Télécharger le livre :  Celebrity
It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of...

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Parution : 2016-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Black
Who hasn't had the frightening experience of stumbling around in the pitch dark? Alain Badiou experienced that primitive terror when he, with his young friends, made up a game called "The Stroke of Midnight." The furtive discovery of the dark continent of sex in banned...

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Parution : 2016-10-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Our Wound is Not So Recent
On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today?In this short...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Media Studies
Global Media Studies is unique in its coverage of places, peoples, institutions, and discourses. Toby Miller and Marwan M. Kraidy provide a comprehensive ?how-to? guide to the study of media, going far beyond the established English-language literature and drawing on...

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Parution : 2016-10-10
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Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Mathematics
Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it’s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Meaning in Action
In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life-worlds. This theory...

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Parution : 2016-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Cosmopolitan Sexualities
How are we to live with the wide varieties of sexuality and gender found across the rapidly changing global order? Whilst some countries have legislated in favour of same-sex marriage and the United Nations makes declarations about gender and sexual equality, many...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Nature is a Battlefield
In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is very different....

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Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital, Political, Radical
Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and...

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Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Between Quran and Kafka
What connects Shiite passion plays with Brecht?s drama? Which of Goethe?s poems were inspired by the Quran? How can Ibn Arabi?s theology of sighs explain the plays of Heinrich von Kleist? And why did the Persian author Sadeq Hedayat identify with the Prague Jew Franz...

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Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Nature
Philosopher, physicist, and anarchist Paul Feyerabend was one of the most unconventional scholars of his time. His book Against Method has become a modern classic. Yet it is not well known that Feyerabend spent many years working on a philosophy of nature that was...

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Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  A Feminist Manifesto for Education
The idea that gender equality in education has been achieved is now a staple of public debate. As a result, educational policies and practices often do not deal explicitly with gender issues, such as sexual abuse, harassment or violence. Exaggeration of neoliberalism’s...

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Parution : 2016-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Post-Western World
With the United States' superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order?...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Iraq
Few countries can claim to have endured such a difficult and tortuous history as that of Iraq. Its varied peoples have had to contend with externally imposed state-building at the end of the First World War, through to the rise of authoritarian military regimes, to the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-22
Collection : Hot Spots in Global Politics ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Habermas
‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Cotton
Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. In this penetrating analysis, Adam Sneyd explores the power politics...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-22
Collection : Resources ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Journalism as Activism
In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power. Corporate battles and guerrilla wars are fought on Twitter. Facebook is the new Berlin, home to tinkers, tailors, spies ? and terrorist recruiters. We...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  International Relations Theory Today
International Relations (IR) theorists speak with conviction, and often passion, to the global condition of human society. The result is an important, dynamic and often deeply divided field. This long-awaited new edition ofInternational Relations Theory Today offers...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour is among the most important figures in contemporary philosophy and social science. His ethnographic studies have revolutionized our understanding of areas as diverse as science, law, politics and religion. To facilitate a more realistic understanding of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-16
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Objectivity
What do you find more trustworthy, experts or numbers, personal ?know-how? or ?objective facts?? Can science claim special authority based on the objectivity of its methods? Are our ethical decisions always better when we strive to be impartial and unbiased? Why should...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-09-12
Collection : Key Concepts in Philosophy PDF, ePub

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