Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past
ISBN: 9781107117198 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and documenting the rise of resistance and protest at the grassroots level, this book explains how the terror, hunger, and loss of the socialist past influences the way in which people in the deep countryside see and resist state power in the reform era up to the present-day repression of the People's Republic of China central government. Ralph A. Thaxton, Jr provides us with a worm's-eye view of an 'unknown China' - a China that cannot easily or...
Why is contemporary China such a politically contentious place? Relying on the memories of the survivors of the worst catastrophe of Maoist rule and d...
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383,79 zł |
Please Delete: How Leadership Hubris Ignited a Scandal and Tarnished a University
ISBN: 9780996553100 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -I'VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.- So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, she informed her boss that she had lost control of their division's finances. It was an understatement. University leaders would soon discover that Sharp had routinely spent millions of dollars beyond what was available, shifting money from one account to another in what the university's treasurer described as -deliberate efforts to disguise- her division's true financial condition. In a private email, University Chancellor G. David... -I'VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.- So confessed Joy Sharp, a longtime budget director for the University of Arkansas. Trembling and unsteady, s... |
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129,24 zł |
War Dogs: The True Story of How Three Stoners from Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History
ISBN: 9781451667608 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them. In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach were put in charge of a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ammunition to the Afghanistan military. Instead of fulfilling the order with high-quality arms, Efraim Diveroli, David Packouz, and Alex Podrizki (the dudes) bought cheap Communist-style...
Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how t...
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86,27 zł |
THE INTEGRITY IRELAND S.O.S. GUIDE Version 1
ISBN: 9781906628727 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ireland is in a mess, and a great many ordinary people are suffering because of the prevailing culture of corruption, cronyism and criminality in Departments of the State. Perhaps nowhere is this crisis more evident than in the so-called Irish Justice System comprising the legal profession, the Garda Siochana (police) and the Irish Courts. This Guide has been produced as a basic manual for those who have found themselves subject to improper, illegal or unconstitutional activities. It offers suggestions as to how to defend yourself from abuses of power and position, and how to hold errant...
Ireland is in a mess, and a great many ordinary people are suffering because of the prevailing culture of corruption, cronyism and criminality in Depa...
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157,04 zł |
Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction
ISBN: 9781626162945 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, organized crime victims, and criminals, Nathan P. Jones examines the comparative resilience of two basic types of drug networks--"territorial" and "transactional"--that are differentiated by... Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and... |
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430,92 zł |
Mexico's Illicit Drug Networks and the State Reaction
ISBN: 9781626162952 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and mass murder. Despite the impact of these activities in Mexico and abroad, these illicit networks are remarkably resilient to state intervention. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews with US and Mexican law enforcement, government officials, organized crime victims, and criminals, Nathan P. Jones examines the comparative resilience of two basic types of drug networks--"territorial" and "transactional"--that are differentiated by... Mexican drug networks are large and violent, engaging in activities like the trafficking of narcotics, money laundering, extortion, kidnapping, and... |
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142,75 zł |
Splitting America: How Politicians, Super Pacs and the News Media Mirror High Conflict Divorce
ISBN: 9781936268528 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Something nasty is happening in American politics. You'd have to be in hibernation to be unaware of the bullying, incivility, and disrespect going on. Splitting America is a warning to voters and politicians that current poliarizations risks long-term harm to our nation. This book compares the same five traits of high-conflict divorces to today's politics. It generally includes: - Personal Attacks (calling the other person crazy, stupid, immoral or evil)
- Crisis Emotions (which trigger fear and hatred of each other) - All-or-Nothing Solutions (which call for the elimination... Something nasty is happening in American politics. You'd have to be in hibernation to be unaware of the bullying, incivility, and disrespect going on....
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55,88 zł |
The Deep State
ISBN: 9780143109938 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred expose of who really wields power in Washington Every four years, tempers are tested and marriages fray as Americans head to the polls to cast their votes. But does anyone really care what we think? Has our vaunted political system become one big, expensive, painfully scripted reality TV show? In this powerful expose of the sins and excesses of Beltwayland, a longtime Republican party insider argues that we have become an oligarchy in form if not in name. Hooked on war,...
The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred expose of who really wields power in Was...
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81,99 zł |
Robert Nixon and Police Torture in Chicago, 1871-1971
ISBN: 9780875807393 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after investigations revealed that former Chicago police commander Jon Burge tortured numerous suspects in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. But claims of police torture have even deeper roots in Chicago. In the late 19th century, suspects maintained that Chicago police officers put them in sweatboxes or held them incommunicado until they confessed to crimes they had not committed. In the first decades of the 20th century, suspects and witnesses stated that they admitted guilt only...
In 2015, Chicago became the first city in the United States to create a reparations fund for victims of police torture, after investigations revealed ...
