Télécharger le livre :  Models of Democracy
The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-08-10
ePub

41,13

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Physics
Does the future exist already? What is space? Are time machines physically possible? What is quantum mechanical reality like? Are there many universes? Is there a ‘true’ geometry of the universe? Why does there appear to be an arrow of time? Do humans play a special...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-08-01
ePub

29,86

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Art of Freedom
The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political institutions and procedures. Democratic freedom can only be properly understood if it is grasped as the expression of a culture of freedom that encompasses an entire form of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-27
PDF, ePub

22,68

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Immaterialism
What objects exist in the social world and how should we understand them? Is a specific Pizza Hut restaurant as real as the employees, tables, napkins and pizzas of which it is composed, and as real as the Pizza Hut corporation with its headquarters in Wichita, the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-27
Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub

18,99

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  War and Conflict in Africa
After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's governments do to stop...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-23
ePub

41,78

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  In Praise of Literature
In this new book Zygmunt Bauman and Riccardo Mazzeo examine the contentious issue of the relation between literature (and the arts in general) and sociology (or, more generally, a branch of the humanities claiming scientific status). While many commentators see...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-22
PDF, ePub

21,81

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Strangers at Our Door
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-20
ePub

14,61

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Crime, The Mystery of the Common-Sense Concept
Crime is a source of endless fascination and fear. Yet behind the apparent consensus that crime must be fought, there is considerable conflict about what should or should not be treated as criminal, and even the most shocking crimes can inspire divisive debate. This...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-20
Collection : Key Concepts ePub

21,52

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Can Science Resolve the Nature / Nurture Debate?
Following centuries of debate about "nature and nurture" the discovery of DNA established the idea that nature (genes) determines who we are, relegating nurture (environment) to icing on the cake. Since the 1950s, the new science of epigenetics has demonstrated how...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-20
Collection : New Human Frontiers ePub

14,88

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Social Media Abyss
Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-20
PDF, ePub

19,10

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  War and Conflict in the Early Modern World
In this latest addition to the War & Conflict Through the Ages series, Brian Sandberg offers a truly global examination of the intersections between war, culture, and society in the early modern period. He traces the innovative military technologies and practices that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-13
Collection : War and Conflict Through the Ages ePub

29,86

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  What is Sexual History?
Until the 1970s the history of sexuality was a marginalized practice. Today it is a flourishing field, increasingly integrated into the mainstream and producing innovative insights into the ways in which societies shape and are shaped by sexual values, norms, identities...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-10
Collection : What is History? PDF, ePub

17,93

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The New Russia
After years of rapprochement, the relationship between Russia and the West is more strained now than it has been in the past 25 years. Putin’s motives, his reasons for seeking confrontation with the West, remain for many a mystery. Not for Mikhail Gorbachev. In this new...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-08
ePub

18,36

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Transnational Audiences
In an interactive and densely connected world, transnational communication has become a central feature of everyday life. Taking account of a variety of media formats and different regions of the world, Adrian Athique provides a much-needed critical exploration of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-07
Collection : Global Media and Communication PDF, ePub

21,52

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Selected Exaggerations
Peter Sloterdijk’s reputation as one of the most original thinkers of our time has grown steadily since the early 1980s. This volume of over thirty conversations and interviews spanning two decades illuminates the multiple interconnections of his life and work. In these...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-07
PDF, ePub

26,30

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Method of Equality
The development of Rancière’s philosophical work, from his formative years through the political and methodological break with Louis Althusser and the lessons of May 68, is documented here, as are the confrontations with other thinkers, the controversies and occasional...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-07
PDF, ePub

23,74

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Is Technology Good for Education?
Digital technologies are a key feature of contemporary education. Schools, colleges and universities operate along high-tech lines, while alternate forms of online education have emerged to challenge the dominance of traditional institutions. According to many experts,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-07
Collection : Digital Futures ePub

22,15

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Social Work and Disability
Social Work and Disability offers a contemporary and critical exploration of social work practice with people with physical and sensory impairments, an area that has previously been marginalized within both practice and academic literature. It explores how social work...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-03
Collection : Social Work in Theory and Practice ePub

29,86

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  Performing Politics: Media Interviews, Debates and Press Conferences
For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Whether facing critical questions in an interview, posturing in a leaders’ debate, or conversing on a daytime chat show, success is reliant...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-06-03
Collection : Contemporary Political Communication ePub

20,26

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Télécharger le livre :  The Radicality of Love
What would happen if we could stroll through the revolutionary history of the 20th century and, without any fear of the possible responses, ask the main protagonists - from Lenin to Che Guevara, from Alexandra Kollontai to Ulrike Meinhof - seemingly naïve questions...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-27
Collection : Theory Redux PDF, ePub

22,15

Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
<< < 7576777879 >