политология
Smart Cities, Smart Future. Showcasing Tomorrow
Mike Barlow
Are you curious about smart cities? You should be! By mid-century, two-thirds of us will live in cities. The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Smart cities are complex blends of technologies, systems and...
The Tragedy of Property. Private Life, Ownership and the Russian State
Maxim Trudolyubov
Russian novels, poetry and ballet put the country squarely in the European family of cultures and yet there is something different about this country, especially in terms of its political culture. What makes Russia different? Maxim Trudolyubov...
Understanding, Assessing, and Responding to Terrorism. Protecting Critical Infrastructure and Personnel
Brian Bennett T.
A comprehensive guide to understanding, assessing, and responding to terrorism in this modern age This book provides readers with a thorough understanding of the types of attacks that may be perpetrated, and how to identify potential targets,...
Народы Америки. Языки, миграции, обычаи
Андрей Тихомиров
В книге рассказывается о народах Америки: о формировании и истории народов, обычаях. Привлекаются различные исторические и этнографические источники. Приведены краткие грамматики некоторых языков народов американского континента.
What Does China Think?
Mark Leonard
An invigorating book about the debates raging within China. We all know about the fast pace of change in this country. This book brings us the ideas being fought over in the country itself – from democracy to the idea of a ‘peaceful rise’. It...
The Assault on Liberty: What Went Wrong with Rights
Dominic Raab
Since 1997 the government has launched an unprecedented assault on our most basic rights.Liberty protected?Under the false pretext of protecting the public, New Labour has pawned off our fundamental freedoms, turning Britain into a surveillance...
The Age of Consent
George Monbiot
A manifesto for a new world order.Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now...
Statecraft
Margaret Thatcher
Lady Thatcher, a unique figure in global politics, shares her views about the dangers and opportunities of the new millennium.Lady Thatcher's previous books on her political career have been bestsellers, The Downing Street Years went to No.1....
The Times Guide to the House of Commons
Коллектив авторов
The most definitive and authoritative guide to 2010’s much-anticipated General Election.Compiled and written by The Times’s unrivalled team of leading political journalists, The Times Guide to the House of Commons offers an in-depth look at UK...
The Naked Diplomat: Understanding Power and Politics in the Digital Age
Том Флетчер
Who will be in power in the 21st century? Governments? Big business? Internet titans? And how do we influence the future?Digital technology is changing power at a faster rate than any time in history. Distrust and inequality are fuelling...
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The Five Giants [New Edition]: A Biography of the Welfare State
Nicholas Timmins
A LONGMAN/HISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEARThe award-winning history of the British Welfare State –now fully revised and updated for the 21st Century.‘A masterpiece’ Sunday TimesGiant Want. Giant Disease. Giant Ignorance. Giant Squalor. Giant...
Only in America
Matt Frei
Matt Frei, the BBC's former Washington correspondent, goes under the skin of the nation's capital to unravel the paradoxes of the world's last remaining superpower.The paperback has been fully updated to provide a unique view into the weird,...
Machiavelli: Philosophy in an Hour
Paul Strathern
Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of Machiavelli in just one hour.Niccol? Machiavelli’s work remains misunderstood – synonymous with wicked scheming and underhand politics – nearly 350 years after his death....
It’s All Their Fault
Neil Boorman
A call to arms, a chance for those born in the 70s and 80s to respond to the chaos. We can not stop the debt bomb but we can remove the Boomer politicians from office. There will be a general election in May. This is our opportunity to kick them...
Demanding the Impossible
Peter Marshall
A fascinating and comprehensive history, 'Demanding the Impossible' is a challenging and thought-provoking exploration of anarchist ideas and actions from ancient times to the present day.Navigating the broad 'river of anarchy', from Taoism to...
An Agenda for Britain
Frank Field
Originally published in 1993, An Agenda for Britain offers a radical vision for the future of Britain and the Labour Party.Unemployment, Frank Field argues, must be the major issue on the political agenda; welfare should be taken ‘out of the...
What's Left?: How Liberals Lost Their Way
Nick Cohen
From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies, idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought.Nick Cohen comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother...
Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield
Макс Хейстингс
An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen ‘warriors’ from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily...
Undercover Jihadi Bride: Inside Islamic State’s Recruitment Networks
Anna Erelle
Previously published as ‘In the Skin of a Jihadist’Twenty year-old “M?lodie”, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook. In 48 hours he has ‘fallen in love’ with her, calls her every hour, urges her to marry him,...
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
Mick Hume
Concise and Abridged EditionIn this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture...
Trigger Warning: Is the Fear of Being Offensive Killing Free Speech?
Mick Hume
Concise and Abridged EditionIn this blistering polemic, veteran journalist Mick Hume presents an uncompromising defence of freedom of expression, which he argues is threatened in the West, not by jackbooted censorship but by a creeping culture...
Tell Me How it Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Валерия Луиселли
A powerful polemic about the US-Mexico border and what is happening to the tens of thousands of children arriving in the US without papers‘We are driving across Oklahoma in early June when we first hear about the waves of children arriving,...
Superior: The Fatal Return of Race Science
Angela Saini
‘We can draw lines across the world any way we choose, and in the history of race science, people have. What matters isn’t where the lines are drawn, but what they mean.’ Modern science is pivotal in our understanding of race – not because of...
Selfish Whining Monkeys: How we Ended Up Greedy, Narcissistic and Unhappy
Rod Liddle
With a sharp eye for the magnificently absurd, Rod Liddle sets light to modern-day Britain.‘One of Britain’s funniest, most daring columnists. If he weren’t so offensive you’d almost call him a national treasure’ Mail on Sunday‘I, and my...
You Can’t Read This Book: Censorship in an Age of Freedom
Nick Cohen
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the advert of the Web, everywhere you turn you are told that we live in age of unparalleled freedom. This is dangerously na?ve. From the revolution in Iran that wasn’t to the imposition of super-injunctions...
Whatever it Takes: The Real Story of Gordon Brown and New Labour
Steve Richards
At the beginning of the financial crisis, in September 2008, Gordon Brown called an emergency press conference in which he declared, 'we will do whatever it takes to restore stability in the financial markets'.He was to repeated the phrase...
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
Ronan Farrow
A book for anyone interested to know more about how the world really works by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ronan Farrow.‘This is one of the most important books of our time.’ Walter Isaacson‘A masterpiece’ Dan Simpson, Post-Gazette THE NEW...
Waiting for the Etonians: Reports from the Sickbed of Liberal England
Nick Cohen
Do you remember what life was like before the crash?• When level-headed couples were still taking mortgages five times their joint income.• When the middle class was divided between the haves and the have yachts.• When Her Majesty's Government...
Talking to Terrorists: A Personal Journey from the IRA to Al Qaeda
Peter Taylor
A controversial and timely book by BBC reporter and terrorism expert Peter TaylorIn ‘Talking to Terrorists’ Peter Taylor takes us on a personal journey, quoting from diaries written at the time, as he reveals what it was like to come...
Start Again: How We Can Fix Our Broken Politics
Philip Collins
By The Times columnist and acclaimed author of When They Go Low, We Go High. Start Again is a life-raft for all those who find themselves politically adrift and a rallying cry for a better kind of politics – As heard on the Today...
Revolting!: How the Establishment are Undermining Democracy and What They’re Afraid Of
Mick Hume
A short, sharp intervention in the crucial debate about the future of democracy, which has been brought to a head by events from Brexit to the Trump phenomenon.We live in strange days in the history of democracy.Every serious politician in the...
IOU: The Debt Threat and Why We Must Defuse It
Noreena Hertz
We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World...
Get Real: How to Tell it Like it is in a World of Illusions
Eliane Glaser
A passionate and entertaining guide to spotting and decoding the delusions we live under.Oil companies advertise their green credentials. Billionaires organise 'grassroots' political movements. Cuts that target the poor are billed as...
Back from the Brink: The Inside Story of the Tory Resurrection
Peter Snowdon
Lifting the lid on the most captivating story in British politics today, ‘Back from the Brink’ charts the Conservative Party's remarkable journey from the political wilderness to the threshold of power.Based on unprecedented access to key...
