ilość książek w kategorii: 1205
Singapore Futures: Scenarios for the Next Generation
ISBN: 9789812834591 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part of series which offers critical analysis of trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development, this title focuses on the trends and possible surprises that shape the social and economic landscape of Singapore in
Part of series which offers critical analysis of trends and issues Singapore faces in terms of social, economic and political development, this title ...
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241,79 zł |
Surfing Nation(s) - Surfing Country(s)
ISBN: 9783639061642 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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342,87 zł |
An Identity for Europe: The Relevance of Multiculturalism in EU Construction
ISBN: 9781403975409 / Angielski / Twarda / 255 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new political space for identities that are simultaneously national, regional, linguistic, and religious, and yet strive to encompass a political and geographic whole.
This book looks at the role of multiculturalism in the complex construction of the European Union, acknowledging the tension of creating a new politic...
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191,85 zł |
Tradition and Public Administration
ISBN: 9780230575660 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative traditions and describing the traditions that exist around the world. They assess the impact of traditions on administrative reforms and the capacities of government to change public administration.
Contributors examine the persistence of administrative patterns in the face of pressures for globablization by developing a concept of administrative ...
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460,49 zł |
Hollywood Politicos, Then and Now: Who They Are, What They Want, Why It Matters
ISBN: 9780761845485 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an exploration of the political activism of Hollywood celebrities and organizations. Using facts, figures, lighthearted commentary and trivia, this book provides a political and historical perspective on the nature of our society reverence for stars and what it may say about us as a democratic society.
This book is an exploration of the political activism of Hollywood celebrities and organizations. Using facts, figures, lighthearted commentary and tr...
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426,43 zł |
Diversity in the European Union
ISBN: 9780230619296 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European Union, and provides a tapestry of cases that illustrate minority politics and activism, contestations over identity and difference, and the construction of new meanings of European citizenship.
This volume provides an overview of EU actions seeking to manage diversity, introduces a conceptual framework to think about diversity in the European...
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383,73 zł |
International Cultural Policies and Power
ISBN: 9780230235274 / Angielski / Twarda / 243 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Political scientists by and large ignore cultural industries and technologies whereas they are prominent in other disciplines. This book provides insights from local, societal, national, and international levels in understanding cultural industries, technologies, and policies and integrates these perspectives into the study of political science.
Political scientists by and large ignore cultural industries and technologies whereas they are prominent in other disciplines. This book provides insi...
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191,85 zł |
Political Islam in Central Asia: The Challenge of Hizb Ut-Tahrir
ISBN: 9780415553995 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 and the U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have intensified scrutiny of radical Islamic groups across Central Asia. This books offers one of the first comprehensive studies of the activities of one of the most feared - but least understood - inernational Islamist organizations in post-Soviet Central Asia: Hizb ut-Tahrir, that is The Party of Islamic Liberation. By utilizing social movement theory, the book analyses political Islam in Central Asia in general, and the phenomenon of Hizb ut-Tahrir in... The terrorist attacks in the United States on 9/11 and the U.S.-led military campaign against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan have intensified sc... |
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503,74 zł |
The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices
ISBN: 9780415556491 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Multiculturalism has been much questioned across the world in recent years. This is a comprehensive analysis of how this happened and its consequences for our societies.
Multiculturalism has been much questioned across the world in recent years. This is a comprehensive analysis of how this happened and its consequences...
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221,59 zł |
The Multiculturalism Backlash: European Discourses, Policies and Practices
ISBN: 9780415556484 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion 'multicultural' or other references to cultural diversity in their policy vocabularies. More and more politicians and public intellectuals have criticized a perceived shift towards 'too much diversity'. This volume goes beyond the conventional approaches to the topic offering a careful examination of not only the social conditions and political questions surrounding multiculturalism but also the recent emergence of a 'backlash' against multicultural initiatives, programmes and... In a relatively short time, many European governments have been purposefully dropping the notion 'multicultural' or other references to cultural di... |
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755,61 zł |
The Ministry of Education Film Experiment: From Post-War Visual Education to 21st Century Literacy
ISBN: 9781137592293 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book uncovers a unique post-war film production programme and explores how this first British government intervention into visual education is relevant to film education today. In 1943 the Ministry of Education took the decision to sponsor production of an experimental programme of nonfiction films specifically for the classroom. Almost 70 years later, the British Film Institute launched a new strategic development plan, at the centre of which was the aim to prove the value of 21st century literacy to Government and embed film in the school curriculum. This aim had been the focus of film...
