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Performing Citizenship: Social Movements across the Globe
ISBN: 9781138889583 / Angielski / Twarda / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of social movements' activism on the changing practices and conceptions of citizenship. Presenting empirically rich case studies from Latin America, Asia and Europe, leading experts analyze the ways in which the shifting balance of power between nation-state, economy and civil society over the past half century affected social movements in their choice of addressees and repertoires of action. Divided into two parts, the first part focuses on citizenship as a form of political and cultural participation. The three case studies... In this book, Tamar Groves and Inbal Ofer explore the effects of social movements' activism on the changing practices and conceptions of citizenshi... |
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Democracy, Dialectics, and Difference: Hegel, Marx, and 21st Century Social Movements
ISBN: 9781138949294 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking about the internal contradictions of our social relations. Despite critiques from post-structuralists, post-colonialists, and others, there has been a resurgence of dialectical thought among political theorists as of late. This resurgence has coincided with a rise in the mention of words like class warfare, socialism, and communism among the general public on the streets of Seattle in 1999, in Cairo's Tahrir Square, in the actions of the Greek... It has been nearly two centuries since Marx famously turned Hegel on his head in order to repurpose dialectics as a revolutionary way of thinking a... |
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746,33 zł |
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Code and the City
ISBN: 9781138922105 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and is entrenched in the management and governance of urban societies. Software-enabled technologies and services enhance the ways in which we understand and plan cities. It even has an effect on how we manage urban services and utilities. " Code and the City "explores the extent and depth of the ways in which software mediates how people work, consume, communication, travel and play. The reach of these systems is set to become even more... Software has become essential to the functioning of cities. It is deeply embedded into the systems and infrastructure of the built environment and ... |
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746,33 zł |
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Ethics and Social Survival
ISBN: 9781138646551 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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746,33 zł |
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Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards: School Climate Reform Initiatives
ISBN: 9781138679139 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege cognitive aspects of learning while also advancing prosocial or Whole Child efforts (e.g., social emotional learning, character education, and mental health promotion). The book utilizes a" "growing body of research to reveal effective ways to implement a curriculum that integrates social, emotional, ethical, and civic aspects of learning with required state standards, and a wide range of "real world" examples describe how any school, anywhere, can lay a foundation for all... Integrating Prosocial Learning with Education Standards demonstrates how to meet educational standards that privilege cognitive aspects of learning... |
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746,33 zł |
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Rethinking Ideology in the Age of Global Discontent: Bridging Divides
ISBN: 9781138089792 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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746,33 zł |
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Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance
ISBN: 9780521829113 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined to become the global corporate governance standard or will important differences persist? Well-known scholars address this question with sophisticated political economy analysis geared to the legal frameworks. The Enron scandal has stirred up an urgent round of corporate governance questioning. Will it stop a convergence that was in the works? This volume offers interesting insights into this question.
Corporate governance is on the reform agenda all over the world. Is the Anglo-American model of shareholder capitalism destined to become the global c...
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747,57 zł |
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Between Alexandria and Jerusalem: The Dynamic of Jewish and Hellenistic Culture
ISBN: 9789004144026 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as reflected in papyri of Roman Egypt, the birth of a qualified audience looking for teachers and preachers and requiring a new culture. This same phenomenon emerged in Rabbinic society. Rabbinic literature was different not only from the Bible, but from Alexandrian exegesis as well. However, Alexandrian exegesis paved the way for rabbinic Midrash. The book defies the understanding of culture as a combination of various petrified 'patterns, '...
Between Alexandria and Jerusalem examines the dynamics of Hellenistic and Jewish cultures. It begins by looking at the changes in mentality as ...
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749,76 zł |
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Chen Jiru (1558-1639): The Development and Subsequent Uses of Literary Personae
ISBN: 9789004163584 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chen Jiru (1558-1639) was one of the great late-Ming arbiters of culture and taste, and the impact of his innovations can still be traced in present-day China. In late Ming, when culture and taste enjoyed a social prestige beyond their usual standing, Chen's influence appears even greater than it may have otherwise. This is the first major work in any language to examine Chen's background, make a contrastive study of the genres he utilised in forging his literary reputation, and to examine the use that publishers and others have made since of the literary personae he constructed. A study...
Chen Jiru (1558-1639) was one of the great late-Ming arbiters of culture and taste, and the impact of his innovations can still be traced in present-d...
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749,76 zł |
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The Kitan Language and Script
ISBN: 9789004168299 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kitan language and script have disappeared from history for more than 800 years. Recent research has partially deciphered a number of Kitan inscriptions, reveal significantly more of its lexicon and morphology. This book summarises the current state of research.
The Kitan language and script have disappeared from history for more than 800 years. Recent research has partially deciphered a number of Kitan inscri...
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749,76 zł |
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Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History
ISBN: 9789004218444 / Angielski / Twarda / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making and created uniquely Chinese cultures of knowledge. The volume is organized into four sections: Internode, Imperial Court, Agora, and Scholarly Arts. Each has a theoretical introduction, followed by two core contributions from experts in Chinese history. The section concludes with a 'reflection' by a historian of Western Technology who scrutinizes each sphere and identifies the points that reflect universal technological experience. The...
