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Giving the Devil his Due(2021) SHERMER, MICHAEL (CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA)This book is for all readers who care about science and reason, humanism and secularism, the progress of humanity, and the advancement of morals and values. It also advocates for the protection and continued expansion of human rights, such as civil rightsVezava: Mehka24,93 €
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Development as Freedom(2001) SEN, AMARTYA, FBA (MASTER, MASTER, TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE)This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an end in itself. By widening his outlook to include poverty, tyranny, lack of opportunity, individual rights, aVezava: Mehka21,71 €
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Interplanetary Liberty(2022) COCKELL, CHARLES S. (PROFESSOR, PROFESSOR, INSTITUTE FOR CONDENSED MATTER AND COMPLEX SYSTEMS, SCHOOL OF PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, UK)Charles S. Cockell argues that beyond Earth, space is especially tyranny-prone. Yet rather than consign humanity to a dim future of extraterrestrial despotisms, he suggests that the construction of free societies is possible using uniquely blended and refVezava: Trda74,35 €
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Civil Rights Movement(2021) DIERENFIELD, BRUCE J.Now in its second edition, The Civil Rights Movement recounts the story of how thousands of African Americans overcame segregation, exercised their right to vote, and improved their economic standing, and how millions more continue to fight for racial jusVezava: Mehka68,61 €
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Intersectionality in the Human Rights Legal Framework on Violence against Women(2017) SOSA, LORENAA new theoretical concept is becoming increasingly visible within the current human rights framework on violence against women (VAW): intersectionality. This book clarifies the main aspects of this concept within different jurisdictions and will appeal toVezava: Trda176,72 €
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Protecting the Individual from International Authority(2017)This book examines institutional responses in international organizations (IOs) to human rights violations which arise from the actions of IOs rather than those of states. It shows under which conditions human rights provisions for IO practice arise.Vezava: Trda186,45 €
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Comparative Policing(2022) MAILLARD, JACQUES DEThis book is a systematic and comparative analysis of police systems in the western world, looking at their structure and how they tackle contemporary social problems, such as economic austerity, multi-level governance, transnational change, relations witVezava: Mehka72,22 €
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In Deep(2021) ROHDE, DAVIDA two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist’s investigation of the "deep state".Vezava: Mehka23,27 €
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Strength in Numbers(2022) MORRIS, G. ELLIOTTAn insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defence of its crucial role in a modern democracyVezava: Trda38,24 €
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Ideational Legacies and the Politics of Migration in European Minority Regions(2022) ZUBER, CHRISTINA ISABEL (PROFESSOR OF GERMAN POLITICS, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, PROFESSOR OF GERMAN POLITICS, DEPARTMENT OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ)This book outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Christina Zuber draws on contrasting case studies from Catalonia and South Tyrol to show that differences in policy can be explainVezava: Trda153,38 €
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Propaganda Art in the 21st Century(2019) STAAL, JONAS (ARTIST, STUDIO JONAS STAAL)How to understand propaganda art in the post-truth era—and how to create a new kind of emancipatory propaganda art.Vezava: Trda37,21 €
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United States of Distraction(2019) HUFF, MICKEY,HIGDON, NOLANA powerful critique of how manipulation of media gives rise to disinformation, intolerance, and divisiveness, and what can be done to change direction.Vezava: Mehka20,07 €