Contradictions of globalization democracy culture
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Can the european union foster greater democracy in europe, and so protect the dispersal of power, personal freedom and the rule of law? willit improve our shared lives and increase sense of being useful citizens? rejecting both nostalgia for the nation state and thoughtless optimism, larry siedentop sets out to explore the practical implications of government on a continental scalehe draws on his expertise as an historian of liberal theory to produce an analysis of europe's various political economiesoxfam bookshop cheltenham if the european union applied to become a member of the european union it would be rejected as undemocraticin creating a framework for thought, this is sure to be a key work in the long deferred debate on europesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Authors: culture clubthe best of culture clubtitle: the best of culture clubbinding: audio cd
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For auction is one new paperback copy of cuba: socialism & democracy; by peter taaffe, edition
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Music and globalization critical encounters by bob white (paperback, ) delivery uk delivery is usually within 7 to 9 working daysinternational delivery varies by country, please see the wordery store help page for details
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Migrancy, culture and identity takes us on a journey into the disturbance and dislocation of culture and identity that faces all of us to explore how migration, marginality and homelessness have disrupted the west's faith in linear progress and rational thinking, undermining our knowledge, history and cultural identitythe author explores the uncharted impact of cultural diversity on today's world, from the 'realistic' eye of the painter to the 'scientific' approach of the cultural anthropologist or the critical distance of the historian; from the computer screen to the walkman and 'world music'see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop folkestone in migrancy, culture, identity, iain chambers unravels how our sense of place and identity is realised as we move through myriad languages, worlds and histories
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Both law and popular culture pervade our livesnow in its second edition, law and popular culture: a course book explores the interface between two subjects of enormous importance to everyone - law and popular culture
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He has authored numerous books on various aspects of filipino society and cultureoxfam bookshop hexham this book is the third in the series of integrated studies on filipino society and culturethe purpose of the series is to highlight the basic features of commonly shared patterns of culture and social institutions among the different lowland filipino ethnolinguistic groupsthis paperback edition is in a reasonable, used conditionthere are marks on the front cover and the corners are creased and bumpedjocano served as professor emeritus at the asian center of the university of the philippines and executive director of punlad research house, incthis volume addresses the following questions: is it possible to speak of a generalized filipino kinship and family organization, or, is it too risky to make such a generalization because of the geographical distances and dialect differences? felipe landa jocano was a filipino anthropologist, educator, and author known for his works in philippine anthropology, in particular for documenting and translating the hinilawod, a western visayan folk epichowever, the text block appears to be clean a free from annotationssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Pink floyd/"the gnome" x-ray audio lost culture of bone music -in the ussr during the cold war,the music that people could hear was ruthlessly controlled by the statethe first time the culture of x-ray records and bone music was written about in the west was in the book’back in the ussr:the true story of russian rock’our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeand prohibited russian music to take the risk of making their own recordsbut a secret underground subculture of music lovers and pirates opposed the censorshipthis is the unique/pink floyd/"the gnome"x ray/spine **original packaging from included** i see that two times when i visited the exhibition with my father who,like myself,was thrilled by this peculiar wonderful type of anti-suppression after an exhibition in/the horse hospital,london:/07incredibly,they built their own recording devices and used an exceptional means to copy prohibited jazz,rockthe author of that book was veteran russian broadcaster,cultural commentator and journalist artemyi troitskyart appeared in our first bookare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikifeb16(see picture ) pure collectible recording audible but of course not so good!) unique item on catawiki from the pink floyd debut albumcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availablewe hear some entertaining,comical,tragic,moving and frankly strange stories including tales of the‘stilyagi'soviet hipsters,the first disco in moscow,we ask if counterculture possible in the oppressive,repressive circumstances of the soviet union?and we hear how rock music evolved in secret before breaking into the light as perestroika transformed soviet societyplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki website
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As such, it is thought to be one of the most essential statements of post-modern culture to dateoxfam bookshop bloomsbury street symbiosis, as defined by kisho kurokawa, one of japan's leading architects, is a new way of interpreting today's culturea philosophy which takes its name from ecological and biological concepts, it puts forward ideals developed from traditional japanese philosophy and culture, while continually acknowledging the presence of the multivalent, contemporary worldit is a philosophy of "both-and" rather than "either-or", a practice of mix-and-match rather than creation from scratch, an ethic of inclusion rather than exclusionkurokawa feels that we will recognize each other's differing personalities while competing and will co-operate while we oppose and criticize each othersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Joining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy" french philosopher of science michel serres states that girard's theory provides a darwinian theory of culture because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanationoxfam books & music lancaster from his groundbreaking violence and the sacred and things hidden since the foundation of the world, rené girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culturethe contributors provide major evidence in favor of girard's hypothesisequally, girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to darwin-something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence" this major claim has, however, remained underscrutinized by scholars working on girard's theory, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciences" he posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of "how we became humansee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Can democracy handle climate change?.
