Ola Latina, La: Como Los Hispanos Estan Transformando La Politica En Los Estados Unidos
ISBN: 9780060572044 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) En las elecciones del 2004, hubo 3 millones mas votantes hispanos que en el ano 2000. Los hispanos pusieron al presidente George W. Bush en la Casa Blanca en el 2000 y luego lo reeligieron en el 2004. Es imposible ignorar una influencia tan grande y un voto tan importante. El cambio mas dramatico que esta viviendo este pais no tiene nada que ver con la guerra contra el terrorismo o con la economia; tiene que ver, simplemente, con la revolucion demografi ca impulsada por los latinos. Es la Ola Latina. Enel 2002 los latinos se convirtieron, ofi cialmente, en el grupo minoritario mas grande de...
En las elecciones del 2004, hubo 3 millones mas votantes hispanos que en el ano 2000. Los hispanos pusieron al presidente George W. Bush en la Casa Bl...
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Liberty and Equality 1920-1994
ISBN: 9780060955007 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and the structures of their society, not the theories of either liberty or equality elaborated by thoughtful scholars.
This book examines the troubled era that transformed the United States after 1920, emphasizing the conditions of life of ordinary men and women and th...
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Where Does the Money Go?: Your Guided Tour to the Federal Budget Crisis
ISBN: 9780061241871 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "A book that manages to be entertaining and irreverent while serving as an informative primer on a subject that is crucial to the future of all Americans."
--New York Times Before you vote in a national election, you should ask yourself: Where Does the Money Go? The acclaimed and essential work by Scott Biddle and Jean Johnson has been updated to reflect the recent financial crisis and the sweeping legislation passed by the Obama administration in its first years. Nonpartisan and well-balanced, Where Does the Money Go? is a candid, eye-opening, and... "A book that manages to be entertaining and irreverent while serving as an informative primer on a subject that is crucial to the future of all Americ...
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Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews
ISBN: 9780061445866 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir David Frost pursued and landed the biggest fish of his career--and how the series drew larger audiences than any news interview ever had in the United States, before being shown all over the world. This is Frost's absorbing story of his pursuit of Richard Nixon, and is no less revealing of his own toughness and pertinacity than of the ex-President's elusiveness. Frost's encounters with such figures as Swifty Lazar, Ron Ziegler, potential... Following the resounding success of the eponymous West End and Broadway hit play, Frost/Nixon tells the extraordinary story of how Sir Dav... |
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Issues in American Political Life: Money, Violence and Biology
ISBN: 9780131930629 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) A core text for undergraduate courses in American Public Policy, or supplemental reading in such courses as Introduction to American Government or Politics, American Public Policy Analysis, Introduction to Political Science. A substantive alternative to typical "issues" texts-which cover too many issues, too superficially-this intriguing and comprehensive text offers a more in-depth and coherent approach to contemporary policy problems and solutions. It provides a conceptual framework in which students can become comfortable actually doing policy analysis, and in learning skills beyond...
A core text for undergraduate courses in American Public Policy, or supplemental reading in such courses as Introduction to American Government or Pol...
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American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780143038283 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty
In his two most recent bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that ruleand imperilthe United States, tracing the ever more alarming path of the emerging Republican majority's rise to power. Now Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the current age of global overreach, fundamentalist religion, diminishing resources, and... An explosive examination of the coalition of forces that threatens the nation, from the bestselling author of American Dynasty
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The Fifteen Weeks: (February 21-June 5, 1947)
ISBN: 9780156306997 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An account of events during 1947 that led to the formulation of the Marshall Plan and the Policy of Containment.
An account of events during 1947 that led to the formulation of the Marshall Plan and the Policy of Containment.
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Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation
ISBN: 9780195128864 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. Sweatshops on Wheels: Winners and Losers in Trucking Deregulation exposes the dark side of government deregulation in America's interstate trucking industry. In the years since deregulation in 1980, median earnings have dropped 30% and most long-haul truckers earn less than half of pre-regulation wages. Work weeks average more than sixty hours. Today, America's long-haul truckers are working harder and earning less than at any time...
Long hours, low wages, and unsafe workplaces characterized sweatshops a hundred years ago. These same conditions plague American trucking today. ...
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The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really Doing
ISBN: 9780195133486 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social H ealth has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washing ton Post, and other national media as our most reliable barometer of p rogress in addressing America's social ills. Now, in The Social Health of the Nation, the Index for 1999--an invaluable fount of information --is available for the first time in book form.
For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social H ealth has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washing ton Post...
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Faces of Inequality: Social Diversity in American Politics
ISBN: 9780195137880 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "This is a provocative and important book that provides a new prism through which to view both state politics and public policy in America."--Paula D. McClain, University of Virginia. "This is a most exciting new book on state politics. . . . It offers fresh perspectives on standard treatments of state politics and is extraordinary well-researched. It is both a comprehensive survey of the field of American state politics and a fresh theoretical primer for understanding state policy dynamics."--Robert B. Albritton, Northern Illinois University.
"This is a provocative and important book that provides a new prism through which to view both state politics and public policy in America."--Paula D....