The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers
Richard Aldrich
The Black Door explores the evolving relationship between successive British prime ministers and the intelligence agencies, from Asquith’s Secret Service Bureau to Cameron’s National Security Council.Intelligence can do a prime minister’s dirty...
Палеоазиатские и самодийские народы. Языки, миграции, обычаи
Андрей Тихомиров
В книге рассказывается о палеоазиатских и самодийских народы: о формировании и истории народов, обычаях, ритуалах. Привлекаются различные исторические и этнографические источники. Приведены краткие грамматики некоторых палеоазиатских и...
Вопросы прикладной теории войны
А. А. Кокошин
Книга академика РАН А.А. Кокошина написана на основе его многолетних фундаментальных и прикладных исследований и практической деятельности в качестве первого заместителя министра обороны Российской Федерации, секретаря Совета обороны Российской...
Дневники 1891-1892 годов
Владимир Николаевич Ламздорф
Книга представляет собой единственное в советские годы издание переведенных с французского языка дневников министра иностранных дел Российской империи. Ежедневно или почти ежедневно Ламздорф заносил заметки о главнейших событиях и свои особые...
Труды Института постсоветских и региональных исследований. Выпуск I. Украинистика
Коллектив авторов
Первый выпуск ежегодного издания «Труды Института постсоветских и межрегиональных исследований» (Вып. 1: Украинистика») – результат нескольких лет работы авторского научного коллектива. В рамках данной работы сделана попытка объективного...
Тунгусо-маньчжурские народы. Языки, миграции, обычаи
Андрей Тихомиров
В книге рассказывается о тунгусо-маньчжурских народах. О том, как возникает тунгусо-маньчжурская общность, о формировании обычаев, ритуалов. Привлекаются различные исторические и этнографические источники. Приведены краткие грамматики некоторых...
25 лет валютной политики национального банка против рекомендаций экономической науки
Кубан Чороев
Данная монография является частью исследовательской работы к докторской диссертации. Целью данного исследования является поиск ответа на вопрос: какой режим валютного курса является наиболее оптимальным для Кыргызстана, который наилучшим образом...
О власти. Людологические тезисы
Рустам Павлович Чернов
В настоящей работе проанализирована сущность и природа власти с точки зрения людологического (ludo – играю, logos – знание) подхода. Власть рассмотрена как свойство перехода бытия в возможности в действительность (от идеального к реальному), при...
Китайцы, мьянма, тибетцы. Языки, миграции, обычаи
Андрей Тихомиров
В книге рассказывается о китайцах, мьянма и тибетцах, а также о других народах сино-тибетской (китайско-тибетской) семьи народов. О том, как возникает китайско-тибетская общность, о формировании обычаев, ритуалов. Привлекаются различные...
Как остановить движущийся вперед поезд, потерявший управление тормозами. Совершенно нестандартная теория машиниста, не сумевшего пробить глухую стену безразличия и отсутствия желания руководства ОАО «РЖД» что-либо понимать
Александръ Черновъ
Движущийся поезд – это большая тяжеловесная пружина, для остановки которой можно выполнить иные расчеты и иные физические законы, нежели те, которые применяются в ОАО «РЖД».
История: мировая политика. Учебник для СПО
Владимир Игоревич Батюк
В учебнике представлена мировая политика в ее нынешнем состоянии – «как есть», из-за чего он актуален и полезен для подготовки будущих профессионалов в сфере международных отношений. В нем рассматриваются структура современной системы...
Политический трактат
Бенедикт Спиноза
Выдающийся философ Нового времени вслед за Аристотелем с его «Политикой» собрал свои мысли и взгляды на государственное устройство, систему права в трактате, написанном в 1675 году, но опубликованном посмертно в 1677 году. Спиноза описывает...
Японцы. Язык, миграции, обычаи
Андрей Тихомиров
В книге рассказывается о японском народе. О том, как возникает японская общность, о формировании японских обычаев, обрядов, ритуалов. Привлекаются различные исторические и этнографические источники. Приведена краткая грамматика японского языка.
