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Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline
ISBN: 9781566637954 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling author of "Our Culture, What's Left of It" takes the measure of cultural decline, with special attention to Britain--its bureaucratic muddle, oppressive welfare mentality, and aimless youth--all pursued in the name of democracy and freedom.
The bestselling author of "Our Culture, What's Left of It" takes the measure of cultural decline, with special attention to Britain--its bureaucratic ...
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No More Prisons: Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, a Hitchhiker's Guide to
ISBN: 9781593762056 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author William Upski Wimsatt covers a truly remarkable array of topics and perspectives, all while recounting his own evolution from idealistic urban wanderer to community organizer, from graffiti writer to renowned essayist. Wimsatt delivers stories, strategies, suggestions, straight talk, and conversations with maverick activists. He advocates youth taking charge of their own education, whether it s in or out of school, and promotes the power of young people engaging in philanthropy. A truly original treatise from the paradigm-flipping theorist of youth activism, "No More Prisons" goes...
Author William Upski Wimsatt covers a truly remarkable array of topics and perspectives, all while recounting his own evolution from idealistic urban ...
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Thinking Politically: Essays in Political Theory
ISBN: 9780300143225 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of the most important writings of Michael Walzer, one of the world's most influential political thinkers " A] stimulating new collection of Walzer's] essays."-Adam Kirsch, New York Sun "Michael Walzer is one of liberalism's most important contemporary philosophers, as he seeks to meld communitarian concerns with traditional Rawlsian arguments together with a healthy dose of patriotic feeling and never entirely absent concern for the well-being of Israel."-Eric Alterman, mediamatters.org Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced...
A collection of the most important writings of Michael Walzer, one of the world's most influential political thinkers " A] stimulating new collection ...
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The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on World Events Vol III
ISBN: 9780595498574 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on World Events Vol III
ISBN: 9780595612819 / Angielski / Twarda / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Political Culture of the New West
ISBN: 9780700616138 / Angielski / Twarda / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a highly individualistic breed of American--as much in their politics as in their vocations or lifestyles. This first book on the landscape of the American West's politics looks beyond red state/blue state assumptions to explore how westerners have expanded the boundaries of the political and emerged as a harbinger of America's electoral future. Representing a wide range of specialties--popular culture, business history, the environment, ethnic...
From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a hi...
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The Political Culture of the New West
ISBN: 9780700616145 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a highly individualistic breed of American--as much in their politics as in their vocations or lifestyles. This first book on the landscape of the American West's politics looks beyond red state/blue state assumptions to explore how westerners have expanded the boundaries of the political and emerged as a harbinger of America's electoral future. Representing a wide range of specialties--popular culture, business history, the environment, ethnic...
From wildcatting Texas oilmen to Colorado rock climbers, from hipster capitalists to populist moralizers, westerners have proven themselves to be a hi...
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Criminal Justice Issues and the African-American Community
ISBN: 9780980238020 / Angielski / Miękka / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Continuing its focus on generating research about regional, national, and international issues relevant to the African-American community, the DuBois Institute of Clark Atlanta University tackles the impact of the criminal justice system on black citizens in this volume.
Continuing its focus on generating research about regional, national, and international issues relevant to the African-American community, the DuBois ...
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Visions of Politics
ISBN: 9780521813686 / Angielski / Twarda / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third of three volumes of essays by Quentin Skinner, one of the world's leading intellectual historians. This collection includes some of his most important essays on Thomas Hobbes, each of which has been carefully revised for publication in this form. In a series of writings spanning the past four decades Professor Skinner examines, with his customary perspicuity, the evolution and character of Hobbes's political thought. An indispensable work in its own right, this volume also serves as a demonstration of those methodological theories propounded in Volume I, and as an appositional...
The third 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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Essays, Moral, Political and Economic: Hume Papers on Public Policy Volume 6 No 4
ISBN: 9780748612086 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this timely and important collection of recent writings by a leading commentator, Sir Samuel Brittan expounds an individualist vision of liberalism which welcomes some of the New Labour policy initiatives, but rejects its communitarian rhetoric as well as its authoritarian echoes on the Right. This vision forms the context in which a number of current issues are discussed: the globalisation of the economy, the future of state-provided welfare, and the control of inflation among them. Sir Samuel does not limit himself to critical analysis of the past and the future: he sets out an agenda...
In this timely and important collection of recent writings by a leading commentator, Sir Samuel Brittan expounds an individualist vision of liberalism...
