On the Streets and in the State House, Prindeville, Diane-Michel
Автор: Brown Kerry Название: CEO, China: The Rise of XI Jinping ISBN: 1784538779 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781784538774 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 14770.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: China has become the powerhouse of the world economy, its incredible boom overseen by the elite members of the secretive and all-powerful communist party. But since the election of Xi Jinping as General Secretary, life at the top in China has changed. Under the guise of a corruption crackdown, which has seen his rivals imprisoned, Xi Jinping has been quietly building one of the most powerful leaderships modern China has ever seen. In CEO China, the noted China expert Kerry Brown reveals the hidden story of the rise of the man dubbed the 'Chinese Godfather'. Brown investigates his relationship with his revolutionary father, who was expelled by Mao during the Cultural Revolution, his business dealings and allegiances in China's regional power struggles and his role in the internal battle raging between the old men of the Deng era and the new super-rich 'princelings'. Xi Jinping's China is powerful, aggressive and single-minded and this book will become a must-read for the Western world.
Автор: Roberts Paul Craig Название: How America Was Lost: From 9/11 to the Police/Warfare State ISBN: 0986036293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780986036293 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть Описание: Contending that James K. Baxter`s use of Greek myth is close to the heart of his poetic vision, this draws on the subject`s entire career, mounting the first-ever sustained investigation of his vast corpus of unpublished poems. Baxter`s mythic figures and ambiguous symbols are explored, to which he repeatedly returned in his attempts to establish patterns out of the `chaos` of his experiences.
Автор: Kerley Lela F. Название: Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle Epoque ISBN: 0807166332 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807166338 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 41800.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From 1889 to 1914 nude spectacles increased at an astonishing rate as a result of burgeoning artistic experimentation, the commercialization of the female body, and the rise of urban nightlife. In particular, artists' balls and music halls provided creative spaces in which women, artists, impresarios, and the illustrated press could cast the natural body as a source of sexual pleasure, identity, and reform. Emphasizing the role of erotic entertainment as an outlet and agent of modern sensibilities, Uncovering Paris: Scandals and Nude Spectacles in the Belle ?‰poque offers a fresh approach to important topics of the period- Bohemian artists, the New Woman, and press censorship- and reinterprets them through the lens of la femme nue.Having inherited her name from the pictorial female Nude and the Nude's real-life counterpart, the artist's model, la femme nue operated as a screen onto which various groups projected their artistic drives, sexual desires, monetary interests, and cultural anxieties. A struggle to define pornography and art, freedom and censorship, and public and private spheres ensued among artists, theater directors, and moral leagues as a century-long tradition of equating civilization with clothing broke down in the face of performative challenges. In posing, singing, acting, and dancing in naturalist presentations, the artist's model-turned-erotic entertainer engendered crises in ways of seeing the female body that contributed to and was indicative of a changing moral climate within which women were accorded more freedom to corporeally express themselves. Once denigrated and denounced as a sign of vulgar working-class sexuality, the revelation of female flesh became an integral aspect of twentieth-century French body culture.Drawing upon a range of colorful commentaries, dramatic debates, and evocative photos, Lela F. Kerley highlights the importance of nudity in the redrawing of moral boundaries as she uncovers key moments that amounted to a ""culture war"" in the years leading up to World War I. Through an investigation of street riots, court cases, and anti-pornography campaigns, Uncovering Paris offers an interdisciplinary approach to the scholarship on Belle ?‰poque sexual politics and a rich glimpse into the social construction of morality in Belle ?‰poque France.
Автор: Betty A. Reardon, Asha Hans Название: The gender imperative 2nd edn r ISBN: 1138320943 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138320949 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 46950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This collection of essays by feminist scholar-activists addresses the crucial problem of human security in a world of heavily armed, militarized states. It describes the gendered aspects of human security, integral to the realist militarism that dominates current security policy in most nation states.
Автор: Leo J. Bouchez; Leo J. Bouchez; L. Kaijen Название: The Future of the Law of the Sea ISBN: 9401186804 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789401186803 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 81050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: It is no surprise that the subject "The Future of the Law of the Sea" meets with special interest in the Netherlands. For a nation whose and prosperity are so closely connected with the sea, it is of the fate utmost importance to which regime the nations that border upon, sail and exploit the sea are subjected.
Автор: Ousterhout Anne M. Название: Most Learned Woman in America: A Life of Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson ISBN: 0271058501 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780271058504 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 42170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Most Learned Woman in America masterfully narrates Fergusson`s efforts to live an appropriately genteel life, even as she struggled against the limits that her society placed on its women. In the process, we can begin to understand the conflicts-internal and external-that women of the Revolutionary generation faced.
