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ilość książek w kategorii: 237243
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Privatizing Public Lands
ISBN: 9780195089721 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land, including national parks, forests, and wildlife refuges. Managing these properties is expensive and contentious, and few management decisions escape criticism. Some observers, however, argue that such criticism is largely misdirected. The fundamental problem, in their view, is collective ownership and its solution is privatization. A free market, they claim, directs privately owned resources to their most productive uses, and privatizing public...
In the United States, private ownership of land is not a new idea, yet the federal government retains title to roughly a quarter of the nation's land,...
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586,91 |
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The First Industrial Woman
ISBN: 9780195089820 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world.
Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based... Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us th...
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738,16 |
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Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
ISBN: 9780195090123 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today whenever it is proposed. A quiet rage smolders in hundreds of public school systems, where court- ordered busing plans have been in place for over twenty years. Intended to remedy the social and educational disadvantages of minorities, desegregation policy has not produced any appreciable educational gains, while its political and social costs have been considerable. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's epic decision,...
School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controvers...
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998,17 |
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The Problem of Democracy in Cuba: Between Vision and Reality
ISBN: 9780195090147 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Drawing on years of field research in Cuba, this text examines the relationship between socialism and democracy, in classical Marxist theory and in the practice of the Cuban revolution. While the author notes the roles that underdevelopment and external threat have played in undermining the possibility for democratic socialism in this century, she focuses specifically upon a theoretical heritage plagued by silences, absences and simplifications concerning key political questions. Within this framework, she then turns to the Cuban revolution and, in a revisionist interpretation, identifies the...
Drawing on years of field research in Cuba, this text examines the relationship between socialism and democracy, in classical Marxist theory and in th...
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738,16 |
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The Rights Revolution: Rights and Community in Modern America
ISBN: 9780195090253 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse?
In The Rights Revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The "rights revolution," says Walker, is the embodiment of the American ideals of morality and community. He argues that the critics of personal... The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution"...
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136,89 |
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The Imaginary War: Civil Defense and American Cold War Culture
ISBN: 9780195090277 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil defense. Yet it would have been impossible to protect Americans from a real nuclear attack, and, as Guy Oakes shows in The Imaginary War, national security officials knew it.
The real purpose of 1950's civil defense programs, Oakes contends, was not to protect Americans from the bomb, but to ingrain in them the moral resolve needed to face the hazards of the Cold War. Uncovering the links between national security, civil defense, and... "Duck and cover" are unforgettable words for a generation of Americans, who listened throughout the Cold War to the unescapable propaganda of civil de...
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599,00 |
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Politics, Position, and Power: The Dynamics of Federal Organization
ISBN: 9780195090727 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The fifth edition of this classic text presents a concise study of the United States government in the 1990's, highlighting the constitutional implications of the current debate among anti-government revolutionaries, privatizers, and government reinventors about the governments purpose. It analyzes the legal, political, and organizational consequences of arguments which contend that there has ceased to be a realistic distinction between what is public and what is private. Seidman demonstrates how control of regulations, rather than structure, has become the center of the struggle for position...
The fifth edition of this classic text presents a concise study of the United States government in the 1990's, highlighting the constitutional implica...
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738,16 |
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The Formation of American Local Governments: Private Values in Public Institutions
ISBN: 9780195090932 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Why have Americans created thousands of new local governments in recent years, a rate much higher than population increases demand? Conflicts over local power--the power to tax, to issue bonds, and to provide services--have produced solutions that are often as ruthless as they are resourceful.
The first text to illustrate the impact of creating new local governments, this compelling study provides an illuminating examination of the nature of local politics today. Skillfully combining case studies, institutional history, and quantitative analyses, Nancy Burns argues that economic interests,... Why have Americans created thousands of new local governments in recent years, a rate much higher than population increases demand? Conflicts over loc...
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738,16 |
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The Young Turks in Opposition
ISBN: 9780195091151 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1908, the revolution of the Young Turks deposed the dictatorship of Sultan Abdulhamid II and established a constitutional regime that became the major ruling power in the Ottoman empire. But the seeds of this revolution went back much farther: to 1889, when the secret Young Turk organization the Committee of Union and Progress was formed. M. Sukru Hanioglu's landmark work is the story of the power struggles within the CUP and its impact on twentieth-century Turkish politics and culture. At once an in-depth history of an ideological movement and a study of the diplomatic relationships...
In 1908, the revolution of the Young Turks deposed the dictatorship of Sultan Abdulhamid II and established a constitutional regime that became the ma...
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490,14 |
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The Leadership Triad: Knowledge, Trust, and Power
ISBN: 9780195092400 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. People once stood in awe of electricity, writes Dale Zand, until scientists identified and harnessed its three basic variables: voltage, current, and resistance. Likewise, people marvel at the achievements of successful leaders, such as Lee Iacocca at Chrysler or Jack Welch at GE, and wonder how they do it. In this superb volume, Zand dispels the mystery surrounding leadership so that managers at all levels--from the CEO to the shop supervisor--can develop the skills needed to lead effectively.
Zand highlights the three elements required for leadership in today's information-driven... People once stood in awe of electricity, writes Dale Zand, until scientists identified and harnessed its three basic variables: voltage, current, and ...
