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Télécharger le livre : Europe in the Global Age
Europe in the Global Age
Anthony Giddens
Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however,...

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Parution : 2013-05-02
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Télécharger le livre : Explaining the Normative
Explaining the Normative
Stephen P. Turner
Normativity is what gives reasons their force, makes words meaningful, and makes rules and laws binding. It is present whenever we use such terms as ‘correct,' ‘ought,' ‘must,' and the language of obligation, responsibility, and logical compulsion. Yet normativists, the...

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Télécharger le livre : Joseph A. Schumpeter
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Richard Swedberg
Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new biography provides an engaging and vivid account of Schumpeter's varied life, including his ventures into politics and...

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Télécharger le livre : Lyotard
Lyotard
James D. Williams
Jean-François Lyotard was one of the most influential European thinkers in recent decades. He was a leading participant in debates about post-modernism and the decline of Marxism, and he made important contributions to ethics, aesthetics and political philosophy. In...

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Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Jesus and the Judaism of His Time
Jesus and the Judaism of His Time
Irving M. Zeitlin
The main aim of this work is to understand Jesus as he saw himself, and to compare that self-understanding with the ways in which others have grasped the nature of his mission.

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Télécharger le livre : Exploring European Social Policy
Exploring European Social Policy
Robert R. Geyer
With the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and future of EU social policy has become increasingly important. This exciting new textbook provides a comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of this...

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Télécharger le livre : International Relations in a Global Age
International Relations in a Global Age
Gillian Youngs
The book investigates the ways in which state-centred approaches to international relations have limited our understanding of global, political, economic and cultural processes. By assessing a wide range of such state-centred work, Youngs identifies the challenges we...

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Télécharger le livre : Mortal Subjects
Mortal Subjects
Christina Howells
This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophers including Sartre, Lacan, Levinas and Derrida. Making intricate and sometimes unexpected...

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Télécharger le livre : Castles of our Conscience
Castles of our Conscience
William G. Staples
Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework...

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Télécharger le livre : Gender, Identity and Place
Gender, Identity and Place
Linda Mcdowell
Feminist approaches within the social sciences have expanded enormously since the 1960s. In addition, in recent years, geographic perspectives have become increasingly significant as feminist recognition of the differences between women, their diverse experiences in...

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Télécharger le livre : Conversations with Anthony Giddens
Conversations with Anthony Giddens
Anthony Giddens , Christopher Pierson
Anthony Giddens has been described as 'the most important English social philosopher of our time'. Over twenty-five years, and even more books, he has established himself as the most widely-read and widely-cited social theorist of his generation. His ideas have...

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Collection : Conversations PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Edmund Husserl
Edmund Husserl
Dermot Moran
Dermot Moran provides a lucid, engaging, and critical introduction to Edmund Husserl's philosophy, with specific emphasis on his development of phenomenology. This book is a comprehensive guide to Husserl's thought from its origins in nineteenth-century concerns...

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Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Global Covenant
Global Covenant
David Held
In this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of international politics in the aftermath of 9/11 and the war against Iraq. He argues that there were and are alternatives to the way the...

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Télécharger le livre : Invented Moralities
Invented Moralities
Jeffrey Weeks
This is an important intervention in debates on the family and sexuality, exploring clashes over sexual values and contemporary sexual dilemmas such as AIDS.

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Télécharger le livre : Ethnicity
Ethnicity
Steve Fenton
In this extensively revised edition, Steve Fenton updates his concise and accessible introduction to ethnicity, drawing on new published work and recent social and historical changes. Discussing an extended range of theorists and illustrations from around the world,...

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Collection : Key Concepts PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Hollywood in the Information Age
Hollywood in the Information Age
Janet Wasko
This is a major new assessment of the American movie industry in the 1990's, focusing on the development of new communication technologies such as cable and home video and examining their impact on the production and distribution of motion pictures.

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Télécharger le livre : Identity and Modernity in Latin America
Identity and Modernity in Latin America
Jorge Larrain
In this important new book Jorge Larrain examines the trajectories of modernity and identity in Latin America and their reciprocal relationships. Drawing on a large body of work across a vast historical and geographical range, he offers an innovative and wide-ranging...

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Télécharger le livre : Beyond Duty
Beyond Duty
Shannon Meehan , Roger Thompson
Under the blazing Iraqi sun in the summer of 2007, Shannon Meehan, a lieutenant in the U.S. Army, ordered a strike that would take the lives of innocent Iraqi civilians. He thought he was doing the right thing. He thought he was protecting his men. He thought that he...

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Parution : 2013-04-30
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Télécharger le livre : Modern German Literature
Modern German Literature
Michael Minden
This accessible and fresh account of German writing since 1750 is a case study of literature as a cultural and spiritual resource in modern societies. Beginning with the emergence of German language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century,...

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Collection : Cultural History of Literature PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : Landscapes of Capital
Landscapes of Capital
Robert Goldman , Stephen Papson
Every era has its dominant representations. Just as landscape painters of previous centuries captured and expressed new modes of perceiving history, corporate advertisers now devise the imagined landscapes of global capitalism. Advertising functions as an omnipresent...

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