Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary China

With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  International Relations

International relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosophic foundations draw on centuries of thinking about human nature, power and authority, justice and injustice, the idea of sovereignty and the implications...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Brazil

Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-09
Collection : Polity Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowing Pain

Pain, while known to almost everyone, is not universal. The evidence of our own pain, and our own experience, does not provide us with automatic insight into the pains of others, past or present. No matter how self-evident and ubiquitous the sting of a paper cut or the...
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Parution : 2023-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Music

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness. Nicholas Cook...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Freud and Psychoanalysis

John Forrester’s passionate yet probing engagement with Freud and psychoanalysis is legendary. Here, in six introductory lectures delivered to his students at the University of Cambridge, his range and lucidity bring the evolution of Freud’s thinking and the nature of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Protest Politics Today

Social movements play a vital and increasingly visible role in modern politics.  Headline-grabbing demonstrations against authoritarian governments, police brutality, economic inequality, and other grievances suggest that, around the world, social movements are seen as...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-03

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Télécharger le livre :  How the West Lost the Peace

When the Berlin Wall was stormed and the Soviet Union fell apart, the West and above all the United States looked like the sole victors of history. Three decades later, the spirit of triumph rings hollow. What went wrong? In this sequel to his award-winning history of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-25

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Télécharger le livre :  The Paradox of Freedom

The Paradox of Freedom is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Alternative and Activist New Media

Over the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people’s engagement with media: media audiences are now also makers, influencers, followers, gamers, trolls, and data subjects. This turbulent social and technological context has created new...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-20
Collection : Digital Media and Society
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Télécharger le livre :  February 1933

It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Why We Disagree about Inequality

Why do we disagree about the causes of and solutions to social inequality? What explains our different viewpoints on Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, income inequality, and immigration? In this tightly argued book, John Iceland, Eric Silver, and Ilana Redstone show how two...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Latour-Stengers

Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy – and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted for over thirty...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Taking Control

Taking Control argues that neither side in the Brexit debate really understood the European Union or what was involved in reclaiming Britain's sovereignty. The EU is neither a supranational nanny state, nor an internationalist peace project. It is the means by which...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology

This book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a “strong program” in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural pragmatics of social performance, and his hermeneutical approach...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Age of Catastrophe

The world is entering a new age of catastrophe.The exceptional is becoming normal.The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats – the COVID-19 pandemic,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Believability

The #MeToo movement created more opportunities for women to speak up about sexual assault. But we are also living in a time when “fake news” and “alternative facts” call into question the very nature of truth. This troubling paradox is at the heart of this compelling...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  When Disasters Come Home

In the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming home’ with a vengeance. From global warming to migration crises, from assaults on democracy to Covid-19 and the fall-out of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia Against Modernity

Putin’s war is a “special operation” against modernity. The invasion has been directed against Ukraine, but the war has a broader target: the modern world of climate awareness, energy transition and digital labor. By trading oil and gas, promoting Trump and Brexit,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The War on Critical Race Theory

“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving communities. In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David Theo...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-04-03

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