Télécharger le livre :  When Our World Became Christian
This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Books in the Digital Age
The book publishing industry is going through a period of profound and turbulent change brought about in part by the digital revolution. What is the role of the book in an age preoccupied with computers and the internet? How has the book publishing industry been...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Our Dark Side
Where does perversion begin? Who is perverse? Ever since the word first appeared in the Middle Ages, anyone who delights in evil and in the destruction of the self or others has been described as 'perverse'. But while the experience of perversion is universal, every era...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Peace Processes
Peace processes are mostly very fragile. This engagingly written book takes a bold new approach to the topic by beginning from the premise that sociology can identify those factors that help to stabilize them. The book draws a distinction between the political and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Nation-States and Nationalisms
Despite many predictions made over the last two hundred years that nation-states and nationalism are transient phenomena that will eventually fade away, the historical record and contemporary events show otherwise. Nationalism still remains the most popular, potent and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-21
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Pop-Rock Music
Pop music and rock music are often treated as separate genres but the distinction has always been blurred.  Motti Regev argues that pop-rock is best understood as a single musical form defined by the use of electric and electronic instruments, amplification and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociologies of Interaction
Social interaction lies at the heart of our everyday experience. We make our way down the street and avoid crashing into others, take our place in the supermarket queue, take care in the way we talk about others in conversation, acknowledge the social status of people...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Belonging
It is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to belong to a group or community - from peer groups and local communities to ethnic groups and nations - is a pervasive...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Historical Sociology?
Sociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emergence and consequences of rational, capitalist society. Today, the best historical sociology combines precision in theory-construction with the careful selection of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Theory of Social Democracy
The ascendancy of neo-liberalism in different parts of the world has put social democracy on the defensive. Its adherents lack a clear rationale for their policies. Yet a justification for social democracy is implicit in the United Nations Covenants on Human Rights,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Cinema
For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Enforcing Order
Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police. Usually these take place in disadvantaged neighborhoods composed of working-class...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Governance at Risk
Since 2007 the world has lurched from one crisis to the next. The rise of new powers, the collapse of our global financial system, the proliferation of nuclear weapons and crisis in the Eurozone have led to a build up of risks that is likely to provoke a more general...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Whose Crisis, Whose Future?
Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it's growing poverty and inequality or shrinking access to food and water, the collapse of global financial markets or the dire effects of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Volunteering
Many of us may have participated in grassroots groups, changing the world in small and big ways, from building playgrounds and feeding the homeless, to protesting wars and ending legal segregation. Beyond the obvious fruits of these activities, what are the broader...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-04
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  YouTube
YouTube is one of the most well-known and widely discussed sites of participatory media in the contemporary online environment, and it is the first genuinely mass-popular platform for user-created video. In this timely and comprehensive introduction to howYouTube is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-04
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Zizek and the Media
Slavoj Zizek reaches the parts of the media that other theorists cannot. With sources ranging from Thomas Aquinas to Quentin Tarantino and Desperate Housewives to Dostoyevsky, Zizek mixes high theory with low culture more engagingly than any other thinker alive today....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-04
Collection : Theory and Media PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Twitter
Twitter has become a household name, discussed both for its role in prominent national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic “chatter.” This book takes a critical step back from popular discourse and media...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Conversations with Zizek
In this new book, Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly engage in a series of entertaining conversations which illustrate the originality of Žižek’s thinking on psychoanalysis, philosophy, multiculturalism, popular/cyber culture, totalitarianism, ethics and politics. An...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital War Reporting
Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the same time, creating opportunities for propaganda, censorship and control. Topics discussed...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-08-30
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