ilość książek w kategorii: 1605
The Early Republic and Rise of National Identity: 1783-1861
ISBN: 9780765683403 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the formative period of the Early Republic through the early 1860s. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity begins with an...
The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, Am...
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660,05 zł |
The Early Republic and Rise of National Identity: 1783-1861
ISBN: 9780765683229 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, American Themes, provides insights and analysis regarding the history, literature, and cultural climate of the formative period of the Early Republic through the early 1860s. It brings together informational text and primary documents that cover notable historic events and trends, authors, literary works, social movements, and cultural and artistic themes. The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity begins with an...
The Early Republic and the Rise of National Identity, a new title in the six-title series History Through Literature: American Voices, Am...
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203,04 zł |
Reds, Whites, and Blues: Social Movements, Folk Music, and Race in the United States
ISBN: 9780691162089 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, and a valuable tool for movements reconfiguring the social landscape. Reds, Whites, and Blues examines the political force of folk music, not through the meaning of its lyrics, but through the concrete social activities that make up movements. Drawing from rich archival material, William Roy shows that the People's Songs movement of the 1930s and 40s, and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 60s implemented folk music's social... Music, and folk music in particular, is often embraced as a form of political expression, a vehicle for bridging or reinforcing social boundaries, ... |
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117,58 zł |
Lenin's Electoral Strategy from Marx and Engels Through the Revolution of 1905: The Ballot, the Streets--Or Both
ISBN: 9781137393777 / Angielski / Twarda / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the time in which Lenin initiated his use of the electorate, beginning with the Marxist roots of his politics, from his leadership of Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in the First and Second State Dumas to Russia's first experiment in representative democracy from 1906 to 1907.
This book explores the time in which Lenin initiated his use of the electorate, beginning with the Marxist roots of his politics, from his leadership ...
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350,18 zł |
Lenin's Electoral Strategy from 1907 to the October Revolution of 1917: The Ballot, the Streets--Or Both
ISBN: 9781137393784 / Angielski / Twarda / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book length study of the sorely neglected side of Lenin's politics-his use of the electoral arena to shape a revolution. This aspect of Leninist politics was intimately linked to his better known party-building project and writings on the
This is the first book length study of the sorely neglected side of Lenin's politics-his use of the electoral arena to shape a revolution. This aspect...
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350,18 zł |
Informed Agitation: Library and Information Skills in Social Justice Movements and Beyond
ISBN: 9781936117871 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who work in libraries and are sympathetic to, or directly involved in, social justice struggles have long embodied this idea, as they make use of their skills in the service of those causes. From movement archives to zine collections, international solidarity to public library programming, oral histories to email lists, prisons to protests - and beyond - this book is a look into the projects and pursuits of activist librarianship in the early 21st...
In librarianship today, we encourage voices from our field to join conversations in other disciplines as well as in the broader culture. People who wo...
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240,49 zł |
Irresponsible Government: The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in Canada
ISBN: 9781459728370 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
In Irresponsible Government, independent MP Brent Rathgeber (a former Conservative) takes Parliament to task for its failure to hold the government to account. Irresponsible Government examines the current state of Canadian democracy in contrast to the founding principles of responsible government established by the Fathers of Confederation in 1867. The book examines the failure of modern elected representatives to perform their constitutionally mandated duty to hold the prime... 2015 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlisted, Non-Fiction
In Irresponsible Government, independent MP Brent Rathgeber (a f... |
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85,85 zł |
Vital Statistics on Interest Groups and Lobbying
ISBN: 9781452219974 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This latest volume in the CQ Press series on vital statistics in American politics tackles interest groups and lobbying. This book builds from data that has been collected and organized from disclosure forms now required to be filed by registered lobbyists. After providing background about the Lobbying Disclosure Act, the book explores such questions as: When do organizations register to lobby? What are the characteristics of lobbying organizations (varying from professional and trade associations to businesses, coalitions, public interest groups, and intergovernmental groups)? How...
This latest volume in the CQ Press series on vital statistics in American politics tackles interest groups and lobbying. This book builds from data t...
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1142,39 zł |
We Will Be Shelter: Poems for Survival
ISBN: 9781938912474 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We Will be Shelter, edited by poet and activist Andrea Gibson, is an anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice. Unique to this anthology is its focus on creating positive social change through gorgeous, gusty poetry. Alongside and embedded in featured poems are concrete ways to address social and political issues raised. The goal of We Will be Shelter is to raise awareness, encourage critical self-reflection, and call readers to action.
We Will be Shelter, edited by poet and activist Andrea Gibson, is an anthology of contemporary poems that addresses issues of social justice. Unique t...
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85,89 zł |
Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today: The Biopolitics of the Multitude Versus the Hegemony of the People
ISBN: 9781409470526 / Angielski / Twarda / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the Occupy Wall Street movement all share a number of distinctive traits; they made extensive use of social networking and were committed to the direct democratic participation of all as they co-ordinated and conducted their actions. Leaderless and self-organized, they were socially and ideologically heterogeneous, dismissing fixed agendas or ideologies. Still, the assembled multitudes that animated these mobilizations often claimed to speak in the name of 'the people', and they aspired to empowered forms of egalitarian...
The 'Arab spring', the Spanish indignados, the Greek aganaktismenoi and the Occupy Wall Street movement all share a number of distinctive traits; they...
