Clan Cleansing in Somalia: The Ruinous Legacy of 1991
ISBN: 9780812223194 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror--wounding, raping, and killing--to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and coworkers. Although this episode of organized communal violence is common knowledge among Somalis, its real nature has not been publicly acknowledged and has been ignored, concealed, or misrepresented...
In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror-...
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151,37 zł |
Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781442232792 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era--highlighting tensions between memory and reality. Author Kristen Lavelle draws on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners to uncover uncomfortable memories of our racial past. The vivid interview excerpts show how these lifelong southerners reflect on race in the segregated South, the civil rights era, and more recent decades. The book illustrates a number of...
Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era,...
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494,11 zł |
Whitewashing the South: White Memories of Segregation and Civil Rights
ISBN: 9781442239258 / Angielski / Miękka / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era, civil rights movement, and the post-civil rights era--highlighting tensions between memory and reality. Author Kristen Lavelle draws on interviews with the oldest living generation of white southerners to uncover uncomfortable memories of our racial past. The vivid interview excerpts show how these lifelong southerners reflect on race in the segregated South, the civil rights era, and more recent decades. The book illustrates a number of...
Whitewashing the South is a powerful exploration of how ordinary white southerners recall living through extraordinary racial times--the Jim Crow era,...
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185,96 zł |
Hoarders, Doomsday Preppers, and the Culture of Apocalypse
ISBN: 9781137469403 / Angielski / Twarda / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the apocalypse, from hoarding and gluttony to visions of the post-apocalyptic world.
The culture of twenty-first century America revolves around narcissistic death, violence, and visions of doom. Foster explores this culture of the apo...
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194,08 zł |
Checkpoint, Temple, Church and Mosque: A Collaborative Ethnography of War and Peace
ISBN: 9780745331218 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? Is religion best seen as only a cause of war, or is it a source of comfort for those caught up in conflict? |
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191,46 zł |
William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion
ISBN: 9781611495102 / Angielski / Twarda / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." --Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion The essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambitious, productive, and important living author in the US. His oeuvre includes not only outstanding work in...
"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollma...
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515,36 zł |
Genocide Before the Holocaust
ISBN: 9780300212211 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is an appalling symmetry to the many instances of genocide that the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world witnessed. In the wake of the breakup of the Hapsburg, Ottoman and Romanov empires, minority populations throughout those lands were persecuted, expelled and eliminated. The reason for the deplorable decimations of communities - Jews in Imperial Russia and Ukraine; Ottoman Assyrians, Armenians and Muslims from the Caucasus and Balkans - was, Cathie Carmichael contends, located in the very roots of the new nation-states arising from the imperial rubble. The question of...
There is an appalling symmetry to the many instances of genocide that the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century world witnessed. In the wake of...
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209,72 zł |
Crime, Violence, and Global Warming
ISBN: 9780323265096 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can escalate to state and non-state actors, resulting in wars, asymmetrical warfare, and terrorism. Crank and Jacoby apply criminological theory to each aspect of this complicated web, helping readers to evaluate conflicting claims about global warming and to analyze evidence of the current and potential impact of climate change on conflict and crime. Beginning with an overview of the science of global warming, the authors move on to the links...
Crime, Violence, and Global Warming introduces the many connections between climate change and criminal activity. Conflict over natural resources can ...
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297,74 zł |
Marital Separation and Lethal Domestic Violence
ISBN: 9781455776757 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work investigates the effects of participation in separation or divorce proceedings on femicide (murder of a female), femicide-suicide, homicide, and suicide.
This work investigates the effects of participation in separation or divorce proceedings on femicide (murder of a female), femicide-suicide, homicide,...
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227,08 zł |
Collective Violence and the Agrarian Origins of South African Apartheid, 1900-1948
ISBN: 9781107046481 / Angielski / Twarda / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during the two generations before apartheid became the primary justification for the existence of the South African state. John Higginson discusses how Africans fought back against the entire spectrum of violence ranged against them, demonstrating just how contingent apartheid was on the struggle to hijack the future of the African majority.
This book examines the dark odyssey of official and private collective violence against the rural African population and Africans in general during th...
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312,93 zł |
Binaries in Battle: Representations of Division and Conflict
ISBN: 9781443861267 / Angielski / Twarda / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Defining things through binary opposition -- male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death -- forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to logic, we often represent binaries even as divisions into good and evil. Exclusions based on the division of Us vs. Them make their presence felt during any conflict, and become crucial in times of war. However, binary thinking is inherent also in peaceful, everyday conversation, when politics, social issues, ethnicities and religious identities are described and debated.Binaries in Battle: Representations of Division and Conflict is a...
Defining things through binary opposition -- male/female, familiar/foreign, life/death -- forms the base of human thinking. Adding moral assessment to...
