Télécharger le livre :  A Short History of Stupidity

We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who’ve become too mindless to realize their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Ghosting

Abandonment is as old as time, but ghosting is a modern twist on this ancient experience. It translates this age-old phenomenon into our modern world of screens, delete buttons and blocking options. Ghosting is not only an unpleasant experience, or cowardly act, but a...
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Télécharger le livre :  I Suffer Therefore I Am

In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow.  Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries.  It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can...
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Télécharger le livre :  Mining

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more sustainable future? Leading industry expert Timothy Biggs argues...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  If You Have Never Thought Gray

“You’re not a painter if you haven’t painted gray”, declared Paul Cézanne. The same could be said of philosophers: you’re not a philosopher if you have never thought gray. This simple four-letter word signifies much more than a quasi-neutral color lying between black...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dispossessed

Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries.  They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people.  Their deep roots are existential rather than material. These protests are not driven by...
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Parution : 2025-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  African Philosophies

For many students of philosophy in the West, philosophy is understood as a discipline stemming from Ancient Greece, embracing the great thinkers of medieval and early modern Europe and continuing through to the present day.  To the extent that other philosophical...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Imperialisms

While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...
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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Inequality

Science and technology produce a wide range of benefits in society but they also create harm, both of which are unequally distributed across social groups and geographic regions. This incisive book provides a set of analytical tools to understand how inequality relating...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Inspiration

Inspiration propels us. It’s the basis of every accomplishment. But the idea that it simply falls into your lap is a myth.Inspiration doesn’t come to us in a gust of wind, only to disappear into the mist again. You make it happen; it’s a reward for work that you’ve...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The Indian Civil Sphere

Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and the press, and disputatious vis-à-vis organized counter-powers....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of China

China’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast and changed the lives of so many people in such a short time. How is it that a nominally Communist state has been able to achieve this...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Degrowth

We are fast approaching the point of “peak digital”, with the continued mass production and excessive consumption of digital technologies set to become a key driver of climate crisis, ecological breakdown and ongoing societal instability. Digital Degrowth is a call to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Transgender Intersections

While transgender lives are at the forefront of contemporary politics, what do we really understand about the complexity of trans experience? Trans people who go through various aspects of gender transition experience shifts not only in their gender, but also with...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing Economics

Decolonization has long been debated across the social sciences, but the economics discipline has so far avoided such critical engagement. This book provides a much-needed intervention.Dutt, Alves, Kesar, and Kvangraven uncover the deeply Eurocentric foundations that...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21
Collection : Decolonizing the Curriculum
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Télécharger le livre :  The State and the Soldier

America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
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Parution : 2025-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  At the Margins of the Modern State

The international order of the post-WW II period is in disarray.The sounds of war can be heard all around us, from Ukraine to Gaza, from Darfur to the Congo, and there is growing skepticism towards human rights and democracy, the rule of law and peace among...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Wanna F*ck?

Following our desires, sharing pleasure: sounds easy, right? And yet our sexualities are conditioned by expectations, prejudices and taboos that make it difficult to listen to our own bodies, let alone anyone else’s.  Bel Olid clears away the taboos and invites readers...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism Beyond Left and Right

An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Hydrojustice

This is a book about justice, but not as we know it. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos argues that justice is always hydrojustice – that is, always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-14
Collection : Theory Redux
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