Télécharger le livre :  Edmund Burke

Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent in revolutionary or democratic ideologies, and condemned as...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-13
Collection : Classic Thinkers
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Télécharger le livre :  Homeland Insecurity

In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms of mass violence. But are we really any safer? Has freedom been secured...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-13
Collection : History of Violence
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Télécharger le livre :  The Privileged Few

Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy Needs Religion

What role does religion play in modern societies?  Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth?  Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but should refrain from discussing in public?  It is no secret that the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Subjectified

Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties. Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a...
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Parution : 2024-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  David Walker

David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-07
Collection : Black Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Political Sociology?

With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-03
Collection : What is Sociology?
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Télécharger le livre :  Wuhan

As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home – Male...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Warfare

As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Patterns

We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything – including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies – in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Romantic Agency

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Being Philosophical

Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a diversity of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Ancestral Future

Introduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex BrostoffIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-17
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fallacies of Racism

Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly problematic. “If you mean no harm, then it can’t be racist.” Yes, it can....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Frantz Fanon

Revolutionary humanist and radical psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was one of the greatest Black thinkers of the twentieth century. Born in Martinique and known for his involvement in the Algerian liberation movement, his seminal books Black Skin, White Masks and The Wretched...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-15
Collection : Black Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Seeing Double

The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Noumenal Republic

All human beings are born with equal dignity and possess equal rights. This statement appears normatively just as irrefutable as it is empirically refuted every day. But what are the grounds of this principle, and how should we think about its realization? Its...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Cybercrime

How has the digital revolution transformed criminal opportunities and behaviour? What is different about cybercrime compared with traditional criminal activity? What impact might cybercrime have on public security? In this updated edition of his authoritative and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-15
Collection : Crime and Society
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Télécharger le livre :  Keeping the Red Flag Flying

Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied.  Sadly for theLabour Party, much of the last century has been spent in shadow government....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-04-09

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