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Postmodernism and its Others : The Fiction of Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, and Don DeLillo
ISBN: 9780415975445 / Angielski / Twarda / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Delillo [White Noise], three authors whom critics cite as quintessentially postmodern. For these critics such works possess formal narrative and/or content qualities at odds with modernism. In particular, according to influential thinkers like Fredric Jameson, postmodern works possess narrative form and/or content which eschews reality, and embody a fundamental paradigm shift from the politically... The book analyzes Ishmael Reed [Mumbo Jumbo], Kathy Acker [The Adult Life of Toulouse Lautrec by Henri Toulouse Lautrec], and Don Del... |
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498,40 zł |
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The Federalist Papers
ISBN: 9780451528810 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philosophy.
Written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, The Federalist Papers explain the complexities of a constitutional government--its political structure and principles based on the inherent rights of man. Scholars have long regarded this work as a milestone in political science and a classic of American political theory. Based on the original McLean edition of 1788 and edited by noted historian Clinton... A DOCUMENT THAT SHAPED A NATION An authoritative analysis of the Constitution of the United States and an enduring classic of political philoso...
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39,09 zł |
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Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America--And How We Can Get More of It
ISBN: 9780465002788 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier than religious people. Liberals believe they are happier than conservatives, and conservatives disagree. In fact, almost every group thinks it is happier than everyone else. In this provocative new book, Arthur C. Brooks explodes the myths about happiness in America. As he did in the controversial Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism, Brooks examines vast amounts of evidence and empirical research to...
Who are the happiest Americans? Surveys show that religious people think they are happier than secularists, and secularists think they are happier tha...
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226,44 zł |
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Letters to a Young Conservative
ISBN: 9780465017348 / Angielski / Miękka / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on college campuses in the 1980s.He fired the first popular shot against political correctness with his best-selling expose Illiberal Education. Now, after serving as a Reagan White House staffer, the managing editor of Policy Review, and a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution, he addresses the next generation in Letters to a Young Conservative. Drawing on his own colorful experiences, both within the...
Dinesh D'Souza rose to national prominence as one of the founders of the Dartmouth Review, a leading voice in the rebirth of conservative politics on ...
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128,54 zł |
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The ABC of Anarchism
ISBN: 9780486433691 / Angielski / Miękka / 297 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, after serving a prison term for an attempted assassination, he was expelled to the Soviet Union, a country which he eventually renounced. But before his repudiation of the Soviet system, Berkman attempted to answer some of the charges made against anarchism and to present its case clearly and intelligently. This book, first published in 1929, is the result of those efforts.
Thorough and well stated, The ABC of Anarchism is today widely... A gifted writer for the anarchist movement, Alexander Berkman left Russia for the United States in 1888 when he was eighteen. Thirty-one years later, ...
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108,98 zł |
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Nationalism and Development in Africa: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780520083745 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Smoot Coleman was the leading theorist of his time in African political studies. His work fused liberal-democratic idealism and scientific realism. These essays represent the evolution of his thought from deep insight into African nationalism to a refined theory of modernization. The collection is an indispensable contribution to the intellectual history of comparative African politics, essential to scholars and others who grapple with problems in African development.
James Smoot Coleman was the leading theorist of his time in African political studies. His work fused liberal-democratic idealism and scientific reali...
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458,51 zł |
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Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle
ISBN: 9780521615129 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the complex relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Cass Sunstein argues that the precautionary principle is incoherent and potentially paralyzing, as risks exist on all sides of social situations and there is no 'general' precautionary principle as such. His insight into The Laws of Fear represents a major statement for the contemporary world from one of the most influential political and legal theorists writing today.
This book is about the complex relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Cass Sunstein argues that the precautionary principle is incoherent and...
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115,61 zł |
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The Triumph of Technology
ISBN: 9780521679657 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures discuss the way technology has shaped life since the beginnings of civilization, explaining how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today, how technologies develop, and the excitement of the modern creative process. There are some who believe that technology's future development should be controlled, and that it may already have gone too far, especially in areas such as the use of energy - something which has the potential to...
The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures ...
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85,79 zł |
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Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation
ISBN: 9780521820103 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon, this collection of a series of F.W. Maitland's (1850-1906) later essays is designed to bring his thought to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians. The essays are about the historical origins of the state, and many of their themes--the limits of state power, the interrelationship between states and corporations--are of continuing relevance today.
