Télécharger le livre :  Unwinnable Wars

In nine short days, Taliban forces destroyed two decades of American armed statebuilding in Afghanistan. This was no isolated failure. Over the last century, almost every attempt to intervene militarily to prop up or reconstruct an allied state has seen similar dismal...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Claudia Jones

Activist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total emancipation of working people, Jones’s legacy made an enduring mark on both sides of the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08
Collection : Black Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Coal and Steel

In the 1970s, the economic and social foundations of Western Europe underwent an unprecedented transformation. Old industries like coal and steel disappeared, millions of people lost their jobs and formerly flourishing towns and cities went into decline.  Traditional...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Masters

From the breweries of Colorado and the faculties of Harvard to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Marco D’Eramo guides us through the places where a new war has been thought out, planned and financed. It’s a real war, though it has been fought silently, without us...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Stop Thief!

Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be concealed, even...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Families

In this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08
Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise and Fall of Generation Now

Is the future about to close in, or is it open to new horizons? For anthropologist Tim Ingold, the root of our difficulty in facing up to the future lies in the way we think about generations. We imagine them as layers, succeeding one another like sheets in a stack....
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief Global History of the Left

What is happening to the Left? It seems to be dying a slow death. While many commentators have predicted its demise, the Left has always defied these bleak prognoses and risen from the ashes in the most unexpected ways. Nevertheless, we are witnessing today a global...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia and Ukraine

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities, and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a Western evacuation offer and Ukrainians rallied to defend their country. What are the roots of this war,...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Trade Weapon

Prompted by geostrategic rivalry and the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and the climate transition, trade policy is increasingly being weaponized. This trend towards protectionist capture and retaliation is self-sabotaging and bad for growth. But there is another way. In this...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Good Enough Life

This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.  Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  When Science Meets Power

Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied. Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  The Republic of China

The declaration of the Republic of China in 1912 signalled an entirely new era. Not only did the revolution of 1911–12 bring about the fall of the Qing dynasty: it also brought an end to the entire series of dynasties that had marked Chinese history for over two...
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Parution : 2023-11-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Recognition in the Age of Social Media

The desire to be recognized is a basic human trait. In contemporary society, social media platforms play a key role in defining how processes of recognition take shape. To post, to like, or to comment have become daily practices of expressing individual recognition. On...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Democratic Regression

There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for populist leaders and parties.  But this way of thinking prevents us from seeing that the rise of populism may be linked to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Foreverism

What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-30
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kindertransport

In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Guarded Age

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 came to symbolize the dawn of a new era of openness and connectivity. Yet today, the world is ever more divided, demarcated, and – quite literally – fortified. We are living in a guarded age. Why and how has this happened? Where will...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Conspiracy and Power

Conspiracy theories are neither delusions nor lies, neither simplistic fallacies nor psychological quirks: rather, they are a political problem. They are not so much about truth as about power. Rather than seeking to debunk conspiracy theories as the work of fringe...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-23

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Télécharger le livre :  Vita Contemplativa

In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-23

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