Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9780745627113 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dreadful events of 11 September have brought Islam to the forefront of world politics. This authoritative new book provides the analysis for a far-reaching introduction to Islamic politics for those coming to the subject for the first time. This account provides a deep insight into dimensions of Muslim political life; from democracy to despots, women to world affairs and history to heresy.
Milton-Edwards offers an account of key contemporary concepts and debates that focus on the relationship between Islam and topical issues including politics, protest and opposition,... The dreadful events of 11 September have brought Islam to the forefront of world politics. This authoritative new book provides the analysis for a far...
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Islam and Politics in the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9780745627120 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dreadful events of 11 September have brought Islam to the forefront of world politics. This authoritative new book provides the analysis for a far-reaching introduction to Islamic politics for those coming to the subject for the first time. This account provides a deep insight into dimensions of Muslim political life; from democracy to despots, women to world affairs and history to heresy.
Milton-Edwards offers an account of key contemporary concepts and debates that focus on the relationship between Islam and topical issues including politics, protest and opposition,... The dreadful events of 11 September have brought Islam to the forefront of world politics. This authoritative new book provides the analysis for a far...
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98,98 zł |
Responsibility and Justice
ISBN: 9780745629988 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideal for all students of political theory and philosophy, this text considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law.
Ideal for all students of political theory and philosophy, this text considers the role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law.
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Responsibility and Justice
ISBN: 9780745629995 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the highly contested role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law. He asks, what are we doing when we hold people responsible in deciding questions of distributive justice or of punishment? and considers the role of philosophy in answering this very contemporary question.
In this lively and accessible book, Matt Matravers considers the highly contested role of responsibility in politics, morality, and the law. He asks, ...
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Ancient Tyranny
ISBN: 9780748621255 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political pressures.
This book examines the autocratic rulers and dynasties of classical Greece and Rome and the changing concepts of tyranny in political thought and culture. It brings together historians, political theorists and philosophers, all offering new perspectives on the autocratic governments of the ancient world. The volume is divided into four parts. Part I looks at the ways in which the term 'tyranny' was used and understood, and the... Tyrants and tyranny are more than the antithesis of democracy and the mark of political failure: they are a dynamic response to social and political p...
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627,23 zł |
The Politics of Group Rights: The State and Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9780761832461 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of Group Rights presents case studies from seven countries, illuminated by the latest insights from multicultural and group-rights theory. Cultural diversity has powerful political implications for both industrialized nations and developing countries. In the former, the granting of group rights is seen as a vital extension of liberal democracy, but critics point out that such rights should not negate the human rights of individuals. In developing countries, group rights are seen as indigenous to the prevailing cultural and religious traditions but often times negatively in...
The Politics of Group Rights presents case studies from seven countries, illuminated by the latest insights from multicultural and group-rights theory...
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Privacy Lost: How Technology Is Endangering Your Privacy
ISBN: 9780787985110 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman--a master technologist, internet pioneer, security analyst, and former military codebreaker--presents a comprehensive insider's expose of the world of invasive technology, who's using it, and how our privacy is at risk. Holtzman starts out by categorizing privacy violations into -The 7 Sins Against Privacy- and then goes on to explain in compelling and easy to understand language exactly how privacy is being eroded in every aspect of our lives.
Holtzman vividly... While other books in the field focus on specific aspects of privacy or how to avoid invasions, David H. Holtzman--a master technologist, internet pion...
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Modern Freedom: Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy
ISBN: 9780792370406 / Angielski / Twarda / 675 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. '0 {oc; paxuc;, O 't XVll a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, almost forty years ago, I did not forsee that its completion would take such a long time, although I was well aware that some of Hegel's texts stubbornly resist a thorough deciphering of their meaning and argumenta tion. Having written a dissertation on the young Hegel's moral, political, and religious philosophy (Lejeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde, 1960'), I was asked to teach ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of law at various...
'0 {oc; paxuc;, O 't XVll a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, al...
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Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict
ISBN: 9780802085535 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Insurgency Online, Michael Dartnell focuses on a new form of conflict made possible by global communications. The Internet, Dartnell argues, is affecting extensive changes to the way politics are carried out, by inserting a range of non-state actors onto the global political stage. He demonstrates that Web activism raises issues about the organization of societies and the distribution of power and contends that the development of online activism has far-reaching social and political implications, with parallels to the influence of the invention of the printing press, the... In Insurgency Online, Michael Dartnell focuses on a new form of conflict made possible by global communications. The Internet, Dartnell argu... |
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Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
ISBN: 9780804751902 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, the United Nations embarked on a massive intervention in Kosovo. This book compares the fate of two adjacent municipalities two years into that intervention. Though similar in all key respects, by 2001 the municipalities were headed down markedly different paths--one making progress toward institution-building, democratization, and reconstruction, the other stagnating. Drawing on extensive field research, the author shows that the successful municipality was able to bring together international organizations and local populations as part of a "network" organization. The lack of...
