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Télécharger le livre :  Brazil
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Brazil


Joel Wolfe


Brazil has long been an enigma to outsiders. Over the last two decades alone, Latin America’s largest and most populous country has been celebrated as a vibrant new democracy with a powerful economy, and derided as a nation in complete disarray heading toward the status...

Parution : 2023-05-09
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Polity Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Music
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Music


Nicholas Cook


As countries went into lockdown in 2020, people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. Neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; people participated in online music sessions that created an experience of socially distanced togetherness. Nicholas Cook...

Parution : 2023-05-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics of Pop Music
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Aesthetics of Pop Music


Diedrich Diederichsen


In this short book, the leading German cultural critic Diedrich Diederichsen puts forward a fresh and original account of pop music. He argues that pop music is not so much a form of music as a constellation of different media channels, social spaces and behavioural...

Parution : 2023-03-14
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  Left Is Not Woke
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Left Is Not Woke


Susan Neiman


If you’re woke, you’re left.If you’re left, you’re woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you’re one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake. The confusion arises because woke is fuelled by traditionally leftwing emotions: the wish to...

Parution : 2023-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Money for Beginners
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Money for Beginners


Heske Van Doornen , L. Randall Wray


Money is mysterious. We love it, we hate it, but few people can tell you what the heck it really is. Wouldn't it be good to get out of the fog? This book will help you understand both the way money works and how to leverage its power. The authors take you on an...

Parution : 2023-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  If Auschwitz is Nothing
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If Auschwitz is Nothing


David Broder , Donatella Di Cesare


Ever since the end of World War II, when the sheer enormity of the Nazi crime against the Jews became apparent, there have been repeated attempts to deny that the Holocaust really happened. The existence of gas chambers was questioned and the testimony of survivors was...

Parution : 2023-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Absence
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Absence


Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer


Western thinking has long been dominated by essence, by a preoccupation with that which dwells in itself and delimits itself from the other. By contrast, Far Eastern thought is centred not on essence but on absence. The fundamental topos of Far Eastern thinking is not...

Parution : 2023-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Land Sickness
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Land Sickness


Nikolaj Schultz


As a heatwave hits Paris, the author's entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. To escape the heat and his growing anxieties, he flees to the small Mediterranean island of...

Parution : 2023-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Life Is Not Useful
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Life Is Not Useful


Alex Brostoff , Jamille Pinheiro Dias , Ailton Krenak


Indigenous leader and activist Ailton Krenak reminds us that we must awaken from the comatose senselessness we have been immersed in since the beginning of the modern colonial project, where order, progress, development, consumerism, and capitalism have taken over our...

Parution : 2023-02-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Archaeology
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Archaeology


Ann B. Stahl


History lies beneath our feet and in the landscapes around us. In contrast to the history that comes from studying texts, archaeology is the study of history through objects, monuments, and other traces of past lives: history that extends beyond the earliest writings...

Parution : 2022-11-21
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Why It Matters
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Emergence of an Ecological Class
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On the Emergence of an Ecological Class


Bruno Latour , Julie Rose , Nikolaj Schultz


Under what conditions could ecology, instead of being one cluster of movements among others, organise politics around an agenda and a set of beliefs? Can ecology aspire to define the political horizon in the way that liberalism, socialism, conservatism and other...

Parution : 2022-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  House Concert
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House Concert


Igor Levit , Shaun Whiteside , Florian Zinnecker


Igor Levit ranks among the greatest pianists of his generation, described by The New York Times as ‘one of the essential artists of our time’. But his influence reaches far beyond music: he uses his public platform to speak out against racism, antisemitism and all forms...

Parution : 2022-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Time of the Landscape
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The Time of the Landscape


Emiliano Battista , Jacques Ranciere


The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of...

Parution : 2022-10-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Is Affirmative Action Fair?
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Is Affirmative Action Fair?


Natasha Warikoo


Affirmative action in college admissions – considering whether an applicant is part of an underrepresented group when making selection decisions – has long been a topic of heated public debate. Some argue that it undermines racial equity. Others advocate for its ability...

Parution : 2022-09-23
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Debating Race
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Télécharger le livre :  Xi Jinping
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Xi Jinping


Stefan Aust , Adrian Geiges


If China seems unstoppable, so too does its leader Xi Jinping. As General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and President of China, he commands over 1.4 billion people, in a vast country that spans the prosperous megacities of Beijing and Shanghai and desperately...

Parution : 2022-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  A New Dawn for Politics
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A New Dawn for Politics


Alain Badiou , Robin Mackay


What is the relation between politics and the world? It might seem that global capitalism has created one world, but this is an illusion because capitalism creates a world of objects and money that divides human existence into regions separated by fences and walls built...

Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  United Kingdom
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United Kingdom


Adrian Bingham


The United Kingdom has been at the heart of global history for centuries – as a conqueror, an engine of international trade, and a symbol of modernity. It was the first industrial nation, the centre of the world’s biggest empire, and the home of an enduring and...

Parution : 2022-09-12
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Polity Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  If Science is to Save Us
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If Science is to Save Us


Martin Rees


There has never been a time when ‘following the science’ has been more important for humanity. At no other point in history have we had such advanced knowledge and technology at our fingertips, nor had such astonishing capacity to determine the future of our planet. But...

Parution : 2022-09-07
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Lying
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A History of Lying


Thomas Bunstead , Juan Jacinto Muñoz-Rengel


Wherever there is life, there are lies. Slick-suited politicians lie on the podium, ready to tell voters what they want to hear. Cheating lovers, swindling businessmen, double-crossing villains – all liars.  But nature lies too – the cheetah crouching in the tall grass...

Parution : 2022-08-31
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism
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The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism


Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer


Zen Buddhism is a form of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China and is strongly focused on meditation. It is characteristically sceptical towards language and distrustful of conceptual thought, which explains whyZen Buddhist sayings are so enigmatic and succinct....

Parution : 2022-08-29
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Éditeur : Polity
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