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State Capture in South Africa

How and why it happened

de Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Peter Vale, Karl von Holdt, Robyn Foley, Ryan Brunette, Jonathan Klaaren, Cherese Thakur, Devi Pillay, Luke Spiropoulos0, Reg Rumney1, Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh2, Michael Marchant3, Hennie van Vuuren4, Patrick Heller5, Barney Pityana6 ...

A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s
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Bloody Women

Women Directors of Horror

de Aislinn Clarke, Ashlee Blackwell, Anna Bogutskaya, Amy Harris, Brian Hauser, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Ernest Mathijs, Eve O’Dea, Kate R. Robertson, Iris Robinson0, Shelby Shukaliak1, Erica Tortolani2, Dan Vena3, Patrick Woodstock4, Victoria McCollum6, James Francis Jr.7 ...

Series series Critical Conversations in Horror Studies
Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of ... Leer más

$33.99 USD

Bloody Women traces changing gender dynamics in the horror film industry to explore how women have played a crucial role in defining the genre of horror understood as a scholarly discipline, cultural institution, and site of pleasure. While acknowledging that women in the industry face ongoing challenges, this book focuses on their diverse contributions as creators, consumers, and critics of
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Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians

An Anthology of Oral History Education

de Lisa Krissoff Boehm, Michael Brooks, Patrick W. Carlton, Fran Chadwick, Margaret Smith Crocco, Jennifer Braithwait Darrow, Toby Daspit, Joseph DeFilippo, Susan Douglass, David King Dunaway, Sandy Eades, The Foxfire Fund, Inc., Amy S. Green, Ronald J. Grele, M. Gail Hickey, Cliff Kuhn, Erin McCarthy, Marjorie L. McLellan, Susan Moon, Charles Morrissey, John A. Neuenschwander, Rich Nixon, Irma M. Olmedo, Sandy Polishuk, Alessandro Portelli, Kimberly K. Porter, Troy Reeves, Donald A. Ritchie, Marie Scatena, David Sidwell, Ronald Simon, Alan Stein, Debra Sutphen, Kathryn Walbert, Glenn Whitman, John D. Willard, 5th, Linda P. Wood ...

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching. ... Leer más

$60.99 USD

Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into their own teaching.
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Bootstrapping Democracy

Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

de Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking
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Bootstrapping Democracy

Transforming Local Governance and Civil Society in Brazil

de Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Patrick Heller, Marcelo Silva ...

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking ... Leer más

$23.99 USD

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real impact. This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a difference in deepening democracy and empowering civil society. Looking
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Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson

Resisting Secularism

de Melvyn New, Donald R. Wehrs, John A. Dussinger, Regina Janes, E. Derek Taylor, Robert G. Walker, Patrick Müller, Steven Scherwatzky, Katherine Kickel0, Nicholas Seager1, Geoff Newton2, Ryan J. Stark3, Brett C. McInelly4, Paul Tankard5, Deborah Heller6, Frans de Bruyn7, Roger D. Lund8, Nathalie Zimpfer9 ...

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

Theology and Literature in the Age of Johnson: Resisting Secularism contains seventeen essays exploring the complex relationships between literary intentions and theological concerns of authors writing in the second half of the eighteenth century. The diversity of literary forms and subjects, from Fielding and Richardson to Burke and Wollstonecraft, is matched by a diversity of approaches and
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Whatever Happened to Class?

Reflections from South Asia

de Christopher Candland, Leela Fernandes, John Harriss, Patrick Heller, Emmanuel Teitelbaum, Vivek Chibber ...

Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and ... Leer más

$47.99 USD

Class explains much in the differentiation of life chances and political dynamics in South Asia; scholarship from the region contributed much to class analysis. Yet class has lost its previous centrality as a way of understanding the world and how it changes. This outcome is puzzling; new configurations of global economic forces and policy have widened gaps between classes and across sectors and
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Praktiken der Kritik

de Katia Henriette Backhaus, David Roth-Isigkeit, Banu Bargu, Claudia Czingon, Andreas Fischer-Lescano, Jonas Heller, Michael Holldorf, Ronan Kaczynski, Johanna Leinius0, Sarah Lenz1, Andreas Müller2, Friedemann Pestel3, Jannik Pfister4, Patrick Sachweh5 ...

