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Examining On-Going Challenges at the U.S. Secret Service and Their Government-Wide Implications
ISBN: 9781535100946 / Angielski / Miękka / 94 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In September of 2015, the DHS Office of Inspector General, the OIG, released a report on its 4-month-long investigation into improper access and distribution of information within the Secret Service. Wide-spread violations of the Privacy Act and an agency policy occurred by Secret Service employees who accessed and distributed information on a Member of Congress' past employment application and senior management did nothing immediately to stop it. Inspector General John Roth stated that the episode was deeply disturbing. In addition, Director Clancy announced he had a different account of...
In September of 2015, the DHS Office of Inspector General, the OIG, released a report on its 4-month-long investigation into improper access and distr...
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"The Devil Passed Me By": (A Living Play That All Should Have a Part In)
ISBN: 9781532908774 / Angielski / Miękka / 42 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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24,95 |
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Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power
ISBN: 9781442218536 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the abuse of power by politicians and civic officials and create more transparent, accountable, and honest governments. In Waging War on Corruption: Inside the Movement Fighting the Abuse of Power, Frank Vogl, one of the leaders of the worldwide anticorruption movement, shares a history filled with stories of heroes and victims of corruption. He chronicles the successful campaigns by enormously courageous civil society activists, journalists, and...
Never before has the call for good governance been greater. The Arab Spring in early 2011 has inspired people all over the world to fight to end the a...
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145,44 |
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Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism
ISBN: 9781349352357 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin American multicultural turn" in Afro Latino social movements of the past two decades.
Drawing from a wide spectrum of disciplines, the essays in this collection examine in different national contexts the consequences of the "Latin Ameri...
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The Age of Disinformation: How wars are run and governments are run on lies
ISBN: 9781530445301 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Age of Disinformation" is a collection of nine stories. The first is history of the Rothschild and its money lending practices that impoverished America 1791-1836. Simon Wolf of the B'nai B'rith Confederate spy ring who used John Wilkes Booth to carry messages into the South and sent Booth to Quebec bring back Rothschild's money to buy up rich plantations to make a collective farm like Stalin created in Russia and in Israel. Wolf visits Booth two hours before he is to perform at Ford Theatre and tells him, "Kill Lincoln and the war can begin again, and this time the South will win." The...
"The Age of Disinformation" is a collection of nine stories. The first is history of the Rothschild and its money lending practices that impoverished ...
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The Limits of Transnationalism: Collective Identities and EU Integration
ISBN: 9781349293704 / Angielski / Miękka / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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200,77 |
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The Politics of Freedom of Information: How and Why Governments Pass Laws That Threaten Their Power
ISBN: 9780719097676 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do governments pass freedom of information laws? The symbolic power and force surrounding FOI makes it appealing as an electoral promise but hard to disengage from once in power. However, behind closed doors compromises and manoeuvres ensure that bold policies are seriously weakened before they reach the statute book. This book examines how Tony Blair's government proposed a radical FOI law only to back down in fear of what it would do. But FOI survived, in part due to the government's reluctance to be seen to reject a law that spoke of 'freedom', 'information' and...
Why do governments pass freedom of information laws? The symbolic power and force surrounding FOI makes it appealing as an electoral promise but hard ...
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The Rand Corporation (1989-2009): The Reconfiguration of Strategic Studies in the United States
ISBN: 9781349343683 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood and illustrated through an analysis of the evolution of the think tank community, and more particularly through a sociological study of the so-called defense intellectuals such as the RAND Corporation.
Based on a case study of the RAND Corporation, this shows how the uncertainties of US defense policies since the fall of the USSR can be understood an...
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The Care and Feeding of Freedom: Reclaiming Our Destiny in a World of Confusion
ISBN: 9780997648300 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,68 |
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The Geopolitics of the Cold War and Narratives of Inclusion: Excavating a Feminist Archive
ISBN: 9781349298686 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of intersectionality as it is articulated in scholarship on and by U.S. women of color.
