Télécharger le livre :  Austerity
Austerity has been at the center of political controversy following the 2008 financial crisis, invoked by politicians and academics across the political spectrum as the answer to, or cause of, our post-crash economic malaise. However, despite being the cause of debate...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-10-14
Collection : What is Political Economy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Undocumented Migration
Undocumented migration is a global and yet elusive phenomenon. Despite contemporary efforts to patrol national borders and mass deportation programs, it remains firmly placed at the top of the political agenda in many countries where it receives hostile media coverage...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Should Robots Replace Teachers?
Developments in AI, robotics and big data are changing the nature of education. Yet the implications of these technologies for the teaching profession are uncertain. While most educators remain convinced of the need for human teachers, outside the profession there is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-10-11
Collection : Digital Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Telemachus Complex
Fatherhood today is in crisis. Fathers have gone missing, or have become their children’s playmates, and the symbolic authority of the father has lost its power. What remains of the father today in the wake of this decline, and what should the relation between children...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Health Promotion
Searching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be just as disempowering as empowering. This engaging overview critically examines the theoretical underpinning of digital health promotion...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-10-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics and the Anthropocene
The Anthropocene has become central to understanding the intimate connections between human life and the natural environment, but it has fractured our sense of time and possibility. What implications does that fracturing have for how we should think about politics in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Identity Politics in the United States
In 2017, a white supremacist rally at the University of Virginia forced many to consider how much progress had been made in a country that, nine years prior, had elected its first Black president. Beyond these racial flashpoints, the increasingly polarized nature of US...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  With Child
With a foreword by Lee Child.Andy Martin spent a year in the company of Lee Child, creator of tough-guy hero Jack Reacher. With Child is the diary of their adventures, tracking the publication and reception of Make Me, the writing of Night School at an apartment in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  International Conflict Management
International conflict has long plagued the world, and it continues to do so. With many interstate and civil disputes experiencing no third-party attempts at conflict management, how can the international community mitigate the effects of and ultimately end such...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Minsky
No economist has written more incisively and provocatively on financial crisis than Hyman Minsky. Minsky is best known for his claim that "stability is destabilizing" – that the seeds of the bust are sown in the boom. This financial instability hypothesis received...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Waste
Waste is one of the planet’s last great resource frontiers. From furniture made from up-cycled wood to gold extracted from computer circuit boards, artisans and multinational corporations alike are finding ways to profit from waste while diverting materials from...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Are Filter Bubbles Real?
There has been much concern over the impact of partisan echo chambers and filter bubbles on public debate. Is this concern justified, or is it distracting us from more serious issues? Axel Bruns argues that the influence of echo chambers and filter bubbles has been...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Disruption
Half a century ago Adorno and Horkheimer argued, with great prescience, that our increasingly rationalized world was witnessing the emergence of a new kind of barbarism, thanks in part to the stultifying effects of the culture industries. What they could not foresee was...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The End
The notion of ‘the end’ has long occupied philosophical thought. In light of the horrors of the twentieth century, some writers have gone so far as to declare the end of philosophy itself, emphasizing the impossibility of thinking after Auschwitz.    In this book the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics and Aesthetics
In this book the influential philosopher Jacques Rancière, in discussion with Peter Engelmann, explores the enduring connection between politics and aesthetics, arguing that aesthetics forms the fundamental basis for social and political upheaval. Beginning from his...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Cities Look the Way They Do
We tend to think cities look the way they do because of the conscious work of architects, planners and builders. But what if the look of cities had less to do with design, and more to do with social, cultural, financial and political processes, and the way ordinary...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Media Education Manifesto
In the age of social media, fake news and data-driven capitalism, the need for critical understanding is more urgent than ever. Half-baked ideas about ‘media literacy’ will lead us nowhere: we need a comprehensive and coherent educational approach. We all need to think...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Theory of the Hashtag
This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times.  The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate.  With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Manufacturing Happy Citizens
The imperative of happiness dictates the conduct and direction of our lives. There is no escape from the tyranny of positivity.  But is happiness the supreme good that all of us should pursue? So says a new breed of so-called happiness experts, with positive...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Resonance
The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-26
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