ilość książek w kategorii: 1191
Shaping China's Global Imagination: Branding Nations at the World Expo
ISBN: 9781137361714 / Angielski / Twarda / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding efforts succeed while others fail through the example of the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai.
A comprehensive discussion of how countries embrace branding as a crucial element in their pursuit of soft power and why certain nation-branding effor...
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194,08 zł |
A Sociology of Culture, Taste and Value
ISBN: 9781137377074 / Angielski / Twarda / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic value and to an understanding of how people evaluate.
This book explores sociological debates in relation to culture, taste and value. It argues that sociology can contribute to debates about aesthetic va...
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194,08 zł |
The Death of Socialism
ISBN: 9781906791162 / Angielski / Inna / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is needed in the cause of creating a fair and egalitarian society for the peoples of our planet. This is a startling yet profound book which strikes at the foundations of established politics in the West. The author s conclusions are drawn from two directions: an analysis of the consequences of the transformation of society over the past 60 years in industrialised economies; and personal experiences as an activist, both locally and nationally, after 14 years within the Labour party. It is...
Socialism and the mindset of the traditional left have outlived their purpose. A new political philosophy is needed in the cause of creating a fair an...
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93,03 zł |
Culture Wars in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide
ISBN: 9780313350382 / Angielski / Twarda / 395 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Culture Wars in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide" places the most hotly debated issues in American society in historical context. With this book in hand, the reader can more effectively evaluate the potential social and political significance of these important conflicts. Americans have never found it easy to reconcile their differences, even while sometimes achieving a remarkable unity of purpose. Although we pride ourselves on pluralism, we struggle to find common ground on our most essential principles. Since the 1980s, events covered in this volume have increased the... "Culture Wars in America: A Documentary and Reference Guide" places the most hotly debated issues in American society in historical context. With ... |
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573,60 zł |
Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War
ISBN: 9780814795507 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war. Scott Melzer shows that the NRA promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier...
Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see ea...
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532,23 zł |
National Days: Constructing and Mobilising National Identity
ISBN: 9780230236615 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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388,20 zł |
Communism in Hollywood: The Moral Paradoxes of Testimony, Silence, and Betrayal
ISBN: 9780810869486 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Communism in Hollywood details the full scope of the Hollywood Blacklist and its aftermath. Using data now available, Casty places the Blacklist in the context of the Hollywood Party's relationship to the Communist Party U.S.A. and the significant relationship of both to the human violations occurring in the Soviet Union.
Communism in Hollywood details the full scope of the Hollywood Blacklist and its aftermath. Using data now available, Casty places the Blacklist in th...
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520,42 zł |
Freedom from Our Social Prisons: The Rise of Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
ISBN: 9780739122877 / Angielski / Miękka / 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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223,59 zł |
Immigrants, Literature and National Integration
ISBN: 9780230230453 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, and examining the relation between immigrant literature and integration, this book explores integration in an interdisciplinary fashion across both the humanities and social sciences.
Immigrants, Literature and National Integration explores new means of facilitating integration. Using the United Kingdom and Germany as case studies, ...
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194,08 zł |
Culture and International Conflict Resolution: A Critical Analysis of the Work of John Burton
ISBN: 9780719081408 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback, Culture and international conflict resolution re-examines conflict resolution - and particularly problem-solving conflict resolution - from a new perspective. The book is a critical study of John Burton's work, and outlines an alternative framework for the study of international conflict. It provides an insight into the problems of conflict and conflict resolution from a social constructionist angle. Vayrynen argues that culture has a constitutive role in international conflict and conflict resolution. Culture offers a grammar for acting in and interpreting the...
Now available in paperback, Culture and international conflict resolution re-examines conflict resolution - and particularly problem-solving conflict ...
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95,77 zł |
Kurdish Politics in the Middle East, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780739140390 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kurdish Politics in the Middle East analyzes Kurdish politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey and places Kurdish socio-political developments in the context of regional and global politics. The book also explains the impact of the downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq on Kurdish autonomy.
Kurdish Politics in the Middle East analyzes Kurdish politics in Iran, Iraq, and Turkey and places Kurdish socio-political developments in the context...
