Télécharger le livre :  Globalization, Poverty and Inequality
Globalization is characterised by persistent poverty and growing inequality. Conventional wisdom has it that this global poverty is residual – as globalization deepens, the poor will be lifted out of destitution. The policies of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO echo...

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Parution : 2013-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming Sexual
The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young...

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Télécharger le livre :  Kittler and the Media
With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of the most controversial...

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Parution : 2013-05-10
Collection : Theory and Media PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Korea
Korea is one of the critical flashpoints in the world today. News of North Korea's recent nuclear tests, conducted in defiance of international pressure, drew widespread condemnation and raised serious concerns about the threat now posed to regional and international...

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Collection : Hot Spots in Global Politics PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Islam Under Siege
In this groundbreaking book, Akbar Ahmed, one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, who has worked in the Muslim world but lives in the West, explains what is going wrong in his society by referring to Islamic history and beliefs. Employing theological and...

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Collection : Themes for the 21st Century PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Mediated Cosmopolitanism
Media power in the global era has to do with how people understand the world, their place in it, and their relation to the others who populate it. Making connections with distant places and people is the work of cosmopolitan imagination, which involves seeing the world...

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Télécharger le livre :  China at the Crossroads
This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its development and explores the challenges that lie ahead. A concise and timely book about China and its future, which argues...

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Parution : 2013-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics in the Age of Austerity
In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens...

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Télécharger le livre :  Global History
This short book offers a clear and engaging introduction to the history of humankind, from the earliest movements of people to the contemporary epoch of globalization. Cowen traces this complex history in a manner which offers both a compelling narrative and an...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Governance of Climate Change
Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is increasingly...

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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitanism and Culture
Today, more than at any other point in history, we are aware of the cultural impact of global processes. This has created new possibilities for the development of a cosmopolitan culture but, at the same time, it has created new risks and anxieties linked to immigration...

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Télécharger le livre :  Reinventing Political Culture
The way people think and act politically is not set in stone. People can and do change the fundamental cultural contours of their political situation. Their political culture does not only restrict imagination and action - it is also a resource for political creativity...

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Télécharger le livre :  War and the Cultural Turn
In this stimulating new text, renowned military historian Jeremy Black unpacks the concept of culture as a descriptive and analytical approach to the history of warfare. Black takes the reader through the limits and prospects of culture as a tool for analyzing war,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Frontiers
The purpose and location of frontiers affect all human societies in the contemporary world - this book offers an introduction to them and the issues they raise.

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Télécharger le livre :  Security and Environmental Change
In the early years of the new millennium, hurricanes lashed the Caribbean and flooded New Orleans as heat waves and floods seemed to alternate in Europe. Snows were disappearing on Mount Kilimanjaro while the ice caps on both poles retreated. The resulting disruption...

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Collection : Dimensions of Security PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Markets
Our lives have gradually become dominated by markets. They are not only at the heart of capitalistic economies all over the world, but also central in public debates. This insightful book brings together existing knowledge on markets from sociology, economics and...

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Parution : 2013-05-08
Collection : Economy and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Wall Street at War
Many of the problems that lie at the heart of the current financial crisis stem from a significant but little-known development that occurred in the early 1980s: investors changed their investment criteria. This change gave rise to a conflict - a silent war - between...

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Télécharger le livre :  Russian Literature
For most English-speaking readers, Russian literature consists of a small number of individual writers - nineteenth-century masters such as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and Turgenev - or a few well-known works - Chekhov's plays, Brodsky's poems, and perhaps Master and Margarita...

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Collection : Cultural History of Literature PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Economy and State
Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From...

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Collection : Economy and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Timber
Timber is a vital resource that is all around us. It is the house that shelters us, the furniture we relax in, the books we read, the paper we print, the disposable diapers for our babies, and the boxes that contain our cereal, detergent, and new appliances. The way we...

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Collection : Resources ePub

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