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Hired Gun: A Political Odyssey
ISBN: 9780761840596 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While much is known about the frontline of politics, little is revealed about the professionals who labor in secret to make the system work. Hired Gun: A Political Odyssey examines how political parties function and how elections are won or lost. This book follows the adventures of one man's behind-the-scenes political consulting career from local, to state, to national politics. As a political practice, the democratic system remains the most successful form of government in the history of civilization. However, as a profession, politics is still in its youth and riddled with flaws. By...
While much is known about the frontline of politics, little is revealed about the professionals who labor in secret to make the system work. Hired Gun...
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
ISBN: 9780099533115 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rejecting the common perception of the press as cantankerous, obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for truth, this book sets out to show that an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets of the news. The authors dissect the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing shape the news, and how issues are framed and topics chosen. They contrast what they contend are double standards behind accounts of free elections, a free press and governmental repression between Nicaragua and El Salvador; between the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the American invasion of...
Rejecting the common perception of the press as cantankerous, obstinate and ubiquitous in its search for truth, this book sets out to show that an und...
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The Politics of the Real World: A Major Statement of Public Concern from over 40 of the UK's Leading Voluntary and Campaigning Organisations
ISBN: 9781853833502 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many people today feel that something has gone wrong with British society and British politics. The quality of like seems to be declining. Crime soars. Traffic and pollution spiral. Mass unemployment is undiminished, while many people experience insecurity and stress at work. Growing poverty and inequality have left many of Britain's citizens excluded from mainstream society. Everywhere, the sense of community seems to be breaking down. In the world as a whole, poverty and conflict cause immense suffering and threaten the security of nations. Global environmental degradation - from the...
Many people today feel that something has gone wrong with British society and British politics. The quality of like seems to be declining. Crime soars...
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112,60 |
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Governing Scotland: The Invention of Administrative Devolution
ISBN: 9780333743232 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union state in the twentieth century. Two competing views were encapsulated in debates on how Scotland should be governed in the early twentieth century: a Whitehall view that emphasised a professional bureaucracy with power centred on London and a Scottish view that emphasised the importance of Scottish national sentiment. These views were ultimately reconciled in 'administrative devolution'.
Governing Scotland explores the origins and development of the Scottish Office in an attempt to understand Scotland's position within the UK union sta...
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201,24 |
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Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic
ISBN: 9780099594918 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian government, the Mafia assassinated them. The public outcry demanded their work was completed, which led to the toppling of crucial political alliances.
Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino set out to destroy the Mafia. In 1992, aware that the magistrates didn't have the support of the Italian governm...
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The Case Against the Global Economy : And for a Turn Towards Localization
ISBN: 9781853837425 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-being and cultural diversity, and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible, but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy, 24 leading economic, agricultural, cultural and environmental authorities, drawn from across the world, argue that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed...
The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy, its consequences for jobs, democracy, human well-be...
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"To be on an airliner and look around and see the people and be able to stick to the plan of flying it into a skyscraper is to be hideous, and to persist if they come to know the plan is to be monstrous.
"For the 3,000 deaths there are lines of responsibility into the past, as real as chains of command, containing earlier and later perpetrators. We in our democracies are in them, and in particular those of us who have got themselves into our governments." --Extract from After The Terror This philosophical and moral reflection describes two worlds - ours of good lives and another of... "To be on an airliner and look around and see the people and be able to stick to the plan of flying it into a skyscraper is to be hideous, and to pers...
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The Age of Consent
ISBN: 9780007150434 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' told us what was wrong. Now, George Monbiot shows us how to put it right. Provocative, brave and beautifully argued, 'The Age of Consent' is nothing less than a manifesto for a new world order. 'Our task is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic revolution.' All over our planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt and disaster. The world is run not by its people but by a handful of unelected or underelected executives who make the decisions on which... Naomi Klein's 'No Logo' told us what was wrong. Now, George Monbiot shows us how to put it right. Provocative, brave and beautifully argued, 'The A... |
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Illegal Immigration A Road To Legal Citizenship
ISBN: 9781517117009 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First thing I want you to know is that I am an ordinary white American citizen. The reason I tell you this is I want you to know this country needs great law abiding immigrants to be legal in this country. I'm sure you have heard the term "our immigration system is broken." This plan will be a start to getting illegal immigration under control. This plan won't cost the US tax payer a dime. The government would fund this plan with 2 new ways of revenue. 1.The monthly application period fees. 2.Every illegal immigrant would start paying federal and state taxes. Employers would have a new legal...
First thing I want you to know is that I am an ordinary white American citizen. The reason I tell you this is I want you to know this country needs gr...