Representing perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon, this collection of a series of F.W. Maitland's (1850-1906) later essays is de...
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364,14 zł |
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After the Collapse of Communism: Comparative Lessons of Transition
ISBN: 9780521834841 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A response to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A response to the ten-year anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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294,60 zł |
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Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle
ISBN: 9780521848237 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about the complex relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Cass Sunstein argues that the precautionary principle is incoherent and potentially paralyzing, as risks exist on all sides of social situations and there is no 'general' precautionary principle as such. His insight into The Laws of Fear represents a major statement for the contemporary world from one of the most influential political and legal theorists writing today.
This book is about the complex relationship between fear, danger, and the law. Cass Sunstein argues that the precautionary principle is incoherent and...
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379,10 zł |
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The Triumph of Technology: The BBC Reith Lectures 2005
ISBN: 9780521861588 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures discuss the way technology has shaped life since the beginnings of civilization, explaining how we owe to technologists most of what drives our world today, how technologies develop, and the excitement of the modern creative process. There are some who believe that technology's future development should be controlled, and that it may already have gone too far, especially in areas such as the use of energy - something which has the potential to...
The Triumph of Technology is taken from Lord Alec Broers' 2005 BBC Reith Lectures on the role and importance of technology in our lives. The lectures ...
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354,25 zł |
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Visions of Politics
ISBN: 9780521890601 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 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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152,84 zł |
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Changes in American Morality: Of the People; By the People; For the Self
ISBN: 9780595192137 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,14 zł |
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Discordant Sound
ISBN: 9780595258192 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With well-researched analysis and sharp, hilarious satire, the author looks at (mostly) current events from a variety of unexpected angles. Whether it s Geraldo Rivera pursuing Osama into the underworld, Clarence Thomas giving a secret speech, or Thomas Paine being exposed as a lying Anti-Semite, there is never a dull moment as the reader and the author explore our world together.
With well-researched analysis and sharp, hilarious satire, the author looks at (mostly) current events from a variety of unexpected angles. Whether it...
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82,77 zł |
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101 Ways to Participate in Having a World that Works for Everyone: So, What are You Going to do about it?
ISBN: 9780595264728 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There are almost as many ways to participate in having the world work as there are people in the world (over 6 Billion) since each of us can create our own way to participate. However, since there are things to do and organizations to support that have already begun the work, it seems useful to list some of those that exist already and to use them to align our efforts toward making this planet work for all of us. So, this book is a collection of ways to participate that have been used by the author, have been supported by the author, have shown up in the author s mailbox, or have occurred to...
There are almost as many ways to participate in having the world work as there are people in the world (over 6 Billion) since each of us can create ou...
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91,51 zł |
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Invisible Citizens: Youth Politics After September 11
ISBN: 9780595271061 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,30 zł |
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Cornerstones: Of Slovenia's NATO Membership
ISBN: 9780595279692 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book represents a collection of just about all pertinent documents that delineate the membership of a country in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization: international agreements, protocols, North Atlantic Council resolutions, declarationsm communiques, studies. It is almost a do-it-yourself guide on what it takes to demonstrate that a country is willing and able to take on the responsibilities of a NATO member.
Although, as its subtitle suggests, dedicated to Slovenia's entry into NATO, the bulk of the book is as applicable to any other invited candidate or interested country. ... This book represents a collection of just about all pertinent documents that delineate the membership of a country in the North Atlantic Treaty Organi...
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78,40 zł |
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The Terror Scrolls
ISBN: 9780595296552 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Well, take a deep breath if you are about to open the cover of this book. Unless the author is totally nuts, the reading experience that you are about to buckle your seat belt for will be one unforgettable ride. Hopefully, you will have taken your pressure pills before entering the world of "THE TERROR SCROLLS." You really have to snuggle down into your favorite recliner to hear some of the "cosmic" messages that the scrolls will reveal. The climate the world finds itself in this millennium is one in which all of the spiritual elements that have been brewing since the earliest of times are...
Well, take a deep breath if you are about to open the cover of this book. Unless the author is totally nuts, the reading experience that you are about...
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39,09 zł |
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Pro-Life: Defending the Culture of Life against the Culture of Death
ISBN: 9780595297795 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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52,20 zł |
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