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138,10 zł |
Managing Fraud and Corruption Risk in Local Government: How to make your council fraud resistant
ISBN: 9781925319033 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With increasing pressure on organisations to do more with less, and on individuals to consume more, fraud is booming. It is up to management to prevent fraudsters inside and outside their organisations from helping themselves to public assets.This book is a simple guide to the policies, procedures and practices required to make a council resistant to fraud and corruption. The book describes a comprehensive framework, put in place as part of the governance of a council. This starts with the tone set by the elected members and the CEO, then distributed through the organisation by... With increasing pressure on organisations to do more with less, and on individuals to consume more, fraud is booming. It is up to management to pre... |
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151,04 zł |
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay
ISBN: 9780674737297 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." More than three decades later, China's efforts to modernize have yielded something very different from the working people's paradise Deng envisioned: an incipient kleptocracy, characterized by endemic corruption, soaring income inequality, and growing social tensions. China's Crony Capitalism traces the origins of China's present-day troubles to the series of incomplete reforms from the post-Tiananmen era that decentralized the control of... When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to build "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Mor... |
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182,87 zł |
Guardianship: Fraud
ISBN: 9780692586211 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GUARDIANSHIP is the 2016 Gold Medal Winner for Current Events II (Social Issues / Public Affairs / Ecological / Humanitarian) Excellence eLit Book Award. It's difficult to believe it happens, but forced guardianship fraud runs unchecked throughout the nation's probate courts. Deemed incapacitated by the courts, elderly citizens are robbed of all decision-making rights and assigned professional guardians whose only interest lies in profiting from their vulnerable charges' estates. Guardianship: How Judges and Lawyers Steal Your Money exposes a web of murderous profiteering, all sanctioned by a...
GUARDIANSHIP is the 2016 Gold Medal Winner for Current Events II (Social Issues / Public Affairs / Ecological / Humanitarian) Excellence eLit Book Awa...
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60,63 zł |
Dirty Waters: Confessions of Chicago's Last Harbor Boss
ISBN: 9780226334493 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was used to the darker side of the law--he had been followed by federal agents and wiretapped due to his antiwar stances in the sixties--but nothing could prepare him for the wretched bog that constituted the world of a Harbor Boss. Director of Harbors and Marine Services was a position so mired in corruption that its previous four directors ended up in federal prison. Nelson inherited angry constituents, prying journalists, shell-shocked...
In 1987, the city of Chicago hired a former radical college chaplain to clean up rampant corruption on the waterfront. R. J. Nelson thought he was use...
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107,73 zł |
Truth In The Rear View Mirror: An Insider Exposes Americas Power Players Revealing their Dark Secrets, Lies and Hidden Agenda to the American People!
ISBN: 9780692630549 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Michael Maris' Truth In The Rear View Mirror divulges dark secrets, lies and hidden agendas of some of America's biggest power players. Maris' memoirs cover his 25 years as a Washington D.C. Executive Security Driver and more. You need to read this shocking book BEFORE you cast your vote for the next President of the United States of America. The eye-opening experiences and scandalous information Maris was privy to will awaken you to the underlying corruption happening behind the dark tinted windows of our beloved nation. He drove for government agencies, political officials, international...
Michael Maris' Truth In The Rear View Mirror divulges dark secrets, lies and hidden agendas of some of America's biggest power players. Maris' memoirs...
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Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America?with a New Afterword by Max Holland
ISBN: 9780700623563 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous "Deep Throat," the media's role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodward's Second Man. Arguably the greatest political scandal of twentieth-century America, the Watergate affair rocked an already divided nation to its very core, severely challenged our cherished notions about democracy, and further eroded public trust in its political leaders. The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate...
A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous "Deep T...
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403,99 zł |
Watergate: The Presidential Scandal That Shook America?with a New Afterword by Max Holland
ISBN: 9780700623570 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous "Deep Throat," the media's role in the scandal, both during and afterwards, including Bob Woodward's Second Man. Arguably the greatest political scandal of twentieth-century America, the Watergate affair rocked an already divided nation to its very core, severely challenged our cherished notions about democracy, and further eroded public trust in its political leaders. The 1972 break-in at Democratic National Headquarters in the Watergate...
A new afterword by Max Holland details developments since the original 2003 publication, including the revelation of Mark Felt as the infamous "Deep T...
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145,16 zł |
The Original Sins
ISBN: 9781498461917 / Angielski / Miękka / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau and former Vice President Al Gore; the conviction of New York "sawdust swindler" Sam Hayes and lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and President Theodore Roosevelt and former New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner III? If you answered "corruption," you are right, but only partly so.The Original Sins: America's Fight Against Corruption in the Era of Manifest Destiny tells the stories behind America's efforts to define and prevent corruption in our national...
What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau and fo...
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135,28 zł |
The Original Sins
ISBN: 9781498461924 / Angielski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau and former Vice President Al Gore; the conviction of New York "sawdust swindler" Sam Hayes and lobbyist Jack Abramoff; and President Theodore Roosevelt and former New York Yankee owner George Steinbrenner III? If you answered "corruption," you are right, but only partly so.The Original Sins: America's Fight Against Corruption in the Era of Manifest Destiny tells the stories behind America's efforts to define and prevent corruption in our national...
What is the connection between: the court-martial of a Union Army Colonel and the ABSCAM scandal; President Garfield's assassin Charles Guiteau and fo...
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193,28 zł |
The Ethical Lobbyist: Reforming Washington's Influence Industry
ISBN: 9781626163805 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lobbyists in Washington aren't a new phenomenon. Since the early days of the republic, citizens and groups alike have hired professionals to press their interests with lawmakers. However, recent examples of misconduct--like that seen in the Abramoff scandal--highlight the unique ethical challenges this industry faces in the twenty-first century. Though major scandals happen less frequently than popularly believed, the more pervasive ethics problem is that members of the profession often cut deals that go against their clients' interests. They sacrifice the interests of those they... Lobbyists in Washington aren't a new phenomenon. Since the early days of the republic, citizens and groups alike have hired professionals to press ... |
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56,56 zł |
Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse
ISBN: 9781349504367 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of racketeer economies into unstable kleptocratic states. The result is a new model that explains the expansion and contraction of political-economic complexity in prehistoric and contemporary societies.
The author draws on behavioral ecology to predict the evolution of organized crime in unregulated systems of exchange and the further development of r...
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195,42 zł |