ilość książek w kategorii: 1201
Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law: The Shape of Diversity to Come
ISBN: 9781349504442 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics. The essays provoke timely discussions on how these different spheres affect each other and co-evolve in our increasingly hyper-connected and globalized world.
Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity...
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194,97 zł |
Media Power and Plurality: From Hyperlocal to High-Level Policy
ISBN: 9781349506644 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants make their task increasingly challenging. This book assesses the current state of policy-making on media plurality and explores novel policy ideas for funding, regulatory and structural interventions.
While policymakers in the world reiterate the importance of protecting voice diversity, traditional media conglomerates and new social media giants ma...
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194,97 zł |
The Contested Identities of Ulster Protestants
ISBN: 9781349497799 / Angielski / Miękka / 209 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are ' the least fashionable community in Western Europe'. A cast of contributors including prominent politicians, academics, journalists and artists explore the reasons informing public perceptions attached to this community."
This study explores the idea voiced by journalist Henry McDonald that the Protestant, Unionist and Loyalist tribes of Ulster are ' the least fashionab...
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194,97 zł |
Media Ethics and Justice in the Age of Globalization
ISBN: 9781349505203 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses global perspectives to address questions of media ethics and justice in a local and transnational global environment, and examines the common denominator running through such disparate investigations of theories and practices of media ethics and justice in the democracies of India, South Africa, Pakistan, and the United States.
This book uses global perspectives to address questions of media ethics and justice in a local and transnational global environment, and examines the ...
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194,97 zł |
Independence of the Scottish Mind: Elite Narratives, Public Spaces and the Making of a Modern Nation
ISBN: 9781349490141 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores modern Scotland and examines how Scottish politics, culture and identities have interacted within the national and international contexts in the last thirty years. It considers which voices and opinions have proven influential and defining and charts the boundaries of public conversation to and beyond the independence referendum
This study explores modern Scotland and examines how Scottish politics, culture and identities have interacted within the national and international c...
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194,97 zł |
Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches
ISBN: 9781349339822 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Partof a three-volumemini series, this study focuses on children and poverty. It shows how poverty affectstheir development and their lives as children and how children and their families respond to these pressures. It follows two cohorts of children in poor communities in Vietnam, South Africa, Ethiopia, India, and Peru."
Partof a three-volumemini series, this study focuses on children and poverty. It shows how poverty affectstheir development and their lives as childre...
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389,98 zł |
Global Governance and Corporate Responsibility in Conflict Zones
ISBN: 9781349338801 / Angielski / Miękka / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sources of governance contributions that regulate public goods. Feil highlights the discrepancies between political and theoretical expectations of corporate engagement and governance contributions.
Corporations in conflict zones and their provision of security are particularly relevant for understanding whether private actors are increasingly sou...
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194,97 zł |
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: Perspectives on Marital Possibilities
ISBN: 9781498512015 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The conversation about what marriage could be like in the future is no longer confined to academics. In his dissent in Obergefell, Chief Justice Roberts linked the constitutionally-mandated legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the possibility that states may also have to recognize multi-person intimate relationships as well to avoid discriminating against plural marriage enthusiasts. The popularity of television shows like TLC s Sister Wives and HBO s Big Love...
Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The conversation about what ...
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503,37 zł |
Japanese Wartime Zoo Policy: The Silent Victims of World War II
ISBN: 9781349291830 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece animals throughout Japan well before U.S. air strikes were anticipated, with international comparisons of the effects of the war on zoos in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
This book examines Japanese wartime zoo policy during World War II, analyzing the reasons why the Home Ministry destroyed more than 300 showpiece anim...
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194,97 zł |
Consumer Culture in Latin America
ISBN: 9781349343393 / Angielski / Miękka / 235 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examining topics from tango and samba to sex workers in Costa Rica, from eating tamales to selling ice in the Andes, and from building and moving houses to buying cell phones, this collection brings together original research on some of the many forms of consumption and consumers that contribute to Latin American cultures and histories. Contributors include sociologists, anthropologists, media and cultural studies scholars, geographers and historians,...
