Télécharger le livre :  The Format Age
Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years. Long confined to the fringes of the TV industry, they have risen to prominence since the late 1990s. Today, they are a global business with hundreds of programmes adapted across the world...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-27
Collection : Global Media and Communication PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  What is Intellectual History?
What is intellectual history? Those who practice intellectual history have described themselves as eavesdroppers upon the conversations of the past, explorers of alien ideological worlds, and translators between historic societies and our own, while their critics have...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-18
Collection : What is History? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Closing of the Net
This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet. It explains key issues such as privacy, net neutrality and copyright in a way that is accessible to non-experts, as well as providing a clear,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault's Last Decade
On 26 August 1974, Michel Foucault completed work on Discipline and Punish, and on that very same day began writing the first volume of The History of Sexuality. A little under ten years later, on 25 June 1984, shortly after the second and third volumes were published,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Humanitarian Intervention
A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings. From Rwanda to Kosovo, Sierra Leone to East Timor, and Libya to Côte d?Ivoire, soldiers have rescued civilians in some of the world's most notorious war zones. But what...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-17
Collection : War and Conflict in the Modern World ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Babel
We are living in an open sea, caught up in a continuous wave, with no fixed point and no instrument to measure distance and the direction of travel. Nothing appears to be in its place any more, and a great deal appears to have no place at all. The principles that have...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-05-17
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rise of the New Second Generation
In this age of migration, more and more children are growing up in immigrant or transnational families. The "new second generation" refers to foreign-born and native-born children of immigrants who have come of age at the turn of the twenty-first century. This book is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-29
Collection : Immigration and Society ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Liquid Evil
There is nothing new about evil; it has been with us since time immemorial. But there is something new about the kind of evil that characterizes our contemporary liquid-modern world. The evil that characterized earlier forms of solid modernity was concentrated in the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Population and Society
This exciting new book presents the field of social demography, animating the study of population with a vibrant sociological imagination. Gregg Lee Carter provides multiple demonstrations of how taking a demographic perspective can give us a better understanding of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Knowledge Corrupters
In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Return to Cold War
The 2014 crisis in Ukraine sent a tottering U.S.-Russian relationship over a cliff - a dangerous descent into deep mistrust, severed ties, and potential confrontation reminiscent of the Cold War period. In this incisive new analysis, leading expert on Soviet and Russian...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Migrant Labor in China
Long known as the world's factory, China is the largest manufacturing economy ever seen, accounting for more than 10% of global exports. China is also, of course, home to the largest workforce on the planet, the crucial element behind its staggering economic success....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-22
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Can the Welfare State Survive?
After the most serious economic crash since the 1930s and the slowest recovery on record, austerity rules. Spending on the welfare state did not cause the crisis, but deep cuts in welfare budgets has become the default policy response. The welfare state is seen as a...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-18
Collection : Global Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Forms of Power
Political power is often viewed as the sole embodiment of 'social power', even while we recognize that social power manifests itself in different forms and institutional spheres. This new book by Gianfranco Poggi suggests that the three principal forms of social power -...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-04-07
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Télécharger le livre :  War and Society
War is a paradox. On the one hand, it destroys bodies and destroys communities. On the other hand, it is responsible for some of the strongest human bonds and has been the genesis of many of our most fundamental institutions.  War and Society addresses these paradoxes...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-31
Collection : Political Sociology ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Left and Right
Following the collapse of communism and the decline of Marxism, some commentators have claimed that we have reached the 'end of history' and that the distinction between Left and Right can be forgotten. In this book - which was a tremendous success in Italy - Norberto...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-31
Collection : Themes for the 21st Century PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Children in China
Chinese childhood is undergoing a major transformation. This book explores how government policies introduced in China over the last few decades and processes of social and economic change are reshaping the lives of children and the meanings of childhood in complex,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-31
Collection : China Today ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Policy for Social Work
Contemporary social work cannot be understood without an appreciation of the broader context of social policy in which it takes place. Such an understanding is increasingly important as social workers are expected to work across institutional, professional and even...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault
Michel Foucault and Paul Veyne: the philosopher and the historian. Two major figures in the world of ideas, resisting all attempts at categorization. Two timeless thinkers who have long walked and fought together. In this short book Paul Veyne offers a fresh portrait of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-23
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Télécharger le livre :  On Voluntary Servitude
This book addresses a central theme in social and political theory: what is the motivation behind the theory of ideology, and can such a theory be defended?

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-03-23
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