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Pris: 309,-	Wolfensberger, Donald R. Changing Cultures in Congress (0231190158) The United States Congress has been described as dysfunctional, gridlocked, polarized, hyperpartisan, chaotic, and do-nothing. In Changing Cultures in Congress, congressional scholar Donald R. Wolfensberger…	Pris: 331,-	Mandela, Nelson The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela (1631491172) Arrested in 1962 as South Africa?s apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he…
Pris: 401,-	Katz, Steven T. The Paranoid Apocalypse (0814748929) The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first published in Russia around 1905, claimed to be the captured secret protocols from the first Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897 describing a plan by the Jewish people to…	Pris: 149,-	The Congress (UK-import) Playing a version of herself, Robin Wright (House of Cards) is an ageing actress who decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. In a deal brokered by her agent (Harvey Keitel -…
Pris: 823,-	Congress, Elaine P. Multicultural Perspectives in Working with Families Features a new intersectional approach to assessment and treatment and interweaves the perspectives of psychologists. Focusing on critical emerging issues in regard to multicultural families, the fourth edition of this…	Pris: 258,-	Benton-Cohen, Katherine Inventing the Immigration Problem (0674976444) In 1907 the U.S. Congress created a joint commission to investigate what many Americans saw as a national crisis: an unprecedented number of immigrants flowing into the United States. Experts?women and men trained in…
Pris: 99,-	The Congress (UK-import) Playing a version of herself, Robin Wright (House of Cards) is an ageing actress who decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. In a deal brokered by her agent (Harvey Keitel -…	Pris: 269,-	Perry, William J. The Button (1948836998) The President has the power to end the world in minutes. Right now, no one can stop him. Since the Truman administration, America has been one 'push of a button' away from nuclear war?a decision…
Pris: 329,-	Cicolani, Veronica Mobility and Exchange across Borders: Exploring Social Mobility and Exchange across Borders presents the proceedings of Sessions XXXIVIV and XXXIV-V of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). Over the last few decades, the study of cultural interactions in…	Pris: 262,-	The Day The Rats Vetoed Congress
Pris: 437,-	Yandell, Ben The Honors Class (1568812167) This eminently readable book focuses on the people of mathematics and draws the reader into their fascinating world. In a monumental address, given to the International Congress of Mathematicians in Paris in 1900, David…	Pris: 277,-	Hallin, Daniel C. The Uncensored War (0520065433) This book was finished in the tenth year after the end of the Vietnam War. The year 1985 was also the year of Rambo, and of a number of other celebration of the Vietnam War in popular culture. It was the year Congress…
Pris: 620,-	Stuckey, Mary E. The Good Neighbor (1611860997) No modern president has had as much influence on American national politics as Franklin D. Roosevelt. During FDR's administration, power shifted from states and localities to the federal government; within the federal…	Pris: 364,-	The Adams-Jefferson Letters (0807842303) An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family…
Pris: 260,-	Cole, Peter Wobblies on the Waterfront (0252079280) During the 1910s and 1920s, the Philadelphia waterfront was home to the most durable interracial, multiethnic union seen in the United States prior to the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) era. For much of its…	Pris: 356,-	Mayhew, David R. America's Congress (0300093357) To understand American politics and government, we need to recognize not only that members of Congress are agents of societal interests and preferences but also that they act with a certain degree of autonomy and…
Pris: 278,-	Freeman, Joanne B. The Field of Blood (0374154775) In The Field of Blood, Joanne Freeman recovers the long-lost story of physical violence on the floor of the U.S. Congress. Drawing on an extraordinary range of sources, Freeman shows that the Capitol was rife with…	Pris: 289,-	The Day The Rats Vetoed Congress
Pris: 199,-	The Congress of Rough Riders William Cody grows up surrounded by his father's tales of Buffalo Bill, to whom he is distantly related, and his fantasies of the Wild West. Though he escapes his heritage by fleeing abroad and starting a new life for…	Pris: 550,-	Vienna Acoustics The Congress of Vienna - Power and Politics after Historians have dismissed the pageantry of the Vienna Congress as window dressing when compared with the serious maneuverings of sovereigns and statesmen. By seeing these two dimensions as interconnected, Brian Vick…