How can we understand consumption in a region known for its cultural richness and vast inequalities? What do Latin Americans consume, and why? Examini...
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194,97 zł |
Deleuze and the Physically Active Body
ISBN: 9781138676732 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alongside the general interest in Deleuze's work within the social sciences, there is a burgeoning body of Deleuzian-inspired works on physical activity mainly within the sociology of sport. This volume provides a comprehensive reading of Deleuze's rhizomatic philosophy as it pertains to the study of the physically active body, exploring theoretical and practical examples of how the physically active body can be examined as a material, social, political, and cultural entity using a Deleuzian perspective, and showing--guided by a Deleuzian perspective--ways of investigating the physically... Alongside the general interest in Deleuze's work within the social sciences, there is a burgeoning body of Deleuzian-inspired works on physical act... |
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686,78 zł |
Biopolitical Disaster
ISBN: 9781138659452 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of instrumentalist environmentalities produce disastrous settings and political experiences that are evident in our contemporary world. Beginning with "Commodifying crisis," the volume focuses on the inherent production of disaster that is bound to the crisis tendency of capitalism. The... Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how d... |
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661,34 zł |
Love, Sex, and Democracy in Japan During the American Occupation
ISBN: 9781349298785 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book in English to examine, throughmaterial in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, romance and male-female relations in the wake of Japan's defeat and occupation by Allied forces at the end of the Second World War."
This is the first book in English to examine, throughmaterial in the popular press, the radical changes that took place in Japanese ideas about sex, r...
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136,47 zł |
Spiritual Perspectives on America's Role as a Superpower
ISBN: 9781683363149 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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115,91 zł |
The Globalization of Chinese Propaganda: International Power and Domestic Political Cohesion
ISBN: 9781349479900 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power within the domestic political environment and its prominent recent attempts to use propaganda overseas to increase China's international power.
This book investigates the relationship between the Chinese Communist Party's crucial goal of using the propaganda system to consolidate its power wit...
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428,99 zł |
Brazil Under Construction: Fiction and Public Works
ISBN: 9781349458394 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: the functional construction of the country's public infrastructure and the symbolic construction of nationhood.
Brazil under Construction tracks how Brazil's major public works projects and the fiction surrounding them mark a twofold construction of the nation: ...
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194,97 zł |
The Indigenous Space and Marginalized Peoples in the United Nations
ISBN: 9781349447756 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the UN, indigenous peoples have achieved more rights than any other group of people. This book traces this to the ability of indigenous peoples to create consensus among themselves; the establishment of an indigenous caucus; and the construction of a global indigenousness.
In the UN, indigenous peoples have achieved more rights than any other group of people. This book traces this to the ability of indigenous peoples to ...
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194,97 zł |
Culture War: Affective Cultural Politics, Tepid Nationalism, and Art Activism
ISBN: 9781783207572 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The culture wars--intertwining art, culture, and politics--have sparked prominent political debates across the globe for many years, but particularly in Europe and America since 2001. Focusing specifically on the experience of Denmark during this period, Culture War aims to analyze and understand the rise of right-wing nationalism in Europe as part of the globalization and mediatization of the modern nation state and the culture war and affective politics arising from it. This culture war provides an example of an affective cultural politics in which institutional structures become...
The culture wars--intertwining art, culture, and politics--have sparked prominent political debates across the globe for many years, but particularly ...
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224,65 zł |
National Days: Constructing and Mobilising National Identity
ISBN: 9781349314683 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and manipulated, as well as subject to political, cultural and social pressure. Itbrings together some of the most recent research on national days and sets it in a comparative context."
The book shows how national days are best understood in the context of debates about national identity. It argues that national days are contested and...
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389,98 zł |
The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics
ISBN: 9780199928187 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among the political, the social, the aesthetical, and the phenomenological. The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Politics edited by internationally lauded scholars Rebekah Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and the late Randy Martin presents a compendium of newly-commissioned chapters that address the interdisciplinary and global scope of dance theory - its political philosophy, social movements, and approaches to bodily difference such as disability,...
In recent decades, dance has become a vehicle for querying assumptions about what it means to be embodied, in turn illuminating intersections among th...
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705,13 zł |