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Global Citizen Action
ISBN: 9781853838347 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Civil society has taken centre stage in international policy debates and global problem solving. This text, by scholars and participants, shows how to understand the changes that are occurring, particularly in relation to international institutions. It inc
Civil society has taken centre stage in international policy debates and global problem solving. This text, by scholars and participants, shows how to...
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State of the World 2005: Global Security
ISBN: 9781844071623 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Takes a new look at the theme that has dominaated international politics since 9/11: security. Not the armed conflicts but the underlying social, economic and environmental pressures which determine how threatened and vulnerable people feel. These include
Takes a new look at the theme that has dominaated international politics since 9/11: security. Not the armed conflicts but the underlying social, econ...
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Legislative Deferrals: Statutory Ambiguity, Judicial Power, and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780521824156 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. United States judges are criticized for making law when they should be following the laws made by elected officials. This book argues that much of the blame for judicial policymaking lies with elected officials. Legislators sometimes deliberately allow judges to make policy decisions because they want to avoid blame for making difficult choices. To demonstrate the importance of legislative deference, this study reexamines dramatic confrontations between Congress and the Supreme Court over labor policy in the early twentieth century.
United States judges are criticized for making law when they should be following the laws made by elected officials. This book argues that much of the...
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Politics & Participation in Fr
ISBN: 9780521345767 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on surveys of citizens as well as on interviews with local leaders in France and Britain, this book looks at participation in day-to-day local politics in both countries. The work is less concerned with voting than with spheres of action--particularly the extent to which people contact their local representatives about problems, complain to officials, form groups, and protest decisions. The salient differences between the two local government systems, both of which have experienced significant changes in recent decades, is explored. A series of case studies examines levels of...
Drawing on surveys of citizens as well as on interviews with local leaders in France and Britain, this book looks at participation in day-to-day local...
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423,90 |
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Yankee Leviathan
ISBN: 9780521391368 / Angielski / Twarda / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were much more important. During the Civil War, the American state both expanded and became the agent of northern economic development. After the war...
This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author cont...
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World Directory of Environmental Organizations
ISBN: 9781853837944 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference and sourcebook to the organizations involved in environmental and resource conservation in all parts of the world and to their activities. It describes over 2000 organizations and programmes in over 200 countries, providing access to sources of
A reference and sourcebook to the organizations involved in environmental and resource conservation in all parts of the world and to their activities....
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New Media Campaigns and the Managed Citizen
ISBN: 9780521847490 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The political campaign is one of the most important organizations in a democracy, and whether issue, or candidate, specific, it is one of the least understood organizations in contemporary political life. With evidence from ethnographic immersion, survey data, and social network analysis, Philip Howard examines the evolving act of political campaigning and the changing organization of political campaigns over the last five election cycles, from 1996 to 2004. Over this time, both grassroots and elite political campaigns have gone online, built multimedia strategies, and constructed complex...
The political campaign is one of the most important organizations in a democracy, and whether issue, or candidate, specific, it is one of the least un...
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354,30 |
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Intelligence Reorganization Proposals, 1949-2004
ISBN: 9781594542183 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proposals for the reorganisation of the United States Intelligence Community have repeatedly emerged from commissions and committees created by either the executive or legislative branches. This book traces such proposals from 1949 to 2004 which include virtually every presidency.
Proposals for the reorganisation of the United States Intelligence Community have repeatedly emerged from commissions and committees created by either...
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Improving Compliance with International Environmental Law
ISBN: 9781853832611 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of international treaties and conventions. Many have argued that this has proved to be an ineffective way of halting unsustainable development, for the provisions of these agreements are either too weak or are flouted regularly by the parties concerned. This volume seeks to address the crucial question of how compliance with these agreements could be encouraged effectively without damaging the fragile political consensus that is emerging on environmental issues. With...
Measures for regulating the behaviour of nation states in relation to the global environment have increasingly taken the form of international treatie...
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The Clinton Presidency: The First Term, 1992-96
ISBN: 9780333719640 / Angielski / Twarda / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first Democratic president for twelve years, William Jefferson Clinton entered the White House on a note of optimism, pledged to give priority to economic policy and his domestic agenda of healthcare and welfare reforms. President Clinton - the 'Man from Hope' - faced what looked like a fresh opportunity to move ahead with legislation. The years of 'gridlock', whereby a president of one political party faced a Congress dominated by another, were over. This volume analyses in depth the processes and policies of the Clinton presidency. It reveals the contradictions, achievements, reversals...
The first Democratic president for twelve years, William Jefferson Clinton entered the White House on a note of optimism, pledged to give priority to ...
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America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and its Enemies
ISBN: 9780349118925 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The true story of covert operations during the War on Terror, written by the founder of one of the most respected private intelligence agencies in the world, dubbed the 'shadow CIA'
The true story of covert operations during the War on Terror, written by the founder of one of the most respected private intelligence agencies in...
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