Télécharger le livre :  Sharing
Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live. The capitalist order requires the maintenance of an artificial scarcity in goods that have the potential for near infinite and almost free replication....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-07-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Facing Gaia
The emergence of modern sciences in the seventeenth century profoundly renewed our understanding of nature. For the last three centuries new ideas of nature have been continually developed by theology, politics, economics, and science, especially the sciences of the...

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Parution : 2017-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Leningrad 1941 - 42
This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. It is based on the searing testimony of eyewitnesses, some of whom managed to survive, while others were to die in streets devastated by bombing, in icy houses, or the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Energy Security
Many of the richest energy-producing regions of the world are wrought with conflict and billions of the world's poorest suffer the daily insecurity of energy poverty. All the while our planet is increasingly under pressure because of our continued dependence on fossil...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-07-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociology for AQA Revision Guide 1: AS and 1st-Year A Level
The essential revision guide for AS and 1st-year A level Sociology from trusted and best-selling author Ken Browne. This indispensable book provides everything you need to revise for the exams, with a clear topic-by-topic layout to recap key theories and central ideas....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-07-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Uranium
Uranium, the most atomically unstable natural element on earth, has a unique place in the global geopolitics of resources. It provides energy to millions of people and its isotopes are used to power spacecraft and in nuclear medicine. But it is also at the heart of many...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-07-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The World After GDP
GDP is much more than a simple statistic. It has become the overarching benchmark of success and a powerful ordering principle at the heart of the global economy. But the convergence of major economic, social and environmental crises has exposed the flaws of our...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Political Theory
Philosophers have never shied away from interrogating the nature of our obligations beyond borders. From Hobbes to the international lawyers Grotius, Pufendorf, Vattel, and of course Kant, modern philosophy has always attempted to define the nature and shape of a just...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Media and Everyday Politics
From selfies and memes to hashtags and parodies, social media are used for mundane and personal expressions of political commentary, engagement, and participation. The coverage of politics reflects the social mediation of everyday life, where individual experiences and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Munich 1919
Munich 1919 is a vivid portrayal of the chaos that followed World War I and the collapse of theMunich Council Republic by one of the most perceptive chroniclers of German history. Victor Klemperer provides a moving and thrilling account of what turned out to be a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus
The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Conventional wisdom says there will be new jobs to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-23
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Invention of Celebrity
Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Postmetaphysical Thinking II
‘There is no alternative to postmetaphysical thinking’: this statement, made by Jürgen Habermas in 1988, has lost none of its relevance. Postmetaphysical thinking is, in the first place, the historical answer to the crisis of metaphysics following Hegel, when the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Science and Religion
Today we hear renewed calls for a dialogue between science and religion: why has the old question of the relations between science and religion now returned to the public domain and what is at stake in this debate? To answer these questions, historian and sociologist of...

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Parution : 2017-06-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ascendancy of Finance
The global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Legitimized by a rhetoric of emergency, ad hoc bodies have usurped democratically elected governments. In line with the neoliberal credo,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Age of Rights
This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy and Dictatorship
In this important volume Norberto Bobbio examines some of the central themes of political theory and presents a systematic exposition of his views. With great astuteness and profound scholarship, Bobbio unfolds the elements for a general theory of politics. Bobbio's...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Old Age and Other Essays
This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question of old age has preoccupied writers from Cicero to Améry, but in this volume Norberto Bobbio produces an account that is specific to our times....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Drama of Social Life
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Defiant Earth
Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene – one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we...

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