Defensive Tactics: Street-Proven Arrest and Control Techniques
ISBN: 9781594394867 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Histories of Violence: Post-War Critical Thought
ISBN: 9781783602384 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Though we can all agree that violence is a devastating plague upon human existence and that peace would lead to more prosperous relations around the world, violence still continues to be deployed by a wide range of groups for numerous political and social ends. And though we all fear violence, what actually constitutes violence, who perpetuates it, and why, are questions of great debate, which have drawn the attention of the world's foremost thinkers for centuries. Offering an accessible introduction to post-war critical thought on the topic, Histories of Violence examines how many...
Though we can all agree that violence is a devastating plague upon human existence and that peace would lead to more prosperous relations around the w...
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101,89 zł |
Beyond the Rope: The Impact of Lynching on Black Culture and Memory
ISBN: 9781107044135 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond the Rope tells the story of African Americans' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present.
Beyond the Rope tells the story of African Americans' evolving attitudes towards lynching from the 1880s to the present.
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382,29 zł |
Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security
ISBN: 9781137406729 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More journalists are being killed, attacked and intimidated than at any time in history. Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security examines the statistics and looks at the trends in journalist killings and intimidation around the world. It identifies what factors have led to this rise and positions these in historical and global contexts. This important study also provides case studies and first-hand accounts from journalists working in some of the most dangerous places in the world today and seeks to understand the different pressures they must confront. It...
More journalists are being killed, attacked and intimidated than at any time in history. Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation a...
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194,97 zł |
Federalism and Ethnic Conflict Regulation in India and Pakistan
ISBN: 9781349999538 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types of conflict in the two countries rather than the role of religion. Adeney examines the extent to which previous constitutional choices explain current day conflicts.
Katharine Adeney demonstrates that institutional design is the most important explanatory variable in understanding the different intensity and types ...
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Antaŭparolo kaj enkonduko al la germana eldono de "La kon-stanta revolucio; La malsano de Lenino.
ISBN: 9782369600459 / Esperanto / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La tradukado en Esperanton de tekstoj de Leo Trocko is nun bedaurinde apenau okazis. Ja ekzistas Esperanta versio de la gazeto "La permanenta revolucio" La konstanta revolucio] el la 1930-aj jaroj, en preskau nelegebla stato, kiu estos e MAS eldonota, ekde kiam ni disponos pri iuj iaj kajeroj. La stalina verdikto de "trockismo" ene de la komunisma movado kondukis al la grandaparta ekskludo de tiu mertiplena rusa rusa revoluciulo, al lia ekzilo kaj fine al lia murdo komisiite de Stalino. Kaj krome al "trockistaj" politikaj grupi oj, al la 4-a Internacio kaj al la rompo de iuj pontoj... La tradukado en Esperanton de tekstoj de Leo Trocko is nun bedaurinde apenau okazis. Ja ekzistas Esperanta versio de la gazeto "La permanenta revol... |
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50,70 zł |
Losing Trust in the World: Holocaust Scholars Confront Torture
ISBN: 9780295998466 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators determined he was no use to them and that he was a Jew, he was deported to Auschwitz. Liberated in 1945, Jean Amery went on to write a series of essays about his experience. No reflections on torture are more compelling. Amery declared that the victims of torture lose trust in the world at the "very first blow." The contributors to this volume use their expertise in Holocaust studies to reflect on ethical, religious, and legal aspects of... In July 1943, the Gestapo arrested an obscure member of the resistance movement in Nazi-occupied Belgium. When his torture-inflicting interrogators... |
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152,87 zł |
Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence: Religion, Testimony, and Visions of Healing
ISBN: 9781138219267 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence examines sexual violence against women, how religion and society contribute to a rape culture, and the extreme suffering endured by rape victims as a result. Using the testimony of women who have experienced both rape and the consequences of rape culture from a range of religious, cultural, ethnic, and social contexts the book explores both the suffering and healing of rape victims from World War II to today. Among the issues considered are victim invisibility, the inability to express pain, and the tendency to assume shame and self-blame. The study... Rape Culture and Spiritual Violence examines sexual violence against women, how religion and society contribute to a rape culture, and the extreme ... |
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188,55 zł |
The Beast Side: Living and Dying While Black in America
ISBN: 9781510716391 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Best Seller To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American political era, dissolving the divisions of the past. However, when seventeen-year-old Trayvon Martin was shot by a wannabe cop in Florida; and then Ferguson, Missouri, happened; and then South Carolina hit the headlines; and then Baltimore blew up, it was hard to find any evidence of a new post-racial order. Suddenly the entire country seemed to be awakened to a stark fact: African American men are in danger in America. This has only become clearer...
A New York Times Best Seller To many, the past 8 years under President Obama were meant to usher in a new post-racial American poli...
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Meanings of Violence in Contemporary Latin America
ISBN: 9781349295548 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers insightful and innovative ways to understand the devastating and unprecedented forms of violence currently experienced in Latin America.