In 1711, the imperious Virginia patriarch William Byrd II spitefully refused his wife Lucy's plea for a book; a century later, Lady Jean Skipwith placed an order that sent the Virginia bookseller Joseph Swan scurrying to please. These vignettes bracket a century of change in white southern women's lives. Claiming the Pen offers the first intellectual history of early southern women. It situates their reading and writing within the literary culture of the wider Anglo-Atlantic world, thus far understood to be a masculine province, even as they inhabited the limited, provincial social circles of the plantation South.
Catherine Kerrison uncovers a new realm of female education in which conduct-of-life advice—both the dry pedantry of sermons and the risqu? plots of novels—formed the core reading program. Women, she finds, learned to think and write by reading prescriptive literature, not Greek and Latin classics, in impromptu home classrooms, rather than colleges and universities, and from kin and friends, rather than schoolmates and professors. Kerrison also reveals that southern women, in their willingness to "take up the pen" and so claim new rights, seized upon their racial superiority to offset their gender inferiority. In depriving slaves of education, southern women claimed literacy as a privilege of their whiteness, and perpetuated and strengthened the repressive institutions of slavery.
Автор: Steady Название: Women and Leadership in West Africa ISBN: 0230338127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230338128 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 88500.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book examines women and leadership in West Africa, with a special focus on Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone--the Mano River Union countries. These countries have traditions of indigenous female leadership in executive positions in varying degrees, and all three have a tradition of organizations that form important power bases for women.
Автор: Schoenle Jerry Название: Seven Shades of Blue: Tales from the Streets ISBN: 1098363299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781098363291 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Seven Shades of Blue is organized in career experience segments, from entry to Curtains. This book provides the reader with an exciting inside look at a career cop's life and the challenges that police face throughout a full career. It is written in a style similar to Joseph Wambaugh's, and in a format that mirrors Mark Baker's COPS. However, the author's experiences with the military and six different agencies over four decades makes for a unique read. The reader will be able to experience numerous real-life situations, including; my role as a correction officer in quelling a major disturbance at Attica, which resulted in a bloody stabbing death. My time as a street cop on a domestic call where a 270 lb. male had a fork embedded in his forehead, and my travels to China to train the Chinese police in hostage negotiations before the Olympics. On one of my tours, I had to guard a serial killer's victim who survived a vicious knife attack. Also included is my time in University Policing when officers responded to a call of a naked man in a snowbank screaming. It turns out he had hot sauce poured over his genitals as part of a hazing ritual and said he was just trying to cool the heat. The reader will be captivated by these stories and much more. This book provides a fascinating insight into the men and women behind the badge.
Автор: Christopher J. Leahy Название: President without a Party: The Life of John Tyler ISBN: 0807172545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780807172544 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 37580.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Historians have long viewed President John Tyler as one of the nation's least effective heads of state. In President without a Party- the first full?-scale biography of Tyler in more than fifty years and the first new academic study of him in eight decades- Christopher J. Leahy explores the life of the tenth chief executive of the United States. Born in the Virginia Tidewater into an elite family sympathetic to the ideals of the American Revolution, Tyler, like his father, worked as an attorney before entering politics. Leahy uses a wealth of primary source materials to chart Tyler's early political path, from his election to the Virginia legislature in 1811, through his stints as a congressman and senator, to his vice?-presidential nomination on the Whig ticket for the campaign of 1840. When William Henry Harrison died unexpectedly a mere month after assuming the presidency, Tyler became the first vice president to become president because of the death of the incumbent. Leahy traces Tyler's ascent to the highest office in the land and unpacks the fraught dynamics between Tyler and his fellow Whigs, who ultimately banished the beleaguered president from their ranks and stymied his election bid three years later. Leahy also examines the president's personal life, especially his relationships with his wives and children. In the end, Leahy suggests, politics fulfilled Tyler the most, often to the detriment of his family. Such was true even after his presidency, when Virginians elected him to the Confederate Congress in 1861, and northerners and Unionists branded him a ""traitor president."" The most complete accounting of Tyler's life and career, Leahy's biography makes an original contribution to the fields of politics, family life, and slavery in the antebellum South. Moving beyond the standard, often shortsighted studies that describe Tyler as simply a defender of the Old South's dominant ideology of states' rights and strict construction of the Constitution, Leahy offers a nuanced portrayal of a president who favored a middle-?of-?the?-road, bipartisan approach to the nation's problems. This strategy did not make Tyler popular with either the Whigs or the opposition Democrats while he was in office, or with historians and biographers ever since. Moreover, his most significant achievement as president- the annexation of Texas- exacerbated sectional tensions and put the United States on the road to civil war.
Автор: Rochefoucauld, Juliet Название: Broken by Love ISBN: 1788932862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788932868 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The inspiring biography of Val Jeal who stepped out in faith and changed the lives of many female sex workers in Bristol.
Казахстан, 010000 г. Астана, проспект Туран 43/5, НП2 (офис 2) ТОО "Логобук" Тел:+7 707 857-29-98 ,+7(7172) 65-23-70 www.logobook.kz
