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A Voters' Rights Amendment: Beyond Citizens United
ISBN: 9781530189212 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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AARP: America's Largest Interest Group and its Impact
ISBN: 9781440834103 / Angielski / Twarda / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow, special interests of older Americans who already consume more than their share of government benefits. To others, its advocacy encompasses everyone, including those with elderly parents and grandparents--and those who will comprise the older generations of the future. The most comprehensive volume ever written about AARP, the book begins with a chapter on the organization's history, going back to its founding in 1958 and its roots in the National... AARP is one of Washington's most influential interest groups, but just who does it represent? To some, it represents the narrow, special interests ... |
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255,15 |
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Age of Icons: Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9781442612037 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment. Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bob Geldof, Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are just some of the entertainers, politicians, pundits, elite business people, and policy-makers whose highly visible political activism has become an integral part of their public personas. These pop icons tend to be celebrated as "philanthrocapitalists" with a unique ability to remedy the world's problems. However, as Age of... Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, ... |
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Age of Icons: Exploring Philanthrocapitalism in the Contemporary World
ISBN: 9781442643499 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, and finding spiritual contentment. Bono, Bill Gates, Al Gore, Bob Geldof, Oprah, Madonna, and Angelina Jolie are just some of the entertainers, politicians, pundits, elite business people, and policy-makers whose highly visible political activism has become an integral part of their public personas. These pop icons tend to be celebrated as "philanthrocapitalists" with a unique ability to remedy the world's problems. However, as Age of... Celebrities are increasingly front and centre in public debates on everything from solving world poverty to halting genocide, confronting obesity, ... |
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276,33 |
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The Uyghur Lobby: Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
ISBN: 9780415709644 / Angielski / Twarda / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots. Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China s fifth-largest minority nationality, and their mounting aspiration for obtaining more autonomy has contributed to the recent ethnic conflicts in the region. This book looks at those who are seeking to preserve the Uyghur identity, and support the secession of Xinjiang from China in order to create their own independent state by exploring the... An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent... |
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727,18 |
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Six Secessional Signs: Why America Must Come Apart
ISBN: 9780615682464 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Six Secessional Signs: Why America Must Come Apart" delivers the definitive elevator ride out of the Obama abyss and up to the helipads of liberty. Torrentially dismissive, this opus delivers the ultimate pre-game speech to those grown-ups who have truly seen, heard, and had more than enough already. Trent Ling unleashes a provocative and conversation-changing salvo in this original and engaging wallop to the status quo of American politics and its never-ending din of redundancy. Refusing to play it safe, "Six Secessional Signs" barnstorms taboo subjects and dismisses conventional wisdom at...
"Six Secessional Signs: Why America Must Come Apart" delivers the definitive elevator ride out of the Obama abyss and up to the helipads of liberty. T...
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24,55 |
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Sex Work Politics: From Protest to Service Provision
ISBN: 9780812245639 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental medical care, counseling, and other health and social services by and for sex workers a radical political commitment at odds with government policies that criminalize prostitution. To maintain and expand these much-needed services and to qualify for funding from state, federal, and local authorities, such organizations must comply with federal and state regulations for nonprofits. In "Sex Work Politics," Samantha Majic investigates the way nonprofit... In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental medical care... |
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242,39 |
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The Roots of Latino Urban Agency
ISBN: 9781574415308 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 2010 US Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation's population growth. The editors of "The Roots of Latino Urban Agency," Sharon Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales, have collected essays that examine this phenomenal growth. The greatest demographic expansion of communities of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans seeking political inclusion and access has been observed in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and San Antonio.
Three premises guide this study. The first premise... The 2010 US Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half o...
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101,76 |
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Presidential Puppetry: Obama, Romney and Their Masters
ISBN: 9780988672826 / Angielski / Twarda / 490 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presidential Puppetry documents what many millions have long suspected: secretive elites guide our government leaders. The first book to analyze the Obama second term is also one of the first to examine the 2012 elections. Puppetry reveals scandals and shows why Congress, courts, and other watchdog institutions fail to report key facts about even the biggest news makers. Puppetry unfolds like a mystery extending over decades to the present. By the end, this compelling narrative documented with 1,200 endnotes shows hidden links between puppet masters, political leaders, spy agencies, and the...
