Télécharger le livre :  Work
This book provides a critical overview of the myriad literatures on “work,” viewed not only as a product of the marketplace but also as a social and political construct. Drawing on theoretical and empirical contributions from sociology, history, economics, and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-23
Collection : Key Concepts ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy
Theodor Adorno’s reputation as a cultural critic has been well-established for some time, but his status as a philosopher remains unclear. In Adorno and the Ends of Philosophy Andrew Bowie seeks to establish what Adorno can contribute to philosophy today. Adorno’s...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Blogging
Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of Blogging provides an accessible study of a now everyday phenomenon and places it in a historical, theoretical and contemporary context. The second edition takes into account the most recent research and developments...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-23
Collection : Digital Media and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Wood
Ötzi the iceman could not do without wood when he was climbing his Alpine glacier, nor could medieval cathedral-builders or today's construction companies. From time immemorial, the skill of the human hand has developed by working wood, so much so that we might say that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Health Policy
This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Finance
This new book by two distinguished Italian economists is a highly original contribution to our understanding of the origins and aftermath of the financial crisis. The authors show that the recent financial crisis cannot be understood simply as a malfunctioning in the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Reflective Practice
Reflective practice is an essential skill for those working in health and social care, but why is it so vital and how can it be learned? As inter-disciplinary working becomes more common, finding shared ways of reflection on practice are becoming more and more...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-19
Collection : Key Themes in Health and Social Care PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Italian Renaissance
In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Distant Love
Love and family life in the global age: grandparents in Salonika and their grandson in London speak together every evening via Skype. A U.S. citizen and her Swiss husband fret over large telephone bills and high travel costs. A European couple can finally have a baby...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Turbulent and Mighty Continent
Winner of the 2014 European Book Prize. A "United States of Europe", Winston Churchill proposed in 1946, could "as if by a miracle transform" that "turbulent and mighty continent". "In this way only", he continued, "will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Habermas and Religion
To the surprise of many readers, Jürgen Habermas has recently made religion a major theme of his work. Emphasizing both religion's prominence in the contemporary public sphere and its potential contributions to critical thought, Habermas's engagement with religion has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Media and the City
With the majority of the world's population now living in cities, questions about the cultural and political trajectories of urban societies are increasingly urgent. Media and the City explores the global city as the site where these questions become most prominent. As...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-17
Collection : Global Media and Communication PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Horn of Africa
The Horn of Africa is a deeply troubled region engulfed in three interlocking crises.The first is a security crisis characterized by a range of devastating inter-state and inter-communal conflicts, including civil wars.The second is an economic crisis, evidenced by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-17
Collection : Hot Spots in Global Politics PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Chomsky
Noam Chomsky has made major contributions to three fields: political history and analysis, linguistics, and the philosophies of mind, language, and human nature. In this thoroughly revised and updated volume, James McGilvray provides a critical introduction to Chomsky's...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-17
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Inside Concentration Camps
Terror was central to the Nazi regime, and the Nazi concentration camps were places of horror where prisoners were dehumanized and robbed of their dignity and where millions were murdered. How did prisoners cope with the brutal and degrading conditions of life within...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Conquest of Mexico
The Conquest of Mexico is a brilliant account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, written from a new and unfamiliar angle. Gruzinski analyses the process of colonization that took place in native Indian societies over three centuries, focusing on disruptions to the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind
In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Ranciere Now
The French philosopher Jacques Rancière is well known across the world for his groundbreaking contributions to aesthetic and political theory and for his radical rethinking of the question of equality. This much-needed new collection situates Rancière's thought in a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-12-06
Collection : Theory Now PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Inside the Gas Chambers
This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the...

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Parution : 2013-12-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Going Viral
We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight....

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Parution : 2013-12-06
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