Télécharger le livre :  Making the Familiar Unfamiliar
Shortly before his death, Zygmunt Bauman spent several days in conversation with the Swiss journalist Peter Haffner. Out of these conversations emerged this book in which Bauman shows himself to be the pre-eminent social thinker for which he became world renowned, a...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of the Institutional Press
As polarized factions in society pull apart from economic dislocation, tribalism, and fear, and as strident attacks on the press make its survival more precarious, the need for an institutionally organized forum in civic life has become increasingly important. Populist...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainability
Sustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how is it being implemented around the world? In this clear-eyed book,...

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Collection : Short Introductions ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Frances E. W. Harper
Free Black woman, poet, novelist, essayist, speaker, and activist, Frances Watkins Harper was one of the nineteenth century’s most important advocates of Abolitionism and female suffrage, and her pioneering work still has profound lessons for us today. In this new book,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Popular Culture
This fully updated second edition of Gender and Popular Culture examines the role of popular culture in the construction of gendered identities in contemporary society. It draws on a wide range of cultural forms – including popular music, social media, television and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Comrade Kerensky
As one of the heroes of the 1917 February Revolution and then Prime Minister at the head of the Provisional Government, Alexander Kerensky was passionately, even fanatically, lauded as a leader during his brief political reign. Symbolic artefacts – sculptures, badges...

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Collection : New Russian Thought ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois spent many decades fighting to ensure that African Americans could claim their place as full citizens and thereby fulfill the deeply compromised ideals of American democracy. Yet he died in Africa, having apparently given up on the United States.   In...

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Télécharger le livre :  Pearl Harbor
Hawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages 18 ships and...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Empire of Depression
Depression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 150 years ago, "depression" referred to a mood, not a sickness. Does that mean people weren't sick before, only sad? Of course not. Mental illness is a complex...

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Télécharger le livre :  Nomography
What if the most joyful act was not to transgress a norm but to erect it?What if creativity consisted in enunciating a law under the pretext of violating it? And what if it turned out that you, who claim to prefer exceptions, only talk about them because they allow you...

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Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Digital History?
Digital history is an emerging field that draws on digital technology and computational methods. A global enterprise that invites scholars worldwide to join forces, it presents exciting and novel ways we might explore, understand and represent the past. Hannu Salmi...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Disappearance of Butterflies
In the last fifty years our butterfly populations have declined by more than eighty per cent and butterflies are now facing the very real prospect of extinction. It is hard to remember the time when fields and meadows were full of these beautiful, delicate creatures –...

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Télécharger le livre :  Augmented Reality
Slated as ‘the next big thing in tech’, augmented reality promises to take the screen out of our hands and wrap it around the world via ‘smart spectacles’. As a pervasive, invisible interface between the world and our senses, AR offers unparalleled capacity to reveal...

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Télécharger le livre :  Empires
Empires have been the commonest form of political organization for most of recorded history. How should we best understand them? What are their principles and how do they differ from other political forms, such as the nation-state? What sort of relations between rulers...

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Parution : 2020-10-22
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Correspondences
We inhabit a world of more than humans. For life to flourish, we must listen to the calls this world makes on us, and respond with care, sensitivity and judgement. That is what it means to correspond, to join our lives with those of the beings, matters and elements with...

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Parution : 2020-10-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Commodification and Its Discontents
Should human organs be bought and sold? Is it right that richer people should be able to pay poorer people to wait in a queue for them?Should objects in museums ever be sold? The assumption underlying such questions is that there are things that should not be bought and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Effects
Does exposure to media violence make us more violent? Do stereotypes in the media affect the way we see different social groups? Do media institutions play any role in social change? Media Effects is a concise introduction which studies the ways in which media use...

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Collection : Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Spinoza
Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work, Ethics (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His scandalous Theological-Political...

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Collection : Classic Thinkers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Correspondence
Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century.  While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nature of Conspiracy Theories
Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones – that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the...

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