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Название: Growing Apart?: America and Europe in the 21st Century
Автор: Sven Steinmo, Jeffrey Kopstein
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 256
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This book explores the forces pushing America away from its democratic friends and neighbors. It examines the underlying forces shaping the democratic states of the West. Individual chapters pose questions such as: Why is religion so powerful in America? How will the flow of immigration shape politics across the West? Why is Europe rejecting America's version of capitalism? How is the media changing in Europe and America? Why are ''Conservatives'' so different on each side of the Atlantic? And, finally, what do these competing forces portend for the future of the transatlantic relationship?

Название: National Identity and Globalization: Youth, State, and Society in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Автор: Douglas W. Blum
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 236
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Is globalization in danger of diluting national identities and 'transnationalizing' cultures? How can societies attempt to manage globalization and become developed while maintaining a viable national identity? In a study of three globalizing states and cities in post-Soviet Eurasia - Russia (Astrakhan), Kazakhstan (Almaty), and Azerbaijan (Baku) - Douglas W. Blum provides an empirical examination of national identity formation, exploring how cultures, particularly youth cultures, have been affected by global forces. Blum argues that social discourse regarding youth cultural trends - coupled with official and non-official approaches to youth policy - complement patterns of state-society relations and modes of response to globalization. His findings show that the nations studied have embraced certain aspects of modernity and liberalism, while rejecting others, but have also reasserted the place of national traditions.

Название: Transcultural Bodies: Female Genital Cutting in Global Context
Автор: Ylva Hernlund, Ylva Hernlund, Bettina Shell-Duncan
Издательство: Rutgers University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 387
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Female ''circumcision'' or, more precisely, female genital cutting (FGC), remains an important cultural practice in many African countries, often serving as a coming-of-age ritual. It is also a practice that has generated international dispute and continues to be at the center of debates over women's rights, the limits of cultural pluralism, the balance of power between local cultures, international human rights, and feminist activism. In our increasingly globalized world, these practices have also begun immigrating to other nations, where transnational complexities vex debates about how to resolve the issue. Bringing together thirteen essays, ''Transcultural Bodies'' provides an ethnographically rich exploration of FGC among African diasporas in the United Kingdom, Europe, and Australia. The contributors analyze changes in ideologies of gender and sexuality in immigrant communities, the frequent marginalization of African women's voices in debates over FGC, and controversies over legislation restricting the practice in immigrant populations.

Название: After the White House: Former Presidents as Private Citizens
Автор: Max J. Skidmore
Издательство: Palgrave Macmillan
Год: 2004
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 207
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

hat do you do with yourself after holding the most powerful office in the world? A relatively young man, Bill Clinton probably has many years to come up with his own answers to this question. After the White House is the first book to take a systematic look at the post-presidential careers of Clinton and his prede-cessors. Thirty-two completed their terms. Four became presidential candidates again (one was even elected), two served in Congress, one accepted election to the Confederate Congress, and one became Chief Justice. Clinton has the unique distinction of his first lady becoming a United States senator. Jefferson created the University of Virginia. Teddy Roosevelt embarked on an African safari upon leaving office. Many remained influential figures; others were ostracized when political rivals succeeded them (like Hoover during FDR's terms). Rich with anecdotes, After the White House provides an entertaining and unique per-spec-tive on the lives of presidents.

Автор: Кугель А.Р. (HOMO NOVUS)
Название: Литературные воспоминания (1882-1896 гг.)
Издательств1о: Пг-М.: „ПЕТРОГРАД“
Год: 1923
Язык: Русский
Формат: pdf
Размер: 122,1 mb
Страниц: 172

Публикация 1-й части воспоминаний Александра Рафаиловича Кугеля (1864-1928) — русского театрального критика, основателя театра «Кривое зеркало». В 1897-1918 гг. главного редактора журнала «Театр и искусство».

