Télécharger le livre :  How Green is Your Smartphone?
Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be “green.” All anyone needs is the latest smartphone.  In this succinct and lively book,...

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Parution : 2020-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender Theory in Troubled Times
Theorizing gender is more urgent and highly political than ever before. These are times, in many countries, of increased visibility of women in public life and high-profile campaigns against sexual violence and harassment. Challenges to fixed, traditional gender norms...

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Télécharger le livre :  Lifestyle Gurus
The rise of blogs and social media provide a public platform for people to share information online. This trend has facilitated an industry of self-appointed ‘lifestyle gurus’ who have become instrumental in the management of intimacy and social relations. Advice on...

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Parution : 2020-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Michael Walzer
Michael Walzer is one of the world’s most important political thinkers, whose major works, such as Spheres of Justice and Just and Unjust Wars, have transformed many central debates in contemporary political philosophy. In this book, Toby J. Reiner provides the most...

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Parution : 2020-01-16
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Cultural Sociology?
Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. Cultural sociologists aim to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of...

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Parution : 2020-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Digital Economy
Boasting trillion-dollar companies, the digital economy profits from our emotions, our relationships with each other, and the ways we interact with the world. In this timely book, Tim Jordan deftly explores the workings of the digital economy. He discusses the hype and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Prefigurative Politics
Many of us wonder what we could possibly do to end oppression, exploitation, and injustice. People have studied revolutions and protest movements for centuries, but few have focused on prefigurative politics, the idea of 'building the new society within the shell of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Journalism
In the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline. Among the most significant changes affecting...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for Community Wealth Building
Our broken economic model drives inequality and disempowerment, lining the pockets of corporations while extracting wealth from local communities. How can we reverse this?  Joe Guinan and Martin O’Neill argue for an approach that uses the power of democratic...

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Parution : 2020-01-14
Collection : The Case For ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Ethics?
Ethics is a field of study that we all need. This is because we all make choices, and ethics is about the general norms that govern how we should make those choices. Not surprisingly, there is disagreement over what the “norms” are, but by working through such...

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Parution : 2020-01-14
Collection : What is Philosophy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Digital Divide
Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years.In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Environmental Economics
Too often, economics disassociates humans from nature, the economy from the biosphere that contains it, and sustainability from fairness. When economists do engage with environmental issues, they typically reduce their analysis to a science of efficiency that leaves...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society
Now in its fourth edition, Civil Society has become a major work of reference for those who seek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action in a troubled world. Recent economic and political developments do not bode well for the theory and practice of civil...

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Télécharger le livre :  Is Self-Determination a Dangerous Illusion?
Claims to self-determination are rife in world politics today. They range from Scottish and Catalonian campaigns for independence to calls for the devolution of power to regions and cities. But is self-determination meaningful or desirable in the twenty-first century,...

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Parution : 2020-01-13
Collection : Political Theory Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Music Industry
Since the first edition was published in 2009, Patrik Wikström's The Music Industry has become a go-to text for students and scholars. This thoroughly updated third edition provides an international overview of the music industry and its future prospects in the world of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-01-09
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Money
Few economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins that circulated at the dawn human civilization to the era of ‘virtual’ money transmitted through cyberspace, it is ubiquitous and hugely important, yet...

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Parution : 2020-01-08
Collection : What is Political Economy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Nordic Civil Sphere
The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Communication and Artificial Intelligence
Communication and artificial intelligence (AI) are closely related. It is communication – particularly interpersonal conversational interaction – that provides AI with its defining test case and experimental evidence. Likewise, recent developments in AI introduce new...

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Parution : 2020-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Debt Delusion
‘Governments should spend no more than their tax income.’ Most people in Europe and North America accept this statement as simple common sense. It resonates with the deeply engrained economic metaphors that dominate public discourse, from ‘living within your means’ to...

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Parution : 2020-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Limits of Epistemology
At the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with the world? How can we state success conditions for knowledge claims without somehow transcending our discursive and fallible nature...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-12-23
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