Télécharger le livre :  A Matter of Record
This textbook aims to give an introduction to the use of documentary sources in social research. It is designed to be a companion to courses in research methods in the social sciences and history and a reference text for those beginning research on documentary sources....

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Parution : 2014-04-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Stratification and Power
This volume presents a systematic discussion of the leading theoretical approaches to social stratification. It is both an accessible overview and a distinctive contribution to the analysis of class, status and power. John Scott argues that Max Weber's conceptual...

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Télécharger le livre :  Environmental Ethics
In this clear, concise, comprehensively revised and up-to-date introduction to environmental ethics, Robin Attfield guides the student through the key issues and debates in this field in ways that will also be of interest to a wide range of scholars and researchers. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Are We All Scientific Experts Now?
To ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the common good. More recently, a series of scientific scandals, frauds and failures have led us to question science’s pre-eminence. Revelations such as...

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Parution : 2014-03-28
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sexual Contract
Carole Pateman is one of the foremost political theorists writing in English today. In this outstanding new work, she presents a major reinterpretation of modern political theory. She shows how standard discussions of social contract theory tell only half the story. The...

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Parution : 2014-03-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Exits to the Posthuman Future
Exits to the Posthuman Future is media theory for a global digital society which thrives, and sometimes perishes, at the intersection of technologies of speed, distant ethics and a pervasive cultural anxiety. Arthur Kroker’s incisive and insightful text presents the...

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Parution : 2014-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Webcam
The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequences. Yet webcam has profound implications for many facets of human...

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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom's Right
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached...

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Parution : 2014-03-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom's Right
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Structures of the Economy
Much orthodox economic theory is based on assumptions which are treated as self-evident: supply and demand are regarded as independent entities, the individual is assumed to be a rational agent who knows his interests and how to make decisions corresponding to them, and...

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Parution : 2014-03-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism and Criminology
This much-needed book is a concise and accessible account of the contribution of feminist thinking to the study of crime. Tracing the intellectual history of criminology from its scientific foundations in the nineteenth century to its recent encounters with...

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Parution : 2014-03-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Revisiting the Jewish Question
What does it mean to be Jewish?What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Computer Games
Computer games are one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving media of our time. Revenues from console and computer games have now overtaken those from Hollywood movies; and online gaming is one of the fastest-growing areas of the internet. Games are no longer just...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of the European Union
Translated by Ciaran Cronin. In the midst of the current crisis that is threatening to derail the historical project of European unification, Jürgen Habermas has been one of the most perceptive critics of the ineffectual and evasive responses to the global financial...

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Parution : 2014-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Representation and the Global Imagination
This book is a clear, systematic, original and lively account of how media representations shape the way we see our and others’ lives in a global age. It provides in-depth analysis of a range of international media representations of disaster, war, conflict, migration...

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Parution : 2014-03-03
Collection : Global Media and Communication ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Marital Communication
Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners. Writing with students, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and couples in mind, this...

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Parution : 2014-03-03
Collection : Key Themes in Family Communication ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  A Short History of Migration
Translated by Carl Ipsen. This short book provides a succinct and masterly overview of the history of migration, from the earliest movements of human beings out of Africa into Asia and Europe to the present day, exploring along the way those factors that contribute to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Lost Michelangelos
Translated by Lucinda Byatt This book tells the remarkable story of a rare discovery: the uncovering of two lost paintings by the great Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Like many stories of artistic loss, this one begins in a library in Italy, where Antonio Forcellino...

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Parution : 2014-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping the Renaissance World
This book focuses on the work of the great sixteenth-century traveller and map-maker Andre Thevat and explores the interrelations between representation and power in the age of discovery.

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Parution : 2014-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Cardenio between Cervantes and Shakespeare
How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and...

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