Télécharger le livre :  Protest
Every day around the world there are dozens of protests both large and small. Most groups engage the local police, some get media attention, and a few are successful. Who are these people? What do they want? What do they do to get it? What effects do they ultimately...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-15
Collection : Cultural Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Dream Notes
"Dreams are as black as death." —Theodor W. Adorno Adorno was fascinated by his dreams and wrote them down throughout his life. He envisaged publishing a collection of them although in the event no more than a few appeared in his lifetime. Dream Notes offers a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Class in Contemporary China
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015More than three decades of economic growth have led to significant social change in the People?s Republic of China. This timely book examines the emerging structures of class and social stratification: how they are interpreted...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-13
Collection : China Today PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Nancy Now
Jean-Luc Nancy stands as one of the great French theorists of "deconstruction." His writings on philosophy, politics, aesthetics, and religion have significantly contributed to the development of contemporary French thought and helped shape and transform the field of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-10
Collection : Theory Now PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Figures of History
In this important new book the leading philosopher Jacques Rancière continues his reflections on the representative power of works of art. How does art render events that have spanned an era? What roles does it assign to those who enacted them or those who were the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Coffee
In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses. Coffee is one of the most valuable Southern exports, generating billions of dollars in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-10
Collection : Resources ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Sites of Race
Critical social theorist and philosopher David Theo Goldberg is one of the defining figures in critical race theory.  His work, unsurpassed in its analytical rigor and political urgency, has helped transform the way we think about race and racism across the humanities...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-10
Collection : Conversations PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Mysteries and Conspiracies
The detective story, focused on inquiries, and in its wake the spy novel, built around conspiracies, developed as genres in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During the same period, psychiatry was inventing paranoia, sociology was devising new forms of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Cyber Policy in China
Few doubt that China wants to be a major economic and military power on the world stage. To achieve this ambitious goal, however, the PRC leadership knows that China must first become an advanced information-based society. But does China have what it takes to get there?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-07
Collection : China Today PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Leibniz
Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important...

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Parution : 2014-10-07
Collection : Classic Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What's Wrong with the WTO and How to Fix It
We need a world trade organization.We just don't need the one that we have. By pitching unequally matched states together in chaotic bouts of negotiating the global trade governance of today offers - and has consistently offered - developed countries more of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-07
Collection : What's Wrong? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Racial Conflict in Global Society
Despite global shifts in world power, racial conflict remains one of the major problems of contemporary social life. This concise and engaging book demonstrates the interplay between identity, power and conflict in the creation, persistence and transformation of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-09-08
Collection : Political Sociology PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Reading Celebrity Gossip Magazines
Americans are obsessed with celebrities. While our fascination with fame intensified throughout the twentieth century, the rise of the weekly gossip magazine in the early 2000s confirmed and fueled our popular culture’s celebrity mania. After a decade of diets and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro is one of the most interesting and controversial personalities of our time – he has become a myth and an icon. He was the first Cuban Caudillo – the man who freed his country from dependence on the USA and who lead his people to rediscover their national...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Causation
In most academic and non-academic circles throughout history, the world and its operation have been viewed in terms of cause and effect. The principles of causation have been applied, fruitfully, across the sciences, law, medicine, and in everyday life, despite the lack...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-26
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Disagreement
Regardless of who you are or how you live your life, you disagree with millions of people on an enormous number of topics from politics, religion and morality to sport, culture and art. Unless you are delusional, you are aware that a great many of the people who...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-25
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Myth and Metropolis
This is a lucid study of Walter Benjamin's lifelong fascination with the city and forms of metropolitan experience, highlighting the relevance of Benjamin's work to our contemporary understanding of modernity.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Capitalism Fit For Society
Capitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has brought out the pernicious side of capitalism and shown that it remains dependent on the state to rescue it from its own deficiencies....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Israel Since the Six-Day War
Completing his acclaimed trilogy on the history of Israel, Leslie Stein brings readers right up to contemporary events in Israel Since the Six-Day War. Stein vividly chronicles Israel's wars and military engagements, but he also incorporates fascinating assessments of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Obama Power
What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012 presidential...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-12
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