Télécharger le livre :  China's Social Welfare
The extraordinary rise of China is one of the greatest global stories of recent times. However, China's development has been described as ‘uneven, uncoordinated, and unsustainable’, and has now reached a critical turning point. To transform itself into a successful...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Civic Capitalism
As we struggle with the legacy of the crisis and with the prospect of accelerating environmental degradation, it is time to ask not what we can do for capitalism but what capitalism can do for us, as citizens of a democratic society. In Civic Capitalism, Colin Hay and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Against Hybridity
One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-04-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Siegfried Kracauer
This major new book offers a much-needed introduction to the work of Siegfried Kracauer, one of the main intellectual figures in the orbit of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. It is part of a timely revival and reappraisal of his unique contribution to our...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-31
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Why Feminism?
This major new book explores the peculiar place of feminism in contemporary culture.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Smartphones as Locative Media
Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as locative media, which is what...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-26
Collection : Digital Media and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Media and Politics in a Globalizing World
Globalization and technological advances have had a dramatic impact on the relationship between media and politics. How can we understand the connection between the two in the present day? Alexa Robertson argues that we cannot understand the power of the one without...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Kittler Now
Friedrich Kittler was one of the world’s most influential, provocative and misunderstood media theorists. His work spans analyses of historical ‘discourse networks’ inspired by French poststructuralism, influential theorizations of new media, through to musings on music...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-17
Collection : Theory Now PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  China's Coming War with Asia
China?s ambition is to rise peacefully. Avoiding fierce conflicts with its Asian neighbors is essential to this goal. Jonathan Holslag makes a brilliant case for the geopolitical dilemma facing the rising China, and his argument that China will likely enter into major...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Can Financial Markets be Controlled?
The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before.   But...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-06
Collection : Global Futures PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Approaches to International Security
During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastÐWest hostilities, however, brought ‘critical’ perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the emergence of new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Is the American Century Over?
For more than a century, the United States has been the world's most powerful state. Now some analysts predict that China will soon take its place. Does this mean that we are living in a post-American world? Will China's rapid rise spark a new Cold War between the two...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-05
Collection : Global Futures PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Immigration and Population
Immigration is the primary cause of population change in developed countries and a major component of population change in many developing countries. This clear and perceptive text discusses how immigration impacts population size, composition, and distribution. The...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-05
Collection : Immigration and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Globalization and Technology
In this book Rajneesh Narula examines the interdependence of globalization and technological innovation at two levels: first, between locations, by examining the role of cross-border initiatives in the innovation process; second, between corporate entities, by studying...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Pipeline
Four men in a cell in Rebibbia prison, Rome, awaiting trial on serious charges of subversion. One of them, the political thinker Antonio Negri, spends his days writing. Among his writings are twenty letters addressed to a young friend in France letters in which Negri...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-24
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Télécharger le livre :  States of Shock
In 1944 Horkheimer and Adorno warned that industrial society turns reason into rationalization, and Polanyi warned of the dangers of the self-regulating market, but today, argues Stiegler, this regression of reason has led to societies dominated by unreason, stupidity...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  God's Zeal
The conflicts between the three great monotheistic religions ? Christianity, Judaism and Islam ? are shaping our world more than ever before. In this important new book Peter Sloterdijk returns to the origins of monotheism in order to shed new light on the conflict of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Wilfrid Sellars
The work of the American philosopher Wilfrid Sellars continues to have a significant impact on the contemporary philosophical scene. His writings have influenced major thinkers such as Rorty, McDowell, Brandom, and Dennett, and many of Sellars basic conceptions, such as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-13
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Theories of International Relations
Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of the world, why it has come to be the way it is, and how it might be made a better place. In...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Reality TV
Reality TV has changed television and changed reality, even if we are not among the millions who watch. Written for a broad audience, this accessible overview addresses questions such as:  How real is reality TV? How do its programs represent gender, sex, class, and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2015-02-11
Collection : Key Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies ePub

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