Presidential Puppetry documents what many millions have long suspected: secretive elites guide our government leaders. The first book to analyze the O...
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144,53 |
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A Bed for the Night : Humanitarianism in Crisis
ISBN: 9780099597919 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on first hand reporting from hot war zones around the world - Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Kosovo, Sudan and Afghanistan - the author shows us what humanitarian aid workers do in the field and the growing gap between their noble ambitions and their actual capabilities for alleviating suffering.
Drawing on first hand reporting from hot war zones around the world - Bosnia, Rwanda, Congo, Kosovo, Sudan and Afghanistan - the author shows us what ...
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81,60 |
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The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy
ISBN: 9780199898381 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in the past decade and play an increasingly prominent role in citizen political mobilization. At the same time, the organizations that mediate citizen political engagement and sustained collective action are changing. They rely upon modified staff structures and work routines. They employ novel strategies and tactical repertoires. Rather than "organizing without organizations," the new media environment has given rise to "organizing through different...
The Internet is facilitating a generational transition within America's advocacy group system. New "netroots" political associations have arisen in th...
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194,55 |
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Neighborhood Rebels: Black Power at the Local Level
ISBN: 9780230620773 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new scholarship that is taking a second look at Black Power.
This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots l...
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441,75 |
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Civilian Jihad: Nonviolent Struggle, Democratization, and Governance in the Middle East
ISBN: 9780230621411 / Angielski / Miękka / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region.
This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using ...
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200,77 |
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Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
ISBN: 9780231156837 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and...
For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achi...
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110,45 |
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The Occupy Handbook
ISBN: 9780316220217 / Angielski / Miękka / 535 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most incisive cultural commentators - from Paul Krugman, Robin Wells, Michael Lewis, Robert Reich, Amy Goodman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Gillian Tett, Scott Turow, Bethany McLean, Brandon Adams, and Tyler Cowen to prominent labor leaders and young, cutting-edge economists and financial writers whose work is not yet widely known - capture the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon in all its ragged glory, giving readers an on-the-scene feel for the movement as it...
Analyzing the movement's deep-seated origins in questions that the country has sought too long to ignore, some of the greatest economic minds and most...
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98,78 |
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Revolutionaries
ISBN: 9780349120560 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. * Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara that could be key to a deeper understanding of today's current affairs
* Classic essays on revolutionaries from Karl Marx to Che Guevara that could be key to a deeper understanding of today's current affairs
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65,23 |
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Human Rights
ISBN: 9780415360692 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Woodiwiss provides a general sociological account of the development of human rights.
Drawing on resources in classical and contemporary social theory, and working through case studies of Britain, the United States and Japan, Woodiwiss ...
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Internal Displacement: Conceptualization and its Consequences
ISBN: 9780415770798 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs). Drawing on official and confidential documents as well as interviews with leading personalities, this book provides an analysis of this important issue.
Traces the normative, legal, institutional, and political responses to the challenges of assisting and protecting internally displaced persons (IDPs)....
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193,86 |
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Breaking the Silence: French Women's Voices from the Ghetto
ISBN: 9780520246218 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice. This book is a passionate account of her struggle to found the movement called Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whore Nor Submissive), aimed at shattering the law of silence about violence against women within French suburban communities. The questions Amara raises are part of a broader agenda to open contemporary French society to greater ethnic and cultural diversity. These issues also pose problems of national identity and the defense of secularism for the state....
Born in France of Algerian parents, Fadela Amara is a human rights activist who speaks with both a personal and a collective voice. This book is a pas...
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192,29 |
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Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poorvolume 14
ISBN: 9780520249240 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists' aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids...
In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Rea...
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192,29 |
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