ilość książek w kategorii: 326
Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World
ISBN: 9780739180068 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon, and Clyde Wilcox, explores the legacy of the Portuguese colonial experience, with careful consideration of the lasting impression that this experience has had on the cultural, religious, and political dynamics in the former colonies. Applying the insights derived from three theoretical schools (religious society, political institutions, and cultural toolkit), this volume brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines, offering in-depth...
Religion and Politics in a Global Society: Comparative Perspectives from the Portuguese-Speaking World, edited by Paul Christopher Manuel, Alynna Lyon...
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225,35 zł |
Export Controls: A Contemporary History
ISBN: 9780761862338 / Angielski / Twarda / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. International trade plays an enormous role in economic growth and prosperity. This activity can also be used to transfer military equipment, knowledge, and technology to hostile governments and transnational terrorist and criminal organizations seeking to attack and destroy their enemies. The U.S. and other countries have used economic sanctions such as export controls to try to restrict and eliminate the transfer of weapons and financial assets to these governments and organizations. This work examines how the U.S. has attempted to restrict the export of national security sensitive...
International trade plays an enormous role in economic growth and prosperity. This activity can also be used to transfer military equipment, knowledge...
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726,01 zł |
Animal Cruelty and Freedom of Speech: When Worlds Collide
ISBN: 9781557536334 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" case, US v. Stevens, to explore how American society attempts to balance the protection of free speech and the prevention of animal cruelty. Starting from the detailed case study of a single prominent ruling, the authors provide a masterful survey of important issues facing society in the area of animal welfare. The Stevens case included various "hot topic" elements connected to the role of government as arbiter of public morality, including...
A collaboration between an attorney and an animal protection advocate, this work utilizes the extremely controversial and high-profile "crush video" c...
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128,31 zł |
Buffoon: One Man's Cheerful Interaction with the Harbingers of Global Warming Doom
ISBN: 9781941071038 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over the years, Ken cheerfully interacted with progressive activists cynically using the human-caused global warming meme to advance a free-enterprise-hating, progressive agenda. These exchanges documented in Buffoon--typically consist of name-calling and insults--create an entertaining reading experience. Regardless of your point of view, studying the battleground arguments is educational.
Over the years, Ken cheerfully interacted with progressive activists cynically using the human-caused global warming meme to advance a free-enterprise...
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98,32 zł |
America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform
ISBN: 9781107694750 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, this book explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system s historical roots and normative...
How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democrati...
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122,28 zł |
America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform
ISBN: 9781107038332 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, this book explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system s historical roots and normative...
How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democrati...
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244,67 zł |
Export Controls: A Contemporary History
ISBN: 9780761865919 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Export Controls examines how the U.S. has attempted to restrict the export of national security sensitive equipment, finance, knowledge, and technology since World War II. It also examines attempts to influence U.S. policies while concluding that some export controls are essential for promoting and defending U.S. national security interests.
Export Controls examines how the U.S. has attempted to restrict the export of national security sensitive equipment, finance, knowledge, and technolog...
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348,11 zł |
Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
ISBN: 9780252040177 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, and she uses Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships. Yesil confronts essential questions regarding: the role of the state and military in building the structures that shaped Turkey's media system; media...
In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence ...
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504,63 zł |
Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State
ISBN: 9780252081651 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence of global and domestic forces that range from the 1980 military coup to globalization's inroads and the recent resurgence of political Islam. Her analysis foregrounds how these and other forces become intertwined, and she uses Turkey's media to unpack the ever-more-complex relationships. Yesil confronts essential questions regarding: the role of the state and military in building the structures that shaped Turkey's media system; media...
In Media in New Turkey, Bilge Yesil unlocks the complexities surrounding and penetrating today's Turkish media. Yesil focuses on a convergence ...
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122,28 zł |
Selling War: A Critical Look at the Military's PR Machine
ISBN: 9781612347721 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush's famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner "Mission Accomplished," the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences--that is, the Western media--by ignoring Iraqi citizens and the wider Arab population, and by paying mere lip service to the directive to "Put an Iraqi face...
In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and dep...
