Télécharger le livre :  Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society
Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Why Can't You Afford a Home?
Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Just War Possible?
The idea that war is sometimes justified is deeply embedded in public consciousness. But it is only credible so long as we believe that the ethical standards of just war are in fact realizable in practice. In this engaging book, Christopher Finlay elucidates the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rupture
The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Power?
Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key feature of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza. Top company bosses take home in several days as much as most people earn in a whole year. In this hard-hitting book, Deborah Hargreaves explains why pay for the top 0.1%...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  In Defense of Universal Human Rights
Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures?Should Western-based corporations be held liable if their security guards injure union activists in another part of the world, or should such...

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Télécharger le livre :  Neo-Existentialism
In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view, Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it repudiates any...

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Télécharger le livre :  Born Liquid
Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with...

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Télécharger le livre :  Our Psychiatric Future
Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can...

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Télécharger le livre :  I Know There Are So Many of You
The history of humanity has only just begun.The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sugar Daddy Capitalism
What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein’s ‘business meetings’ and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics? In this witty and incisive examination of the new economy, Peter Fleming argues that they are closer than you might think. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Down to Earth
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most...

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Télécharger le livre :  AngloArabia
UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain’s alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK’s key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Colorblind Racism
How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of...

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Télécharger le livre :  An Imaginary Racism
‘Islamophobia’ is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of Islam to...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Lobbying and Society
Lobbying and political interest groups occupy an ambivalent place in advanced democracies.Lobbying is viewed with suspicion, but is also a critical avenue for voices in policy debates. This insightful book injects a new sociological understanding of politics and policy....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-02
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Will China Save the Planet?
Now that Trump has turned the United States into a global climate outcast, will China take the lead in saving our planet from environmental catastrophe? Many signs point to yes. China, the world's largest carbon emitter, is leading a global clean energy revolution,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-02
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Dream
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is one of the great political forces of modern times. In charge of the destiny of a fifth of humanity, it survives despite the collapse of similar systems elsewhere. Few, however, understand the sources of this resilience, or, for that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-10-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat paradoxically famous for his insights into democracy and equality, is one of history’s greatest analysts of American society and politics. His contributions to political theory and sociology are of enduring significance. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-10-22
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