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The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form
ISBN: 9789004231016 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray's essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since his Marx's Theory of Scientific Knowledge (1988), along with a previously unpublished essay and an introduction. Murray's essays concentrate on Marx the historical materialist, the investigator of historically specific social forms of wealth and labour. There is no production in general; the production of wealth always involves specific social forms and purposes that matter in many ways. Marx's attention to the dynamics and far-reaching...
The Mismeasure of Wealth: Essays on Marx and Social Form gathers Patrick Murray's essays reinterpreting Marx and Marxian theory published since...
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American Political Thought: An Alternative View
ISBN: 9781138666351 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges, like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration, continuing economic and gender inequality, the rise of conservative and libertarian politics, and the appropriate role of religion in American politics. Current scholarship in American political thought research neither adequately responds to the contemporary moment in American politics nor fully captures the depth and scope of this rich tradition. This collection of essays offers an innovative expansion of the American political... The twenty-first century presents unique political challenges, like increasing concern over racially based police brutality and mass incarceration,... |
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An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races: The Hidden Causes of Revolutions, Bloody Wars, and Lawlessness.
ISBN: 9781535241175 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though and style in dealing with the question of equality. It deems the human race to be bound by the same laws of nature that governs all animals, and it is a damning criticism of new age democracy. The book was dedicated to King George V of Hanover (1851-66), the last king of Hanover. In the dedication, Gobineau writes that he presents to His Majesty the fruits of his speculations and studies into the hidden causes of the "revolutions, bloody wars, and...
This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though and ...
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Morphologie de l'attentat politique
ISBN: 9781534610217 / Francuski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Confucius disait que lorsque les noms ne sont pas corrects, le langage est sans objet et que, lorsque le langage est sans objet, les choses ne peuvent etre menees a bien. Peu importe qu'il eut a l'esprit le bon ordonnancement de la societe plutot que l'ajustement des concepts aux phenomenes auxquels ils se rapportent; ne retenons que l'idee d'une denomination inadequate qui masque la realite d'un voile trompeur. Si nous ne savons plus si nous sommes en guerre ou en paix, si nous ne savons plus ce qu'est un "acte de guerre" et si nous n'avons jamais exactement su ce qu'est le "terrorisme" - et...
Confucius disait que lorsque les noms ne sont pas corrects, le langage est sans objet et que, lorsque le langage est sans objet, les choses ne peuvent...
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Proclaim Liberty: Essays on Freedom and the Future of America
ISBN: 9780990594321 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, a document iconic of the age-old fight for liberty against organized tyranny. But what has really changed since the thirteenth century? And how should Western society come to terms with the unprecedented challenges posed by central banking, mass surveillance, gay marriage, the substitution of education for job-training, and the abuse of federal power in relation to the states? In a unique and diverse compilation of essays, Proclaim Liberty offers thoughtful insight to these matters (and more) from a distinctly Christian perspective....
2015 marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, a document iconic of the age-old fight for liberty against organized tyranny. But what has really...
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One Nation Britain: History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today S Politicians
ISBN: 9781138274303 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband s speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these questions have been much asked, but not so often clearly answered. Outlining the historical context, and offering suggestions for contemporary thinkers, this comprehensive overview shows how all three major UK political parties have made a significant contribution to the One Nation agenda over the past century and a half. Re-asserting the One Nation tradition inherent in interventionist liberals like Keynes and Lloyd George, it encourages us to...
What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband s speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these qu...
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Tastefully Twisted Publications Presents: The Top Ten American Political Myths
ISBN: 9781537221342 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The definitive explanation and exposition of the most common examples of American Political Mythology.
The definitive explanation and exposition of the most common examples of American Political Mythology.
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Trump is the Least Bad: No Aces for the 2016 Presidential Election
ISBN: 9781537206967 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fierce race for reaching the Oval Office is being held now, August-October, 2016, between Donald Trump, an unpredictable entrepreneur turned politician, and Hillary Clinton, an attorney at Law (ack ) turned power-hungry politician who has spent most of her life as a "budgetivore," waiting, hoping, wishing, wanting. Be whichever the result on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, it will be hard to know if the Nation blues are going to be dissipated, but eventually everyone will witness that evil turns against itself. During centuries, two additional calamitous entities have ominously been hovering...
The fierce race for reaching the Oval Office is being held now, August-October, 2016, between Donald Trump, an unpredictable entrepreneur turned polit...
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Walden, Civil Disobedience, and Other Writings
ISBN: 9781537080222 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, was first published in 1854. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst nature & ecology, lakes & ponds, and woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. Henry David Thoreau reflects upon simple living in natual surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social...
Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, was first published in 1854. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, an...
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Walden and Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781537080130 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, was first published in 1854. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst nature & ecology, lakes & ponds, and woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development. Henry David Thoreau reflects upon simple living in natual surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social...
Walden, written by Henry David Thoreau, was first published in 1854. Walden details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, an...
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The Strenuous Life
ISBN: 9781537079318 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Strenuous Life is the name of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois on April 10, 1899. Based on his personal experiences, Theodore Roosevelt argued that strenuous effort and overcoming hardship were ideals to be embraced by Americans for the betterment of the United States and the world in the 20th century. Theodore Roosevelt was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist, reformer, and the 26th President of the United States of America from 1901 to 1909.
The Strenuous Life is the name of a speech given by Theodore Roosevelt in Chicago, Illinois on April 10, 1899. Based on his personal experiences, Theo...
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The Culmination of Capital: Essays on Volume III of Marx's Capital
ISBN: 9781349428137 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this collection, four philosophers and four economists consider the Third Volume of Marx's Capital. The essays take up each of the major themes of Volume III - competition, for formation and development of the general rate of profit, the credit system and finance capital, rent, the Trinity formula and the concept of class - and consider them in the light of the two previous volumes. The authors share a focus on the concept of social form in Marx's work and on the method of his argument. The collection is intended both for specialists in Marxian theory and for students of the history of...
In this collection, four philosophers and four economists consider the Third Volume of Marx's Capital. The essays take up each of the major themes of ...
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Wetenschap is ook maar een mening
ISBN: 9789491481017 / Holenderski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Daalt de criminaliteit door meer politie op straat? Is het onderwijs in kleinere klassen beter? Is snel bezuinigen goed voor de economie? Wetenschappers weten na decennia onderzoek vaak het antwoord. Dit boek laat die feiten spreken, met alle aandacht voor onzekerheden en nuances. Een onthullende reality check bij 25 actuele kwesties, helder opgeschreven door tien wetenschapsjournalisten. Met een inleiding van Robbert Dijkgraaf (ex-president KNAW) en een essay van Antoine Verbij (Trouw)."
Daalt de criminaliteit door meer politie op straat? Is het onderwijs in kleinere klassen beter? Is snel bezuinigen goed voor de economie? Wetenschappe...
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Théorie du pouvoir politique et religieux
ISBN: 9781537337890 / Francuski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Reflections of a Lifetime: Part 1
ISBN: 9781533569110 / Rosyjski / Miękka / 478 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Generapoesia: Memòria 12/13
ISBN: 9781489534637 / Kataloński / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The memory of a catalan blogger, in a year of totalitarism and persecution.
The memory of a catalan blogger, in a year of totalitarism and persecution.
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173,99 |
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Fallobst. Erkenntnisse und Erinnerungen
ISBN: 9783898217606 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Civil Disobedience
ISBN: 9781554813018 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on "the relationship of the individual to the state." The essay now known as Civil Disobedience is a significant and widely admired contribution to abolitionist literature, as well as an anti-war tract, but Thoreau's focus is less on political organization and solidarity than it is on personal choice and individual responsibility. Cultivating personal integrity in the face of political injustice is the project Thoreau defends in Civil Disobedience; this focus has made the work highly... In 1848, Henry David Thoreau twice delivered lectures in Concord, Massachusetts, on "the relationship of the individual to the state." The essay no... |
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Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Responsible Belief and Political Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781498516426 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past few decades, psychologists have discovered that human reasoning is defective in surprising ways. We are beset by numerous biases and heuristics, which lead us to reason poorly about things that matter to us. And while there are illuminating evolutionary explanations for how these biases and heuristics may have benefited our species in its phylogeny, psychologists are unanimous that these cognitive dispositions largely corrupt rather than aid our belief-forming practices. In Winning Votes by Abusing Reason: Political Rhetoric and Responsible Belief, Jamie Watson argues that...
Over the past few decades, psychologists have discovered that human reasoning is defective in surprising ways. We are beset by numerous biases and heu...
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Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics
ISBN: 9781517901820 / Angielski / Miękka / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics is an invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to reconsider their love of the world of appearances. Inspired by Jacques Ranciere's Ten Theses on Politics and work by Hannah Arendt, Stanley Cavell, and Roland Barthes, Davide Panagia offers conceptual provocations that emphasize the sense of conviction one has when facing the frictions of aesthetic experience. Rooted in varied and variable experiences of border crossings, Panagia invites readers to reflect on the relational practices that... Ten Theses for an Aesthetics of Politics is an invitation to culture makers, political thinkers of all kinds, and everyday spectators to rec... |
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