Hoci je sociológia mladou vedou, jej základy badáme už počas Veľkej francúzskej revolúcie z myšlienok osvietencov. Úplne prvýkrát však slovo sociológia vyslovil Auguste Comte v roku 1838. Naopak, politika patrí medzi najstaršie vedy, keďže vznikla už v antickom Grécku. Obe tieto spoločenské disciplíny si však prešli bohatým vývojom. Ak ich študujete alebo vás jednoducho fascinujú a chcete sa o nich dozvedieť viac, kníhkupectvá vám ponúkajú rôzne odborné knihy nielen o histórii, ale aj o mnohých ďalších zaujímavostiach.
Today the world faces an enormous refugee crisis—22.5 million people fleeing persecution and conflict from Myanmar to Syria, closer to the flight of Jewish and other Europeans during World War II than anything the world has seen in this generation. Yet in the United States, United Kingdom, and other ...
Now updated and in paperback, the gripping story of how--and against what odds--the perpetrators of Balkan genocide were subjected to the most successful manhunt in history. Written with a thrilling narrative pull, The Butcher's Trail chronicles the pursuit and capture of the Balkan war criminals indicted ...
Our planet''s resources are running out. The media bombards us with constant warnings of impending shortages of fossil fuels, minerals, arable land, and water and the political Armageddon that will result as insatiable global demand far outstrips supply. But how true is this picture? In "Winner Take ...
He needed to hear Africa speak for itself after a lifetime of hearing Africa spoken about by others. Electrifying essays on the history, complexity, diversity of a continent, from the father of modern African literature. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic ...
As the dust settled after World War II, America controlled half the world''s manufacturing capacity. By the end of the Cold War it possessed nearly half the planet''s military forces, spread across eight hundred bases, and much of its wealth. Beyond what was on display, the United States had also built ...
A provocative and balanced examination of our current social and political situation -- by a cutting-edge philosopher of our times. The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil the Brexit-bound U.K., along with Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asia--and most visibly, the U.S. with the election of Donald Trump--nationalist ...
Kniha Materiální podmínky svobody představuje myšlenku univerzálního základního příjmu, který je ve své podstatě občanských platem vypláceným nepodmíněně každému členu společnosti, což mu má umožnit svobodnější volbu pracovní činnosti, jíž se hodlá věnovat. Ta nemusí mít nutně charakter práce za odměnu, ...
Tang Shuxiu and her husband are on an 800-mile train journey from Beijing to Shifang, where they believe their only child has perished in a recent earthquake. Three days after the event, Tang is too dehydrated to cry. Liu Ting becomes a national hero when he brings his mother to college, a celebration ...
By the bestselling author of All Out War, shortlisted for the Orwell Prize 2017 The unmissable account of politics covering Theresa May’s time as PM through to the end of the election campaign. Stuffed to the brim with revelation and explanation of political debates and arguments and a superb follow-up ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates ist der Autor, den man jetzt lesen muss, wenn man verstehen will, wie die USA funktionieren, immer funktioniert haben; zwischen Sklaverei und Bürgerkrieg, zwischen dem ersten schwarze.
Fully updated: the new edition of this compelling history begins in ancient times, takes us through the Qaddafi era, the Arab Spring and features a new chapter on post-Qaddafi Libya
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, How to Fix the Future, , Rok vydania : 2018,
In The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World, Cyrus Schayegh presents an innovative socio-spatial history that traces how different geographic areas and networks molded the Middle East from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Centering his study on an area roughly coextensive with ...
A vivid and intimate account of the Ukrainian Revolution, the rare moment when the political became the existential. What is worth dying for? While the world watched the uprising on the Maidan as an episode in geopolitics, those in Ukraine during the extraordinary winter of 2013–14 lived the revolution ...
WITH ESSAYS BY: ROWAN BLANCHARD - SENATOR TAMMY DUCKWORTH - AMERICA FERRERA - ROXANE GAY - ILANA GLAZER - ASHLEY JUDD - VALARIE KAUR - CINDI LEIVE - DAVID REMNI…
V současné době probíhá mnoho odborných, společenských i politických debat o transformaci mezinárodního systému. Impulsem k těmto diskuzím jsou některé nové jevy a fenomény, které se objevily hlavně během posledních dvou dekád, výrazně proměnily a stále proměňují mezinárodní systém. Kniha zcela jedinečně ...
A new translation of the infamous Renaissance classic, in a striking deluxe edition The original blueprint for realpolitik, "The Prince" shocked sixte…
'An exuberant and learned celebration of British culture' Observer Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one are…
In The Soul of the Marionette, John Gray draws together the religious, philosophic and fantastical traditions that question the very idea of human freedom. We flatter ourselves about the nature of free will and yet the most enormous forces - biological, physical, metaphysical - constrain our every action. ...