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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...

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Télécharger le livre :  A New Dawn for Politics
What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls built...

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Télécharger le livre :  Economic Rationality
Economics used to be called political economy, and the loss of the “political” tracks the ascendance of the idea of rational choice within the discipline. Where does this idea of economic rationality – choosing to maximize benefits and minimize costs – come from? What...

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Parution : 2022-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Everything and Nothing
Is it possible for reality as a whole to be part of itself?  Can the world appear within itself without thereby undermining the consistency of our thought and knowledge-claims concerning more local matters of fact? This is a question on which Markus Gabriel and Graham...

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Télécharger le livre :  My Year with God
How are Christians capable of believing? Is it faith or delusion? Or is there something wrong with me? I do not believe in spirits, gods, miracles, resurrection or eternal life. But I will seek to cast off my prejudices and give God a chance. At least for a year. Danish...

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Parution : 2022-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Spirit of Digital Capitalism
Digital technologies are now central to the machinations of capitalism. How are they giving rise to new forms of capital accumulation and domination? And in what terms are these changes being promoted and justified by a new and incredibly powerful elite? This book takes...

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Parution : 2022-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Clean Energy Transition
Is the goal of a transition to clean energy at all realistic? If so, how could it be accomplished? Climate change poses a formidable challenge for twenty-first-century governments. Unless they can move to a clean energy system built on efficiency, renewables,...

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Télécharger le livre :  United Kingdom
The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for centuries – as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre of the world’s biggest empire, and the home of an enduring and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Architecture of the Possible
As a philosopher and a novelist, Tristan Garcia inhabits two worlds, metaphysics and literary fiction, like an amphibious creature moving between the land and the sea, breathing in both air and water. He is drawn to metaphysics because, as he puts it, metaphysics is the...

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Parution : 2022-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Control
What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life?What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness a form of social control? Do we need more social controls to prevent...

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Parution : 2022-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  If Science is to Save Us
There has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet. But...

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Parution : 2022-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Money Work for Us
Is money precious and scarce, necessitating iron fiscal discipline? Must the government always balance the books or risk ruin? Or is money, in fact, a flexible tool that can be used to mobilize our collective resources to serve those who need them? In this book, leading...

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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Lying
Wherever there is life, there are lies. Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, swindling businessmen, double-crossing villains – all liars.  But nature lies too – the cheetah crouching in the tall grass...

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Parution : 2022-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  From Ashes to Text
According to some chronicles of the Spanish Conquest, the violent arrival of the Conquerors to the Andes in the sixteenth century led to sex-dissident people who lived outside the dominant European cisheteropatriarchal model being burned at the stake. This act burned...

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Parution : 2022-08-31
Collection : Critical South PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains whyZen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  COVID-19
Within days of the first reports of patients suffering from a mysterious pneumonia in Wuhan, scientists in China had produced a complete genetic sequence of the virus and confirmed that it was a novel SARS-like coronavirus. The genetic sequence was deposited in a public...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  War and Conflict in the Middle Ages
In War and Conflict in the Middle Ages, Stephen Morillo offers the first global history of armed conflict between 540 and 1500 or as late as 1800 CE, an age shaped by climate change and pandemics at both ends. Examining armed conflict at all levels, and ranging across...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Psychology
You are remarkable:You experience a vast range of thoughts and feelings, including falling in love, remembering last Tuesday, and contemplating the meaning of life. And you can carry all sorts of astonishing behaviours, such as sauntering down the street, singing in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-19
Collection : Why It Matters ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Culture of Democracy
Against the bleak backdrop of pressing issues in today’s world, civil societies remain vibrant, animated by people’s belief that they should and can solve such issues and build a better society. Their imagination of a good society, their understanding of their...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-19
Collection : Cultural Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Media and Events in History
The most intense hopes and fears of our collective lives centre around large-scale events – from competitions, celebrations and festivals to environmental disasters, pandemics and terror attacks.The media are a crucial part of this process: they enable the planning,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-08-17
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