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Lawrence manley shows how the literature and culture of london contributed to the new structures of capitalism, the process of 'behaviour urbanisation', and a paradoxical liberation of the individual through the city's concentrated powerintegrating literary and historical analysis, and drawing on recent work in literary theory and cultural studies, literature and culture in early modern london provides a comprehensive account of the changing image and influence of london in lyrics, ballads, jests, epics, satires, plays, pageants, chronicles, treatises, sermons and official documentsoxfam bookshop raeburn place in the two hundred years from london was transformed from a medieval commune into a metropolis of half a million people, a capital city and a major european trading centresee oxfam website for delivery information read morenew possibilities emerged for cultural exchange and combination, social and political order, and literary expression
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Aqa as/a level history my revision notes democracy and nazism germany alan farmerprinted brand new, unusedhodder education
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Oxford aqa history a level and as component 2 democracy and nazism: germanyrobert whitfield
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Appetite for democracy: live at the hard rock casino - las vegas (bluray) [3d blu-ray] possible
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Annotation © book news, incshe offers a thorough, nuanced study focusing on the work of takashi murakami, andrea zittel, adam kalkin, and vito acconci, exploring what they do, what they say they are doing, and the implicit and explicit ramifications of their work for art-making in the contemporary worldportland, or ()of melbourne, australia)art in consumer culture: mis-design, hardcover by mcquilten, grace, isbn , isbn-13 , brand new, free p&p in the uk art, design, commodification--and their interplay--are the themes that occupy mcquilten (culture and communications, u
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They examine the contradictions inherent in the fashionable notion of sustainable developmentand they warn the 'global ecology' seen in a managerial perspective, may degenerate into an effort to redesign and manage nature in order to keep economic growth going in the face of a rising tide of resource plunder and pollutionthis is why some the world's leading environmental thinkers have come together in this volume to probe critically the new language being developed by the environmental professionalsthey explore the emerging conflicts over the distribution of environmental risk between north and southpaperback book in good overall conditiongood tight bindinginside contains no marks, annotation or marginaliacover shows signs of shelf wear, sticker ghost and light creases to laminate on spinethis book seeks to launch a critical debate in order to clarify issues involved and what might constitute appropriate actionoxfam bookshop newport behind the public's hope of effective action by governments on environmental issues lies a complex terrain of conceptual confusion, conflicts of interest and philosophical disputesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop wallingford the reformation of the subject is a study of the cultural contradictions that gave birth to the english protestant epicthrough a series of detailed readings, gregerson examines the different strategies adopted by spenser and milton as they sought to distinguish their poems from idols yet preserve the shaping power that iconoclasts have long attributed to iconsin lucid and theoretically sophisticated language, linda gregerson examines the fraught ideological, political and gender conflicts that are woven into the texture of the faerie queene and paradise losttracing the transformation of the epic poem into an instrument for the reformation of the political subject, gregerson thus provides an illuminating contribution to our understanding of the ways in which subjectivities are historically producedshe reminds us that reformation iconoclasts viewed verbal images with the same aversion as visual images, because they too were capable of waylaying the human imaginationsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Southern culture on the skids - mysterioso 2:22southern culture on the skids - whole lotta things 3:01southern culture on the skids - hey chuck berry 3:46southern culture on the skids - twistin' (on a red hot spike) 4:10title: girlfight
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A biography of the city, tracing its society, politics, economy and culture over eight centuriessoftback book written by a team of experts, using the latest historical research to explore the city's distinctive culture and characterfully illustrated, 532 pages - would make a lovely gift! from a smoke & pet free home - buyer to collect please
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In this book, the author demonstrates how the unlikely survival of this community of escaped slaves reveals the contradictions of slavery and the complexities of the british antislavery eraafter being exiled from their native jamaica in , the trelawney town maroons endured in nova scotia and then in sierra leone
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Various - dance culture uktitle:various - dance culture ukyour item will be previously owned but still in great conditiongeneral interestthe disc will play perfectly without interruption and the case, inlay notes and sleeve may show limited signs of wear
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Soviet leaders had suppressed most western popular music since the days of jazz, but the beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the west and in russia-battered down the walls of state culturethe music of john, paul, george, and ringo played a part in waking up an entire generation of soviet youth, opening their eyes to seventy years of bland official culture and rigid authoritarianism"bitles," they whispered, "yeah, yeah, yeahby stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night broadcasts on radio luxembourg, the soviet beatles kids tuned in" see oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop macclesfield imagine a world where beatlemania was against the law-recordings scratched onto medical x-rays, merchant sailors bringing home contraband lps, spotty broadcasts taped from western am radio late in the nightthis was no fantasy world populated by blue meanies but the ussr, where a vast nation of music fans risked repression to hear the defining band of the british invasionleslie woodhead's how the beatles rocked the kremlin tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of russians who discovered that all you need is beatles
