Télécharger le livre :  Reporting Elections
How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship.  But, how informative are the news media during campaigns? What kind of logic do they follow?How well do they serve citizens?eBased on original research as well...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-03-02
Collection : Contemporary Political Communication ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding Development
Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.  This new edition has been fully revised and expanded to incorporate the key events, trends and debates that...

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Parution : 2018-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Disobedience
What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear how we should best understand civil disobedience. Why have so many different activists and intellectuals embraced it, and to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-03-02
Collection : Key Concepts PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Twitter
Twitter is a household name, discussed for its role in national elections, natural disasters, and political movements, as well as for what some malign as narcissistic “chatter.” The first edition of Murthy’s balanced and incisive book pioneered the study of this medium...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-03-02
Collection : Digital Media and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sacrament of Language
Oaths play an essential part in the political and religious history of the West as a 'sacrament of power'. Yet despite numerous studies by linguists, anthropologists and historians of law and of religion, there exists no complete analysis of the oath which seeks to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Would the World Be Better Without the UN?
Do we need the United Nations?  Where would the contemporary world be without its largest intergovernmental organization? And where could it be had the UN’s member states and staff performed better?These fundamental questions are explored by the leading analyst of UN...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Power of Global Corporations
We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Handbook of Transnational Governance
When we speak of global governance today, we no longer mean simply state-to-state diplomacy, international treaties, or intergovernmental organizations like the United Nations. Alongside these ‘traditional' elements of global politics are a host of new institutions...

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Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Cocoa
Chocolate has long been a favorite indulgence. But behind every chocolate bar we unwrap, there is a world of power struggles and political maneuvering over its most important ingredient: cocoa. In this incisive book, Kristy Leissle reveals how cocoa, which brings...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-02-12
Collection : Resources ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Another Science is Possible
Like fast food, fast science is quickly prepared, not particularly good, and it clogs up the system. Efforts to tackle our most pressing issues have been stymied by conflict within the scientific community and mixed messages symptomatic of a rushed approach. What is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  LGBTQ Social Movements
In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movements provides an...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
Collection : Social Movements ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Media Anthropology for the Digital Age
The field of anthropology took a long time to discover the significance of media in modern culture. In this important new book, Anna Pertierra tells the story of how a field - once firmly associated with the study of esoteric cultures - became a central part of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  From the Factory to the Metropolis
This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.In this volume Negri investigates exactly what happens when the class...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Politics in the Middle East
The fourth edition of this dynamic and popular text provides a comprehensive introduction to contemporary politics in the Middle East. Fully revised and updated throughout, it features a new chapter on the Arab Spring and its aftermath, plus a wide range of vibrant case...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Affinities
How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Digital Condition
Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  A Biography of Ordinary Man
This book is a foundational text for our understanding of François Laruelle, one of France's leading thinkers, whose ideas have emerged as an important touchstone for contemporary theoretical discussions across multiple disciplines. One of Laruelle’s first systematic...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Are Black Men Doomed?
Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "problem." For more than 30 years, most of the effort put toward addressing the crisis of Black men has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
Collection : Debating Race ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Why Bother With Elections?
With the collapse of traditional parties around the world and with many pundits predicting a "crisis of democracy", the value of elections as a method for selecting by whom and how we are governed is being questioned. What are the virtues and weaknesses of elections?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Race and the Cultural Industries
Studies of race and media are dominated by textual approaches that explore the politics of representation. But there is little understanding of how and why representations of race in the media take the shape that they do. How, one might ask, is race created by cultural...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-08
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