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How the World Became Rich Mark Koyama , Jared Rubin Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich? Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin dive into the many theories of why modern economic growth... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-03-14 ePub 20,83 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Getting China Wrong Aaron L. Friedberg The West’s strategy of engagement with China has failed. More than three decades of trade and investment with the advanced democracies have left that country far richer and stronger than it would otherwise have been. But growth and development have not caused China’s... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-03-14 ePub 22,36 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ways of Being Alive Andrew Brown , Baptiste Morizot The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility – that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-03-07 ePub 20,83 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
What is Sexual Capital? Eva Illouz , Dana Kaplan This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-03-02 PDF, ePub 11,54 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Interventions 2020 Michel Houellebecq The death of God in the West was the prelude to a metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated,... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-03-02 ePub 17,89 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
One Beat More Kevin Aho A keen athlete in his late forties, philosophy professor Kevin Aho hadn’t given much thought to his own mortality, until he suffered a sudden heart attack that left him fighting for his life. Confronted with death for the first time, he realized that the things he... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-25 PDF, ePub 18,48 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Hairless Laura Mcgloughlin , Bel Olid Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-25 ePub 11,54 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Gender and Sexuality Stevi Jackson , Momin Rahman This new introduction to the sociology of gender and sexuality offers a fresh take on the importance of these concepts in modern society. It provides an insight into our rapidly changing attitudes towards sex and our understanding of masculine and feminine identities,... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-25 ePub 20,83 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The United States vs. China C. Fred Bergsten After leading the world economy for a century, the United States faces the first real challenge to its supremacy in the rise of China. Is economic (or broader) conflict, well beyond the trade and technology war that has already erupted, inevitable between the world’s... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-24 ePub 28,89 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Integration Nation Adrian Favell The notion of ‘immigrant integration’ is used everywhere – by politicians, policy makers, journalists and researchers – as an all-encompassing framework for rebuilding ‘unity from diversity’ after large-scale immigration. Promising a progressive middle way between... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-08 Collection : Immigration and Society PDF, ePub 19,60 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Common Good Constitutionalism Adrian Vermeule The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the “living constitutionalism” of progressives. Is it time to look for an alternative?... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-08 ePub 17,36 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Slum Acts Veena Das This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces,... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-02-01 Collection : After the Postcolonial PDF 51,97 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Invention of the 'Underclass' Loïc Wacquant At century’s close, American social scientists, policy analysts, philanthropists and politicians became obsessed with a fearsome and mysterious new group said to be ravaging the ghetto: the urban “underclass.” Soon the scarecrow category and its demonic imagery were... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-28 PDF, ePub 18,48 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Human Rights Michael Freeman Human Rights, now in its fourth edition, is an introductory text that is both innovative and challenging. Its unique interdisciplinary approach invites students to think imaginatively and rigorously about one of the most important and influential political concepts of... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-26 Collection : Key Concepts ePub 20,83 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Rise of Ecofascism Sam Moore , Alex Roberts The world faces a climate crisis and an ascendant far right. Are these trends related? How does the far right think about the environment, and what openings does the coming crisis present for them? This incisive new book traces the long history of far-right... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-26 ePub 17,36 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Making Light Work David A. Spencer Is work a primordial curse? Or a spiritual calling? Or is it a tedious necessity that technology will abolish, freeing us to indulge lives of leisure? In this book David A. Spencer argues that work is only an alienating burden because of the nature of work under... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-19 ePub 18,48 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Should We Ban Killer Robots? Deane Baker Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction – but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried, or is this a normal development in the technology of war? In this accessible volume ethicist Deane Baker cuts through the... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-19 Collection : Political Theory Today PDF, ePub 11,54 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
We Slaves of Suriname Anton De Kom , David Mckay Anton de Kom’s We Slaves of Suriname is a literary masterpiece as well as a fierce indictment of racism and colonialism. In this classic book, published here in English for the first time, the Surinamese writer and resistance leader recounts the history of his homeland,... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-19 ePub 18,48 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Solar Politics Oxana Timofeeva This book is a philosophical essay on the sun. It draws on Georges Bataille’s theories of the solar economy and solar violence and demonstrates their relevance to a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The sun, which, since Antiquity, has played... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-19 Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub 11,54 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
The Temptation of the Wall Alice Kilgarriff , Massimo Recalcati Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the... Editeur : Polity Parution : 2022-01-13 ePub 15,01 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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