Series Libro 17 - Normative Orders
Wer fragt, wie Kritik praktisch werden kann, muss eine Vorstellung davon haben, was Kritik ist – und vor dem Hintergrund welcher normativer Ordnungen etwas als eine kritische Praxis erscheint. Denn eine Ordnung infrage stellen zu können, scheint fundamental für die Wirkkraft einer kritischen Praxis zu sein, die Veränderung zum Ziel hat und sich mit dieser Forderung an besondere Adressaten und eine ... Leer más

$36.99 USD

Wer fragt, wie Kritik praktisch werden kann, muss eine Vorstellung davon haben, was Kritik ist – und vor dem Hintergrund welcher normativer Ordnungen etwas als eine kritische Praxis erscheint. Denn eine Ordnung infrage stellen zu können, scheint fundamental für die Wirkkraft einer kritischen Praxis zu sein, die Veränderung zum Ziel hat und sich mit dieser Forderung an besondere Adressaten und eine
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Audiolibro

Dangerous Visions

de Harlan Ellison, Harlan Ellison, various authors, Poul Anderson, Frederik Pohl, Robert Silverberg, J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Roger Zelazny0, Larry Niven1, Samuel R. Delany2 ...

Narrado por JD Jackson3, P. J. Ochlan4, Dion Graham5, Natalie Naudus6, Vikas Adam7, Scott Aiello8, Grover Gardner9, Joe Hempel0, Steve West1, Robert Fass2, James Patrick Cronin3, Joel Froomkin4, Neil Shah5, John Pirhalla6, Heath Miller7, Scott Brick8, Shiromi Arserio9, various narrators0, Thom Rivera1, Bradford Hastings2, Feodor Chin3, Suzanne Toren4, Stefan Rudnicki5, Mara Wilson6, Bronson Pinchot7, Mark Sanderlin8, Tim Campbell9, Simon Vance0, Steven Jay Cohen1, Johnny Heller2, Edoardo Ballerini3, Ramiz Monsef4, Neil Hellegers5, Jim Meskimen6 ...

Series series The Dangerous Visions Series
Completo

24 hora 34 minutos

WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark ... Leer más

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WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY PATTON OSWALTDubbed “the most significant and controversial SF book” of its generation, Harlan Ellison’s groundbreaking collection launched an entire subgenre: New Wave science fiction. With contributions from legendary authors and multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Dangerous Visions returns to print in a stunning new edition perfect for new and returning fans alike.A landmark
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Klasse, Geschichte, Bewusstsein

Was bleibt von Georg Lukács' Theorie?

de Frank Engster, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Rüdiger Dannemann, Detlev Claussen, Roger Behrens, Veith Selk, Stefan Müller, Johannes Rhein, Bastian Bredtmann ...

Georg Lukács' "Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein" ist ein Werk mit einer geradezu überzeitlichen Wirkung. Als Reaktion auf das Scheitern der deterministisch antizipierten proletarischen Weltrevolution nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg erschien diese Sammlung von Essays und Aufsätzen erstmals 1923. Das Buch war aufgrund seiner scharfen Kritik am 'orthodoxen Marxismus' für die Herausbildung des sogenannten ... Leer más

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Georg Lukács' "Geschichte und Klassenbewusstsein" ist ein Werk mit einer geradezu überzeitlichen Wirkung. Als Reaktion auf das Scheitern der deterministisch antizipierten proletarischen Weltrevolution nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg erschien diese Sammlung von Essays und Aufsätzen erstmals 1923. Das Buch war aufgrund seiner scharfen Kritik am 'orthodoxen Marxismus' für die Herausbildung des sogenannten
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Deliberation and Development

Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

Edición de Patrick Heller, Vijayendra Rao ...

Series series Equity and development
This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of deliberation—which explores normative and practical questions around group-based decision making through discussion or debate—has emerged as a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has seen a spurt of interest in ... Leer más

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This book marries two fields that rarely converse with one another: deliberative democracy and development studies. The study of deliberation—which explores normative and practical questions around group-based decision making through discussion or debate—has emerged as a critical area of study over the past two decades. Concurrently, the field of development has seen a spurt of interest in
... Leer más
Audiolibro

Thriller

An Anthology of New Mystery Short Stories

de Don Bruns, William Kent Krueger, Neil S. Plakcy, Jennifer Graeser Dornbush, Jeffery Deaver, Rick Bleiweiss, Heather Graham, Dahlia Rose, David R. Slayton, various authors3 ...

Narrado por Jesse Vilinsky0, Bahni Turpin1, Bailey Carr2, Andrew Eiden3, Kevin Kenerly4, Patrick Lawlor5, Keith Szarabajka6, Eva Kaminsky7, Pun Bandhu8, Vikas Adam9, Michael David Axtell0, Johnny Heller1, Gary Tiedemann2, various narrators4 ...

Series series The Music and Murder Mystery Series
Completo

7 hora 20 minutos

From Beat It to Billie Jean, the songs we know and love take on a brand-new, thrilling connotation in this anthology edited by Don Bruns.In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes ... Leer más

$16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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From Beat It to Billie Jean, the songs we know and love take on a brand-new, thrilling connotation in this anthology edited by Don Bruns.In this second collection in the Music and Murder Mystery series, nine award-winning, bestselling authors have written their own interpretations of the Thriller song list. With original work from some of the best mystery authors out there, the anthology includes
... Leer más

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