Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Smith Sheila A.)(Pevná vazba)

Japan Rearmed: The Politics of Military Power (Smith Sheila A.)(Pevná vazba)

Japan's U.S.-imposed postwar constitution renounced the use of offensive military force, but, as Sheila Smith shows, a nuclear North Korea and an increasingly assertive China have the Japanese rethinking that commitment, and their reliance on United States security. Japan has one of Asia's most

The Tribe: The Inside Story of Irish Power and Influence in Us Politics (Perry Caitriona)(Pevná vazba)

Twilight of the Merkel Era: Power and Politics in Germany After the 2017 Bundestag Election (Langenbacher Eric)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Freedom of Information: How and Why Governments Pass Laws That Threaten Their Power (Worthy Ben)(Pevná vazba)

The Iconoclast: Shinzo Abe and the New Japan (Harris Tobias)(Pevná vazba)

Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as

Worth Dying For - The Power and Politics of Flags (Marshall Tim)(Pevná vazba)

An enlightening popular account of the symbolism that drives global

Paris and the Parasite: Noise, Health, and Politics in the Media City (Smith Macs)(Pevná vazba)

The social consequences of anti-parasitic urbanism, as efforts to expunge supposedly biological parasites penalize those viewed as social parasites. According to French philosopher Michel Serres, ordered systems are founded on the pathologization of parasites, which can never be fully expelled. In

The State and Politics in Japan (Neary Ian)(Paperback)

Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has, since 2012, embarked upon an ambitious program of policy reforms as well as changes to Japan's governing structures and processes. At the heart of this

Illustrated Encyclopedia of Military Uniforms of the 19th Century (Smith Kiley & Black)(Pevná vazba)

The Crimean War is sometimes considered to be the first modern conflict and introduced technical changes which affected the future course of

The cultural politics of contemporary Hollywood film: Power, culture, and society (Beasley Chris)(Pevná vazba)

Using an innovative syncretic 'cultural politics' approach drawing on political theory, film studies and sociology, this book unpacks how political myths about states, citizens, community, intimate life and social criticism operate in Hollywood

Widows: Poverty, Power and Politics (Andrews Maggie)(Pevná vazba)

The unlikely history of women's empowerment through widowhood Historically seen as figures of pity and foreboding - poverty stricken receivers of charity, tragic figures dressed in black and even sometimes sexually voracious predators or witches - widows have been subject to powerful stereotypes

The Politics of Inequality (David Pettinicchio)(Pevná vazba)

In The Politics of Inequality, David Pettinicchio has gathered an interdisciplinary team of leading experts to make a valuable contribution to the existing inequalities literature through a political sociology lens. Broad social, political and economic forces associated with neoliberalism and

The Work of Politics (Klein Steven)(Pevná vazba)

The Work of Politics advances a new understanding of how democratic social movements work with welfare institutions to challenge structures of domination. Klein develops a novel theory that depicts welfare institutions as 'worldly mediators,' or sites of democratic world-making fostering political

Twilight of Democracy - The Failure of Politics and the Parting of Friends (Applebaum Anne)(Pevná vazba)

Song of the Tree (Bickford-Smith Coralie)(Pevná vazba)

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan (Wynn Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Compromising Positions: Sex Scandals, Politics, and American Christianity (Smith Leslie Dorrough)(Pevná vazba)

Americans have long believed that the private lives of their politicians are important indicators of their fitness to lead and of their ability to defend and uphold American values. For many, a sex scandal renders a person ineligible, or at the very least questionably qualified, for public service

Japan: Courts and Culture (Peat Rachel)(Pevná vazba)

Japan: Courts and Culture tells the story of three centuries of British royal contact with Japan, from 1603 to c.1937, when the exchange of exquisite works of art was central to both diplomatic relations and cultural communication. With discussions of courtly rituals, trade relationships, treaties,

Winning and Keeping Power in Canadian Politics (Roy Jason)(Pevná vazba)

In this work, the authors employ a series of experiments to assess the strategies used to win elections and stay in power once elected

Augustus and the Destruction of History - The politics of the past in early imperial Rome(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe (Siklodi Nora)(Pevná vazba)

The Politics of Mobile Citizenship in Europe explores contemporary models of national and European Union (EU) citizenship in the context of intra-EU mobility. Scholars have often addressed these models from separate disciplinary standpoints. National citizenship has been studied through the prism

Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine (Horsley Richard A.)(Pevná vazba)

In Jesus and the Politics of Roman Palestine, Richard A. Horsley offers one of the most comprehensive critical analyses of Jesus of Nazareth�s mission and how he became a significant historical figure. In his study Horsley brings a fuller historical knowledge of the context and implications of

Unpacking Queer Politics: A Lesbian Feminist Perspective (Jeffreys Sheila)(Paperback)

Unpacking Queer Politics argues that the strong lesbian feminist movement of the 1970s, which was able to articulate a philosophy and practice that distinguished lesbian politics from gay male politics, was submerged in the 1990s beneath a gay male agenda called queer politics. The new

Beyond Power and Resistance: Politics at the Radical Limits (Bloom Peter)(Pevná vazba)

This book challenges the conceptual and practical effectiveness of resistance to achieve social and political change, and considers an alternative framework that goes beyond a desire to resist sovereign power, but offers political movements that expand individual and collective