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Télécharger le livre :  Carbon Societies
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Carbon Societies


Peter Wagner


The climate crisis is humanmade. Its main cause is the burning of fossil fuels. To combat climate change, we have to understand how we arrived at where we are. This book explores the reasons why human societies have embarked on the trajectory of ever-increasing use of...

Parution : 2024-05-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Touch
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Digital Touch


Carey Jewitt , Sara Price


Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like...

Parution : 2024-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Antisemitism
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The New Antisemitism


Shalom Lappin


Generations raised after the Second World War took for granted a world of stability and prosperity, and with it the waning of ancient hatreds. Recent decades have been more sobering. Instability and extremism have returned in force. As Shalom Lappin explains in this...

Parution : 2024-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Behind the Wall
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Behind the Wall


Ines Geipel , Nick Somers


Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions.  Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive of extremist...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  You Can't Teach That!
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You Can't Teach That!


Keith E. Whittington


Who controls what is taught in American universities – professors or politicians? The answer is far from clear but suddenly urgent. Unprecedented efforts are now underway to restrict what ideas can be promoted and discussed in university classrooms. Professors at...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Climate and Society
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Climate and Society


Robin Leichenko , Karen O'brien


This bold and passionate textbook has become a go-to introduction to current and emerging thinking on the social dimensions of climate change, presenting key concepts and frameworks for understanding the multifaceted connections between climate and society.   Using...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Edmund Burke


Ross Carroll


Few thinkers have provoked such violently opposing reactions as Edmund Burke. A giant of eighteenth-century political and intellectual life, Burke has been praised as a prophet who spied the terror latent in revolutionary or democratic ideologies, and condemned as...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Collection : Classic Thinkers
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Homeland Insecurity


Conor Gearty


In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms of mass violence. But are we really any safer? Has freedom been secured...

Parution : 2024-05-13
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Collection : History of Violence
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Télécharger le livre :  The Privileged Few
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The Privileged Few


Clive Hamilton , Myra Hamilton


Male and white privilege are on the decline, yet elite privilege has gone from strength to strength. The privileges enjoyed by the rich and powerful are not only unfair but cause widespread harm, from the everyday slights and humiliations visited on those lower down the...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy Needs Religion
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Democracy Needs Religion


Valentine A. Pakis , Hartmut Rosa


What role does religion play in modern societies?  Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth?  Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but should refrain from discussing in public?  It is no secret that the...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Subjectified
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Subjectified


Suzannah Weiss


Subjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothing-optional resorts, masturbation circles, and sex parties. Suzannah Weiss takes the reader through her adventures as a sex and relationship writer to explore how we can create a...

Parution : 2024-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  David Walker
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David Walker


Sherrow O. Pinder


David Walker, a free (with a small f) black man, was one of the most significant African-American abolitionists of the nineteenth century. Born in a slave society before moving to Boston where, after the American Revolutionary War, slavery was abolished, Walker devoted...

Parution : 2024-05-07
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Collection : Black Lives
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Political Sociology?
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What is Political Sociology?


Elisabeth S. Clemens


With an entire discipline devoted to political science, what is distinctive about political sociology? This concise book explains what a sociological perspective brings to our understanding of the emergence, reproduction, and transformation of different forms of...

Parution : 2024-05-03
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Collection : What is Sociology?
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Télécharger le livre :  Wuhan
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Wuhan


Michael M. Day , Liao Yiwu


As rumours of a strange new illness in Wuhan spread via social media in China, 25-year-old citizen reporter Kcriss decides to travel to the epicentre of the disaster to try to find out what is really going on. He sees an ad for corpse carriers at a funeral home – Male...

Parution : 2024-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Invisible Warfare
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Invisible Warfare


Michael M. Day , Liao Yiwu


As a writer, poet, musician and dissident, Liao Yiwu is one of the most important chroniclers and analysts of contemporary China. In his books, he draws on his own experiences of imprisonment and mistreatment at the hands of the Chinese state to criticise abuses of...

Parution : 2024-05-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Patterns
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Patterns


Armin Nassehi , Mirko Wittwar


We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything – including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies – in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that...

Parution : 2024-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Romantic Agency
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Romantic Agency


Luke Brunning


This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in theory, can feel remote in practice, as we are fixed in place by insecurities...

Parution : 2024-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Being Philosophical
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Being Philosophical


Stephen Hetherington


Being Philosophical guides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual ‘tools’ from a diversity of...

Parution : 2024-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Ancestral Future
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Ancestral Future


Alex Brostoff , Jamille Pinheiro Dias , Ailton Krenak


Introduction by Jamille Pinheiro Dias and Alex BrostoffIn response to the damage caused by centuries of colonial ravaging and the current ecological, political and social crises, the leading Indigenous thinker and activist Ailton Krenak warns against the power of...

Parution : 2024-04-17
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Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fallacies of Racism
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The Fallacies of Racism


Jennifer Patrice Sims


Everyone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or those close to them are “racist,” yet many of the most common understandings of racism are highly problematic. “If you mean no harm, then it can’t be racist.” Yes, it can....

Parution : 2024-04-16
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