Télécharger le livre :  The Alps
Stretching 1,200 kilometres across six countries, the colossal mountains of the Alps dominate Europe, geographically and historically. Enlightenment thinkers felt the sublime and magisterial peaks were the very embodiment of nature, Romantic poets looked to them for...

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Parution : 2019-02-25
Collection : Environmental History ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  The Metric Society
In today’s world, numbers are in the ascendancy. Societies dominated by star ratings, scores, likes and lists are rapidly emerging, as data are collected on virtually every aspect of our lives. From annual university rankings, ratings agencies and fitness tracking...

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Parution : 2019-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto
No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of The Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Politics
People so often focus on the negative aspects of politics, like greed and corruption, but without politics we would be lost. It frames everything we do, and it has the power to bring about real and positive change. Politics, Andrew Gamble reminds us, defeated slavery...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-02-25
Collection : Why It Matters ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Against Hate
Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment – our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others’ positions but never its own. In a powerful challenge to fundamentalism in all its forms, Carolin Emcke, one of Germany’s leading...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Transitory Museum
Throughout modernity there has been a clear divide between art and commerce. Objects could either be consumed as commerce or contemplated as art. Today, as museums are facing increasing financial pressure and as stores have become inventive locations for new modes of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Israel/Palestine Reader
Introduction to any complex international conflict is enriched when the voices of the adversaries are heard. The Israel/Palestine Reader is an innovative collection, focused on the human dimension of the ongoing Israeli–Palestinian confrontation. Its vivid and...

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Parution : 2019-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Barcelona
Barcelona has existed as a settlement for two millennia. Early civilizations shaped the city before it achieved, in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, global power as a trading metropolis and empire capital. After a long struggle with the unifying Spanish state, the city...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-02-21
Collection : Cities in World History ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Religion and International Security
Religious violence is on the rise globally. Hardly a day passes without news of a vicious attack being carried out in the name of religion. Religion can, of course, bring security to many but its perversion leads to insecurity for all. Why is this? How and why do so...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-22
Collection : Dimensions of Security ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Japan
Japan, anchored by its traditions, transformed by American post-war Occupation, and globally recognized for its technological innovations, manufacturing prowess, and pop culture, faces powerful challenges from within and without. How Japan chooses to handle these...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-18
Collection : Polity Histories ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Passions and Politics
The dominant model of democratic politics emphasizes reason at the expense of the passions. Passions have been treated as dangerous, the opposite of reason and the enemy of virtue. Paul Ginsborg and Sergio Labate challenge this model and put forward a very different...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Whistleblowing a Duty?
Recent years have seen a number of whistleblowers risk their liberty to expose illegal and corrupt behaviour. Some have heralded their bravery; others see them as traitors. Can there be a moral duty to emulate their example and blow the whistle? In this book, leading...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Lévi-Strauss
Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Heidegger
Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century philosophy but his reputation was tainted by his associations with Nazism. The posthumous publication of the Black Notebooks, which reveal the shocking extent of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, has...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Television Studies
Television Studies provides an overview of the origins, central ideas, and intellectual traditions of this exciting field. What have been the primary areas of inquiry in television studies? Why and how did these areas develop? How have scholars studied them? How are...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-15
Collection : Short Introductions ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Designing Social Research
Designing Social Research is a uniquely comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the core knowledge and types of skills required for planning social research. The authors organize the book around four major steps in social research – focusing, framing, selecting and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-15
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Philosophy of Religion?
An important part of philosophy is concerned with religious questions. What is the meaning of life, and how might religious faith or doubt impact such meaning? What is the evidence for the existence of God? Is evidence essential for religious faith? What is the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-15
Collection : What is Philosophy? ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Emotions, Media and Politics
Emotions have long been neglected in media research, although their role is a vital ingredient in shaping our shared stories and the ways we engage with them. But emotions, as they circulate through the media, can also be divisive and exclusionary. Karin Wahl-Jorgensen...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-15
Collection : Contemporary Political Communication PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Habermas and the Media
Jürgen Habermas is arguably the most influential social theorist and philosopher of the twentieth century, and his imprint on media and communication studies extends well into the twenty-first. This book lucidly unpacks Habermas’s sophisticated contributions to the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-01-03
Collection : Theory and Media PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Post-Humanitarianism
The world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting within such a world, the spread of computers and connectivity, and the arrival of new digital sense-making tools, are widely celebrated...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-12-28
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