Télécharger le livre :  Lethal Intersections
School shootings, police misconduct, and sexual assault where people are injured and die dominate the news. What are the connections between such incidents of violence and extreme harm? In this new book, world-renowned sociologist Patricia Hill Collins explores how...

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Parution : 2023-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cosmos in Cosmopolitanism
Cosmopolitanism is commonly associated today with the idea that the forces of globalization could be tempered by new forms of cosmopolitan governance, an idea that was popular among some political theorists in the late twentieth century but seems increasingly...

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Télécharger le livre :  After Nativism
Increasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalization, uncertainty and precarity. In countries ranging from the US and the UK to Brazil, India and Turkey, support has grown for a nativist politics attacking...

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Télécharger le livre :  How to Inhabit the Earth
In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life...

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Democratic Theory
Is democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from analyzing the best forms of democracy to questioning what is so valuable about democracy to begin with, how we can save it, and whether it is indeed worth...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Trouble With Gender
Sex used to rule. Now gender identity is on the throne.Sex survives as a cheap imitation of its former self: assigned at birth, on a spectrum, socially constructed, and definitely not binary. Apparently quite a few of us fall outside the categories ‘male’ and ‘female’....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-10-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutional and Organizational Economics
Why do some countries succeed while others struggle?Why are some firms profitable while rivals fail?Why do some marriages thrive and others end in divorce? These questions seem unrelated, but societies, companies, and marriages have one important thing in common: they...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Russia's War Against Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia’s war against Ukraine,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Homelessness
Homelessness is a punishing condition that inflicts unquestionable harm on those who experience it. It is also a social problem that starkly lays bare deep societal failure.As Cameron Parsell shows, society – along with the public policy measures intended to address it...

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Parution : 2023-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Failing Moms
While many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the United States is becoming harder. From preconception, through pregnancy, and while parenting, women are held to ever-higher standards and are finding themselves...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for the Centre Right
In recent years, the once familiar landscape of British politics has fundamentally changed. The Conservative Party in particular has undergone a profound transformation. Centre-right values that steered British politics for decades – internationalism, respect for the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Getting Russia Right
As US-Russian relations scrape the depths of cold-war antagonism, the promise of partnership that beguiled American administrations during the first post-Soviet decades increasingly appears to have been false from the start.  Why did American leaders persist in pursuing...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Fatal Breath
The Fatal Breath is the first full-scale history of the Covid-19 pandemic in Britain. Deploying a rich archive of personal testimonies together with a wide range of research reports and official data, it presents a moving and challenging account of the crisis that...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Perfect
Social media is replete with images of 'perfection'. But many are unrealistic and contribute to a pervasive sense of never being good enough: not thin enough; not pretty enough; not cool enough. Try too hard and you risk being condemned for being ‘attention-seeking’,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Machine Vision
Humans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the invention of the stone mirror 8,000 years ago to the latest developments in facial recognition and augmented reality. We imagine that technologies will allow us to see more, to see...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Foreign Policy Is Feminist
As old white men continue to dominate the national and international stages, the needs of women and minorities are constantly ignored. International politics are shaped by a ruthless competition for advantage, and the world is full of conflicts, crises and wars. Things...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-09-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Against Decolonisation
Following the killing of George Floyd in 2020, a moral panic gripped the US and UK. To atone for an alleged history of racism, statues were torn down and symbols of national identity attacked. Across universities, fringe theories became the new orthodoxy, with a cadre...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-08-29
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Slay a Dragon
Mikhail Khodorkovsky is one of the most astute observers of today’s Russia. Imprisoned for a decade in Russia’s prisons on politically motivated charges, he knows all too well the best and the worst of his country. He now lives in exile and, like many Russians who live...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1
This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy.   In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical...

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Poverty
People in poverty suffer daily under misconceptions about economic hardship and its causes. Providing the most comprehensive consideration to date of poverty in the United States, Elizabeth Seale tackles how we think about issues of culture, behavior, and poverty,...

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