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736,21 zł |
Rebel Music: Race, Empire, and the New Muslim Youth Culture
ISBN: 9780307279972 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this pioneering study, Hisham Aidi an expert on globalization and social movements takes us into the musical subcultures that have emerged among Muslim youth worldwide over the last decade. He shows how music primarily hip-hop, but also rock, reggae, Gnawa and Andalusian has come to express a shared Muslim consciousness in face of War on Terror policies. In this pioneering study, Hisham Aidi an expert on globalization and social movements takes us into the musical subcultures that have emerged amon... |
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90,18 zł |
Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment
ISBN: 9780801479779 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ethnic Bargaining introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countries of East Central Europe with insights from rational choice. Erin K. Jenne finds that claims by ethnic minorities have become more frequent since 1945 even though nation-states have been on the whole more responsive to groups than in earlier periods. Minorities that perceive an increase in their bargaining power will tend to radicalize their demands, she argues, from affirmative action to regional autonomy to secession, in an effort to attract... Ethnic Bargaining introduces a theory of minority politics that blends comparative analysis and field research in the postcommunist countr... |
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182,78 zł |
The Search for Democratic Renewal CB: The Politics of Consultation in Britain and Australia
ISBN: 9780719088766 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The centre-left is experimenting with democracy - this book examines what it hopes to gain from what Tony Blair called 'strengthening the democratic impulse'.
This book offers a clear, in-depth and comparative analysis of a range of cases of 'innovative' forms of consultation and engagement. This is one of very few books to critically examine both the policy and political uses of the shift towards citizen-centred policy making. The book also offers a fresh analysis on the Big Society agenda and its potential for adoption outside of the UK. This book will be of interest to politicians,... The centre-left is experimenting with democracy - this book examines what it hopes to gain from what Tony Blair called 'strengthening the democratic i...
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454,28 zł |
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
ISBN: 9780807061237 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a movement of their own that challenges our ideas about labor, sexuality, feminism, and freedom
Documenting five decades of sex-worker activism, "Sex Workers Unite" is a fresh history that places prostitutes, hustlers, escorts, call girls, strippers, and porn stars in the center of America s major civil rights struggles. Although their presence has largely been ignored and obscured, in this provocative history Melinda Chateauvert recasts sex... A provocative history that reveals how sex workers have been at the vanguard of social justice movements for the past fifty years while building a mov...
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138,57 zł |
Global Media, Biopolitics, and Affect: Politicizing Bodily Vulnerability
ISBN: 9781138019065 / Angielski / Twarda / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary societies. In discussions and struggles concerning war involvement, healthcare issues, charity, democracy movements, contested national pasts, and climate change, performances of bodily vulnerability is increasingly used by citizens to raise awareness, create sympathy, encourage political action, and to circulate information in global media networks. The book thus argues that bodily vulnerability can serve as a catalyst for affectively charging and... Global Media, Biopolitics and Affect shows how mediations of bodily vulnerability have become a strong political force in contemporary soc... |
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482,29 zł |
Marxism and the Leninist Revolutionary Model
ISBN: 9781137409133 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Marxist and Leninist revolutionary theory. Topics include: the philosophical dialectic, historical materialism, the revolutionary movement, and Communist cadre political rule in the socialist state. Emphasis on Lenin's wartime political treatment of imperialism, national self-determination, and socialism in one country.
This book explores Marxist and Leninist revolutionary theory. Topics include: the philosophical dialectic, historical materialism, the revolutionary m...
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194,52 zł |
Us Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012
ISBN: 9781137470850 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectuals through their poetic rhetoric. Piotr Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize th
Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the ...
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194,52 zł |
Opening Doors Wider: Women's Political Engagement in Canada
ISBN: 9780774815635 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the days of the fur trade through the contemporary period, women have played important roles in the public life of Canada. Until the 1970s, however, these contributions were generally overlooked. Opening Doors Wider looks at the progress made in the last forty years to raise the profile of women's involvement in public life. The contributors focus on two questions with reference to community activism, the politics of feminist organizing, parties and elections, and the communications environment in which politicians operate. First, are the doors to participation presently... From the days of the fur trade through the contemporary period, women have played important roles in the public life of Canada. Until the 1970s, ho... |
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477,27 zł |
Defining Democracy in a Digital Age: Political Support on Social Media
ISBN: 9781137496188 / Angielski / Twarda / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The internet has created a new social base where governments are ever more critically examined and measuring public sentiment expressed on social media is crucial to gauging ongoing support for democracy. This book illustrates a methodology for doing so, and considers the impact of this new public sphere on the future of democracy.
The internet has created a new social base where governments are ever more critically examined and measuring public sentiment expressed on social medi...
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194,52 zł |
The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms: Neoliberalism, Intersectionality, and the State in Britain and the Us
ISBN: 9781137295262 / Angielski / Twarda / 237 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms provides a comparative analysis of contemporary feminist activism in the US and Britain. Drawing upon in depth research undertaken with activists on both sides of the Atlantic, the book explores contentious themes and debates that have occurred over the past twenty years.
The Politics of Third Wave Feminisms provides a comparative analysis of contemporary feminist activism in the US and Britain. Drawing upon in depth re...
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428,00 zł |