Télécharger le livre :  Education in China
Throughout its history, education in China has played a pivotal role in the nation’s governance, civic society, and the social and cultural lives of its citizens. Today we see a nation grappling with how to modernize and internationalize its education system, while...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-05-07
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Coal
By making available the almost unlimited energy stored in prehistoric plant matter, coal enabled the industrial age – and it still does. Coal today generates more electricity worldwide than any other energy source, helping to drive economic growth in major emerging...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-05-07
Collection : Resources ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Should We Abolish Household Debts?
We live in a culture of credit. As wages have stagnated, we’ve seen a dramatic surge in private borrowing across the western world; increasing numbers of households are sucked into a hopeless vortex of spiralling debt, fuelled by exploitative lending. In this book...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Trump
The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States sent shockwaves across the globe. How was such an outcome even possible? In two lectures given at American universities in the immediate aftermath of the election, the leading French philosopher Alain Badiou...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Russian Politics
Vladimir Putin’s return to the Kremlin for a fourth presidential term in 2018 has seen Russian democracy weaken further and Russia’s relations with the West deteriorate seriously. Yet, within Russia, Putin’s position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Diplomacy
New technologies have opened up fresh possibilities for public diplomacy, but this has not erased the importance of history. On the contrary, the lessons of the past seem more relevant than ever, in an age in which communications play an unprecedented role. Whether...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-15
Collection : Contemporary Political Communication ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Communication
Communication studies is a fragmented field. As a result of its roots in various disciplinary traditions, it is built on fluid intellectual boundaries with no theoretical or analytical center. Should we worry about this state of dispersion or be concerned that the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Cyberdiplomacy
The world has been sleep-walking into cyber chaos.The spread of misinformation via social media and the theft of data and intellectual property, along with regular cyberattacks, threaten the fabric of modern societies. All the while, the Internet of Things increases the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Living Well at Others' Expense
At the heart of developed societies lies an insatiable drive for wealth and prosperity. Yet in a world ruled by free-market economics, there are always winners and losers. The benefits enjoyed by the privileged few come at the expense of the many. In this important new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  This is Not Just a Painting
In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Silk Road Trap
For almost two decades, China has claimed that its expanding economy benefits Europe, stimulating European growth, exports, and employment. But the reality is not so clear-cut. Whilst individual companies may have profited from China’s economic rise,unbalanced trade...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of British Foreign Policy
Since 1945, Britain has had to cope with a slow descent from international primacy. The decline in global influence was intended to be offset by the United Kingdom’s entry into Europe in 1975, with the result that national foreign policy came to rest on the two pillars...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Policy
How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members?How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental questions addressed by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-12
Collection : Short Introductions ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Will of the People
Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge elected representatives. Politicians, content to invoke the will of the people, fail in their duty to make responsible and accountable...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Can Science Make Sense of Life?
Since the discovery of the structure of DNA and the birth of the genetic age, a powerful vocabulary has emerged to express science’s growing command over the matter of life. Armed with knowledge of the code that governs all living things, biology and biotechnology are...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Political Theory
Western political theory typically incorporates certain assumptions about sex and gender as natural, unvarying and “pre-political.”  This book critically examines these assumptions and shows how recent scholarship undermines the illusion that bodies exist outside...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
Collection : And Political Theory ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Promise of the East
How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent ‘Thousand-Year Reich’? Between 1939 and 1943, the Nazi imperial Utopia started to take shape in the conquered areas of Eastern Europe, brutally emptied of their inhabitants, who were displaced, reduced to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of the Civilizational State
In recent years culture has become the primary currency of politics – from the identity politics that characterized the 2016 American election to the pushback against Western universalism in much of the non-Western world.  Much less noticed is the rise of a new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Visual Culture
This is a book about how to read visual images: from fine art to photography, film, television and new media. It explores how meaning is communicated by the wide variety of texts that inhabit our increasingly visual world. But, rather than simply providing set meanings...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains
From their shadowy origins in Bitcoin to their use by multinational corporations, cryptocurrencies and blockchains are remaking the rules of digital media and society. Meanwhile, regulators, governments, and the public are trying to make sense of it all. In this...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-03-05
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