ilość książek w kategorii: 1191
The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez
ISBN: 9781570754586 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A moving story of why and how Cesar Chavez struggled for justice for farm workers and left an indelible mark on the struggle for human dignity.
A moving story of why and how Cesar Chavez struggled for justice for farm workers and left an indelible mark on the struggle for human dignity.
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101,30 zł |
Spiritual Perspectives on America's Role as a Superpower
ISBN: 9781893361812 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are we the world's good neighbor or a global bully? This timely book provides us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on what may be the most pressing issue of our day: What are America's global responsibilities as the only remaining superpower? What should we be doing with our resources, energy, talent, and strength? What shouldn't we be doing? "Those of us who live with spiritual convictions, or who worship in religious communities, sometimes have the opportunity to hear from the pulpit, from the bima, in the prayer hall, in the zendo, or elsewhere what one... Are we the world's good neighbor or a global bully? This timely book provides us with an opportunity to pause and reflect on what may ... |
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71,72 zł |
Arts & Economics: Analysis & Cultural Policy
ISBN: 9783540002734 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To put the ARTS & ECONOMICS next to each other, as in the title to this book, may be shocking to some readers. Must not creative art be free of economic constraints, must it not lead a life of its own? And is economics not the realm of mean commercial dealings? This book argues that it is not so: the ARTS & ECONOMICS go well together, indeed need each other. Without a sound economic base, art cannot exist, and without creativity the economy cannot flourish. There is a second way in which the Arts and Economics go together, namely in the sense of applying economic thinking to the arts. Over...
To put the ARTS & ECONOMICS next to each other, as in the title to this book, may be shocking to some readers. Must not creative art be free of econom...
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194,08 zł |
Socially Inclusive Cities: Emerging Concepts and Practice
ISBN: 9783825869717 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In many countries strategies for encouraging assimilation and integration within cities are under way to counteract social, economic, and spatial polarization. Access to basic infrastructure, security of tenure, and urban design play a vital role in these approaches. The book brings together expertise from developing countries, North America, and Europe.
Peter Herrle is professor of architecture and urban development at Berlin University of Technology. Uwe-Jens Walther is professor of urban and regional sociology at the Institute of Sociology at Berlin University of Technology.
In many countries strategies for encouraging assimilation and integration within cities are under way to counteract social, economic, and spatial pola...
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143,73 zł |
Reform, Legitimacy and Dilemmas: China's Politics and Society
ISBN: 9789810244415 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legitimacy? What strategies has Jiang Zemin adopted to cope with new circumstances in order to strengthen his leadership? What are the challenges these new reform measures have generated for the leadership? And how have domestic concerns constrained the leadership's intention in China's foreign relations? These are some of the questions which this volume attempts to address. The authors agree that Jiang Zemin is not a man without any political...
How has China's post-Deng leadership governed the country? How have the changing social and political environments shifted the bases of political legi...
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632,16 zł |
China Into the Hu-Wen Era: Policy Initiatives and Challenges
ISBN: 9789812567321 / Angielski / Twarda / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. - In-depth discussion on policies introduced by China's new leaders up to the second half of 2005
- Focus on issues that have aroused great attention, including increasing inequalities, land appropriation, social unrest, health care, the state of financial system, leadership succession, political reform, and China's relations with Southeast Asia - Over a dozen of chapters on individual aspects of China showing a comprehensive and rich picture of a fast-growing and changing China - Well-researched work by scholars who have been studying specific issues on China or Asia for years,... - In-depth discussion on policies introduced by China's new leaders up to the second half of 2005
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935,60 zł |
S Rajaratnam on Singapore: From Ideas to Reality
ISBN: 9789812704542 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the country's first foreign minister, he was pivotal in conceptualizing and implementing its foreign policy. Present at the birth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), he was also instrumental in ensuring a constructive role for Singapore in regional cooperation. A staunch supporter of a multicultural Singapore, Mr Rajaratnam envisioned the country as a cosmopolitan "global city." The volume is divided into four thematic sections:...
This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the co...
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273,09 zł |
S Rajaratnam on Singapore: From Ideas to Reality
ISBN: 9789812704573 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the country's first foreign minister, he was pivotal in conceptualizing and implementing its foreign policy. Present at the birth of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), he was also instrumental in ensuring a constructive role for Singapore in regional cooperation. A staunch supporter of a multicultural Singapore, Mr Rajaratnam envisioned the country as a cosmopolitan "global city." The volume is divided into four thematic sections:...
This book, a compilation of key speeches and articles by the late Mr S Rajaratnam, is a tribute to one of the founding fathers of Singapore. As the co...
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480,45 zł |
Religious Freedom in the World
ISBN: 9780742562134 / Angielski / Miękka / 516 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, and uses a clearly comprehensible numeric scale to rank the level of religious freedom found in each. It also provides separately derived measures of government regulation of religion, government favoritism of religion, and social regulation of religion. The countries have been selected so that the survey represents each continent, major religion, and geographic area; covers countries with large populations; describes particularly egregious...