This volume includes contributions of scholars from various fields - the social sciences, journalism, the humanities and the arts - whose work offers ...
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194,97 zł |
Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction Volume 50
ISBN: 9780816696086 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of "immersion." His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life. Today's wired culture is a mixed reality, conducted as exchanges between virtual and material contexts. We make balance transfers at an ATM, update Facebook timelines, and squeeze in sessions of Angry Birds on the subway. However, the "virtual" is still frequently figured as imaginary, as opposed to... Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences ... |
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112,09 zł |
Mixed Realism: Videogames and the Violence of Fiction
ISBN: 9780816689439 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences of "immersion." His innovative methodology offers a new understanding of the expanding role of virtuality in contemporary life. Today's wired culture is a mixed reality, conducted as exchanges between virtual and material contexts. We make balance transfers at an ATM, update Facebook timelines, and squeeze in sessions of Angry Birds on the subway. However, the "virtual" is still frequently figured as imaginary, as opposed to... Mixed Realism is about how we interact with media. Timothy J. Welsh shows how videogames, like novels, both promise and trouble experiences ... |
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417,97 zł |
War or Health: A Reader
ISBN: 9781856499514 / Angielski / Miękka / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This major new reader has been put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility in Finland, a member of IPPNW, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in 1985. Comprising 70 articles, specially commissioned for this volume and written by leading authorities in their field, it provides an unusually wide-ranging examination of the interface between warfare and human health and society. Topics include: - The changing character of wars and their increasing effects on civilians. - The direct and indirect consequences of war for...
This major new reader has been put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility in Finland, a member of IPPNW, the International Physicians for th...
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188,55 zł |
Free Trade and Social Conflict in Colombia, Peru and Venezuela: Confronting U.S. Capitalism, 2000-2016
ISBN: 9780786499298 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreign capital and free trade policies have provoked fierce conflicts in South America in recent years. People in Colombia and Peru engaged in often violent clashes to defend their livelihoods against the encroachments of the free market and the impositions of Wall Street. Farmers organized to save their lands from foreign mining corporations, and cities fought to save their water from contamination.
Native Americans blocked highways to preserve ancestral lands, while students paralyzed universities and called for reforms to higher education.
The shift toward socialism in...
Foreign capital and free trade policies have provoked fierce conflicts in South America in recent years. People in Colombia and Peru engaged in often ...
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305,88 zł |
The Role of Memory in Ethnic Conflict
ISBN: 9781349412402 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace in the twenty-first century? Indeed, can knowledge about the relationship between memory and conflict help resolve intergroup conflicts and heal individual hurts? This book presents a series of essays both theoretical and empirical that approach these questions from a variety of disciplines that will highlight a much-neglected aspect of one of the major problems facing the world today.
What insights can we gain from the social sciences about the role memory plays in creating or re-creating the many conflicts threatening global peace ...
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389,98 zł |
Organized Crime, Political Transitions and State Formation in Post-Soviet Eurasia
ISBN: 9781349335466 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, this book situates organized crime in the debate on state formation and examines the diverging patterns in organized crime following the aftermath of these countries' Coloured Revolutions.
Based on over 130 interviews with criminals, law enforcement officials and government representatives from post-Soviet Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan...
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389,98 zł |
Memory, Politics and Identity: Haunted by History
ISBN: 9781349332205 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland, this book examines how historical injustices continue to haunt contemporary lives, and how institutional and juridical approaches to 'dealing' with the past often give way to a silencing consensus or re-marginalising victims.
The question of how to move beyond contentious pasts exercises societies across the globe. Focusing on Northern Ireland, this book examines how histor...
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Prisons, Punishment and the Pursuit of Security
ISBN: 9781349328727 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obscure other social problems and conceal its own failings, the pursuit of greater levels of human security through repressive and violent means and the persistence of the belief in the problem of 'evil'.
Drawing on research in men's long-term, maximum-security prisons, this book examines three interconnected problems: the tendency of the prison to obsc...
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428,99 zł |
Transgressive Imaginations: Crime, Deviance and Culture
ISBN: 9781349367498 / Angielski / Miękka / 187 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnographic research. It includes chapters on topics of urgent contemporary interest such as asylum seekers, sex work, serial killers, school shooters, crimes of poverty and understandings of 'madness'.
This book focuses upon the breaking of rules and taboos involved in 'doing crime', including violent crime as represented in fictive texts and ethnogr...
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Global Media Apocalypse: Pleasure, Violence and the Cultural Imaginings of Doom
ISBN: 9781349434749 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores these contrary imaginings through an evolving cultural ecology of violence. Articulated through the global media, these apocalyptic fantasies express a profoundly human condition of crisis.
The modern world seems trapped between fantasies of infinite pleasure and the prospects of total global catastrophe. Global Media Apocalypse explores ...
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