Télécharger le livre :  Love
We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on...

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Parution : 2021-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a Debt Jubilee
We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relative to income since 1950 – and government debt is also at an all-time high. Soaring debt burdens individuals, stifles...

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Parution : 2021-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fragile Skin of the World
Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unity. The world is neither an animal nor a machine but an interminable jumble...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Summer of Theory
‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties.  Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, a claim to truth, a lifestyle.  It spread among its adherents in cheap paperbacks and triggered heated debates in...

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Parution : 2021-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Love
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Latin American History?
What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the...

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Parution : 2021-09-13
Collection : What is History? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Night of Broken Glass
November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany’s assault on the Jews.  An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  After Lockdown
After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’.  But there is another way to learn the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century. Burawoy looks back...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Geoengineering
Stabilizing the world’s climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There’s no way around it. But what if that’s not enough? What if it’s too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it’s so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions...

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Parution : 2021-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Solidarity Economics
Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Cedric Robinson
Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-03
Collection : Black Lives ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Critical Humanism
We live in a mutilated world and our humanity seems irrevocably damaged. Many critics suggest we have reached the end of humanity. In this challenging book, Ken Plummer suggests that such claims may be premature; instead, what we need is a new transformative...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  China and Africa
China has gone from being a marginal to a leading power in Africa in just over two decades. Its striking ascendancy in the continent is commonly thought to have been primarily driven by economic interests, especially resources like oil. This book argues instead that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-25
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Tumblr
Launched in 2007, tumblr became a safe haven for LGBT youth, social justice movements, and a counseling station for mental health issues. For a decade, this micro-blogging platform had more users than either Twitter or Snapchat, but it remained an obscure subculture for...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Sociological Theory for Digital Society
The digital revolution has not only transformed multiple aspects of social life – it also shakes sociological theory, transforming the most basic assumptions that have underlain it. In this timely book, Ori Schwarz explores the main challenges digitalization poses to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Social Movements
How does gender influence social movements?How do social movements deal with gender? In Gender and Social Movements, Jo Reger takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which people organize around gender issues and how gender shapes social movements. Here gender is more...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-23
Collection : Social Movements ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Metaphysics?
If we didn't possess certain beliefs about such things as time, appearance and reality, and how effect follows cause, we wouldn't be able to get out of bed in the morning, let alone read a book about metaphysics, which is the study of our experience and those ideas, or...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
Collection : What is Philosophy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Instituting Thought
This new book by the Italian philosopher Roberto Esposito addresses the profound crisis of contemporary politics and examines some of the philosophical approaches that have been used to try to understand and go beyond this crisis.  Two approaches have been particularly...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
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Télécharger le livre :  World Politics since 1989
1989 ushered in a new age of freedom and prosperity. Thirty years later, the golden era is over. What went wrong? How did the age of globalization – of growing connectivity, affluence, and growth – give way? Jonathan Holslag navigates through the calm seas and rip tides...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-08-20
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