Télécharger le livre :  Why Philosophize?
Why Philosophize? is a series of lectures given by Jean-François Lyotard to students at the Sorbonne embarking on their university studies. The circumstances obliged him to be both clear and concise: at the same time, his lectures offer a profound and far-reaching...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Norwegian Tragedy
On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terrorist acts in post-war Europe. In a carefully orchestrated sequence of actions he bombed government buildings in Oslo, resulting in eight deaths, then carried out a mass...

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Parution : 2013-11-25
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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...

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Parution : 2013-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Energy Dilemmas
Today’s global energy system faces two major challenges: how to secure the supply of reliable and affordable energy; and how to rapidly transform to a low-carbon, efficient and environmentally harmless energy supply. In this rigorous and illuminating book, Michael...

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Parution : 2013-11-20
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Télécharger le livre :  What Makes Life Worth Living
In the aftermath of the First World War, the poet Paul Valéry wrote of a ‘crisis of spirit’, brought about by the instrumentalization of knowledge and the destructive subordination of culture to profit. Recent events demonstrate all too clearly that that the stock of...

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Parution : 2013-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism and Geography
Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests...

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Télécharger le livre :  Race and Immigration
Immigration has long shaped US society in fundamental ways. With Latinos recently surpassing African Americans as the largest minority group in the US, attention has been focused on the important implications of immigration for the character and role of race in US life,...

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Parution : 2013-11-18
Collection : Immigration and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Work, and Economy
This engaging new text uses a feminist lens to crack open the often hidden worlds of gender and work, addressing enduring questions about how structural inequalities are produced and why they persist. Making visible the social relationships that drive the global...

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Parution : 2013-11-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Communication in Health Organizations
Communication in Health Organizations explores the communication processes, issues, and concepts that comprise the organization of health care, focusing on the interactions that influence the lives of patients, health professionals, and other members of health ...

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Télécharger le livre :  Political Philosophy
Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to...

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Parution : 2013-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Philosophy
Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Computer Games and the Social Imaginary
In this compelling book, Graeme Kirkpatrick argues that computer games have fundamentally altered the relation of self and society in the digital age. Tracing the origins of gaming to the revival of play in the 1960s counter culture, Computer Games and the Social...

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Parution : 2013-10-30
Collection : Digital Media and Society PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Theories of Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics. In this new book George Crowder examines some of the leading responses to multiculturalism, both supportive and critical, found in the work of recent political theorists. The book provides...

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Télécharger le livre :  On Critique
The relationship between sociology and social critique has haunted the discipline since its origins. Does critique divert sociology from its scientific project? Or is critique the ultimate goal of sociology, without which the latter would be a futile activity...

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Parution : 2013-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Working with Risk
Assessing and managing risk is a daily challenge for social workers. Working with risk can be anxiety provoking and demanding, requiring great skill and high levels of confidence. In these complex situations, social workers have to work hard to get the balance right....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-30
Collection : Skills for Contemporary Social Work PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Green Social Work
Social work is the profession that claims to intervene to enhance people's well-being. However, social workers have played a low-key role in environmental issues that increasingly impact on people's well-being, both locally and globally. This compelling new...

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Parution : 2013-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  World at Risk
Twenty years ago Ulrich Beck published Risk Society, a book that called our attention to the dangers of environmental catastrophes and changed the way we think about contemporary societies. During the last two decades, the dangers highlighted by Beck have taken on new...

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Parution : 2013-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Max Weber
Max Weber (1864-1920) is recognized throughout the world as the most important classic thinker in the social sciences – there is simply no one in the history of the social sciences who has been more influential. The affinity between capitalism and protestantism, the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Has Marriage for Love Failed?
Today we like to think that marriage is a free choice based on love: that we freely choose whom to marry and that we do so, not so much for survival or social advantage, but for love. The invention of marriage for love inverted the old relationship between love and...

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Parution : 2013-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Foetal Condition
Abortion is a contentious issue in social life but it has rarely been subjected to careful scrutiny in the social sciences. While the legalization of abortion has brought it into the public domain, it still remains a sensitive topic in many cultures, often hidden from...

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Parution : 2013-10-29
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