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The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace
ISBN: 9780195174540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. As founding Director of the Conflict Transformation Program and Institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, he has provided consultation and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, the Basque Country, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. This new book represents his thinking and learning over the past several years. He...
John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. As founding Director of the Conflict Transformatio...
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266,67 |
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House by House, Block by Block: The Rebirth of America's Urban Neighborhoods
ISBN: 9780195176148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and burned-out buildings, notorious symbols of urban decay. In House by House, Block by Block, Alexander von Hoffman tells the remarkable stories of how local activists and community groups helped turn these areas around.
For sixty years, federal policy has attempted with little success to solve the problems of housing and poverty in America's inner cities. Yet increasingly, local organizations are picking up where Washington has left off. In a... Not long ago, neighborhoods such as the South Bronx, South Central Los Angeles, and Boston's Roxbury were crime-ridden wastelands of vacant lots and b...
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210,83 |
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The Mighty Experiment: Free Labor Versus Slavery in British Emancipation
ISBN: 9780195176292 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Europe and the expanding Americas. Britain was the most influential power in this system which seemed to have the potential for unbounded growth. In 1833, the British empire became the first to liberate its slaves and then to become a driving force toward global emancipation. There has been endless debate over the reasons behind this decision. This has been portrayed on the one hand as a rational disinvestment in a foundering overseas system, and...
By the mid-eighteenth century, the transatlantic slave trade was considered to be a necessary and stabilizing factor in the capitalist economies of Eu...
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159,68 |
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Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today
ISBN: 9780195179613 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10 million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They attend schools that do not serve their needs, lack the support of caring adults, and, as a result, are alienated from mainstream society. African-American and Hispanic children, increasingly segregated in disadvantaged neighborhoods, are particularly vulnerable. In Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today, a follow-up to Joy Dryfoos's landmark volume, Adolescents at Risk (OUP, 1991), Joy Dryfoos and Carol Barkin take a close look at the lives...
Of the 33 million adolescents in the United States, almost 10 million are at risk of failing to become responsible adults. They attend schools that do...
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257,37 |
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Quixote's Ghost: The Right, the Liberati, and the Future of Social Policy
ISBN: 9780195181203 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ideological fight for control of American social welfare policy, demonstrates how the Right pirated the pragmatism championed by the Left since the New Deal and what that means for the future of social policy. Stoesz's fascinating account documents how conservative think tanks arose to combat the dominance of liberal intellectualism in the university system, and by now have taken command of the "means of analysis," flooding Congress with...
American social policy, writes David Stoesz, is currently experiencing an alarming paradigm shift. Quixote's Ghost, a provocative new analysis of the ...
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210,83 |
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Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism
ISBN: 9780195182590 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a startling departure from the unquestioning liberal consensus that has governed discussions of nationalism for the past quarter century, Marx exposes the hidden underside of Western nationalism. Arguing that the true history of the nation began two hundred years earlier, in the early modern era, he shows how state builders set about deliberately constructing a sense of national solidarity to support their burgeoning authority. Key to this process was the transfer of power from local to central rulers; the most suitable vehicle for effecting this transfer was religion. Religious...
In a startling departure from the unquestioning liberal consensus that has governed discussions of nationalism for the past quarter century, Marx expo...
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173,63 |
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How Congress Evolves: Social Bases of Institutional Change
ISBN: 9780195182965 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Congress evolved. In short, Polsby argues that air conditioning altered the demography of the southern states, which in turn changed the political parties of the South, which transformed the composition and in due course the performance of the US House of Representatives. This evolutionary process led to the House's liberalization and later to its transformation into an arena of sharp partisanship, visible among both Democrats and Republicans....
In this greatly entertaining tale of one of our most august institutions, Nelson Polsby argues that among other things, from the 50's to the 90's, Con...
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148,06 |
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A New Engagement?: Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing American Citizen
ISBN: 9780195183177 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Engagement challenges the conventional wisdom that today's youth is plagued by a severe case of political apathy. In order to understand the current nature of citizen engagement, it is critical to separate political from civic engagement. Using the results from an original set of surveys and the authors' own primary research, they conclude that while older citizens participate by voting, young people engage by volunteering and being active in...
In searching for answers as to why young people differ vastly from their parents and grandparents when it comes to turning out the vote, A New Eng...
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The Elephant in the Room: Silence and Denial in Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780195187175 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no fairy tale.
In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar Zerubavel sheds new light on the social and political underpinnings of silence and denial-the keeping of "open secrets." The author shows that conspiracies of silence exist at every level of society, ranging from small groups to large corporations, from personal friendships to politics.... The fable of the Emperor's New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious t...
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350,35 |
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Fear: The History of a Political Idea
ISBN: 9780195189124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the first intellectual history of its kind--fear has shaped our politics and culture since time immemorial.
From the Garden of Eden to the Gulag Archipelago to today's headlines, Robin traces our growing fascination with political danger and disaster. As our faith in positive political principles recedes, he argues, we turn to fear as the justifying language of public life. We may not know the good, but we do know the bad. So we cling to fear,... For many commentators, September 11 inaugurated a new era of fear. But as Corey Robin shows in his unsettling tour of the Western imagination--the fir...
