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With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.‘One of Britain’s funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren’t so offensive you’d almost call him a national treasure’ Mail on Sunday‘I, and my generation, seem feckless and irresponsible, endlessly selfish, whining, avaricious, self-deluding, self-obsessed, spoiled and corrupt and ill.’What is it that has transformed the British who in living memory were admired for their unassuming, stiff-upper-lipped...
| Автор | Rod Liddle |
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen ‘warriors’ from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.Over the course of forty years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) – and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people...
| Автор | Макс Хейстингс |
Previously published as ‘In the Skin of a Jihadist’Twenty year-old “Mélodie”, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has ‘fallen in love’ with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him, join him in Syria in a life of paradise – and join his jihad.Anna Erelle is the undercover journalist behind «Melodie». Created to investigate the powerful propaganda weapons of Islamic State, “Melodie” is soon sucked in by Bilel, right-hand man of the...
| Автор | Anna Erelle |
Książka stanowi osobistą i aktualną analizę zjawiska faszyzmu w XX wieku oraz jego wpływu na świat współczesny autorstwa jednej z najwybitniejszych postaci amerykańskiej sceny politycznej, a zarazem pierwszej kobiety pełniącej funkcję sekretarza stanu USA. Wydawać by się mogło, że w świecie tak brutalnie doświadczonym przez zbrodnie faszyzmu nie ma miejsca dla dzisiejszych spadkobierców Hitlera i Mussoliniego. Madeleine Albright kwestionuje tę tezę, odwołując się do własnych wspomnień z...
| Автор | Madeleine Albright |
Rok 2012 bezpowrotnie odmienił oblicze Polski. To, co dawniej wydawało się wręcz nieprawdopodobne, wraz z jego końcem zapisało się już na kartach jak najbardziej realnej historii, a najważniejsze wydarzenia tego czasu oscylowały wokół siedmiu haseł-kluczy: • Polityka – bezpardonowa walka rządu z opozycją doprowadziła do pogłębienia podziału Polaków na dwa, trwale już skłócone obozy • Pieniądze – miliardy złotych z defraudacji środków przeznaczonych na budowę autostrad...
| Автор | Kazimierz Turaliński |
Antologia tekstów źródłowych pochodzących z kluczowych dla stosunków międzynarodowych publikacji, które kształtowały tę dyscyplinę nauki do 1989 roku, w większości po raz pierwszy przetłumaczonych na język polski. Zbiór otwiera tekst Edwarda H. Carra z 1939 roku dotyczący porażki liberalnego ładu w dwudziestoleciu międzywojennym, a kończy praca z 1988 roku autorstwa Roberta D. Putnama wyjaśniająca logikę gier dwupoziomowych. Układ chronologiczny pozwala śledzić rozwój nauki w dziedzinie...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Samantha Power is a Pulitzer winner, an incredible writer, and a great friend. Her memoir grapples with the balance between idealism, pragmatism, advocacy, and governancy. It’s a must read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world. ’ Barack Obama What can one person do? At a time of division and upheaval, Samantha Power offers an urgent response to this question – and calls for a clearer eye, a kinder heart, and a more open and civil hand in our...
| Автор | Samantha Power |
‘The political memoir of the decade’ Sunday Times The referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU is one of the most controversial political events of our times. For the first time, the man who called that vote talks about the decision and its origins, as well as giving a candid account of his time at the top of British politics. David Cameron was Conservative Party leader during the largest financial crash in living memory. The Arab Spring and the Eurozone crisis both started during his first...
| Автор | David Cameron |
The term “Mexican Drug War” misleads. It implies that the ongoing bloodbath, which has now killed well over 100,000 people, is an internal Mexican affair.But this diverts attention from the U.S. role in creating and sustaining the carnage. It’s not just that Americans buy drugs from, and sell weapons to, Mexico’s murderous cartels. It’s that ever since the U.S. prohibited the use and sale of drugs in the early 1900s, it has pressured Mexico into...
| Автор | Carmen Boullosa |
In the spirit of his father, Alexandre Trudeau revisits China to put a ground-breaking journey into a fresh, contemporary context. In 1960, Pierre Trudeau and Jacques Hébert, a labour lawyer and a journalist from Montréal, travelled to China in the midst of the Great Leap Forward. In 1968, when Two Innocents in Red China, Trudeau and Hébert’s sardonic look at a third world country’s first steps into the rest world, was released in English, Trudeau...
| Автор | Pierre Elliot Trudeau |
Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies «outside the wire,» far from the Taliban's grim desert strongholds. The country we visit with award-winning author Terry Glavin is...
| Автор | Terry Glavin |
In Intent for a Nation, Michael Byers argues that it is time for a clear-eyed appreciation of our strengths and weaknesses, of all we have and all we could be. A whole series of world events-the waning of US credibility; the increasing value of natural resources; the brain-gain; the ever-increasing interdependence of peoples, countries and continents-have combined to put Canada center stage in a new world order. Instead of emulating our increasingly isolated neighbor, we should be advancing the...
