Télécharger le livre :  A Green and Global Europe

After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-14

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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Fatigue

"Stress," "burn out," "mental overload": the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy at Work

In the countries of the global North, workplace democracy may be thought of as a thing of the past. Increasingly, working relations are regulated primarily by contract; workforces are fissured and fragmented. What are the consequences of this? How should we respond?...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-12

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Télécharger le livre :  How Cities Can Transform Democracy

We live in an urban age. It is well known that urbanization is changing landscapes, built environments, social infrastructures and everyday lives across the globe. But urbanization is also changing the ways we understand and practise politics. What implications does...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Crime and Control in China

China is a transitional society with one of the highest inequality rates in the world. Criminologists would typify this as a highly toxic combination, creating very high levels of crime. YetChina reports extremely low crime rates. How might this be? With this book,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-12
Collection : China Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Phenomenology

Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly developed in...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Algorithmic Intimacy

Artificial intelligence not only powers our cars, hospitals and courtrooms: predictive algorithms are becoming deeply lodged inside us too. Machine intelligence is learning our private preferences and discreetly shaping our personal behaviour, telling us how to live,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Screen Damage

All forms of recreational digital consumption – whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs – have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13,...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Science Studies Meets Colonialism

The field of science and technology studies has long critiqued the idea that there is such a thing as a universal and singular "Science" that exists independently of human society, interpretation, and action. However, the multiple significant ways in which colonial...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Tomorrow is Here

Navid Kermani is not only one of Germany’s most distinguished writers and public intellectuals, he is also an outstanding public speaker who mesmerizes audiences with his well-crafted sentences and turns of phrase. Whether he is speaking about the plight of refugees or...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Group Life

Sociological analysis is replete with debates about “micro” and “macro,” individual and society, but all too often these miss the point: interacting groups are the hinge that connects the two. To understand how structures matter and how individuals navigate them, we...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Europe's Coming of Age

European integration has had many successes and failures, Brexit being one of the biggest failures. Despite the setbacks, the EU has been acquiring more functions and members and has now reached a stage where it needs to become a political adult. In this book, one of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-04

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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Sovereignty

This book brings together Antonio Negri’s critical writings on the nature and form of the modern state. The central theme that runs through these writings is our need to be done with the sovereign state – that is, with the particular form of political power that the...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Refugee System

Some people facing violence and persecution flee. Others stay. How do households in danger decide who should go, where to relocate, and whether to keep moving? What are the conditions in countries of origin, transit, and reception that shape people's options? This...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  The Vicissitudes of Nature

The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics.  We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-29

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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming an Artwork

Modern history is a history of aesthetizations – and every aesthetization raises a claim of protection. We aestheticize and want to protect almost everything, including Earth, oceans, the atmosphere, rare animal species and exotic plants. Humans are no exception. They...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-28
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Affirmative Action Fair?

Affirmative action in college admissions – considering whether an applicant is part of an underrepresented group when making selection decisions – has long been a topic of heated public debate. Some argue that it undermines racial equity. Others advocate for its ability...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-23
Collection : Debating Race
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Télécharger le livre :  Applied Ethics

Philosophy has provided us with a wealth of moral and ethical theories. Applied ethics is the study of practical moral issues and our best philosophical theories, and how each can inform the other. Acclaimed philosopher and textbook author Robin Attfield invites...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Deepfakes

What happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a politician and they will generate a convincing video in which that person appears to say and do things they have never actually said...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Xi Jinping

If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-22

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