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Letters to a Young Activist
ISBN: 9780465033065 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for bearings, understanding, direction, and practical examples. In Letters to a Young Activist, Gitlin looks back at his eventful life, recalling his experience as president of the formidable Students for a Democratic Society in the '60s, contemplating the spirit of activism, and arriving at some principles of action to guide the passion and energy of those wishing to do good. Through a series of letters, he imparts to a new generation of...
"Be original. See what happens." So Todd Gitlin advises the young mind burning to take action to right the wrongs of the world but also looking for be...
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Lessons for Our Struggle
ISBN: 9781608462162 / Angielski / Miękka / 24 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and poverty as it relates to the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Francis Fox Piven, a celebrated political thinker and activist, offers a concise introduction to her award-winning writings on imperialism, voting and...
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The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
ISBN: 9781608462315 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. They give voice to ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power across the country and around the world. Their writing and daily work at the grassroots public TV/radio news hour Democracy Now , carried on more than a thousand stations globally and at democracynow.org, casts in stark relief the stories of the silenced majority. These stories are set against the backdrop of the mainstream media s abject failure, with its small...
In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. The...
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Beyond Zuccotti Park: Freedom of Assembly and the Occupation of Public Space
ISBN: 9781613320099 / Angielski / Miękka / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can people congregate today? Forty social scientists, planners, architects, and civil liberties experts explore the definition, use, role, and importance of public space for the exercise of our democratic rights to free expression. The book also discusses whose voice is heard and what factors limit the participation of minorities in Occupy activities. This foundational work puts issues of democracy and civic engagement back into the center of... The Occupy Wall Street movement has challenged the physical manifestation of the First Amendment rights to freedom of assembly. Where and how can p... |
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Shaggy Man's Ramblings: Essays by Leslie Evans
ISBN: 9781475137323 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here from The Shaggy Man's Place (www.shaggyman.com), everything from ecological crises and religious wars to Edwardian authors, the scandal plagued city of Vernon, early computer games, and local Los Angeles history. International oil production has been frozen since 2005 while demand from our 7 billion and growing global population continues upward, forcing prices of oil, gasoline, and food ever higher. Our political leaders stake our future on a strategy of economic growth just as the planet is hitting its physical limits on nonrenewable resources, from oil to farmland to potable water....
Here from The Shaggy Man's Place (www.shaggyman.com), everything from ecological crises and religious wars to Edwardian authors, the scandal plagued c...
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The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of Our Times-Volume VII
ISBN: 9781469782119 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of Our Times-Volume VII
ISBN: 9781469782133 / Angielski / Twarda / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Blogothon: Reflections and Revelations from the News Dissector
ISBN: 9781616406691 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In just a decade, blogging changed from a fad to a phenomenon with an estimated 51 million participants, mostly creative citizens with something to say or express. Citizens who want to participate in media rather than be subjected to it.
Blogothon is a selection of blogs and essays posted by raconteur par excellence, gadfly of the media, and "News Dissector" Danny Schechter in an award-winning daily blog that he began writing in 2000. In Blogothon Schechter demonstrates the importance of blogging as an alternative media in an age when mainstream media has come under increasing scrutiny for a... In just a decade, blogging changed from a fad to a phenomenon with an estimated 51 million participants, mostly creative citizens with something to sa...
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Aren't You Sorry You Asked: . . . for My Opinion
ISBN: 9781403382887 / Angielski / Twarda / 620 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Where I Stand, Volume II: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Newspaper Articles, 1995-1999
ISBN: 9781475910483 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Where I Stand, Volume II: A Collection of Speeches, Essays, and Newspaper Articles, 1995-1999
ISBN: 9781475910476 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Society, Reason, Sexuality: The Dominions of Man
ISBN: 9781470039691 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This compilation contains sections relating to social order, rational atheism, and sexual pleasure.
This compilation contains sections relating to social order, rational atheism, and sexual pleasure.
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Liberty on Life Support: Essays on American Exceptionalism, Immigration, Education, and the Economy
ISBN: 9781477483084 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. My essays on American exceptionalism, education, the U.S. economy, and immigration reflect the massive and dizzying changes that took place in our country in the military, on Wall Street, on Main Street and in the massive government spending. The European crisis is spreading its financial woes and socialist tentacles to the United States. Most Americans are not accepting the incremental socialism but a liberal minority is eagerly adopting the Marxist utopia. One day, America will be a socialist nation, wondering just how it happened.
