Télécharger le livre :  What is the History of the Book?
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages. Students, teachers, researchers and general readers...

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Parution : 2018-01-08
Collection : What is History? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Expulsion of the Other
The days of the Other are over in this age of excessive communication, information and consumption. What used to be the Other, be it as friend, as Eros or as hell, is now indistinguishable from the self in our narcissistic desire to assimilate everything and everyone...

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Military History?
The third edition of What is Military History? has been thoroughly updated, and includes a new bibliography and new case studies on naval warfare and the origins of war, as well as expanded sections on historiography, environmental history and world history. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-12-21
Collection : What is History? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Pain
Pain in one form or another is probably the most common symptom presented to medical and healthcare professionals. Long a subject of biomedical interest, more recent biopsychosocial theories have extended the study of pain as a concept which is highly individual in the...

Editeur : Polity
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Collection : Key Themes in Health and Social Care ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Society of Fear
From the rise of terrorism to the uncertainties associated with economic crisis and recession, our age is characterized by fear. Fear is the expression of a society on unstable foundations. Most of us feel that our social status is under threat and our future prospects...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sex Media
Media are central to our experiences and understandings of sex, whether in the form of familiar 'mainstream' genres, pornographies and other sex genres, or the new zones, interactions and technosexualities made possible by the internet and mobile devices. In this...

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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Childhood
Colin Heywood's classic account of childhood from the early Middle Ages to the First World War combines a long-run historical perspective with a broad geographical spread. This new, comprehensively updated edition incorporates the findings of the most recent research,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Marx
Karl Marx was the first theorist of global capitalism and remains perhaps its most trenchant critic. This clear and innovative book, from one of the leading contemporary experts on Marx's thought, gives us a fresh overview of his ideas by framing them within concepts...

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Parution : 2017-12-08
Collection : Classic Thinkers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Europe's Crises
Today, the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises – the euro crisis, the migration/refugee...

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Télécharger le livre :  Shell Shocked
What is it that leaves us shell shocked in the face of the massacres carried out in New York on 9/11 or in Paris on 13 November 2015? How are we to explain the intensity of the reaction to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo? Answering these questions involves trying to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Mass Starvation
The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Why Demography Matters
Demography is not destiny. As Giacomo Casanova explained over two centuries ago: 'There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our own lives.' Today we are shaping them and our societies more than ever before. Globally, we have never had fewer children per...

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Télécharger le livre :  What is the History of Emotions?
What Is the History of Emotions? offers an accessible path through the thicket of approaches, debates, and past and current trends in the history of emotions. Although historians have always talked about how people felt in the past, it is only in the last two decades...

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Télécharger le livre :  Suburban Planet
The urban century manifests itself at the peripheries. While the massive wave of present urbanization is often referred to as an 'urban revolution', most of this startling urban growth worldwide is happening at the margins of cities. This book is about the process that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-12-01
Collection : Urban Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Chinese Political Thought
China's rapid rise as a regional and global power is one of the most important political developments of the twenty-first century. Yet the West still largely overlooks or oversimplifies the complex ideas and ideals that have shaped the country’s national and...

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Parution : 2017-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Narcocapitalism
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Search Engine Society
Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet there is growing concern with how algorithms, which run just beneath the surface of our interactions online, are affecting society. This timely new edition ofSearch Engine Society enlightens readers on the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-27
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Global Labour Studies
From the rise of fully automated factories to the creation of new migrant workforces, the world of work, employment and production is rapidly changing. By reshaping the global distribution of wealth, jobs and opportunities, these processes are unleashing profound social...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-27
Collection : Work & Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Internet of Things
More objects and devices are connected to digital networks than ever before. Things - from your phone to your car, from the heating to the lights in your house - have gathered the ability to sense their environments and create information about what is happening. Things...

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Parution : 2017-11-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Childhood Studies
What does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a key site where children come to understand themselves as particular kinds of people, not only as individuals but also as members of social...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-27
Collection : Short Introductions ePub

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