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Télécharger le livre :  The Machine at Work
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The Machine at Work


Keith Grint , Steve Woolgar


This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work. Firstly, it reviews and critically assesses a variety of recent approaches to the social and cultural dimensions of technology. Secondly, it examines the...

Parution : 2013-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Love, Power and Knowledge
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Love, Power and Knowledge


Hilary Rose


In this book Hilary Rose develops new terms for thinking about science and feminism, locating the feminist criticism of science as both integral to the feminist movement and to the radical science movement.

Parution : 2013-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil Society
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Civil Society


John A. Hall


This volume of especially commissioned essays explains what is meant by "civil society", paying particular attention to the relationships between civil society and other social forces such as nationalism and populism.

Parution : 2013-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Political Theory in Modern Germany
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Political Theory in Modern Germany


Chris Thornhill


This book provides an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the major political thinkers of modern Germany. It includes chapters on the works of Max Weber, Carl Schmitt, Franz Neumann, Otto Kirchheimer, Jurgen Habermas and Niklas Luhmann. These works are examined...

Parution : 2013-06-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Words of the World
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Words of the World


Abram De Swaan


This bold and accessible study of human languages and communication explores issues which are at the forefront of today's globalized society. The human species is divided into more than five thousand language groups that do not understand each other. And yet these...

Parution : 2013-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Reinventing India
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Reinventing India


Stuart Corbridge , John Harriss


When India was invented as a "modern" country in the years after Independence in 1947 it styled itself as a secular, federal, democratic Republic committed to an ideology of development. Nehru's India never quite fulfilled this promise, but more recently his vision of...

Parution : 2013-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Constellation
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The New Constellation


Richard J. Bernstein


In this major new work, Bernstein explores the ethical and political dimensions of the modernity/post-modernity debate. Bernstein argues that modernity / post-modernity should be understood as a kind of mood - one which is amorphous, shifting and protean but which...

Parution : 2013-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Nietzsche
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Nietzsche


Irving M. Zeitlin


In this book Irving Zeitlin re-examines the work of this important philosopher and considers how we should assess Nietzsche's claims today.

Parution : 2013-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Plato's Republic
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Plato's Republic


Alain Badiou


Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life...

Parution : 2013-05-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Introduction to Critical Theory
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Introduction to Critical Theory


David Held


The writings of the Frankfurt school, in particular of Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, and Jurgen Habermas, caught the imagination of the radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s and became a key element in the Marxism of the New Left. Partly due to their rise to...

Parution : 2013-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Joseph A. Schumpeter
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Joseph A. Schumpeter


Richard Swedberg


Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883-1950) is one of the most celebrated authors on the economics and sociology of the twentieth century. Richard Swedberg's new biography provides an engaging and vivid account of Schumpeter's varied life, including his ventures into politics and...

Parution : 2013-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Urban Outcasts
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Urban Outcasts


Loïc Wacquant


Breaking with the exoticizing cast of public discourse and conventional research, Urban Outcasts takes the reader inside the black ghetto of Chicago and the deindustrializing banlieue of Paris to discover that urban marginality is not everywhere the same. Drawing on a...

Parution : 2013-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Modern Science
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The Making of Modern Science


David Knight


Of all the inventions of the nineteenth century, the scientist is one of the most striking. In revolutionary France the science student, taught by men active in research, was born; and a generation later, the graduate student doing a PhD emerged in Germany. In 1833 the...

Parution : 2013-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Theory and Modern Sociology
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Social Theory and Modern Sociology


Anthony Giddens


In this book Anthony Giddens addresses a range of issues concerning current developments in social theory, relating them to the prospects for sociology in the closing decades of the twentieth century. Composed of closely integrated papers, all written over the past few...

Parution : 2013-04-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Re-Thinking Science
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Re-Thinking Science


Michael T. Gibbons , Helga Nowotny , Peter B. Scott


Re-Thinking Science presents an account of the dynamic relationship between society and science. Despite the mounting evidence of a much closer, interactive relationship between society and science, current debate still seems to turn on the need to maintain a 'line' to...

Parution : 2013-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Science in the 20th Century and Beyond
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Science in the 20th Century and Beyond


Jon Agar


A compelling history of science from 1900 to the present day, this is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty. The scope is global.Science's claim to access universal truths about the...

Parution : 2013-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  A Social History of Knowledge II
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A Social History of Knowledge II


Peter Burke


Peter Burke follows up his magisterial Social History of Knowledge, picking up where the first volume left off around 1750 at the publication of the French Encyclopédie and following the story through to Wikipedia. Like the previous volume, it offers a social history...

Parution : 2013-04-17
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