Télécharger le livre :  Law and Order
Law and order has become a key issue throughout the world. Crime stories saturate the mass media and politicians shrilly compete with each other in a race to be the toughest on crime. Prisons are crammed to bursting point, and police powers and resources extended...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-22
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  French Literature
This book is the first to offer a cultural history of French literature from its very beginnings, analysing the relationship between French literature and France’s evolving power structures from the Middle Ages through to the present day. It shows the political...

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Gender History?
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the...

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Parution : 2013-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press
Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson. Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing...

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Parution : 2013-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror
In recent years the mass murder of thousands of innocent civilians by al Qaeda terrorists has plumbed the depths of criminality and immorality. Yet it is the response to those attacks, particularly by the United States, that has provoked widespread accusations that the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-22
Collection : War and Conflict in the Modern World PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  On Love
All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the...

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Parution : 2013-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of War and Peace
This book presents a clear and comprehensive introduction to the diverse and wide-ranging ethical aspects of war and peace. In a fair-minded and engaging analysis, Nigel Dower introduces the different ethical theories in traditional and contemporary debates –...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Development, Security and Unending War
According to politicians, we now live in a radically interconnected world. Unless there is international stability - even in the most distant places - the West's way of life is threatened. In meeting this global danger, reducing poverty and developing the unstable...

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Télécharger le livre :  Shopping
We spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take shopping for granted. Indeed, culture can only ‘work’ by being taken for granted. This paradox – that what is most familiar, like...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-19
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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 :  Eighteenth Century English Literature
This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Cultural History of Literature PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond the Two-State Solution
For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line - that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined...

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernity
We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins by returning to the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Imperialism and Global Political Economy
In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Global Governance
In today’s uncertain world, the concept of global governance has never been more relevant or widely discussed. But what does this elusive idea really mean, and why has it become so important? This pacey introduction sheds new light on the issues involved, offering...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Key Concepts PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  How to Stop Living and Start Worrying
The question of how to lead a happy and meaningful life has been at the heart of philosophical debate since time immemorial. Today, however, these questions seem to be addressed not by philosophers but self-help gurus, who frantically champion the individual's quest for...

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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Murder
This book offers a fascinating and insightful overview of seven centuries of murder in Europe. It tells the story of the changing face of violence and documents the long-term decline in the incidence of homicide. From medieval vendettas to stylised duels, from the crime...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo has become one of the world's bloodiest hot spots. 2003 saw the end of a five-year war in which millions lost their lives - one of the deadliest conflicts since World War II. Despite recent peace agreements and democratic elections, the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-18
Collection : Hot Spots in Global Politics PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Media and Morality
Roger Silverstone's compelling new book places the global media at the heart of the moral future of civilisation. It argues that the media (the press, broadcasting, the Internet and increasingly peer-to-peer technologies and networks) have a profound significance for...

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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Life
'Liquid life’ is the kind of life commonly lived in our contemporary, liquid-modern society. Liquid life cannot stay on course, as liquid-modern society cannot keep its shape for long. Liquid life is a precarious life, lived under conditions of constant uncertainty. The...

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