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516,38 zł |
Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy and Practice
ISBN: 9780521122979 / Angielski / Miękka / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, not solely, about the law-national and international-respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles about how cultural heritage law, policy and practice should be sculpted from the past as the present becomes the future. The authors explore these demanding concerns, untangle basic values, and look critically at the conflicts and contradictions in existing art and cultural heritage law and policy in its diverse sectors. The rich and provocative contributions collectively...
Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, not solely, about the law-national and international-respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldr...
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338,79 zł |
Crime Control, Politics and Policy
ISBN: 9781593453473 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapters summarize developments in public policy and crime control, and interweave themes central to the discussion: the impact of ideology, the role of the media, and the politicization of crime and criminal justice.
This book reviews concepts, information and points of view that help to explain the context and constraints of the criminal justice system. The chapte...
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176,96 zł |
The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity
ISBN: 9780195375916 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to erase diversity and debate in favor of images of commonality. Cristina...
Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define th...
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176,34 zł |
Egyptas Culture Wars: Politics and Practice
ISBN: 9789774163746 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A look at some of the raging debates in the arts in Egypt
A look at some of the raging debates in the arts in Egypt
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90,45 zł |
Housing Policy at a Crossroads: The Why, How, and Who of Assistance Programs
ISBN: 9780844742588 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. Housing Policy at a Crossroads provides a comprehensive survey of past low-income housing programs which acts not only as a history of housing policy, but as a guide to issues confronting policy makers and argues a case for vouchers as the cheapest, most effective solution. Weicher gives us a timely warning that reinventing failed building programs would be a very costly wrong turn for America.
Since Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, American housing policy has focused on building homes for the poor. Housing Policy at a Crossroads provides a ...
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552,95 zł |
The Trouble with Unity: Latino Politics and the Creation of Identity
ISBN: 9780195375909 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define the so-called "Latino vote." The existence of a coherent, pan-ethnic Latino political agenda is, as this book shows, not only highly debatable, but democratically unviable. Situated at the intersection of political theory and Latino studies, The Trouble with Unity is a nuanced critique of civic Latinidad and the Latino electoral and protest politics that work to erase diversity and debate in favor of images of commonality. Cristina...
Over the past decade, much attention has been given to examining the growing political influence of Latinos in the United States in order to define th...
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279,39 zł |
Mao's New World
ISBN: 9780801449345 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to vividly reconstruct how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tightened its rule after taking power in 1949. With political-cultural projects such as reconstructing Tiananmen Square to celebrate the Communist Revolution; staging national parades; rewriting official histories; mounting a visual propaganda campaign, including oil paintings, cartoons, and New Year prints; and establishing a national cemetery for heroes of the Revolution, the CCP built... In this sweeping portrait of the political culture of the early People's Republic of China (PRC), Chang-tai Hung mines newly available sources to v... |
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586,65 zł |
Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship
ISBN: 9780739136270 / Angielski / Twarda / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship, edited by Maurice Hamington, is the first collection of original works to bring a feminist analysis to issues and theories of personal, political, economic, and artistic hospitality. Themes within the anthology include theoretical, domestic, international, commercial, and literary representations of hospitality. An impressive array of North American and international scholars employ multidisciplinary approaches to diverse aspects of hospitality with specific reflection on the significance of gender.
Feminism and Hospitality: Gender in the Host/Guest Relationship, edited by Maurice Hamington, is the first collection of original works to bring a fem...
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580,26 zł |
John Dewey and the Habits of Ethical Life: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing in a Liquid World
ISBN: 9780739144640 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uses John Dewey to articulate discursive practices that would help citizens form better intellectual and moral relationships with a 'liquid' global political environment characterized by flexible accumulation, uneven development, and other phenomenon produced by what Frederic Jameson characterizes increased 'space-time compression.' These practices, derived from Dewey's aesthetic interpretation of thinking and effective classroom practice, form the basis of an 'ethical life' encouraging individuals to build meditative links between their particular interests and their more universal...
This book uses John Dewey to articulate discursive practices that would help citizens form better intellectual and moral relationships with a 'liquid'...
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516,38 zł |