Télécharger le livre :  Sex Addiction
The concept of sex addiction took hold in the 1980s as a product of cultural anxiety. Yet, despite being essentially mythical, sex addiction has to be taken seriously as a phenomenon. Its success as a purported malady lay with its medicalization, both as a self-help...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-08-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics of Affect
'The capacity to affect and to be affected'. This simple definition opens a world of questions - by indicating an openness to the world. To affect and to be affected is to be in encounter, and to be in encounter is to have already ventured forth. Adventure: far from...

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Télécharger le livre :  Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists
Terrorism, mass uprisings, and political extremism are in the news every day. It is no coincidence that these phenomena come together at the beginning of a new era. Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists provides a comprehensive survey of the intersection of radical...

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Collection : Social Movements PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Birth of the Intellectuals
Who exactly are the ‘intellectuals’? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century.In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term...

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Télécharger le livre :  Shadow Sovereigns
Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public...

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Parution : 2015-08-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Personal Connections in the Digital Age
The internet and the mobile phone have disrupted many of our conventional understandings of ourselves and our relationships, raising anxieties and hopes about their effects on our lives. In this second edition of her timely and vibrant book, Nancy Baym provides...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-08-04
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Unmade in China
If you look carefully at how things are actually made in China - from shirts to toys, apple juice to oil rigs - you see a reality that contradicts every widely-held notion about the world's so-called economic powerhouse. From the inside looking out, China is not a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-07-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Media and Public Life
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015In this lucid and intelligent guide, John Nerone traces the history of the media in public life.  His unconventional account decenters professional journalism from its central role in providing information to the people and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-07-09
Collection : New Directions in Media History ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Resistance Today
From Gandhi's salt march to the US civil rights movement and Occupy Wall Street, nonviolent campaigns to promote democracy, human rights and social justice have long played an important transformative role in local, national and global politics. Some have succeeded,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Jerusalem
Jerusalem has for centuries been known as the spiritual center for the three largest monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Yet Jerusalem’s other-worldly transcendence is far from the daily reality of Jerusalem, a city bombarded by conflict. The battle...

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Parution : 2015-07-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Why the World Does Not Exist
Where do we come from? Are we merely a cluster of elementary particles in a gigantic world receptacle? And what does it all mean? In this highly original new book, the philosopher Markus Gabriel challenges our notion of what exists and what it means to exist. He...

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Parution : 2015-07-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom to Fail
Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in controversy...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Genocide?
This fully revised edition of Martin Shaw’s classic, award-winning text proposes a way through the intellectual confusion surrounding genocide. In a thorough account of the idea’s history, Shaw considers its origins and development and its relationships to concepts like...

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Parution : 2015-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotion
Emotion is at the centre of our personal and social lives. To love or to hate, to be frightened or grateful is not just a matter of how we feel on the inside: our emotional responses direct our thoughts and actions, unleash our imaginations, and structure our...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-18
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Professionalism
Professionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire people by reminding them of workplace ideals and the value of occupational expertise. But it can also feel threatening and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-09
Collection : Key Themes in Health and Social Care ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Sex in China
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015Sex in China introduces readers to some of the dramatic shifts that have taken place in Chinese sexual behaviours and attitudes, and public discussions of sex, since the 1980s. The book explores what it means to talk about ?sex?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-05
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethnicity in China: A Critical Introduction
On the global stage, China is often seen to be a homogenous nation when, in fact, it is a diverse multi-ethnic society, with 55 minority nationality groups recognized by the government. Scattered across the vast landmass, ethnic minorities in China occupy a precarious...

Editeur : Polity
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Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Networks of Outrage and Hope
Networks of Outrage and Hope is an exploration of the new forms of social movements and protests that are erupting in the world today, from the Arab uprisings to the indignadas movement in Spain, from the Occupy Wall Street movement to the social protests in Turkey,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  What is African American History?
Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negro Race in America in 1882. Organized chronologically and thematically, What is African American History? offers a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-06-04
Collection : What is History? PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociologist and the Historian
In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging...

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