Название: RoutledgeFalmer Guide to Key Curriculum Theorists
Автор: David Scott
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 176
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This volume offers a critical appreciation of the work of 16 leading curriculum theorists through critical expositions of their writings. Written by a leading name in Curriculum Studies, the book includes a balance of established curriculum thinkers and contemporary curriculum analysts from education as well as philosophy, sociology and psychology. With theorists from the UK, the US and Europe, there is also a spread of political perspectives from radical conservatism through liberalism to socialism and libertarianism. Theorists included are: John Dewey, Lev Vygotsky, Ralph Tyler, Joseph Schwab, Jerome Bruner, Maxine Greene, Basil Bernstein, Micheal Foucault, Paul Hirst, Donald Schon, Lawrence Stenhouse, Elliott Eisner, John White, Michael Apple, Henry Giroux and Robin Usher. This book is ideal for students looking for an introduction to some of the key educational thinkers of our time. It can also be used as a companion volume to the Routledge four-volume set on Curriculum Theory, 2003, which is also edited by David Scott.

Название: Political Development
Автор: Damien Kingsbury
Издательство: Routledge
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 248
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

This book fills a growing gap in the literature on international development by addressing the debates about good governance and institution-building within the context of political development. Political Development returns the key issues of human rights and democratization to the centre of the development debate and offers the reader an alternative to the conventional approach to, and definition of, the idea of �development’. Discussing political development in its broadest context, it includes chapters on democracy, institution-building, the state, state failure, nation, human rights and political violence. Damien Kingsbury, a leading expert on development and Southeast Asia, argues that �good governance’, in its common usage, is too narrowly defined and that good governance is not just about ensuring the integrity of a state’s financial arrangements, but that it goes to the core social and political issues of transparency and accountability, implying a range of social structures defined as �institutions’. Providing new insights into political development, this comprehensive text can be used on advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses in international development, comparative politics, political theory and international relations.

Название: Ending Slavery: How We Free Today's Slaves
Автор: Kevin Bales
Издательство: University of California Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 284
Размер: 6 MB
Язык: English

In his 1999 book, Disposable People, Kevin Bales brought to light the shocking fact of modern slavery and described how, nearly two hundred years after the slave trade was abolished (legal slavery would have to wait another fifty years), global slavery stubbornly persists. In Ending Slavery, Bales again grapples with the struggle to end this ancient evil and presents the ideas and insights that can finally lead to slavery's extinction. Recalling his own involvement in the antislavery movement, he recounts a personal journey in search of the solution and explains how governments and citizens can build a world without slavery.

Название: The American Era: Power and Strategy for the 21st Century
Автор: Robert J. Lieber
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2005
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 270
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

The American Era makes a provocative argument about America's world role. It sets out the case for a grand strategy that recognizes American preponderance as necessary and desirable for coping with the perils of the post-9/11 world. The book argues firstly that, Militant Islamic terrorism and weapons of mass destruction pose a threat which requires us to alter the way we think about the pre-emptive and preventive use of force. Secondly, the UN and other international bodies are incapable of acting on these urgent problems. Thirdly, in an international system with no true central authority other countries will inevitably look for leadership to the US. The book argues that if America does not respond actively to terrorist threats, no one else will take the initiative.

Название: The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers
Автор: Frank Vibert
Издательство: Cambridge University Press
Год: 2007
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 212
Размер: 5 MB
Язык: English

Unelected bodies, such as independent central banks, economic regulators, risk managers and auditors have become a worldwide phenomenon. Democracies are increasingly turning to them to demarcate boundaries between the market and the state, to resolve conflicts of interest and to allocate resources, even in sensitive ethical areas such as those involving privacy or biotechnology. This book examines the challenge that unelected bodies present to democracy and argues that, taken together, such bodies should be viewed as a new branch of government with their own sources of legitimacy and held to account through a new separation of powers. Vibert suggests that such bodies help promote a more informed citizenry because they provide a more trustworthy and reliable source of information for decisions. This book will be of interest to specialists and general readers with an interest in modern democracy as well as policy makers, think tanks and journalists.