My essays on American exceptionalism, education, the U.S. economy, and immigration reflect the massive and dizzying changes that took place in our cou...
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The Cannabis Papers: a citizen's guide to cannabinoids
ISBN: 9780615172415 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cannabinoids modulate life. Cannabis (marijuana) makes cannabinoids. The Cannabis Papers: a citizen's guide to cannabinoids, unites these two facts. Under the influence of America's revolutionary ideals, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, one learns that cannabinoids: * regulate and safeguard pregnancy * grow and protect brain cells * heal and maintain all biological systems * and kill cancer cells Cannabinoids are best described as "nature's healthcare plan." The authors of The Cannabis Papers, using "Publius" as their penname, begin with the fact that all humans (even all mammals)...
Cannabinoids modulate life. Cannabis (marijuana) makes cannabinoids. The Cannabis Papers: a citizen's guide to cannabinoids, unites these two facts. U...
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The Economy as Cultural System: Theory, Capitalism, Crisis
ISBN: 9781441170378 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts... today, the "economy" is on everyone's mind. But what makes this rather opaque concept work? This collection of essays seeks out the answer by exploring contemporary capitalism from a variety of theoretical perspectives and by confronting the economy as a cultural system, a theory, and a driving force of every day life in the West. The first part of the book discusses past and present representation of capitalism (from Hegel and Marx to Negri and Florida) along with their continuing impact. The second... The 2008 global crisis, unemployment, lack of retirement funds, bank bailouts... today, the "economy" is on everyone's mind. But what makes this ra... |
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JCMS Annual Review of the European Union in 2011
ISBN: 9781444366990 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, its member states, and acceding and/or applicant countries in 2011.
The Annual Review, produced in association with JCMS, The Journal of Common Market Studies, covers the key developments in the European Union, ...
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Believing In Obama: Essays from the Historic 2008 Election and Insights for 2012
ISBN: 9780977225088 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The election of Barack Obama in 2008 -- historic and controversial. But what was it like for the legions of volunteers drawn into the political fray for the very first time? In Believing in Obama, a new book by Patricia Wilson-Smith, you will relive the history of the 2008 election through the eyes of a citizen activist and volunteer.
The election of Barack Obama in 2008 -- historic and controversial. But what was it like for the legions of volunteers drawn into the political fray f...
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The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays, 1942-2009
ISBN: 9780465061914 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brilliant collection of pieces, written between 1942 and his death in 2009, by Irving Kristol, one of the fathers of neoconservatism. This series of essays, many hard to find and reprinted for the first time since their initial appearance, offers a wide ranging survey of the history of neoconservatism in America. Kristol covers a broad range of topics from the neoconservative movement's roots in the 40s at City College through the triumph of Reagan and the muddle of the Iraq war. Along the way, we experience the creative development of one of the most important public intellectuals of the...
A brilliant collection of pieces, written between 1942 and his death in 2009, by Irving Kristol, one of the fathers of neoconservatism. This series of...
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Beyond Borders
ISBN: 9780957147003 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays, graphics and theatre displaces our understandings of borders so that we cannot look the same way at that which invades our everyday, that which kills and excludes, that which sounds out across divides and that which connects or cleaves. Addressing activism, philosophy, film, art and music, the book includes a graphic essay on the Gaza Flotilla and an original play The Detention Centre. Essays by prominent scholars and writers address citizenship, visa queues, the home economy, philanthropy, student fees, transportation, terror, camps, poetic license and more. The...
This collection of essays, graphics and theatre displaces our understandings of borders so that we cannot look the same way at that which invades our ...
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The End of Judaism: An Ethical Tradition Betrayed
ISBN: 9781479180134 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The End of Judaism, Auschwitz survivor Hajo G. Meyer, a Dutch national of German-Jewish origin, expresses in impassioned terms his dismay at what he sees as the moral collapse of contemporary Israeli society and the worldwide Jewish community as a whole. Meyer is a member of "A Different Jewish Voice," a Dutch-based, secular Jewish movement that dares to openly criticize Israel's policies toward the Palestinians. In his observations, deeply colored by his personal experiences during the Holocaust, Meyer compares Israel's current policies with the early stages of the Nazis' persecution of...
In The End of Judaism, Auschwitz survivor Hajo G. Meyer, a Dutch national of German-Jewish origin, expresses in impassioned terms his dismay at what h...
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