Pris: 218,-	The Field of Blood - Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil An absorbing account of the violence in Congress that helped spark the Civil War, 'alarmingly familiar in our own time' (Andrew Delbanco, The Nation).	Pris: 113,-	The U.S. Congress: A Very Short Introduction In the second edition of The U.S. Congress, Donald A. Ritchie, a congressional historian for more than thirty years, takes readers on a fascinating, behind-the-scenes tour of Capitol Hill, pointing out the key players,…
Pris: 262,-	Moving Against the System - The 1968 Congress of Black Writers and the Making of A revolutionary collection of black radical thought from a historic event in 1968.	Pris: 288,-	The Firsts - The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress A lively, behind-the-scenes look at the historic cohort of diverse, young, and groundbreaking women newly elected to the House of Representatives in 2018 as they arrive in Washington, D.C., and start working for change,…
Pris: 408,-	Lachenal, Thibault Demography and Migration Population trajectories from the This volume presents the combined proceedings of two complementary sessions of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4?9 June 2018, Paris, France): Sessions XXXII-2 and XXXIV-8. These sessions aimed to identify demographic…	Pris: 1 048,-	von Lewinski, Silke Remuneration for the Use of Works (3110450011) Royalty payments are once again becoming a hot button issue for authors and artists, as well as other holders of copyright or related rights, because they fail to receive adequate compensation for the use of their work…
Pris: 671,-	Theriault, Sean M. Congress: The First Branch (019981130X) Written by an award-winning political scientist and a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who is now an instructor, Congress: The First Branch introduces students to the inner workings of…	Pris: 273,-	Nag Kingshuk The Saffron Tide (8129131277) A comprehensive, unbiased and timely biography of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The counting of votes in the general elections of 2014 began on the morning of 16 May. By mid-day, the Bharatiya Janata Party stormed into…
Pris: 174,-	The Firsts - The Inside Story of the Women Reshaping Congress	Pris: 174,-	How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs - The Syrian Congress of 1920 and The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when representative democracy became a political option for Arabs - and how the West denied the opportunity.
Pris: 312,-	Congress, the Constitution, and the Supreme Court. (1240121865)	Pris: 448,-	Lehner, Ulrich L. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 offers a comprehensive and reliable introduction to Christian theological literature originating in Western Europe from, roughly, the end of the French Wars of…
Pris: 169,-	The Futurological Congress	Pris: 259,-	Anderson, David L. Shadow on the White House (0700605835) Harry Truman's administration began searching for an American response to the clash in Indochina between French colonialism and Vietminh communism in 1945. 30 years and five administrations later, Gerald Ford and his…
Pris: 1 224,-	XV Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies	Pris: 275,-	Regis, David, International Chess Congress, London 1922 (1843821753) London 1922 was the greatest tournament held in the capital of the British Empire since Emanuel Lasker won an historic double-rounder there in 1899. Now the old world of Edwardian niceties had been swept away by four…
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Pris: 338,-	Jarrett, Mark The Congress of Vienna and its Legacy (1501384716) In September 1814, the rulers of Europe and their ministers descended upon Vienna after two decades of revolution and war. Their task was to redraw continental borders following the collapse of the Napoleonic Empire. …	Pris: 321,-	Desai, Ashwin Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994 In fascinating detail, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and…
Pris: 406,-	Woodring, Jim The Frank Book (1606995006) Since 1991, Jim Woodring s lusciously rendered, hypnotic fables have dazzled readers the world over, and the runaway success of the Frank-co-starring graphic novel Weathercraft and the first true Frank graphic novel…	Pris: 569,-	Riddell, John To The Masses: Proceedings Of The Third Congress Of The Communist Debates at world Communism's 1921 congress reveal Lenin's International at a moment of crisis. A frank debate among many currents concludes with a classic formulation of Communist strategy and tactics. 32 appendices,…
Pris: 244,-	The Women of the 116th Congress - Portraits of Power	Pris: 299,-	Paul Simon - The Library Of Congress Gershwin Prize For Popular