Practical Politics category: 1369 books
A sua insaputa
Autobiografia non autorizzata della seconda repubblica
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Le poesie di Vendola e Bossi, i dialoghi tra Di Pietro e i suoi pulcini, le vacanze di Formigoni, i complessi estetici di D’Alema. Mentre la Seconda Repubblica arriva al capolinea, quattordici dei suoi protagonisti si raccontano. Per la prima volta a loro insaputa. Lo fanno attraverso un esilarante...
by Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017
In 1969 Ian McHarg laid out a new approach to land-use planning. His seminal work, Design by Nature, blazed the trail for sustainable urban development. The road was paved with good intentions. But where exactly did it lead? And where do we go from here?
Reconsidering Ian McHarg offers a fresh...
Negotiations in the EU Council of Ministers
And All Must Have Prizes'
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Insiders and outsiders agree; there is something particular about negotiating in Brussels. This book analyses ten years of continuous negotiations about EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, answering questions such as When and how are decisions typically reached in the European Union? What is this...
Representation in Action
Canadian MPs in the Constituencies
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Members of Parliament (MPs) are often dismissed as “trained seals,” helpless to do anything other than take commands from party leaders. Representation in Action challenges this view of Canadian MPs and shows that the ways they represent their constituents are as diverse as Canada itself. Royce...
Het koninkrijk van de angst
Een filosofische blik op angst als politieke emotie
Language: Dutch
Release Date: October 25, 2018
In ‘Het koninkrijk van de angst’ merkt filosofe Martha Nussbaum op dat het politieke debat sterk is gepolariseerd en dat we niet meer in staat lijken met elkaar te communiceren. Ze is niet de enige die dat doorheeft, maar ziet wel een simpel feit dat vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien als de kern...
Adapting to European Integration
Small States and the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Adapting to European Integration describes how the political institutions in eight small member states and two non-members responded to the internal and external demands springing from the process of European integration in general and EC/EU membership in particular. The study makes a distinction...
Il coraggio della disperazione
Cronache di un anno agito pericolosamente
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Questo il quadro generale: il capitalismo globale è giunto a un livello di sviluppo che fa disperare non solo per le condizioni in cui vive buona parte della popolazione mondiale, ma anche per il vero e proprio vicolo cieco* *in cui ha costretto l’umanità, Occidente incluso. Tuttavia, altrettanto...
Geschichte der politischen Ideen
Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
Language: German
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Politische Ideen haben in der Geschichte große Wirksamkeit entfaltet. Die großen politischen Denker wie Platon und Aristoteles, Thomas von Aquin, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Montesquieu, Kant oder Marx zählen zu den Klassikern der Weltliteratur. Wer sich mit ihren Werken auseinandersetzt, wird nicht nur...
by Ferdinand Tonnies
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
If there is a-"desert island" book in the conduct of social research, it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances, Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties, originally published in 1955, is a recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen...
2018 Jahrbuch rechte Gewalt
Chronik des Hasses
Language: German
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Der rechte Mob macht mobil. Und Rechtsradikalismus ist heute längst nicht mehr verpönt. Seit Jahren nehmen Fremdenhass und Gewalttaten durch rechtsextreme Täter bundesweit zu, mit der Zuwanderung Tausender von Flüchtlingen ist sie geradezu explodiert. Das "Jahrbuch rechte Gewalt" versammelt...
Kursbuch 187
Welt verändern
Language: German
Release Date: September 2, 2016
Die Moderne ist voller Krisen – es gilt die Finanzkrise, Wachstumskrise, Umweltkrise, Energiekrise und viele Bedrohungen mehr zu bewältigen. Der Ruf nach Veränderung, ja nach Verbesserung wird immer lauter. Aber die gemeinsame Rettungsanstrengung bleibt aus. Da stellt sich die Frage nach dem Warum....
2017 Jahrbuch rechte Gewalt
Chronik des Hasses
Language: German
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Der rechte Mob macht mobil. Und Rechtsradikalismus ist heute längst nicht mehr verpönt. Seit Jahren nehmen Gewalttaten durch rechtsextreme Täter bundesweit zu, mit der Zuwanderung Tausender von Flüchtlingen ist sie 2015 geradezu explodiert. Das "Jahrbuch rechte Gewalt" versammelt in...
Making the patient-consumer
Patient organisations and health consumerism in Britain
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Over the last fifty years, British patients have been transformed into consumers. This book considers how and why the figure of the patient-consumer was brought into being, paying particular attention to the role played by patient organisations. Making the patient-consumer explores the development...
Classe dirigente
Mappa del potere in Italia fra la Seconda e la Terza Repubblica
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 8, 2017
Dopo aver indagato le logiche del piduismo e la sua eredità politica in Da Gelli a Renzi (passando per Berlusconi), Aldo Giannuli torna a sondare le responsabilità della Prima Repubblica, disegnando i contorni della crisi della Seconda e il profilarsi di quella che non esita a definire la Terza,...