Religious Freedom in the World profiles 101 countries and territories, which between them contain more than 95 percent of the world's population, and ...
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399,26 zł |
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House
ISBN: 9780231144391 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their meeting, Barber became an informal consultant to the Clinton White House, working with a president who proved to be an astonishing listener open to a variety of ideas. Barber's experiences were unexpected and enlightening-the most unpredictable being his interactions with the president himself. Barber's meditation on Bill Clinton's tenure in office offers a balanced and complex portrait of the Clinton administration, especially in its...
In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their ...
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159,71 zł |
Freedom from Our Social Prisons: The Rise of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
ISBN: 9780739122860 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this book is to provide a belief system to empower people using the democratic system and human rights law. This author contends that neo-liberalism has created a large underclass and has impinged upon the right to development for those who do not fit into the "neo-liberal square." Economic, social, and cultural rights, which have been rising in importance within the United Nations and have been denied to many, can be implemented using the core minimum obligations as defined by the General Comments of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. This...
The purpose of this book is to provide a belief system to empower people using the democratic system and human rights law. This author contends that n...
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516,38 zł |
Culture and Catastrophe: German and Jewish Confrontations with National Socialism and Other Crises
ISBN: 9780333623138 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book revolves around the intricate interplay between culture and catastrophe. It seeks to engage the various permutations, the complexity and the unresolved dimensions of this connection, especially as it relates to the origins, disposition and aftermath of National Socialism. It examines various German and Jewish responses to Nazism and its roots, and demonstrates the ongoing relevance of that experience to contemporary culture and collective and individual self-definitions.
This book revolves around the intricate interplay between culture and catastrophe. It seeks to engage the various permutations, the complexity and the...
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194,08 zł |
Resisting Intellectual Property
ISBN: 9780415429641 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to infringe upon other, more basic, priorities. This book investigates the ways in which activists, scholars, and communities are resisting the expansion of copyright and patent law in the information age. Debora J. Halbert explores how an alternative framework for understanding intellectual property - including about how we ought to think about the issues, the development of social movements around specific issues, and civil disobedience - has...Over the past decade, the scope of copyright and patent law has grown significantly, strengthening property rights, even when such rights seem to i... |
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217,41 zł |
Bringing Culture to the Masses: Control, Compromise and Participation in the GDR
ISBN: 9781845454586 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how people spent their free time by prohibiting privately organized leisure time pursuits and offering instead cultural activities in state institutions and organizations. By exploring the nature of dictatorial rule in the GDR and analysing the population's engagement with state-organized cultural activity, this book challenges the current assumptions about the GDR's social and institutional history that ignore the interaction and inter-dependence... Cultural life in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) was strictly controlled by the ruling party, the SED, who attempted to dictate how pe... |
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500,67 zł |
America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower
ISBN: 9780745642512 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text analyses the most widespread criticisms of American democracy. Clearing away the misunderstandings and prejudices that cloud contemporary debates about America, it brings out the strengths as well as the weaknesses of the American democratic experience.
This text analyses the most widespread criticisms of American democracy. Clearing away the misunderstandings and prejudices that cloud contemporary de...
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95,77 zł |
Egypt's Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
ISBN: 9780415428972 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstructs the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture drawing on conceptual tools in cultural studies, translation studies and gender studies to analyze debates in the fields of literature, cinema, mass media and the plastic arts. Anchored in the Egyptian historical and social contexts and inspired by the influential work of Pierre Bourdieu, it rigorously places these debates and battles within the larger framework of a set of... This ground-breaking work presents original research on cultural politics and battles in Egypt at the turn of the twenty first century. It deconstr... |
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733,31 zł |
America and Its Critics: Virtues and Vices of the Democratic Hyperpower
ISBN: 9780745642505 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * A brilliant analysis of the distinctive nature of American democracy and of the criticisms that have been leveled at it. * The framing of the analysis around the theme of anti-Americanism is very topical and would appeal to a potentially wider audience.
* A brilliant analysis of the distinctive nature of American democracy and of the criticisms that have been leveled at it. * The framing of the analy...
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292,79 zł |
The Politics of Libraries and Librarianship: Challenges and Realities
ISBN: 9781843343431 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book covers aspects of the political environment which surrounds and engages libraries and their librarians. It includes anecdotes on the role of the political sphere in the business of library associations.
This book covers aspects of the political environment which surrounds and engages libraries and their librarians. It includes anecdotes on the role of...
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214,94 zł |
Economic Benefits of Ethnolinguistic Diversity: Implications for International Political Economy
ISBN: 9781604975345 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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496,16 zł |
Global Migration, Social Change, and Cultural Transformation
ISBN: 9780230600546 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.The authors instead look at globalization as a force that produces profound social and cultural consequences, including migration, struggles for social change, and the transformations of aesthetic practices."
The essays in this collection work toward a larger goal of separating 'globalization' from strictly economic considerations.The authors instead look a...
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194,08 zł |