Looking at knowledge transmission as a cultural feature, this book isolates and examines the individual factors that affect knowledge in the making an...
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749,76 zł |
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Selfhood and Appearing: The Intertwining
ISBN: 9789004375833 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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749,76 zł |
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Bureaucrats and Beggars: French Social Policy in the Age of the Enlightenment
ISBN: 9780195051681 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the creation of a uniform royal network of lock-ups in which anyone found begging might be detained. In this study, Adams probes the accomplishments and the failings of these so-called depots de mendicite, as seen by critics of the experiment (including learned judges and influential spokesmen of the provincial Estates) and as seen by those responsible for its success: the provincial intendants, the royal engineers, the doctors, the...
In the mid-eighteenth century in France, the royal authorities launched a new campaign to sweep beggars from the streets, pinning their hopes on the c...
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749,92 zł |
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Hitler's Enforcers: The Gestapo & the SS Security Service in the Nazi Revolution
ISBN: 9780195104790 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots of their roles in police terror and programs of mass murder. These personnel helped to form the character and missions of their organizations, which were not simply created from above by Hitler, Himmler, or Heydrich. Hitler's Enforcers is based on research at 34 archives in Germany and the United States, including the personnel files of over 1,000 former members, and is the first such study to benefit from the German documents captured...
This first socio-organizational history of the Gestapo, the SD, and the regular detectives of the Third Reich, 1932-1937, this book explores the roots...
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749,92 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
ISBN: 9780195373141 / Angielski / Twarda / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the political spectrum, from liberal welfare measures in emerging social-democratic states to feminist ambitions for birth control, from public health campaigns to totalitarian dreams of the "perfectibility of man." This book dispels for uninitiated readers the automatic and apparently exclusive link between eugenics and the Holocaust. It is the first world history of eugenics and an indispensable...
Eugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics ...
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749,92 zł |
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France T�l�com, Exp�rience d''une Organisation Transverse
ISBN: 9786131513343 / Francuski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Le taylorisme a tellement bien su diviser le travail, que l''utopie de la transversalitA(c) pose la question inverse: Comment mieux coordonner? L''ambition est de trouver une alternative A l''organisation bureaucratique. L''administration France TA(c)lA(c)com devient entreprise de droit privA(c) entre 1990 et 1998. L''organisation A(c)volue en mAame temps avec la crA(c)ation de processus permettant de suivre l''activitA(c) horizontalement. Ceux-ci ont vocation A structurer les activitA(c)s nA(c)cessaires aux clients et situA(c)es dans des fonctions diffA(c)rentes. On A(c)largit ainsi la...
Le taylorisme a tellement bien su diviser le travail, que l''utopie de la transversalitA(c) pose la question inverse: Comment mieux coordonner? L''amb...
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750,26 zł |
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L''identité Culturelle En Méditerranée
ISBN: 9786131553554 / Francuski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. PrA(c)server la diversitA(c) des pratiques culturelles, notamment des musiques et des danses traditionnelles, et participer A leur A(c)volution et transmission, est une maniA]re d''encourager notre sens de la communication et de la rA(c)ciprocitA(c). Pourtant l''essor de la mondialisation rend l''accomplissement de telles actions de plus en plus difficile. L''analyse des danses populaires de deux cultures MA(c)diterranA(c)ennes, celles de Corse et de Naxos, peut apporter quelques rA(c)ponses sur la situation actuelle du traditionnel. Quelles sont les danses, pratiquA(c)es actuellement ou non?...
PrA(c)server la diversitA(c) des pratiques culturelles, notamment des musiques et des danses traditionnelles, et participer A leur A(c)volution et tra...
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750,26 zł |
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Everything in Its Place: Social Order and Land Use in America
ISBN: 9780691643731 / Angielski / Twarda / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical arrangement of land expresses American ideals, assumptions, and beliefs. Originally published in 1977. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.... Interviews with bankers, civic leaders, politicians, and architects provide the basis for this searching analysis of the ways in which the physical... |
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750,26 zł |
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The Stones of Athens
ISBN: 9780691637938 / Angielski / Twarda / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interpreting the monuments of Athens in light of literature, R. E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, travelers, dramatists, poets, private citizens--the words of all these suggest how the city looked at various periods, how its monuments came to be built, and how they served the people in daily life. Professor Wycherley concentrates on the classical period, illustrating his work with plans, reconstructions, and photographs. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology... Interpreting the monuments of Athens in light of literature, R. E. Wycherley brings before us the city the ancients knew. Philosophers, statesmen, ... |
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750,26 zł |
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Contemporary American Politics and Society: Issues and Controversies
ISBN: 9780761940951 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary American Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the most salient topics of debate in contemporary American politics and society today.
The text introduces and explains the history, nature and underlying issues to the key areas of political division and conflict in America's on-going culture war', including, abortion, gun control, capital punishment, pornography, gay rights and drugs. All students will gain a deeper and critical understanding of how this powerful set of concerns continue to underpin and shape the fundamental... Contemporary American Politics provides a comprehensive introduction to the most salient topics of debate in contemporary American politics and...
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751,47 zł |