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Violence and Aggression in Sporting Contests: Economics, History and Policy
ISBN: 9781461430254 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sporting contests have provided mass entertainment throughout history, and today generate revenues of approximately $200 billion annually in the US alone. Like in the entertainment industry, the modern sports industry's revenues are based on the entertainment value of output and more entertaining sporting contests imply greater game-day attendance, television revenues and sales of merchandise. Research by economists has attempted to understand and explain behavior as it relates to sporting contests, showing that standard microeconomic theory used to explain consumer and producer behavior... Sporting contests have provided mass entertainment throughout history, and today generate revenues of approximately $200 billion annually in the US... |
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388,20 zł |
Victims, Crime and Society: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781446255919 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition has been fully revised and expanded, with two parts now spanning the key perspectives and issues in victimology.
This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition |
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201,84 zł |
Violent Societies: Networks of Violence in Civil War and Peace
ISBN: 9780230272033 / Angielski / Twarda / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why are some societies more violent than others? This book uses a novel approach to this dilemma by studying how violence breeds more violence in societies with experience of civil war. It unpacks the relationships between political violence, social violence and economic violence and shows how civil war creates the conditions in which violence with diverse aims, such as vigilantism, rebellion, gang violence and violent xenophobia can co-exist and flourish. It also examines the cultural impact of war and argues that a culture of violence can explain the high levels of violence which are...
Why are some societies more violent than others? This book uses a novel approach to this dilemma by studying how violence breeds more violence in soci...
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To Love and to Kill
ISBN: 9780786034994 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer. ""TV Rage""
Phelps is a true-crime veteran. ""New York Post"" The missing-persons case of Heather Strong, a young, beautiful suburban mother, baffled Florida detectives. When the file was handed to a veteran investigator, he knew Heather was dead. The challenge was to find her body and whoever killed her. Soon, a sordid triangle of sex, jealousy, and rage came to light.The killers were cunning, manipulative, depraved and they were as close to Heather as a man and a woman could possibly be. Vividly recreated by master... Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer. ""TV Rage""
Phelps is a true-crime veteran. ""New York Post"" The missing... |
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Diminishing Conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: Why Some Subside and Others Don't
ISBN: 9781138844674 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of what the report described as a global decline in armed conflict since the end of the Cold War. Focusing on the Asia-Pacific region, this book analyses the causes and patterns of this decline. In few regions has the apparent decline in conflict been as dramatic as in the Asia-Pacific, with annual recorded battle deaths falling in the range of 50 to 75 percent between 1994 and 2004. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, this book looks at... Since the publication of the 2005 Human Security Report, scholars and policy-makers have debated the causes, interpretation and implications of wha... |
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216,98 zł |
Born and Raised in the Streets of Compton
ISBN: 9781939054265 / Angielski / Miękka / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A story of ghetto youth growing up in the city of Compton, California, a place where the navigation of daily life is literally, a tightrope between life and death.
Born and Raised in the Streets of Compton is a true story based upon many events among the urban black youth growing up amidst poverty in the notorious city of Compton, California. This story follows the path of a second generation Crip member, who weaves his journey into the context of the United States sociological history and governmental action that propagated the birth and escalation of gangs and gang... A story of ghetto youth growing up in the city of Compton, California, a place where the navigation of daily life is literally, a tightrope between li...
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Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
ISBN: 9780472119417 / Angielski / Twarda / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany explores strategies of legitimization developed by advocates of militant resistance to certain manifestations of consumer capitalism. The book contributes to a more sober evaluation of West German protest movements, not just terrorism, as it refrains from emotional and moral judgments, but takes the protesters' approaches seriously, which, regarding consumer society, had a rational core. Political violence is not presented as the result of...
Combining the tools of political, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Consumption and Violence: Radical Protest in Cold-War West Germany
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The Gospel in Bonds: 8 years in the Soviet Gulags--Imprisoned for his faith--a true story
ISBN: 9780989509367 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Georgi Vins, a Baptist pastor living in the U.S.S.R., was 37-years-old the first time he was imprisoned for his faith in a Soviet prison camp. He left behind his wife, his children, and his church. Over the course of thirteen years, Pastor Vins spent a total of eight years in the gulags.
But in the pages of this book, you won't read about a man who felt sorry for himself or who wallowed in the misery of his sufferings. Rather, you will hear the true stories of believers whose faith in Jesus Christ took preeminence in their lives and who allowed nothing, not even a Communist government, to... Georgi Vins, a Baptist pastor living in the U.S.S.R., was 37-years-old the first time he was imprisoned for his faith in a Soviet prison camp. He left...
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62,60 zł |
Victims, Crime and Society: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781446255902 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition has been fully revised and expanded, with two parts now spanning the key perspectives and issues in victimology.
This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition |
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565,30 zł |