Télécharger le livre :  Peak Libido
What is the carbon footprint of your libido?   In this highly original book, Dominic Pettman examines the mutual influence and impact of human desire and ecological crisis. His account is premised on a simple but startling observation: the decline of libido among the...

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Télécharger le livre :  War and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa
For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace. Today Iraq, Libya, Israel/Palestine, Yemen, and Syria are not just countries, but synonyms for prolonged and brutal wars. But why is MENA so exceptionally...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Disappearance of Rituals
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society,...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for Degrowth
The relentless pursuit of economic growth is the defining characteristic of contemporary societies. Yet it benefits few and demands monstrous social and ecological sacrifice. Is there a viable alternative? How can we halt the endless quest to grow global production and...

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Télécharger le livre :  India
India has been catapulted to the centre of world attention. Its rapidly growing economy, new geo-political confidence, and global cultural influence have ensured that people across the world recogniseIndia as one of the main sites of social dynamism in the early...

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Parution : 2020-09-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Unions Renewed
Unions face a once in a generation opportunity for renewal. Decades of decline have been compounded by a global elite who increasingly generate profit from financial engineering in ways that side-step labour and undermine the power of organised workers. However, as this...

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Télécharger le livre :  Marranos
Marranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition to avoid being massacred or forced to flee but who continued to practise Judaism in secret. They were persecuted by the first racist blood laws but the water of...

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Télécharger le livre :  What Is at Stake Now
Thirty years after the end of the Cold War, world peace is at risk again. The United States has withdrawn from the disarmament treaty with Russia, Europe is disintegrating, China is surging forward and a wave of nationalism and populism is destabilizing established...

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Parution : 2020-09-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Justice is Steady Work
Michael Walzer is one of the pre-eminent political theorists in the world today and also a prominent public intellectual. His conception of social justice and his work on just and unjust wars have been hugely influential in political theory and, at the same time, he has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Republicanism
Republicanism is a centuries-old political tradition, yet its precise meaning has long been contested. The term has been used to refer to government in the public interest, to regimes administered by a collective body or an elected president, and even just to systems...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Asset Economy
Rising inequality is the defining feature of our age. With the lion’s share of wealth growth going to the top, for a growing percentage of society a middle-class existence is out of reach. What exactly are the economic shifts that have driven the social transformations...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Renewable Energy
The use of renewables is spreading rapidly. Over a quarter of global electricity is already generated from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy. With costs falling significantly, renewables are booming, helping to avoid the major climate change risks associated with...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  China
China is poised to become the world's largest economy in the next decade. But its great struggle to modernise has been one of tragedy, conflict, and challenge. From the first attempts to introduce Western ideas into the country two centuries ago, China's long march to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of Economic Development
This classic work remains one of the most incisive contributions to dependency theory in the Latin American context. While agreeing with other dependency theorists that underdevelopment on the Latin America periphery was structurally connected to the accumulation of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  The Colours of Our Memories
What remains of the colours of our childhood?What are our memories of a blue rabbit, a red dress, a yellow bike – and were they really those colours?What colours do we associate with our student years, our first loves, our adult lives? How does colour leave its mark on...

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Parution : 2020-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Data Theory
The datafication of our world offers huge challenges and opportunities for social science.The ‘data-drivenness’ of computational research can occur at the expense of theoretical reflection and interpretation. Additionally, it can be difficult to reconcile the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Doing Justice
Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  China Goes Green
What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world’s most durable authoritarian governance systems pursues “ecological civilization”? Despite its staggering pollution and colossal appetite for resources, China exemplifies a model of state-led...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  The Media Manifesto
Our media systems are in crisis. Run by unaccountable corporations and dominated by agendas and algorithms that are shrouded in mystery, these formerly trusted sources of information and entertainment have lost their way. As consumers, we have plenty of choice, but as...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-08-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Combatting Modern Slavery
Over the last decade, the world’s largest corporations – from The Coca Cola Company to Amazon, Apple to Unilever – have taken up the cause of combatting modern slavery. Yet, by most measures, across many sectors and regions, severe labour exploitation continues to soar....

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Parution : 2020-08-04
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