious system of racial oppression called apartheid. We had to have eloquent advocates to tell the world our story and persuade it to come to our assistance. . . . We had none more articulate and with all the credibility and integrity so indispensable than Dennis Brutus to plead our cause. He was quite outstanding, and we South Africans owe an immense debt of gratitude.---Archbishop Desmond Tutu -Dennis Brutus stands as a tribune of the dispossessed. His willingness to speak out on all... -We in South Africa needed the support of the international community in our efforts to end the vicious system of racial oppression called aparthei... |
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In Praise Of Barbarians: Essays Against the Empire
ISBN: 9781931859424 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men s burdens in this blistering collection of radical essays. He skewers contemporary idols such as Mel Gibson, Niall Ferguson, and Howard Dean; unlocks some secret doors in the Pentagon and the California prison system; visits Star Wars in the Arctic and vigilantes on the border; predicts ethnic cleansing in New Orleans more than a year before Katrina; recalls the anarchist avengers of the 1890s and teeny-bopper riots on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s; discusses the... The author of City of Quartz and Planet of Slums attacks the current fashion for empires and white men s burdens in this blistering c... |
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The Fire This Time: Essays on Life Under Us Occupation
ISBN: 9784902837117 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. his book is compilation of a number of essays by the Chamorro writer, Julian Aguon, the author of Just Left of the Setting Sun. These essays are written to inform the world of the plight of the Chamorro people on the US Territory of Guam. Guam is considered "the place where America's Day begins" because of its location in the Western Pacific. It endures the status of an unincorporated territory, a netherzone in which the Organic Act instead the US Constitution applies, and where a non-voting Congressperson represents the island's interests in principle, but in actuality the island is...
his book is compilation of a number of essays by the Chamorro writer, Julian Aguon, the author of Just Left of the Setting Sun. These essays are writt...
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War or Peace in the South China Sea?
ISBN: 9788791114014 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not only is the South China Sea of strategic importance; it is also rich in oil and other natural resources. As such, it is the subject of overlapping territorial disputes between several East and Southeast Asian countries as well as the scene of military tensions and potentially dangerous conflicts. But disputes over the South China Sea are much more complex than simply issues of military security. Environmental values, economic security and political developments are also involved. Spanning the full complexity of the situation, this volume:
* covers its historical and legal background... Not only is the South China Sea of strategic importance; it is also rich in oil and other natural resources. As such, it is the subject of overlapping...
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For the Sake of Humanity: Essays in Honour of Clemens N. Nathan
ISBN: 9789004141254 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For the Sake of Humanity is a collection of essays in honour of Clemens N. Nathan, a man occupying a remarkable position in the public life of the United Kingdom. Over a period of several decades, he has stimulated and facilitated discussion, research and study on a striking array of topics, including international organisations, Human Rights, interfaith relations and the Holocaust and German-Jewish history - as well as in his own area of professional expertise: textile science and technology. His approach has been characterised by academic rigour, social concern and a commitment to...
For the Sake of Humanity is a collection of essays in honour of Clemens N. Nathan, a man occupying a remarkable position in the public life of the Uni...
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Die Stellung Der Parlamentsminderheiten in England, Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Und Italien
ISBN: 9789024705078 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition: Essays in Honor of Janos Kis
ISBN: 9789639241770 / Angielski / Twarda / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Maria Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, Andras Sajo, Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Andrew Arato, Timothy Garton Ash, Bela Greskovits, Will Kymlicka, and Aleksander Smolar. The studies explore a wide scope of subjects that belong to disciplines ranging from moral philosophy, through theory of human rights, democratic transition, constitutionalism, to political economy. The common denominator of the studies collected is their reference to the scholarly output of Janos Kis, in honor of his sixtieth birthday. Janos Kis is a...
The book contains twelve essays by Stephen Holmes, Frances M. Kamm, Maria Ludassy, Steven Lukes, Gyorgy Markus, Andras Sajo, Gaspar Miklos Tamas, Andr...
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Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption
ISBN: 9789639241947 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in analyzing politics, this book seeks to discover why institutions do what they do. The author delves into political motivations at a time when "combating corruption" is the fashion among the academic community. Krastev argues that anti-corruption sentiments are not driven by the actual level of corruption but by general disappointment with liberal reforms that cause rising social inequality. In this collection of essays, the author makes the...
This book is not a study of anti-corruption policies. Instead, it looks at the politics of anti-corruption. Policies are what institutions do. But in ...
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La Politica Internacional de Felipe IV
ISBN: 9789875610392 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
ISBN: 9780520256569 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to the U.S.--Mexican border, from San Francisco to London, from open sky to the deepest mines, and from the antislavery struggles of two hundred years ago to today s street protests. The nearly forty essays collected here comprise a unique guidebook to the American landscape after the...
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and ...
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Visions of Politics
ISBN: 9780521581059 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important philosophical and methodological statements written over the past four decades, each carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of seminal essays Professor Skinner sets forth the intellectual principles that inform his work. Writing as a practising historian, he considers the theoretical difficulties inherent in the pursuit of knowledge and interpretation, and elucidates the methodology which finds its expression in...
The first of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most...
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics
ISBN: 9780307388445 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspective on contemporary domestic affairs.In The Paranoid Style in American Politics, acclaimed historian Richard Hofstadter examines the competing forces in American political discourse and how fringe groups can influence -- and derail -- the larger agendas of a political party. He investigates the politics of the irrational, shedding light on how the behavior of individuals can seem out of proportion with actual political issues, and how...
This timely reissue of Richard Hofstadter's classic work on the fringe groups that influence American electoral politics offers an invaluable perspect...
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American Notebook: A Personal and Political Journey
ISBN: 9780522852530 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Probing the psyche of the American people, this extended essay examines how the country’ s mindset has changed during the tumultuous presidency of George W. Bush. The investigation draws on individual experiences as well as factual reporting, melding the personal and the political to capture the real mood of a powerful nation. Full of bold insights and brash honesty, this revealing study presents Americans as worried and disillusioned, artfully illustrating their struggles against a new wave of political pessimism.
Probing the psyche of the American people, this extended essay examines how the country’ s mindset has changed during the tumultuous presidency ...
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Restoring the Connection to the Natural World: Essays on the African American Environmental Imagination Volume 10
ISBN: 9783825867324 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its emergence in the second half of the nineteenth century, American environmentalism has predominantly been a white, middle-class pursuit, being preoccupied with notions of wilderness and wildlife preservation. Only fairly recently, with the advent of the environmental justice movement in the 1980s, has American environmentalism broadened its definition of "environment" to include the concerns relevant to a community's way of living. Of particular disproportionate importance are the concerns of poor urban communities of color, which have been exposed to environmental hazards.
This... Since its emergence in the second half of the nineteenth century, American environmentalism has predominantly been a white, middle-class pursuit, bein...
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The Triumph Of Ignorance And Bliss – Pathologies of Public America
ISBN: 9781551643144 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Polk explores the mundane symbols, interests, and power structures that increasingly permeate and define American society.
James Polk explores the mundane symbols, interests, and power structures that increasingly permeate and define American society.
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The Maternal Is Political: Women Writers at the Intersection of Motherhood and Social Change
ISBN: 9781580052436 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting literary essays by women who are striving to make the world a better place for children and families both their own and other women s in this country and globally.
From the mom deconstructing playground "power games" with her first-grade child, to the mother who speaks out against misogyny during an awkward road trip with her college-age daughter and friends, to the mother of sons worrying about the threat of a future military draft, The... Exploring the vital connection between motherhood and social change, The Maternal Is Political features more than 40 powerful, hard-hitting lit...
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