| Автор | Michael Byers |
Decade of Fear is a darkly entertaining journey through the complicated, often bizarre world of national security since 9/11. On that night, Toronto Star journalist Michelle Shephard watched the remains of New York’s World Trade Center fall from the sky, wondering what much of the world was asking: “Why?” So began a ten-year search for answers that took her through the streets of Mogadishu and Karachi, into the mountains of Waziristan and behind the wire of...
| Автор | Michelle Shephard |
In <i>Bootleggers & Baptists: How Economic Forces and Moral Persuasion Interact to Shape Regulatory Politics</i>, economists Bruce Yandle and Adam Smith explain how money and morality are often combined in politics to produce arbitrary regulations benefiting cronies, while constraining productive economic activities by the general public. Yandle’s theory asserts that regulatory “bootleggers” are parties taking political action in pursuit of economic gain. Regulatory “Baptists”...
| Автор | Bruce Yandle |
<p>Nowatorski podręcznik historii stosunków międzynarodowych – przedmiotu wykładanego na wielu polskich uczelniach. </p> <p>Książka składa się z 4 części. </p> <p>W <b>części I</b>, noszącej tytuł LA BELLE EPOQUE I JEJ SCHYŁEK (1871-1914), autor przedstawił przyczyny wybuchu I wojny światowej. </p> <p><b>Część II,</b> zatytułowana WIELKA WOJNA (1914-1945), omawia I wojnę światową. </p> <p><b>Część III</b>,...
| Автор | Wojciech Rojek |
The worldwide controversy surrounding its first publication in 1988 and concurrent death threat against its author, Salman Rushdie, paradoxically led to a narrow understanding of The Satanic Verses , which focused on whether it is insulting to Islam and whether it should be banned. And despite piecemeal attention to its epistemic intricacies by students of postcolonial literature in the aftermath, The Satanic Verses ’ essential opacity has never been sufficiently met. The Unknown...
| Автор | Üner Daglier |
This book analyzes the place and role of sport within public diplomacy, including theoretical conceptualizations of the category of sports diplomacy as a sub-category of public diplomacy and empirical research of selected examples of the use of sport within public diplomacy. The empirical part of the book refers to three approaches to sports diplomacy and concerns the utilization of sport by states in order to shape relations with other states, the role of sport in building the international...
| Автор | Michał Marcin Kobierecki |
In August 2016, well-known South African businessman Herman Mashaba became mayor of Johannesburg, heading a razor-thin DA-led coalition in the city. Three years later, in October 2019, he resigned from the party and from his position as mayor. At the time, Mashaba’s approval rating stood at almost 70 per cent and there were calls in overwhelming numbers for him to stay. In this explosive tell-all, his chief of staff, Michael Beaumont, reveals the real story behind these events. The Accidental...
| Автор | Michael Beaumont |
Keeping the Republic gives students the power to examine the narrative of what's going on in American politics, distinguish fact from fiction and balance from bias, and influence the message through informed citizenship. Keeping the Republic draws students into the study of American politics, showing them how to think critically about “who gets what, and how” while exploring the twin themes of power and citizenship. Students are...
| Автор | Christine Barbour |
Never before has the story been told of the dramatic turning point when Ronald Reagan found his voice as a presidential contender and overcame the Republican establishment. <I><b>Reagan's Comeback</b></I> is the story of how one state, one man, and one month changed national politics forever. Chronicling how Reagan’s political career nearly ended, this turnabout story is told by those who made it happen: campaign volunteers, financiers, political activists,...
| Автор | Gilbert Garcia |
For more than two decades, William D. Gairdner has been a major voice from the conservative resistance, primarily through his bestselling books <i>The Trouble with Canada . . . Still</i>, <i>The War Against the Family,</i> and <i>The Trouble with Democracy</i>. <br><br>Now, in this new book, his passionate, probing, and provocative intellect is hard at work, ranging over hot button issues of the day in the spheres of culture, the family, politics,...
| Автор | William D. Gairdner |
Noam Chomsky says that the freedom to challenge power is not just an opportunity, it’s a responsibility. For the past several years Chomsky has been writing essays for The New York Times Syndicate to do just that: challenge power and expose the global consequences of U.S. policy and military actions worldwide. Interventions is a collection of these essays, revised and updated with notes by the author. While Chomsky's New York Times Syndicate writings are widely published around...
| Автор | Noam Chomsky |
The war in Afghanistan has become the most complex foreign policy problem the United States has ever faced, spreading into Pakistan and involving the conflicting interests of Russia, India, China and Iran. Written as a companion to Elizabeth Gould and Paul Fitzgerald's widely acclaimed book Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story, Crossing Zero focuses on the nuances of the Obama administration's evolving military and political strategy, the people implementing it, and the...
| Автор | Gould Elizabeth Porter |
This original collection of essays offers hope to those who believe that the cause of world peace requires a new American foreign policy and repairing our depleted military. The twelve contributors to this book show why America must take another look at our possible adversaries and real strategic partners. Present Dangers offers practical strategies for policymakers eager to disarm adversaries like North Korea and Iraq and head off the terrorist threat. Intellectuals, historians and...
| Автор | Группа авторов |