Télécharger le livre :  Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It
Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it?    In this...

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Parution : 2024-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Self-Esteem
By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was being published and, before long, devoured by readers. Self-esteem initiatives permeated American...

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Parution : 2024-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Homo Numericus
From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market...

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Télécharger le livre :  Familiar Violence
Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...

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Parution : 2024-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertain Times
The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned...

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Parution : 2024-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls
In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe.  First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also...

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Parution : 2024-01-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of Narration
Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their...

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Parution : 2024-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Environmental Challenges
China’s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book, noted scholar of Chinese environmentalism Judith Shapiro exploresChina’s...

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Parution : 2024-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Iran
Both revolutionary and reactionary, the Islamic Republic of Iran has long been a conundrum for Western observers. A theocracy that aspires to a popular mandate; an anti-colonial state with imperial pretensions of its own: modern Iran is in many ways a reflection of its...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Superyachts
A superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these vessels in the world; two decades and a financial crisis later, there...

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Parution : 2024-01-08
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Télécharger le livre :  A Century of Labour
Britain’s first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party's performance over the last 100 years, and with an election pending, the character and purpose of the modern party. Labour defined the dominant...

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Parution : 2024-01-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Think
A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as Homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one preoccupation, there is little room for reflection. Technology is also...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Reputational Security
We are living in turbulent times, witnessing renewed international conflict, resurgent nationalism, declining multilateralism, and a torrent of hostile propaganda. How are we to understand these developments and conduct diplomacy in their presence? Nicholas J. Cull, the...

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Parution : 2023-12-22
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Télécharger le livre :  A Life in the American Century
For the past eight decades, we have lived in “the American Century” – a period during which the US has enjoyed unrivalled power – be it political, economic or military - on the global stage.  Born on the cusp of this new era, Joseph S. Nye Jr. has spent a lifetime...

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Parution : 2023-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Israelis and Palestinians
Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this compelling and timely book, the eminent moral philosopher Jonathan...

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Parution : 2023-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Body and Gender
Even though we often think of bodies as natural and given, or else as freely plastic objects, bodies are both constructed and fundamental to our sense of self. This book investigates the body as an essential vector of inequality, shaped by institutions, interaction and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-12-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Food in a Just World
Food in a Just World examines the violence, social breakdown, and environmental consequences of our global system of food production, distribution, and consumption, where each step of the process is built on some form of exploitation. While highlighting the broken...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-12-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Maimonides
The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine, and for an influence that extends into the wider world. His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is notoriously...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Mobility
Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of persistent political interest and concern.Social mobility is frequently used...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-28
Collection : Key Concepts ePub

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