Télécharger le livre :  Retrotopia
We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Friendship of Roland Barthes
In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Plural International Relations in a Divided World
The world is troubled and full of misunderstandings. It seems a new world order of fundamentalist violence and meaningless atrocity is upon us, whilst civilised instruments for cooperation and compromise are becoming increasingly ineffective. In this timely book,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Water Politics
As the world faces another water crisis, it is easy to understand why this precious and highly-disputed resource could determine the fate of entire nations. In reality, however, water conflicts rarely result in violence and more often lead to collaborative governance,...

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Télécharger le livre :  Psychology and Social Work
Successful social work practice is underpinned by knowledge, theories and research findings from a range of related disciplines, key among which is psychology. This timely book offers a grounded and engaging guide to psychology's vital role at the heart of contemporary...

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Parution : 2017-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Stand Firm
The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting – constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression are at an...

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Parution : 2017-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Science Racist?
Every arena of science has its own flash-point issues—chemistry and poison gas, physics and the atom bomb—and genetics has had a troubled history with race. As Jonathan Marks reveals, this dangerous relationship rumbles on to this day, still leaving plenty of leeway for...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-02-27
Collection : Debating Race ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The European Research Council
Founded in 2007 to fund basic research, the European Research Council (ERC) has become the most revered instrument in European science policy and one of the world’s most important focal points for the funding of scientific research.  Its grants are much sought-after by...

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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault
Michel Foucault's The Archaeology of Knowledge was published in March 1969; Discipline and Punish in February 1975. Although only six years apart, the difference in tone is stark: the former is a methodological treatise, the latter a call to arms. What accounts for the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-02-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Empathy
How can we understand another person's feelings, thoughts, words or behaviour? Through empathy, it is hoped, we might use our imaginations to shift our perspective into another person's, thereby grasping their thoughts and emotions. In this insightful new book, Derek...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-02-13
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Gender and Migration
Gender roles, relations, and ideologies are major aspects of migration. This timely book argues that understanding gender relations is vital to a full and more nuanced explanation of both the causes and the consequences of migration, in the past and at present. Through...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-19
Collection : Immigration and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Conservative Party
The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang ? two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good position to win another. But many questions about their recent past, present, and future still remain. Just why did the world?s...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded. Now, however, his intellectual enterprise faces a new set of challenges unearthed by...

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Télécharger le livre :  Automatic Society, Volume 1
In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years. Across the world, integrated automation, one key result of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Barthes
Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, he spent long years in the sanatorium, and he was aware of his...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Dignity
Dignity is humanity?s most prized possession. We experience the loss of dignity as a terrible humiliation: when we lose our dignity we feel deprived of something without which life no longer seems worth living. But what exactly is this trait that we value so highly? ...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Marx and Foucault
This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today. In this first volume...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Seeing Like a City
Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ecology of Attention
Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit. In this new book, cultural theorist Yves Citton goes...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-01-09
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Télécharger le livre :  What Journalism Could Be
What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism?s leading contemporary scholars. A former reporter, media critic and academic, Barbie Zelizer charts a singular journey through journalism?s...

Editeur : Polity
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