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113,19 |
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The End of Alliances
ISBN: 9780195189278 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why should the United States cling to military alliances established during the Cold War when the circumstances are now fundamentally different? In The End of Alliances, Rajan Menon argues that our alliances in Europe and Asia have become irrelevant to the challenges we face today. The United States must be actively involved beyond its borders, but by relying on coalitions whose membership varies depending on the issue at hand. While a strategy that ceases to rely on alliances will mark a dramatic shift in American foreign policy, he reminds us that states routinely reassess and...
Why should the United States cling to military alliances established during the Cold War when the circumstances are now fundamentally different? In |
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189,90 |
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Does Education Really Help?: Skill, Work, and Inequality
ISBN: 9780195189964 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wider access to schooling, and that the Information Technology revolution will re-ignite worker pay. Indeed, the econometric results provide no evidence that the growth of skills or educational attainment has any statistically significant relation to earnings growth or that greater equality in schooling has led to a decline in income inequality. Results also indicate that computer investment is negatively related to earnings gains and positively...
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages, that income inequality falls with wid...
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359,66 |
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The United Nations as a Political Institution
ISBN: 9780195198263 / Angielski / Miękka / 1975 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This classic work describes the foundation of the United Nations, the workings of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Secretariat, and the many committees. In this fifth edition, the author explores the dramatic changes that have taken place in recent years.
This classic work describes the foundation of the United Nations, the workings of the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Secretariat, and the...
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709,50 |
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Voting for Reform: Democracy, Political Liberalization, and Economic Adjustment
ISBN: 9780195209877 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Can a developing country balance a stable democracy with a well-functioning market economy? This question is addressed in this book by showing how political reforms influence the efforts of governments to initiate and sustain economic reforms. The case studies used focus on monetary and fiscal controls, and trade and exchange rate mechanisms. In contrast to many analyses, the studies consider these policies not only as functions of their intended economic effects, but also as outcomes of interactions among politicians, bureaucrats, and interest groups. The studies also examine the evolving...
Can a developing country balance a stable democracy with a well-functioning market economy? This question is addressed in this book by showing how pol...
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98,10 |
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British Politics in the Global Age: Can Social Democracy Survive?
ISBN: 9780195215755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Joel Krieger provides an in-depth study of New Labour's model of government and the political challenges it faces. He analyzes the interaction of global processes and domestic politics from the organization of production to the formation of class, ethnic, and gender-based identities. Krieger develops an original framework for analyzing New Labour in comparison to three models of social democracy and places the British case firmly in the context of alternative national models and European debates.
Joel Krieger provides an in-depth study of New Labour's model of government and the political challenges it faces. He analyzes the interaction of glob...
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200,99 |
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Worlds of Power: Religious Thought and Political Practice in Africa
ISBN: 9780195220162 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear that the world is not heading towards a community of secular states. Nowhere are religious thought and political practice more closely intertwined than in Africa. African migrants in Europe and America who send home money to build churches and mosques, African politicians who consult diviners, guerrilla fighters who believe that amulets can protect them from bullets, and ordinary people who seek ritual healing: all of these are applying religious...
With Christian revivals (including Evangelicals in the White House), Islamic radicalism and the revitalisation of traditional religions it is clear th...
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96,92 |
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The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780195300857 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." In this short, sharp book, Gary Hart outlines a new grand strategy, one directing America's powers to the achievement of its large purposes. Central to this strategy is the power of American ideals, what Hart calls "the fourth power." Constitutional liberties, representative government, press freedom--these and other democratic principles, attractive to peoples worldwide, constitute a resource that may prove as important to national security and the national interest in this...
Today, even as America asserts itself globally, it lacks a grand strategy to replace "containment of communism." In this short, sharp book, Gary Hart ...
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Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions
ISBN: 9780195304091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to...
After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. H...
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201,53 |
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang
ISBN: 9780195304473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on slang terms such as "Beltway bandit" and "boondoggle," "angry white male" and "leg treasurer," "juice bill" and "Joe Citizen," "banana superpower" and "the Big Fix." We find not only the meaning and history of familiar terms such as "gerrymander," but also of lesser-known terms such as "cracking" (splitting a bloc of like-minded voters by redistricting) and "fair-fight district" (which refers to areas redistricted to favor no political party)....
The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang illuminates a rich and colorful segment of our language. Readers will find informative entries on sl...
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First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
ISBN: 9780195304541 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"? If you can vote, if the majority rules, if you have elected representatives--does this automatically mean that you have a democracy? In this eye-opening look at an ideal that we all take for granted, classical scholar Paul Woodruff offers some surprising answers to these questions.
Drawing on classical literature, philosophy, and history--with many intriguing passages from Sophocles, Aesop, and Plato, among others--Woodruff immerses us in... Americans have an unwavering faith in democracy and are ever eager to import it to nations around the world. But how democratic is our own "democracy"...
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