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  • Noam Chomsky on Language, Democracy and Social Justice

    Noam Chomsky’s Critical Intervention- Foreword by Peter McLaren- Afterword by Pepi Leistyna

    de Pierre W. Orelus ...
    Series Libro 560 - Counterpoints
    Every century has witnessed the birth of a few world-transcending intellectuals as well as talented emerging scholars. Noam Chomsky and Pierre W. Orelus are no exception. Using dialogues exchanged over the course of nine years, combined with heartfelt critical essays, Chomsky and Orelus analytically examine social justice issues, such as unbalanced relationships between dominant and subjugated ... Leer más

    $810 MXN

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  • Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation

    de R. David Lankes ...
    Knowledge is created through conversation. Conversations can take place between friends and colleagues in the "here and now." But, they can also take place over centuries, with the participants changing but the theme remaining the same, and the conversation being recorded in thousands of artifacts, like books, pictures, and digital files. In many conversations users need sophisticated processes to ... Leer más

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  • Called to Serve

    The Bush School of Government and Public Service

    de Charles Frazer Hermann, Sally Dee Wade ...
    In Called to Serve, founding director Charles F. Hermann and writer Sally Dee Wade chronicle the twenty-year history of the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, which has rapidly evolved into one of the nation’s major professional graduate schools of public and international affairs.The story traces the progress of the Bush School from its initial challenges to secure funding, ... Leer más

    $150 MXN

  • Planning in the Face of Conflict

    The Surprising Possibilities of Facilitative Leadership

    de John Forester ...
    Bikers and hikers. Sex workers and social conservatives. Agencies and activists. The people involved in planning for a site—or a community—can be like the Hatfields and McCoys. And the process brings them together face to face and toe to toe.How can planners take conflicted communities from passionate demands to practical solutions? Facilitative leadership offers helpful answers. Cornell ... Leer más

    $843 MXN

  • Curriculum and the Culture Wars

    Debating the Bible's Place in Public Schools

    Edición de Melissa Deckman, Joseph Prud'homme ...
    Series Libro 3 - Washington College Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    Curriculum and the Culture Wars offers a fresh perspective on perennial debates about the role of religion in public schools, focusing on the intersection of religion and curriculum. This debate has been renewed in part due to the growth of elective Bible courses in public schools in many parts of the country. The first half of the book presents new scholarship on the use of the Bible in schools, ... Leer más

    $775 MXN

  • The Federal Appointments Process

    A Constitutional and Historical Analysis

    de Michael J. Gerhardt, Neal Devins, Mark A. Graber ...
    Series series Constitutional Conflicts
    Although the federal appointment of U.S. judges and executive branch officers has consistently engendered controversy, previous studies of the process have been limited to particular dramatic conflicts and have tended to view appointments in a vacuum without regard to other incidents in the process, other legislative matters, or broader social, political, and historical developments. The Federal ... Leer más

    $495 MXN

  • Public Spheres and Mediated Social Networks in the Western Context and Beyond

    de Petros Iosifidis, Mark Wheeler ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures. This book critically interrogates the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • Memos to the Governor

    An Introduction to State Budgeting, Third Edition

    de Dall W. Forsythe, Donald J. Boyd, Mario Cuomo, David P. Forsythe ...
    This revised and updated edition of Memos to the Governor is a concise and highly readable guidebook that explains in clear, understandable prose the technical, economic, and political dynamics of budget making. Updated with many new examples of budget quandaries from recent years, this book helps current and future public administrators untangle the knotty processes of budget preparation and ... Leer más

    $440 MXN

  • Sub-Municipal Governance in Europe

    Decentralization Beyond the Municipal Tier

    Edición de Nikolaos-Komninos Hlepas, Norbert Kersting, Sabine Kuhlmann, Pawel Swianiewicz, Filipe Teles ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores sub-municipal units’ (SMU) role in decision making, decentralized institutional innovation, social innovation and, in rural areas, service delivery. Focusing on fourteen European countries, the book examines the impact of political cultures, administrative traditions and local government systems on the functioning of the SMUs. An under-explored topic in the literature, this book ... Leer más

    $1,656 MXN

  • American Politics in the Age of Ignorance: Why Lawmakers Choose Belief over Research

    de D. Schultz ...
    American Politics in the Age of Ignoranc e looks at ten policy myths and bad ideas that governments and public officials - most often conservatives - consistently repeat and re-enact. Acting on these myths, the policies inevitably fail and thereby reinforce preconceived beliefs that government is ineffective at solving problems. ... Leer más

    $920 MXN

  • Robert Morrison and the Protestant Plan for China

    de Hong Kong University Press ...
    Sent alone to China by the London Missionary Society in 1807, Robert Morrison (17821834) was one of the earliest Protestant missionaries in East Asia. During some 27 years in China, Macau and Malacca, he worked as a translator for the East India Company and founded an academy for converts and missionaries; independently, he translated the New Testament into Chinese and compiled the first Chinese ... Leer más

    $743 MXN

  • Rebels in Society

    The Perils of Adolescence

    de Marcel Lebrun ...
    Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad. This book reveals the inner workings of adolescents who have been caught up in pathology and the juvenile justice system. The first part of the book highlights juvenile sex offenders, juvenile serial killers, anti social youth, and the ones that become a statistic in the juvenile justice system. ... Leer más

    $704 MXN