Catálogo de libros: Activismo político

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  • The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide
    Rivera Sun
    You'll love this lively, engaging journey into the heart of The Dandelion Insurrection's story of nonviolent action!All around the world, common, everyday people work for justice, equality and freedom using the nonviolent tools of Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, and Cesar Chavez. You can learn these resistance strategies and apply them in your community. Millions of ...
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    36,43 €

  • The Dandelion Insurrection Study Guide
    Rivera Sun
    You'll love this lively, engaging journey into the heart of The Dandelion Insurrection's story of nonviolent action!All around the world, common, everyday people work for justice, equality and freedom using the nonviolent tools of Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jesus, and Cesar Chavez. You can learn these resistance strategies and apply them in your community. Millions of ...
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    39,57 €

  • The Work of Nonviolence
    Julie Thomas-Beckett
    The Work of Nonviolence describes the tactics used on various domestic and international peace teams and provides tools for everyday people to de-escalate tensions.“Facts and figures aren’t always the best way to make a point. Reaching out heart-to-heart and sharing stories can create a powerful impact on the reader. That is just what The Work of Nonviolence: Stories from the F...
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    11,69 €

  • A Genre Analysis of Social Change
    Diana Wegner
    A Genre Analysis of Social Change contributes to current scholarship in rhetorical genre studies and discourse analysis in contexts of social change. Diana Wegner explores the ways that historical genre systems can be transformed through the process of discursive uptake across genres and their spheres of activity. In this study such cross-genre uptake is pursued from its beginn...
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    21,73 €

  • Jihad in Central Asia
    Musa Khan Jalalzai
    The four Central Asian States (Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan) security agencies and government have adopted several law and order measures to effectively fight against radicalization, but some states failed to intercept the infiltration of the ISIS militants from Afghanistan into the region. The power structures, social institutions and local authorities of...
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    83,94 €

  • The NGO CARE and food aid from America, 1945-80
    Heike Wieters
    This book on the humanitarian NGO CARE offers a unique historical insight into the successes and crises of one of the major private humanitarian players throughout the second half of the 20th century. ...
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    54,96 €

  • Cyber Weapons of Mass Psychological Destruction
    Vikram Sethi
    This book shows unequivocally that cyber weapons create deep psychological harm to society. So long lasting and intense can these effects be that they can create paranoia and cognitive confusion. Cyber weapons include simple ransomware to sophisticated bots, which can be used to bring down a nation’s infrastructure, power lines, banking, and even nuclear facilities. The use of ...
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    22,11 €

  • Operation Demetrius and its aftermath
    Martin J. McCleery / Martin McCleery
    Provides a more comprehensive account of internment and assesses previously unexplored aspects of its use. Drawing on archival sources the high politics and intelligence surrounding the introduction of internment are considered and in doing so accepted narratives regarding the measure are challenged. ...
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    37,16 €

  • Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War
    Mate Nikola Tokić
    Croatian Radical Separatism and Diaspora Terrorism During the Cold War examines one of the most active but least remembered groups of terrorists of the Cold War: radical anti-Yugoslav Croatian separatists. Operating in countries as widely dispersed as Sweden, Australia, Argentina, West Germany, and the United States, Croatian extremists were responsible for scores of bombings, ...
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    71,84 €

  • Grassroots Literacy and the Written Record
    John Trimbur
    This book examines how asbestos activists living in remote rural villages in South Africa activated metropolitan resources of representation at the grassroots level in a quest for justice and restitution for the catastrophic effects on their lives caused by the asbestos industry. ...
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    169,85 €

  • ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORISM (V1)
    DENNIS A PLUCHINSKY
    One of the major international security concerns that surfaced in the post-World War II period was the emergence and evolution of international terrorism. The dominant theme in the evolution of this threat has been anti-American terrorism. No other country in the world has had its overseas interests subjected to the level, lethality, diversity, and geographic scope of internati...
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    140,41 €

  • ANTI-AMERICAN TERRORISM (V1)
    DENNIS A PLUCHINSKY
    One of the major international security concerns that surfaced in the post-World War II period was the emergence and evolution of international terrorism. The dominant theme in the evolution of this threat has been anti-American terrorism. No other country in the world has had its overseas interests subjected to the level, lethality, diversity, and geographic scope of internati...
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    67,98 €

  • Global Jihad, Islamic Radicalisation and Counter Strategy
    Noor Dahri
    The Jihadist ideology has destroyed the world from East to West. They have tried to implement Shariah Law. People use and abuse religion in order to create fear and anxiety within the victim. Counter Terrorism experts, as well as governmental departments, are fighting on many frontlines. There already exists Islamist ideology that challenges the writ of the governmental authori...
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    30,71 €

  • Sway
    John Thibault
    Sway: Empowerment Beyond the Ballot Box Feeling overwhelmed by the complexities of politics? Think making a genuine impact is out of reach? Dive into "Sway" and discover that influencing change is more accessible than you think. This guide simplifies the political landscape, showing that you don’t need a degree in political science to become an agent of change. "Sway" offers an...
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    5,78 €

  • Banning them, securing us?
    Lee Jarvis / Tim Legrand
    Jarvis and Legrand explore the banning of terrorist organisations in liberal democratic states such as the United Kingdom. This process, they argue, is far more a ritualized performance of national identity, than it is a meaningful contribution to national security. ...
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    157,34 €