This book uncovers a unique post-war film production programme and explores how this first British government intervention into visual education is re...
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345,36 zł |
Stereotypes and Arab American Muslim High School Students
ISBN: 9783639066326 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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342,87 zł |
The Plural States of Recognition
ISBN: 9780230231931 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada. It provides an occasion to develop a sophisticated understanding of societies characterized by religious, ethnic and cultural diversity.
Critical reflections by established academics on the crisis of multiculturalism that occurred in Great Britain, Netherlands and Canada. It provides an...
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191,85 zł |
Commerce in Culture: States and Markets in the World Film Trade
ISBN: 9781403983800 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content or substance, the book exposes the ongoing political and economic struggles that shape cultural production and trade in the world. The historical focus is on Hollywood's engagement with rivals and partners in two leading developing countries, Egypt and Mexico, beginning with the birth of their national film industries in the late 1920s. State and market institutions evolved differently in each context, acting like national prisms to mediate...
Commerce in Culture is an innovative study of how states have responded to the globalization of the film sector. Concerned with more than film content...
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191,85 zł |
Digital Barbarism: A Writer's Manifesto
ISBN: 9780061733123 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it."--National Review online In Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias against the rights of individual creators. A timely, cogent, and important attack on the popular Creative Commons movement, Digital Barbarism...
"A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book....Beautiful and powerful...you will not encounter another book like it."--National Review
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62,49 zł |
The Social and Gender Politics of Confucian Nationalism: Women and the Japanese Nation-State
ISBN: 9780230619289 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a Japanese national identity and on the impact of this on women. She examines the key policy areas of education and social security alongside the roles that women have played in these initiatives.
Freiner defines a new understanding of nationalism, with a focus on the ways in which the Japanese state has utilized Confucian philosophy to create a...
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191,85 zł |
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left
ISBN: 9781846312458 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. French intellectuals have always defined themselves in political terms. They figure in common representation as oppositional figures set against State and government. But speaking truth to power is not the only way that intellectuals in France have brought their influence to bear upon political fields. Ahearne's book explores a neglected dimension of French intellectuals' practice. What happens when, instead of denouncing from without the worlds of government and public policy, French intellectuals become voluntarily, at least for a while, entangled within those worlds? After a historical and...
French intellectuals have always defined themselves in political terms. They figure in common representation as oppositional figures set against State...
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580,63 zł |
The Economics of Cultural Policy
ISBN: 9780521868259 / Angielski / Twarda / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cultural policy is changing. Traditionally, cultural policies have been concerned with providing financial support for the arts, for cultural heritage and for institutions such as museums and galleries. In recent years, around the world, interest has grown in the creative industries as a source of innovation and economic dynamism. This book argues that an understanding of the nature of both the economic and the cultural value created by the cultural sector is essential to good policy-making. The book is the first comprehensive account of the application of economic theory and analysis to the...
Cultural policy is changing. Traditionally, cultural policies have been concerned with providing financial support for the arts, for cultural heritage...
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478,55 zł |
The Local Dimension of Migration Policymaking
ISBN: 9789089642325 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An illuminating and necessary contribution to the controversial debates on immigrant integration policy.
An illuminating and necessary contribution to the controversial debates on immigrant integration policy.
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226,43 zł |
Cultural Heritage and Development: A Framework for Action in the Middle East and North Africa
ISBN: 9780821349380 / Angielski / Miękka / 102 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book analyzes the cultural heritage sector in the Middle East and North Africa region and the World Bank's policy and operational experiences in this sector over the past six years 1996 to 2001. It also provides a description and an analysis of the experience of the Middle East and North Africa region in supporting patrimony preservation and outlines its strategy and options for future activities in this area. This volume offers operational suggestions for addressing some of the cultural, economic, institutional and financial problems of integrating patrimony management within...
This book analyzes the cultural heritage sector in the Middle East and North Africa region and the World Bank's policy and operational experiences in ...
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68,67 zł |