Télécharger le livre :  Social Research
This unique book explains the central role that research paradigms play in the design and conduct of social research. The authors argue that social research should not just describe or confirm a social problem but should seek to find an explanation for it ? and to do so...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  What Journalism Could Be
What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism?s leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism?s...

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Parution : 2017-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Multiculturalism Dead?
Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had a policy under that name. This authoritative book reviews the different meanings multiculturalism has acquired across theories, countries,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Scramble for Africa
Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan. China's part in this story has loomed particularly large in recent years, and the American military footprint on the continent has also...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Protest in Putin's Russia
The Russian protests, sparked by the 2011 Duma election, have been widely portrayed as a colourful but inconsequential middle-class rebellion, confined to Moscow and organized by an unpopular opposition. In this sweeping new account of the protests, Mischa Gabowitsch...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Bioethics
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to contemporary bioethics. It also presents provocative, philosophically informed arguments on current bioethical issues. Holland engages with debates ranging from the more familiar ? such as euthanasia, advance...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Radical Innovators
In this book leading cultural anthropologist Anton Blok sheds new light on the lives and achievements of pioneers who revolutionized science and art over the past five centuries, demonstrating that adversity rather than talent alone was crucial to their success. Through...

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Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Idea of Socialism
The idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet today it seems to have lost much of its appeal. Despite growing discontent, many would hesitate to invoke socialism when it comes to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Uberworked and Underpaid
This book is about the rise of digital labor. Companies like Uber and Amazon Mechanical Turk promise autonomy, choice, and flexibility. One of network culture's toughest critics, Trebor Scholz chronicles the work of workers in the "sharing economy," and the free labor...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Popular Music as Promotion
'Business-as-usual' has been transformed across the music industries in the post-CD age. Against widespread hype about the purported decline of the major music labels, this book provides a critique of the ways these companies have successfully adapted to digital...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Urban Politics
Global Urban Politics: Informalization of the State In what ways has global urbanization affected the political process? This book offers a reflection on the transformations of urban politics worldwide in the past four decades, from interpersonal street-level politics...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-27
Collection : Urban Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Platform Capitalism
What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-22
Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Persistence of Gender Inequality
Despite centuries of campaigning, women still earn less and have less power than men. Equality remains a goal not yet reached. In this incisive account of why this is the case, Mary Evans argues that optimistic narratives of progress and emancipation have served to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Life Course
Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining important insights from sociology and psychology, the book presents the concept?s theoretical underpinnings in an accessible...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Journalism and the Public
The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the ?god-term? of journalism, ?the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense.? In the last thirty years, scholars have made great progress in understanding just what this means. In this much-needed new book,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
Collection : Key Concepts in Journalism ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Stealth Communications
Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries. It operates behind the scenes, encouraging us to consume, vote, believe and behave in ways that keep economies moving and citizens from storming the citadels of power. In this important...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Crimes Unspoken
The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ends of the World
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and the Environment
Climate change, natural disasters, and loss of biodiversity are all considered major environmental concerns for the international community both now and into the future. Each are damaging to the earth, but they also negatively impact human lives, especially those of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-20
Collection : Gender and Global Politics PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Indigenous Peoples and Colonialism
Indigenous peoples have gained increasing international visibility in their fight against longstanding colonial occupation by nation-states. Although living in different locations around the world and practising highly varied ways of life, indigenous peoples nonetheless...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-12-16
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