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Competition Policy in America: History, Rhetoric, Law
ISBN: 9780195144093 / Angielski / Miękka / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech. This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policy--for example, Senator Sherman's Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Justice Holmes's metaphorical marketplace of ideas, and President Reagan's rhetoric of deregulation. In Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992, Rudolph Peritz explores the durability of free competition imagery by tracing its influences on public policy. Looking at congressional debates and hearings,...
Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speec...
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Restoration of the Republic: The Jeffersonian Ideal in 21st-Century America
ISBN: 9780195155860 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Rarely does scholarship anticipate the most dramatic events of the moment. In this timely work Gary Hart does just that, arguing for the restoration of republican virtues and for homeland security as an important first step. The American democratic republic has from its founding been a paradoxical success. Simultaneously attached to state and national power, citizens' rights and citizens' duties, American democracy has uniquely turned its reliance on consent from the governed into a powerful governing of the consenting. In a remarkable political feat, America's founders combined mixed...
Rarely does scholarship anticipate the most dramatic events of the moment. In this timely work Gary Hart does just that, arguing for the restoration o...
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The Public Schools
ISBN: 9780195170306 / Angielski / Twarda / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United States. The Institutions of American Democracy, a collection of essays by the nation's leading education scholars and professionals, is designed to inform the debate and stimulate change.
In association with the Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, The Institutions of American Democracy is the first in a series of books commissioned to enhance public understanding of... From curriculum standards and testing to school choice and civic learning, issues in American education are some of the most debated in the United Sta...
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The Executive Branch
ISBN: 9780195309157 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While the framers of the Constitution granted power to the president, they likewise imbued the legislative and judicial branches of government with the powers necessary to hold the executive in check. The Executive Branch, edited byJoel D. Aberbach and Mark A. Peterson, examines the delicate and shifting balance among the three branches of government, which is constantly renegotiated as political leaders contend with the public's paradoxical...
The presidency and the agencies of the executive branch are deeply interwoven with other core institutions of American government and politics. While ...
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The Legislative Branch
ISBN: 9780195309164 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder, this collection of essays examines the role of the Legislature in American democracy and the dynamic between the other branches of government, and discusses possible measures for reform. The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With th... |
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Corrupt Exchanges: Actors, Resources, and Mechanisms of Political Corruption
ISBN: 9780202305745 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies in which the value system favored tacit patrimony and clientelism. Recently, however, the thesis of an inverse correlation between corruption and economic and political development (and therefore democratic -maturity-) has been frequently and convincingly challenged. Countries with a long democratic tradition, such as the United States, Belgium, Britain, and Italy, have all experienced a combination of headline-grabbing scandals and... Political corruption has traditionally been presented as a phenomenon characteristic of developing countries, authoritarian regimes, or societies ... |
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The President in the Legislative Arena
ISBN: 9780226064109 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In recent years, the executive branch's ability to maneuver legislation through Congress has become the measure of presidential success or failure. Although the victor of legislative battles is often readily discernible, debate is growing over how such victories are achieved.
In "The President in the Legislative Arena," Jon R. Bond and Richard Fleisher depart dramatically from the concern with presidential influence that has dominated research on presidential-congressional relations for the past thirty years. Of the many possible factors involved in presidential success, those beyond... In recent years, the executive branch's ability to maneuver legislation through Congress has become the measure of presidential success or failure. Al...
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The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking-Driving and the Symbolic Order
ISBN: 9780226310947 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Everyone knows 'drunk driving' is a 'serious' offense. And yet, everyone knows lots of 'drunk drivers' who don't get involved in accidents, don't get caught by the police, and manage to compensate adequately for their 'drunken disability.' Everyone also knows of 'drunk drivers' who have been arrested and gotten off easy. Gusfield's book dissects the conventional wisdom about 'drinking-driving' and examines the paradox of a 'serious' offense that is usually treated lightly by the judiciary and rarely carries social stigma." Mac Marshall, "Social Science and Medicine "
"A sophisticated and... "Everyone knows 'drunk driving' is a 'serious' offense. And yet, everyone knows lots of 'drunk drivers' who don't get involved in accidents, don't get...
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Mobilizing Public Opinion: Black Insurgency and Racial Attitudes in the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780226470252 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) What motivates us to change our opinions during times of political protest and social unrest? To investigate this question, Taeku Lee's smartly argued book looks to the critical struggle over the moral principles, group interests, and racial animosities that defined public support for racial policies during the civil rights movement, from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. Challenging the conventional view that public opinion is shaped by elites, Lee crafts an alternate account of the geographic, institutional, historical, and issue-specific contexts that form our political views. He finds that...
What motivates us to change our opinions during times of political protest and social unrest? To investigate this question, Taeku Lee's smartly argued...
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Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race: How the Presidency Paved the Road to Brown
ISBN: 9780226500881 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) McMahon demonstrates how FDR's goals of constructing a stronger presidency and undermining the power of conservative Southern Democrats dovetailed with his administration's efforts to seek racial equality through the federal courts.
McMahon demonstrates how FDR's goals of constructing a stronger presidency and undermining the power of conservative Southern Democrats dovetailed wit...
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