Télécharger le livre :  The Cunning of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scientific research. We have developed many ways of coping with uncertainty. We make promises, manage risks and make predictions to try to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-19
ePub

20,26

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Design
The Philosophy of Design is an introduction to the fundamental philosophical issues raised by the contemporary practice of design.The first book to systematically examine design from the perspective of contemporary philosophy, it offers a broad perspective, ranging...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-18
PDF, ePub

20,26

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Sport
In this new edition of his acclaimed book, Richard Giulianotti provides a critical sociological interpretation of modern sport. As global festivals such as the Olympic Games and football’s World Cup demonstrate, sport’s social, political, economic and cultural...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-18
ePub

23,84

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Family Support: Prevention, Early Intervention and Early Help
Family Support introduces and explores the state of the art in preventative social work with children and young people. Drawing on contemporary thinking and research, the book aims to make a contribution to current debates about how we can best support families in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-12
Collection : Social Work in Theory and Practice ePub

23,84

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  In The Shadow of Mount Sinai
In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the ?Sinai Schema?. At the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-12
PDF, ePub

14,17

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Future War
Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read their thoughts?Will war be fought with greater or lesser humanity?Will it be played out in cyberspace and further afield in Low Earth Orbit?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-12
ePub

23,20

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  China and Taiwan
Relations between Taiwan and the People?s Republic of China have oscillated between outright hostility and wary detente ever since the Archipelago seceded from the Communist mainland over six decades ago. While the mainland has long coveted the island, Taiwan has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-12
Collection : China Today ePub

19,10

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Have Bacteria Won?
Today, we are far less likely to die from infection than at any other time in history, but still we worry about epidemics, the menace of antibiotic resistance and modern 'plagues' like Ebola. In this timely new book, eminent bacteriologist Hugh Pennington explores why...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-12
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

14,17

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Participatory Culture in a Networked Era
In the last two decades, both the conception and the practice of participatory culture have been transformed by the new affordances enabled by digital, networked, and mobile technologies. This exciting new book explores that transformation by bringing together three...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-11-05
ePub

21,09

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Probability
When a doctor tells you there?s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean? Understanding probability is clearly very important, if we are to make good theoretical...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-30
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

19,10

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Crisis
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-30
PDF, ePub

22,67

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Preventing Deadly Conflict
Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system. ...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-29
Collection : War and Conflict in the Modern World PDF, ePub

17,93

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Iran at the Crossroads
Iran stands at a critical juncture in its history. In the era of Presidents Hassan Rouhani and Barack Obama, the Islamic Republic has a unique opportunity to regain its traditional greatness as a cradle of rich civilisation and culture, with a capacity to be a very...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-29
ePub

18,90

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Management in a Liquid Modern World
Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-29
PDF, ePub

19,73

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Sugar
There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it. Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-26
Collection : Resources ePub

21,81

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Surveillance After Snowden
In 2013, Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA and its partners had been engaging in warrantless mass surveillance, using the internet and cellphone data, and driven by fear of terrorism under the sign of ’security’.In this compelling account, surveillance expert David...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-19
ePub

20,26

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa
The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, war-torn countries of north-east Africa. It is a contemporary history of how politicians, generals and insurgents bargain over money and power, and use of war to achieve their...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-19
ePub

23,20

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Pornography
Written for a broad audience and grounded in cutting-edge, contemporary scholarship, this volume addresses some of the key questions asked about pornography today. What is it? For whom is it produced? What sorts of sexualities does it help produce? Why should we study...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-19
Collection : Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies ePub

19,10

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Can Science End War?
Free-roaming killer drones stalk the battlespace looking for organic targets. Human combatants are programmed to feel no pain. Highpower microwave beams detonate munitions, jam communications, and cook internal organs.Is this vision of future war possible, or even...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-14
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

14,53

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Theatre
In Praise of Theatre is Alain Badiou’s latest work on the ‘most complete of the arts,’ the theatrical stage. This book, certain to be of great interest to scholars and theatre practitioners alike, elaborates the theory of the theatre developed by Badiou in works such as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-10-12
PDF, ePub

13,19

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
<< < 7980818283 >