Télécharger le livre :  The PlayStation Dreamworld
From mobile phones to consoles, tablets and PCs, we are now a generation of gamers. The PlayStation Dreamworld is – to borrow a phrase from Slavoj Zizek – the pervert's guide to videogames. It argues that we can only understand the world of videogames via Lacanian dream...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Auschwitz Testimonies
In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz....

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  After the Internet
In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a broken internet? Ramesh Srinivasan and Adam Fish reimagine the internet...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Our Shrinking Planet
In the space of another generation, the population of the earth will rise by 2.5 billion. Yet the real problem we face is not so much the increase in numbers as the fact that growth will be highly uneven. Whereas rich countries will see aging populations with little...

Editeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Trust and Power
In this important book, Niklas Luhmann uses his powers as an analyst of the social system to examine two of the most important concepts which hold that system together and allow it to evolve: trust and power. He criticises those theoretical accounts whose roots lie in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Sport and Modernity
This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Ex Captivitate Salus
When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach “automatic arrest.” Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Scent of Time
In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time.  Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Gridlock
It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational.It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Egypt
Egypt is one of the few great empires of antiquity that exists today as a nation state. Despite its extraordinary record of national endurance, the pressures to whichEgypt currently is subjected and which are bound to intensify are already straining the ties that hold...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-18
Collection : Hot Spots in Global Politics ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  I am Not a Brain
Many consider the nature of human consciousness to be one of the last great unsolved mysteries.  Why should the light turn on, so to speak, in human beings at all?  And how is the electrical storm of neurons under our skull connected with our consciousness?  Is the self...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Sexuality and Citizenship
Sexual citizenship has become a key concept in the social sciences. It describes the rights and responsibilities of citizens in sexual and intimate life, including debates over equal marriage and women's human rights, as well as shaping thinking about citizenship more...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Social Determinants of Health
This timely book takes seriously the idea of understanding how our social world – and not individual responsibility or the healthcare system – is the primary determinant of our health. Kathryn Strother Ratcliff puts into practice the "upstream" imagery from public...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Struggle for Development
The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population live in poverty. Why are wealth and poverty two sides of the coin of capitalist development? What can be done to overcome this destructive dynamic? In...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Future of Intelligence
Intelligence is, by definition, a shadowy business. Yet many aspects of this secret world are now more openly analyzed and discussed, a trend which has inevitably prompted lively debate about intelligence gathering and analysis: what should be allowed? What boundaries,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Neoliberalism
For over three decades neoliberalism has been the dominant economic ideology. While it may have emerged relatively unscathed from the global financial crisis of 2007-8, neoliberalism is now - more than ever - under scrutiny from critics who argue that it has failed to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-31
Collection : Key Concepts ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Syriza in Power
Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Will China's Economy Collapse?
The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the world could collapse and drag the rest...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-08
Collection : The Future of Capitalism ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  New Urban Worlds
It is well known that the world is transitioning to an irrevocable urban future whose epicentre has moved into the cities of Asia and Africa. What is less clear is how this will be managed and deployed as a multi-polar world system is being born. The full implications...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Can Governments Earn Our Trust?
Some analysts have called distrust the biggest governmental crisis of our time. It is unquestionably a huge problem, undermining confidence in our elected institutions, shrinking social capital, slowing innovation, and raising existential questions for democratic...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-08-07
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