In 1999, the United Nations embarked on a massive intervention in Kosovo. This book compares the fate of two adjacent municipalities two years into th...
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Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
ISBN: 9780804751919 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1999, the United Nations embarked on a massive intervention in Kosovo. This book compares the fate of two adjacent municipalities two years into that intervention. Though similar in all key respects, by 2001 the municipalities were headed down markedly different paths--one making progress toward institution-building, democratization, and reconstruction, the other stagnating. Drawing on extensive field research, the author shows that the successful municipality was able to bring together international organizations and local populations as part of a "network" organization. The lack of...
In 1999, the United Nations embarked on a massive intervention in Kosovo. This book compares the fate of two adjacent municipalities two years into th...
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109,71 zł |
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9780822335702 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these contentious politics by analyzing fierce disputes over territory, sovereignty, and subjection in the country's eastern highlands. He focuses on poor farmers in Kaerezi who endured colonial evictions from their ancestral land and lived as refugees in Mozambique during Zimbabwe's guerrilla war. After independence in 1980, Kaerezians returned home to a changed landscape. Postcolonial bureaucrats had...
Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and leg...
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130,62 zł |
Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans
ISBN: 9780822943389 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the aftermath of four Yugoslav wars, ongoing efforts at reconstruction in South Eastern Europe have devoted relatively limited attention to dimensions of human security that enhance protections for the region's most vulnerable populations in their daily lives. It is in this context that South Eastern Europe, and especially the Western Balkan region, has emerged as a nexus point in human trafficking.
"Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans" brings together leading scholars, NGO representatives, and government officials to analyze and offer solutions to this challenge. The... In the aftermath of four Yugoslav wars, ongoing efforts at reconstruction in South Eastern Europe have devoted relatively limited attention to dimensi...
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236,31 zł |
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq
ISBN: 9780833036667 / Angielski / Miękka / 18 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This analysis descrobes in counterinsurgency terms where the United States has gone wrong in Iraq; what unique challenges the conflictpresents to coalition military forces; and what light both shed on future counterinsurgency planning, operations, and requirements.
This analysis descrobes in counterinsurgency terms where the United States has gone wrong in Iraq; what unique challenges the conflictpresents to coal...
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Arab Reform: Independent Task Force Report
ISBN: 9780876093504 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Bush administrations active promotion of democracy and freedom in the Middle East reflects a core component of Washingtons new approach to the region. In the post-9/11 environment, domestic developments within Arab countries are a security concern for the United States. New awareness of the nexus between U.S. national security interests and the desire of many Arabs, if not their leaders, for political liberalization and economic reform has opened a window of opportunity for U.S. policy. While there is no doubt that internal political dynamics are creating pressure for change, the United...
The Bush administrations active promotion of democracy and freedom in the Middle East reflects a core component of Washingtons new approach to the reg...
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Modern Freedom: Hegel's Legal, Moral, and Political Philosophy
ISBN: 9781402002885 / Angielski / Miękka / 675 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. '0 {oc; paxuc;, O 'tXVll a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, almost forty years ago, I did not forsee that its completion would take such a long time, although I was well aware that some of Hegel's texts stubbornly resist a thorough deciphering of their meaning and argumenta- tion. Having written a dissertation on the young Hegel's moral, political, and religious philosophy (Lejeune Hegel et la vision morale du monde, 1960'), I was asked to teach ethics, social philosophy, and philosophy of law at various...
'0 {oc; paxuc;, O 'tXVll a1(pft (Hippokrates) That life is short needs no proof when we are engaged in ambitious projects. When I began this book, alm...
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You, Me, and September 11th: Bend Over, America, Look Under Your Table, We Need to Talk!
ISBN: 9781403305053 / Angielski / Twarda / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's efforts to regain balance needs this book - key to a mysterious and neglected door that hides a litter of microscopic but deadly dynamites. The unusual eloquence of this unfamiliar voice leads this essential walk to enlightenment on a multidimensional war that America must wage
America's efforts to regain balance needs this book - key to a mysterious and neglected door that hides a litter of microscopic but deadly dynamites. ...
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115,56 zł |
America's New Vision: Our Leaders
ISBN: 9781403334602 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Inclusive Society?: Social Exclusion and New Labour
ISBN: 9781403944276 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social Exclusion Unit to pursue this central theme. But what exactly does social inclusion mean? This revised and updated edition of The Inclusive Society? identifies three competing meanings of the term in contemporary British Politics, emphasising poverty, employment and morality. Ruth Levitas argues that there has been a shift away from understanding social exclusion as primarily a problem of poverty, towards questions of social integration through paid work and...
The idea of social exclusion is part of the new political language. When Labour came into government in 1997, it launched the Social Exclusion Unit to...
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291,81 zł |
Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist
ISBN: 9781403972866 / Angielski / Twarda / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful forces in domestic politics, after the collapse of communism, Fisher sheds light on the nationalism and post-communist transitions.
Revealing how the quest for independence and challenges of democratization created a contest between nationalists and Europeanists, two powerful force...
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194,52 zł |