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Zimbabwe's Extractive Institutions and The Wretched Masses.: Short essays. As seen through the eyes of Fukuyama et.al
ISBN: 9781517091422 / Angielski / Miękka / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Eloge de l'Acacia - Chroniques: Nouvelle Edition revue et augmentée
ISBN: 9781515214052 / Francuski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cette nouvelle edition reprend la plupart des textes publies dans la premiere version de 2012. Les chroniques ont ete reactualisees compte tenu de l'etat des connaissances a ce jour. La situation du monde en 2015 est d'une profonde desolation. Une guerre de civilisation semble se preparer et laisse a croire que les comportements individuels et nationaux reprennent les vieux schemas qui ont amene les peuples n'ont plus a s'unir, main dans la main, conscients d'etre des privilegies, mais au contraire a entretenir la haine a travers des ideologies religieuses et des comportements societaux...
Cette nouvelle edition reprend la plupart des textes publies dans la premiere version de 2012. Les chroniques ont ete reactualisees compte tenu de l'e...
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Essays on the Church, State, & Politics
ISBN: 9780865974999 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains translated essays that derive largely from Thomasius' work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population.
Contains translated essays that derive largely from Thomasius' work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works w...
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A Staircase View
ISBN: 9781413425239 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Globalizing Civic Engagement: Civil Society and Transnational Action
ISBN: 9781853839887 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Informative and useful.' Development and Change Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However, new global organizations and networks are increasingly emerging. This book examines what CSOs can achieve, and the barriers they face, when they break national boundaries and sectoral moulds and work with others in global networks. A series of case studies of CSO initiatives reveal how transnational action can yield impressive results in changing policies and public attitudes. The diverse range of CSOs studied includes consumer groups, trade...
'Informative and useful.' Development and Change Until recently, most civil society organizations (CSOs) operated at national or local levels. However...
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Constitution for a Future Country
ISBN: 9780333719091 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general interest in their political behaviour. It combines previously published ideas about charging people the costs of their political actions and selling insurance against unfavourable political outcomes, with new ideas about competing legislatures and incentives for generating efficient political outcomes. The book includes new theorems about the mechanisms that are discussed, as well as a proposed constitution and its rationale.
This book offers ways to overcome problems that arise because voters, politicians and bureaucrats pursue selfish interests rather than the general int...
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Freedom, Power and Political Morality: Essays for Felix Oppenheim
ISBN: 9780333763322 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental political and legal concepts and their implications for the scope of morality in politics and international relations. Among the issues addressed are the relationship between empirical and normative definitions of 'freedom', 'power' and 'interests', whether governments are free to act against the national interest, and whether they can ever be morally obliged to do so.
This collection of new essays on political and legal theory concentrates on themes dealt with in the work of Felix Oppenheim, including fundamental po...
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Liberty Beyond Neo-Liberalism: A Republican Critique of Liberal Governance in a Globalising Age
ISBN: 9781403932440 / Angielski / Twarda / 257 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Under the conditions of economic globalization, the prevailing liberal philosophy of governance is becoming increasingly problematic. Liberty Beyond Neo-Liberalism critiques three varieties of liberal engagement with the processes of globalization and their ability to temper the harmful effects of the process. Steven Slaughter proposes an alternate approach, global civic republicanism, which seeks to retrieve the civic and public character of the state in order to protect it from economic vulnerability and to constitute a resilient form of liberty.
Under the conditions of economic globalization, the prevailing liberal philosophy of governance is becoming increasingly problematic. Liberty Beyond N...
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Cato's Letters: Or, Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, and Other Important Subjects
ISBN: 9780865971295 / Angielski / Miękka / 1064 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient name of Cato, wrote newspaper articles condemning tyranny and advancing principles of liberty that immensely influenced American colonists. The Englishmen were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon. Their prototype was Cato the Younger (95 46 B.C.), the implacable foe of Julius Caesar and a champion of liberty and republican principles. Their 144 essays were published from 1720 to 1723, originally in the "London Journal, " later in the "British Journal."...
Almost a generation before Washington, Henry, and Jefferson were even born, two Englishmen, concealing their identities with the honored ancient name ...
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Israel and the Post-Zionists: A Nation at Risk
ISBN: 9781903900529 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contents: Introduction; Redefining the Israeli Ethos: Transforming Israeli Society; Zionism, the Post-Zionists and Myth; Israeli Intellectuals and Israeli Politics; The Frankfurt School and Post-Zionist Thought; The Leftist Media and the al-Aqsa Uprising; Post-Zionism and Democracy; The Future of the Ideological Civil War Within the West; The West and Yasser Arafat; Israeli Anti-Semitism; Post-Zionism and Anti-Zionism in Israeli Literature; The Messianic Theme in the Works of A. B. Yehoshua and Amos Oz; Pluralism, the Post-Zionists, and Israel as a Jewish Nation; Subject Index.
Contents: Introduction; Redefining the Israeli Ethos: Transforming Israeli Society; Zionism, the Post-Zionists and Myth; Israeli Intellectuals and Isr...
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