Télécharger le livre :  The State and the Soldier

America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-21

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Télécharger le livre :  Wanna F*ck?

Following our desires, sharing pleasure: sounds easy, right? And yet our sexualities are conditioned by expectations, prejudices and taboos that make it difficult to listen to our own bodies, let alone anyone else’s.  Bel Olid clears away the taboos and invites readers...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism Beyond Left and Right

An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Hydrojustice

This is a book about justice, but not as we know it. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos argues that justice is always hydrojustice – that is, always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-14
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  Stop the Machines

As we stand on the cusp of an AI revolution, will we see the rise of a new anti-technology extremism that threatens to dismantle the gains of modern civilization? In the first exploration of this phenomenon, Mauro Lubrano traces the origins and evolution of...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Risk of Compressed Modernity

In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Making Capital Democratic

The “software” that structures our financial system and, through it, our broader economy is made up of certain basic concepts that guide how we think and hence act. These concepts include money, credit, finance, investment, and – above all – capital. This conceptual...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Indian Civil Sphere

Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and the press, and disputatious vis-à-vis organized counter-powers....
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Transgender Rights vs Women's Rights

“Trans rights are human rights!”  “Women’s rights are human rights!”  Yes, but the human rights of two groups often conflict.  The only way to resolve these conflicts is through calm, rational, public debate.  Freedom of expression protects the right of women to...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Museum Studies

Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective, it covers key topics such as the history of the museum, the museum as a public...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Precarious Migrant Worker

Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate social and economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time – the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms of materials has fallen by the wayside, and yet materials have...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Russia's Gamble

In February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale military assault on Ukraine, aimed at re-establishing Russian control over the Ukrainian state, economy and society, similar in many ways to the Soviet period. This goal, however, was not achieved, and most likely will not...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Journalism

Journalism remains a vital, irreplaceable institution in the public sphere, even though technology, political and economic trends, and globalization continue to impact it in negative ways.An Introduction to Journalism is the new go-to textbook for journalism...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Non-Aligned World

Non-Alignment is back with a vengeance. In recent years, the number of countries embracing this venerable approach to foreign policy has increased exponentially, making it a force to be reckoned with in world affairs. The war in Ukraine, the expansion of the BRICS...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Feminism, Defeated

Feminism has been defeated.Once a politics, feminism is now a philosophy, an epistemology, a method. Once for women, it is now for everyone. Once in pursuit of liberation, it now seeks only inclusion.In Feminism, Defeated, Kate Phelan traces the depoliticization and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Self-Censorship

There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of America’s most outspoken and important intellectuals, provides a...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Last Jewish Joke

The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight.  Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, political loyalties and...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Exile

In recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fueled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers and externalize border monitoring in...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Collapse of Global Liberalism

In the 1990s, a vision emerged of a frictionless world of globalization in which the West would become ever richer on the basis of a tech-based service economy, all underpinned by a rules-based liberal international order. It became the basis for the mainstream politics...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-06-03

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