This book illuminates intricate and unexpected connections among the past of academic feminism, the geopolitics of the Cold War, and the concept of in...
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Kurdish Identity, Discourse, and New Media
ISBN: 9781349292370 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates the ways Kurds, the world's largest stateless nation, use satellite television and Internet to construct their identities.
Informed by the interdisciplinary approach of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and theories of identity, nation, and media, the study investigates th...
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Political Change in Post-Communist Slovakia and Croatia: From Nationalist to Europeanist
ISBN: 9781349534104 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy
ISBN: 9781138194960 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women s sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how... Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Althoug... |
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A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy
ISBN: 9781138194977 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unstable and subject to societal whim. A Womb of Her Own brings together a distinguished group of contributors to explore, from a psychoanalytic perspective, the ways in which women s sexual and reproductive capabilities, and their bodies, are regarded as societal and patriarchal property, not as the possession of the individual woman, and how... Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Althoug... |
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Negotiating the Siege of Lal Masjid
ISBN: 9780199400348 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In January 2007, the students of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) took over a childrens library in protest of the Government of Pakistans decision to demolish mosques and seminaries built illegally on government land. After six months of escalating tension, the crisis culminated in an eightday siege, and eventually ended by an armed assault, resulting in the deaths of over a hundred people and injuries to many more. This tragic outcome of the standoff had a devastating spillover effect, as it turned into a rallying cry for Islamist militancy in the country. Since the siege, militant...
In January 2007, the students of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) took over a childrens library in protest of the Government of Pakistans decision ...
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The Final Days of the United States: And How You Can Survive Them
ISBN: 9781536949278 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2016 was one of the worst years ever in the United States of America. And not just as it relates to the presidential election. The whole process brought forth the sheer ugliness that mankind has to offer. Hidden biases were exposed. As were the shameless ways campaigns conducted their operations. The Republican National Committee was caught red-handed supporting its favored candidates over an outsider. Democrats gloated gleefully, but not for long. Just weeks later the Democratic National Committee was busted for doing exactly the same thing. Heads rolled. Fingers were pointed. Lies were...
2016 was one of the worst years ever in the United States of America. And not just as it relates to the presidential election. The whole process broug...
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Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday
ISBN: 9781786990266 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability, and urbanization have led to the rapid rise of private security providers. While these private security providers have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis--until now. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology, and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and those affected by them, as well as into the...
Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability, and urbanization have led to the rapid rise of private security providers. While these privat...
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Private Security in Africa: From the Global Assemblage to the Everyday
ISBN: 9781786990259 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability, and urbanization have led to the rapid rise of private security providers. While these private security providers have already had a significant impact on African societies, their impact has so far received little in the way of comprehensive analysis--until now. Drawing on a wide range of disciplinary approaches, and encompassing anthropology, sociology, and political science, Private Security in Africa offers unique insight into the lives and experiences of security providers and those affected by them, as well as into the...
Across Africa, growing economic inequality, instability, and urbanization have led to the rapid rise of private security providers. While these privat...
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Blood on Their Hands: The Hillary - Obama Standard
ISBN: 9781534609877 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book I only looked at the past 8 years. I did not go back to the earlier scandals or conspiracy theories. The information contained in this book is easy for the reader to verify.
In this book I only looked at the past 8 years. I did not go back to the earlier scandals or conspiracy theories. The information contained in this bo...
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Taking Down America: the Destructive Policies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
ISBN: 9781537669212 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barack Obama has defrauded the American people and continually lied to them to carry out his very sinister and anti-American agenda. Many of the most treacherous, nefarious things this man has done are still not known by most Americans because Obama has always been protected by a biased and complicit press and media that is devoted to the new, very far left, -Progressive- Democratic Party. Barack Obama is guilty of causing inestimable damage to the United States: in terms of its security, its economy and American society in its entirety. Indeed, he has deliberately done everything he can to...
Barack Obama has defrauded the American people and continually lied to them to carry out his very sinister and anti-American agenda. Many of the most ...
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