edinburgh university press apr 2006 (15 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This textbook brings together an introduction to the political theory of democracy since Ancient times and a critical picture of its place in Britain today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This textbook provides an introduction to the topical subject of constitutional change in Britain. It considers the historical origins of the constitution but its main focus is on recent reforms and their likely impact.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This introduction to the workings of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is written in light of major recent events and issues such as the war with Iraq, the Hutton Inquiry, the Butler Report, the Blair--Brown relationship, and continuing problems relating to Europe. These are presented in the context of the origins of the office of Prime Minister and the development of Cabinet government.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book considers the constitutional position of the judiciary and its role in shaping the individual's relations with the state.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Religion is a driving force in contemporary culture and its study is central to understanding the contemporary world. This book provides a clear introduction to the many topics and approaches of religious studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Twenties in America offers the first balanced account of the history and politics of this much-maligned decade. Niall Palmer focuses on the governing styles and political philosophies of presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge. He suggests that Harding's executive style and achievements were not as poor as traditional portraits have claimed and that Coolidge was largely successful in his efforts to distance himself from the financial scandals of his predecessor, reviving much of the US economy. Palmer argues that the pace of social and technological change created conflicts over race, religion, and poverty, and employment rights. Consequently, old solutions became increasingly irrelevant to the changing times.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume presents the reader with a comprehensive and critical introduction to the development and institutionalization of literary and cultural studies throughout the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first book to consider the debate between two of the most prominent philosophers and social theorists of the 20th century: Jacques Derrida and Jürgen Habermas.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume offers the student and general reader a comprehensive, critically informed overview of the development of literary and cultural studies from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A radical approach to the philosophy of mind, in which states of mind are identified with dispositions to behave in certain ways.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Annuals of the 1820s and 1830s, like their modern counterparts, were designed as Christmas and New Year's presents. The latest developments in printing and book design were employed in the preparation of these attractive pocket-sized compilations of poetry, prose and engravings for drawing-room display. Well-known authors such as James Hogg, Walter Scott, L.E.L., and John Clare were eagerly recruited and handsomely paid as contributors, their work appearing alongside that of young hopefuls such as Alfred Tennyson.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is a study of the British state's generation, suppression and manipulation of news to further foreign policy goals during the early Cold War. Bribing editors, blackballing 'unreliable' journalists, creating instant media experts through provision of carefully edited 'inside information', and exploiting the global media system to plant propaganda -- disguised as news -- around the world: these were all methods used by the British to try to convince the international public of Soviet deceit and criminality and thus gain support for anti-Soviet policies at home and abroad.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hogg was a superb letter-writer, and this is the second volume of the first collected edition of his letters (to be completed in three volumes). Many of the letters have never been published before, or published only in part. They vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. Among his famous correspondents were writers such as Scott, Byron, and Southey, antiquarians such as Robert Surtees, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and editors and publishers such as John Murray, William Blackwood, and Robert Chambers. This volume begins with Hogg's preparations for marriage and ends with his taking ship for London for his first and only visit to the literary metropolis. During the intervening years he publishes some of his greatest works. Fighting debt, promoting tourism, maintaining his extensive literary and social circle in Scotland and in London, and writing prolifically, the Hogg of these letters is a Scottish cultural powerhouse.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An historical introduction to the varieties of citizenship in Britain, starting in the Middle Ages and bringing the story right up to the present day.