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149,73 zł |
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
ISBN: 9780774832038 / Angielski / Twarda / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision making is increasingly centralized in the Prime Minister's Office. What is happening to our democracy? To get to the bottom of this, Alex Marland reviewed internal political party files, media reports, and documents obtained through access to information requests, and interviewed Ottawa insiders. He discovered that in the face of rapid changes in communication technology, the infusion of corporate marketing... The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has be... |
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219,18 zł |
Vere masoĥistaj, tiuj teranoj! Vraiment masos, ces terriens!: Dulingva eldono
ISBN: 9782369600480 / Esperanto / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. i tie Claude Piron (Kla djo) prezentas dialogon sur fremda planedo. Juna esploristo de tiu mon-do revenas de ekspedicio, en kiu li studis la lingvan situacion sur la planedo Tero, kaj nun li resume raportas pri siaj spertoj tie. Okazas interesa debato kun informri a enhavo pri la kialo de la teranoj da rigi sistemon de internacia komunikado, kiu pruvis sian mizeran efikecon kompare kun pli racia solvo Esperanto, per kiu ekz-e jam nur la e ropaj landoj parus iujare miliardojn da e roj kaj havus krome siste-mon multe pli facilan kaj pli... i tie Claude Piron (Kla djo) prezentas dialogon sur fremda planedo. Juna esploristo de tiu mon-do revenas de ekspedicio,... |
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38,18 zł |
Will the Internet Fragment?: Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace
ISBN: 9781509501229 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.- -There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Muellers razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.- The Internet has united the world as never before.... -In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understan... |
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53,60 zł |
Will the Internet Fragment?: Sovereignty, Globalization and Cyberspace
ISBN: 9781509501212 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understand what is really at stake as nations and other groups vie for power over the Internet.- -There have been political and economic interests to 'Balkanize' the Internet as we know it for a quarter of a century. Muellers razor-sharp arguments help us to understand the dimension of the challenge.- The Internet has united the world as never before.... -In characteristically rigorous fashion, Mueller's outstanding book punctures the alarmist myth of Internet fragmentation and helps us to understan... |
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187,79 zł |
Media Localism: The Policies of Place
ISBN: 9780252040726 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and...
We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local medi...
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504,63 zł |
Media Localism: The Policies of Place
ISBN: 9780252082238 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local media in the first place? Christopher Ali delves into our ideas about localism and their far-reaching repercussions for the discourse of federal media policy and regulation. His critique focuses on the new interest in localism among regulators in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. As he shows, the many different and often contradictory meanings of localism complicate efforts to study local voices. At the same time, market factors and...
We live in a boosterish era that exhorts us to play local and buy local. But what does it mean to support local media? How should we define local medi...
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112,09 zł |
Brand Command: Canadian Politics and Democracy in the Age of Message Control
ISBN: 9780774832045 / Angielski / Miękka / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has become politicized. And decision making is increasingly centralized in the Prime Minister's Office. What is happening to our democracy? To get to the bottom of this, Alex Marland reviewed internal political party files, media reports, and documents obtained through access to information requests, and interviewed Ottawa insiders. He discovered that in the face of rapid changes in communication technology, the infusion of corporate marketing... The pursuit of political power is strategic as never before. Ministers, MPs, and candidates parrot the same catchphrases. The public service has be... |
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142,67 zł |
Constructions of Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy
ISBN: 9780520294165 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism collects works from the leading scholars on terrorism from an array of disciplines--including communication, political science, sociology,...
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disag...
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576,07 zł |
Constructions of Terrorism: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Research and Policy
ISBN: 9780520294172 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disagreements about both the definition and the class of violent events that constitute terrorism contribute to the difficulty of formulating effective responses aimed at the prevention and management of the threat of terrorism and the development of counterterrorism policies. Constructions of Terrorism collects works from the leading scholars on terrorism from an array of disciplines--including communication, political science, sociology,...
Discussions about the meaning of terrorism are enduring in everyday language, government policy, news reporting, and international politics. And disag...
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134,14 zł |
Rethinking Media Development Through Evaluation: Beyond Freedom
ISBN: 9783319585673 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts towards better media development. The pursuit of media freedom has been the bedrock of media development since its height in the 1990s. Today, citizen voice, participation, social change, government responsiveness and accountability, and other 'demand-side' aspects of governance, are increasingly the rubric within with assistance to media development operates. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of media development and communication...
This book argues for an overhaul of the way media assistance is evaluated, and explores how new thinking about evaluation can reinforce the shifts tow...
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194,97 zł |