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Concepts are the `tools` with which we think, criticise, argue, explain and analyse. Political concepts are nothing less than the building-blocks of political understanding: the political world means what our concepts tell us it means. But political concepts are notoriously slippery and subject to controversy. Indeed, political debate is often a...

Stimulating, succinct and accessible, this highly successful text offers a comprehensive introduction to the study of politics, written from an international perspective. Including a new chapter on the mass media and political communication it contains substantial new material on developments such as the "War on Terror, and state transformation"....

Paul Berman zastanawia się nad politycznymi warunkami, w jakich odżywa na naszych oczach pogrzebany pod koniec XX wieku totalitaryzm. Obierając islam z cienkiej skórki egzotyki i usprawiedliwiającej wszystko kulturowej odmienności, wskazuje na jego pokrewieństwa z najgorszymi miazmatami zachodniej kultury: z faszyzmem i komunizmem. Usiłując...

The second edition of this very successful textbook updates and expands its coverage of the many facets of life in Europe in the new century. It retains the strengths of the first edition with its focus on both East and West but expands its coverage of the themes of convergence and divergence, and includes a new chapter on the European Economy. It...

W pracy zastosowano metodę deskryptywną, wykorzystując w niej materiały pierwotne i wtórne w rozwiązaniu problemu, polegającego na zarejestrowaniu uporządkowaniu grup wyznaniowych w Gdańsku, postawiono hipotezę, iż grupy te pełnią ważną rolę społeczną w warunkach współczesnych procesów globalizacyjnych....

Team of Rivals doesn`t just tell the story of Abraham Lincoln. It is a multiple biography of the entire team of personal and political competitors that he put together to lead the country through its greatest crisis. Here, Doris Kearns Goodwin profiles five of the key players in her book, four of whom contended for the 1860 Republican presidential...