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Oxfam bookshop beverley in its comparison of two major emerging nations, india and brazil, this book approaches the subject through an innovative theoretical combination of developmental states theory and theories of the changing nature of global capitalismsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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Oxfam bookshop beverley as globalization and market liberalization march forward unabated the global commons continue to be commodified and privatized at a rapid pacethe book then presents case studies of important water privatization initiatives in the region, drawing out crucial themes common to water privatization debates around the world including corruption, gender equity and donor conditionalitiesthe age of commodity provides an overview of the debates over water in the region including a conceptual overview of water 'privatization', how it relates to human rights, macro-economic policy and gatsin this global process, the ownership, sale and supply of water is increasingly a flashpoint for debates and conflict over privatization, and nowhere is the debate more advanced or acute than in southern africathis book is powerful and necessary reading in our new age of commoditysee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop aberystwyth in a fascinating account of how technology is altering our consciousness, celia lury shows how the manipulation of photographic images and ways of seeing can so redefine the relation between consciousness, the body and memory as to create a 'prosthetic culture' whose capacities both extend and threaten our humanitywe live in a society in which some memories can be falsely implanted in the individual while others are stored in video archives of images, in which the powers of cartoon superheroes break through the limitations of time and spaceusing the examples of photo-therapy, family albums, benetton advertising campaigns, the phenomenon of false memory syndrome and the 'lives' of cartoon characters this book argues that the 'eyes' made available by contemporary visual technologies involve not simply specific ways of seeing, but also ways of life
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Oxfam bookshop glossop road very good condition, no marks or wear the fundamental book of eliezer schweid is a modern interpretation of the bible as narrative and law which can reopen the dialogue of contemporary jews with the bible, from which a dynamic jewish culture can continue to draw its inspirationschweid helps us to appreciate the broader message of the narrative of creation and settlement of the land in its ecumenical and planetary dimensionsthe world is gods creation, and its resources are to be deployed as necessary for the sustenance and need-fulfillment of all peoples and all creatures equally a message very much relevant to the ecological crisis facing us all at the present timethe approach draws at the same time from the philosophical modernism of hermann cohen, the dialogical philosophy of buber, the religious phenomenology of heschel, and the insights of contemporary biblical scholars, including literary analysts of the biblesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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The hungarian people preserved nevertheless a continuous individuality through its ural-born language and a specifically hungaro-european cultureoxfam shop dumfries this book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of hungary, from its nebulous origins in the ural mountains to the elections ofsee oxfam website for delivery information read morefree and independent since , hungary continues to seek its rightful position in europedominated from the sixteenth century by the habsburgs, while ruling its own national minorities, hungary was deprived of two-thirds of its lands and peoples through successive treaties which followed the two world wars, after which it fell under soviet domination for nearly fifty yearsit tells above all the thrilling story of a people which became a great power in the region and then fought against - and was invaded by - ottomans, germans and soviets
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Even language and culture arose from the preexisting need to work togetherwhat differentiates us most from other great apes, tomasello proposes, are the new forms of thinking engendered by our new forms of collaborative and communicative interactionoxfam bookshop preston tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animalsin order to survive, humans had to learn to see the world from multiple social perspectives, to draw socially recursive inferences, and to monitor their own thinking via the normative standards of the groupas ecological changes forced them into more cooperative living arrangements, early humans had to coordinate their actions and communicate their thoughts with collaborative partnersa natural history of human thinking is the most detailed scientific analysis to date of the connection between human sociality and cognitiononce our ancestors learned to put their heads together with others to pursue shared goals, humankind was on an evolutionary path all its owntomasello argues that our prehuman ancestors, like today's great apes, were social beings who could solve problems by thinkingin this much-anticipated book, michael tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling argument that cooperative social interaction is the key to our cognitive uniquenessbut they were almost entirely competitive, aiming only at their individual goalssee oxfam website for delivery information read moretomasello's "shared intentionality hypothesis" captures how these more socially complex forms of life led to more conceptually complex forms of thinking
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Juchitan de las mujeres is a reprisal of her masterwork, comprising ten years of travels along the isthmus of tehuantepec, near southern oaxaca, where she lived among the pre-columbian zapotec culture indigenous to the remote regionwith new design and excellent production quality, this volume, which features many previously unpublished photographs, is a visual record of the daily life of an ancient culture in flux, through portraits of its people and glimpses into the zapotecs' attitudes toward sexuality, ritual, death and the role of womenrevealing some of the finest examples of iturbide's enduring themes--the clash between urban and rural life, ancient and modern life--it includes a foreword by celebrated mexican novelist, mario bellatinphotographs are in sepiaoxfam bookshop west bridgford paper covered boards with no dust jacket; whole book as newmexico-based graciela iturbide, a hasselblad award winner, is one of latin america's most influential photographerssee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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