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“karol jakubowicz”

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  • Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World

    Eastern Europe's Tortured Path to Change

    Edited by Peter Gross, Karol Jakubowicz ...
    Media Transformations in the Post-Communist World: Eastern Europe’s Tortured Path to Change, edited by Peter Gross and Karol Jakubowicz, is a collection of analyses of Eastern European media by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field. This in-depth exploration shows how despite positive changes after the fall of Communism, the transformations of societal institutions, including the ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Finding the Right Place on the Map

    Central and Eastern European Media Change in a Global Perspective

    Edited by Karol Jakubowicz, Miklós Sükösd ...
    Finding the Right Place on the Map is a crosscutting, international comparison of the media systems and the democratic performance of the media in post-Communist countries. It explores issues of commercial media, social exclusion, and consumer capitalism in a comparative East-West perspective. Each chapter considers a different aspect of the trends and problems surrounding the media in comparative ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • The Inequality Trap

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    US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the “defining issue of our time.” It has inspired the “Occupy” movements, made a French economist into a global celebrity, and given us a new expression – the “one percent.” But is our preoccupation with inequality really justified? Or wise?In his new book, William Watson argues that focusing on inequality is both an error and a trap. It is ... Read more

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  • History of the Russian Revolution

    by Leon Trotsky ...
    During the first two months of 1917 Russia was still a Romanov monarchy. Eight months later the Bolsheviks stood at the helm. They were little known to anybody when the year began, and their leaders were still under indictment for state treason when they came to power. You will not find another such sharp turn in history especially if you remember that it involves a nation of 150 million people. ... Read more

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  • Cybersexism

    Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet

    by Laurie Penny ...
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  • A Little War That Shook the World

    Georgia, Russia, and the Future of the West

    by Ronald D. Asmus, Strobe Talbott ...
    The brief war between Russia and Georgia in August 2008 seemed to many like an unexpected shot out of the blue that was gone as quickly as it came. Former Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Ronald Asmus contends that it was a conflict that was prepared and planned for some time by Moscow, part of a broader strategy to send a message to the United States: that Russia is going to flex its muscle in ... Read more

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  • Free Speech

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nigel Warburton ...
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    'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it' This slogan, attributed to Voltaire, is frequently quoted by defenders of free speech. Yet it is rare to find anyone prepared to defend all expression in every circumstance, especially if the views expressed incite violence. So where do the limits lie? What is the real value of free speech? Here, Nigel Warburton ... Read more

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  • The Albanians

    A Modern History

    by Miranda Vickers ...
    This is the first full account of a country that, following decades of isolation, has undergone unprecedented changes to its political system: the collapse of communism, the progression to multi-party elections and the upheaval that followed the March 1997 uprising. Miranda Vickers traces the history of the Albanian people from the Ottoman period to the formation of the Albanian Communist Party. ... Read more

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  • Weiwei-isms

    by Weiwei Ai ...
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    This is a political biography of one of the 20th century’s most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973.Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. Was he a revolutionary or a reformist? A bureaucrat or ... Read more

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  • Rolling Pennies in the Dark

    A Memoir with a Message

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    “Our intoxicated mother had marched the three of us out into what passed for a living room in the cardboard and tarpaper shack we were existing in on the edge of Nowhere, New Hampshire. She assembled us like an audience on the broken yellow sofa, and said, ‘I’m going to kill myself now, and it’s all your father’s fault.’“After the dramatic announcement, and once sure we were all looking at the ... Read more

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