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238,50 |
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The Transformation of American Law, 1870-1960: The Crisis of Legal Orthodoxy
ISBN: 9780195092592 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most significant works ever published in American legal history. The New Republic called it an "extremely valuable book." Library Journal praised it as "brilliant" and "convincing." And Eric Foner, in The New York Review of Books, wrote that "the issues it raises are indispensable for understanding nineteenth-century America." It won the coveted Bancroft Prize in American History and has since become the standard source on American law for the period...
When the first volume of Morton Horwitz's monumental history of American law appeared in 1977, it was universally acclaimed as one of the most signifi...
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165,92 |
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Element of Risk: The Politics of Radon
ISBN: 9780195093674 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Radiation, radioactivity, radon: these are words that, since Hiroshima, the Cold War, and Three Mile Island, have conjured fear and fascination for many Americans. The threat of nuclear war, however, was always abstract at best, and the possibility of a meltdown was seen primarily as a localized catastrophe. Yet the danger of radon--an invisible, odorless gas that could seemingly attack any home and afflict its residents with a deadly cancer--struck home in the 1980s when whole neighborhoods were deemed unsafe and homeowners were forced to relocate, often at great expense. But how much of a...
Radiation, radioactivity, radon: these are words that, since Hiroshima, the Cold War, and Three Mile Island, have conjured fear and fascination for ma...
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122,38 |
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European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s
ISBN: 9780195093742 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s is a transnational study of largely parallel developments in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, and Spain in the years 1933-1936.
Triggered into action by the shock effect of the Nazi rise to power in Germany, socialists throughout Western Europe entered an unusually active period of practical reorientation and debate over political strategy which helped determine the contours of European politics up to the outbreak of World War II and... Based on documents collected in six European countries, European Socialists Respond to Fascism: Ideology, Activism and Contingency in the 1930s
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The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War
ISBN: 9780195093773 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the globe. The FBI was obsessed with the threat posed by American communist party--yet party membership had sunk so low, writes H.W. Brands, that it could have fit "inside a high-school gymnasium," and it was so heavily infiltrated that J. Edgar Hoover actually contemplated using his informers as a voting bloc to take over the party. Abroad, the preoccupation with communism drove the White House to help overthrow democratically elected governments in...
In the late 1950s, Washington was driven by its fear of communist subversion: it saw the hand of Kremlin behind developments at home and across the gl...
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83,66 |
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too
ISBN: 9780195093834 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker...
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censo...
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127,21 |
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The Brothel Boy and Other Parables of the Law
ISBN: 9780195093865 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who committed the crime, but how to see that justice is done. Now, in this illuminating volume, one of America's great legal thinkers, Norval Morris, addresses some of the most perplexing and controversial questions of justice in a highly singular fashion--by examining them in fictional form, in what he calls "parables of the law."
The protagonist of these stories, the figure who must see that justice is done, is Eric Blair, a name familiar to most... The mystery does not always end when the crime has been solved. Indeed, the most insolvable problems of crime and punishment are not so much who commi...
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161,08 |
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Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory
ISBN: 9780195094404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Gerald Gaus draws on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology to defend a modest version of cognitive relativism. Building on this theory of personal justification, he asks, "How do we justify moral and political principles to others?" Here, the "populist" proposal put forward by "political liberals"--that the assent of all reasonable citizens must be obtained--is considered and rejected. Because reasonable people often ignore excellent reasons, moral and political principles can be considered conclusively justified, even in the face of some reasonable dissent. Conclusive...
Gerald Gaus draws on current work in epistemology and cognitive psychology to defend a modest version of cognitive relativism. Building on this theory...
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Different Games, Different Rules: Why Americans and Japanese Misunderstand Each Other
ISBN: 9780195094886 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutual understanding as ever. Misconceptions and miscommunications between East and West continue to plague this important relationship, frustrating the best efforts of both cultures to work together. Stereotypes abound: Americans see Japanese as evasive and inscrutable, while Japanese see Americans as pushy and selfish. What causes these persistent misunderstandings, and what can be done to avoid them?
Fluent in both languages and at home in both... Japan and the United States are in closer contact politically and economically than ever before, yet in many ways our nations are as far from mutual u...
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175,59 |
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Constitutional Democracy
ISBN: 9780195095883 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This relationship is especially important at a time when Americans are increasingly disillusioned about government's fundamental ability to reach solutions for domestic problems, and when countries in the former Soviet block and around the world are rewriting their constitutions. Political economist Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between the American...
Constitutional Democracy systematically examines how the basic constitutional structure of governments affects what they can accomplish. This...
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611,10 |
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Becoming National: A Reader
ISBN: 9780195096613 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar world of the Cold War, there has also been a parallel rise in the subnational--the claims of local, regional, and ethnic minorities--economic globalization, American cultural hegemony, international migration, and diasporization. In Becoming National Eley and Suny, two of the foremost authorities on nationalism, acknowledge these changes by combinging a diverse selection of readings with a unifying introduction and instructive...
Being national is the condition of our times, yet never before has the idea of the nation been under such scrutiny. With the collapse of the bi-polar ...
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