  • Spy War in South Asia
    Musa Khan Jalalzai
    The central intelligence agencies have earned the wrath of the government for failing to sufficiently warn local agencies. Why do our secret intelligence agencies fail repeatedly? Is it because of the lack of adequate intelligence, the dearth of trained manpower in the intelligence sector, failure to apply latest sophisticated technology in surveillance, lack of proper intellig...
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    50,86 €

  • Political Decision-Making and Security Intelligence
    Irene M. Gironacci / Irene MGironacci / Luisa Dall’Acqua
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    215,65 €

  • How Abdelbaset al-Megrahi became convicted for the Lockerbie Bombing
    Kevin Bannon
    Al-Megrahi was wrongfully convicted for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. His photograph was falsely represented to have been identified by a single witness, a Maltese clothing shop proprietor, as bearing a resemblance to a customer who visited his shop. The recollections of the same eyewitness were altered in such a way as to falsely posit al-Megrahi as the purchaser of items matchi...
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    7,61 €

  • Zen Terror in Prewar Japan
    Brian Daizen Victoria
    This book explores the profound influence of Zen Buddhist–linked terrorism in modern Japan. Brian Victoria follows a band of Zen Buddhist–trained adherents who ardently believed in their mission to carry out political assassinations in the 1930s, facilitating Japan’s transformation into a totalitarian state and setting the stage for Pearl Harbor. ...
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    43,87 €

  • Gangs, Pseudo-militaries, and Other Modern Mercenaries
    Max G. Manwaring
    As the first decade of the twenty-first century has made brutally clear, the very definitions of war and the enemy have changed almost beyond recognition. Threats to security are now as likely to come from armed propagandists, popular militias, or mercenary organizations as they are from conventional armies backed by nation-states. In this timely book, national security expert ...
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    38,36 €

  • The Smear
    Sharyl Attkisson
    New York Times BestsellerEver wonder how politics turned into a take-no-prisoners blood sport? The New York Times bestselling author of Stonewalled pulls back the curtain on the shady world of opposition research and reveals the dirty tricks those in power use to influence your opinions.Behind most major political stories in the modern era, there is an agenda; an effort by oppo...
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    14,48 €

  • The Good Fight
    Peter Beinart
    In this passionate, provocative book, Peter Beinart offers a bold new vision and sounds the call for liberals to revive the spirit that once swept America and inspired the world. ...
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    15,34 €

  • ISIS
    J M Berger / Jessica Stern
    The Islamic State, known as ISIS, exploded into the public eye in 2014 with startling speed and shocking brutality. It has captured the imagination of the global jihadist movement, attracting recruits in unprecedented numbers and wreaking bloody destruction with a sadistic glee that has alienated even the hardcore terrorists of its parent organization, al Qaeda.Jessica Stern an...
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    13,94 €

  • Organizing for Transgender Rights
    Anthony J. Nownes / Anthony JNownes
    Illuminates transgender activists’ successful strategies to organize for social and political change in the US. ...
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    42,18 €

  • Pocket Full of Pie
    Thomas Clay Jr.
    This book is a movable feast of anecdotes from growing up in Kentucky. I have been told that I have an interesting family and way with the words.Most of these essays are comprised of pivotal moments in my life that shaped and molded me into the person I am today. I've run into my share of villains, rascals and heroes on my time on earth and I have tried to illuminate their ...
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    22,60 €

  • Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump
    C. Damien Arthur / CDamien Arthur / Joshua Woods
    Debating Immigration utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the multifaceted immigration debate before and after 9/11 in the age of terrorism, political polarization, and authoritarianism. ...
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    54,49 €

  • Fatal Flaws
    Richard Meo
    This book and the others in this series are a compilation of hundreds of sources over the past 15 years. In these pages are stories of battles and wars and of hundreds of political decisions made and unmade that form the tangled web of history, most of which few have ever heard. The topic of all this research is the long trail of events which culminated in the terror attacks of...
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    27,04 €

  • Muslim Identity Politics
    Khadijah Elshayyal
    The surge in divisive and far-right politics and growing Islamophobia in Britain pose new challenges for Muslim advocacy organisations. British Muslim activism has taken centre stage in the public sphere as a result. Yet for over fifty years Muslim advocacy groups have worked to preserve religious identity, lobby the state and provide concerted responses to the political establ...
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    57,14 €

  • My Turn - South Africa
    Alice VL
    On February 12th, I received an email from the Author Academy Awards, signed by 'The Author Academy Awards Committee' saying that submissions for my books were received and that they were being reviewed.Later that day, I received another email stating, 'Hello Alice. First the best news. You’re IN! The Author Academy Awards selection committee has approved your submission. Your ...
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    18,18 €

  • Political Decision-Making and Security Intelligence
    Irene M. Gironacci / Irene MGironacci / Luisa dall'Acqua / Luisa Dall’Acqua
    The enormous spread of devices gives access to virtual networks and to cyberspace areas where continuous flows of data and information are exchanged, increasing the risk of information warfare, cyber-espionage, cybercrime, and identity hacking. The number of individuals and companies that suffer data breaches has increased vertically with serious reputational and economic damag...
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    281,51 €


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