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Télécharger le livre :  Psychology
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Psychology


Richard Wiseman


You are remarkable:You experience a vast range of thoughts and feelings, including falling in love, remembering last Tuesday, and contemplating the meaning of life. And you can carry all sorts of astonishing behaviours, such as sauntering down the street, singing in...

Parution : 2022-08-19
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Why It Matters
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Télécharger le livre :  Infocracy
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Infocracy


Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer


The tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupting many spheres of social life, including politics.  Election campaigns are now being waged as information wars with bots and...

Parution : 2022-07-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Zelensky
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Zelensky


Michael M. Naydan , Alla Perminova , Serhii Rudenko


Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine’s highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of war-time leader.  The former comedian has become the public face of his country’s courageous and bloody struggle against a...

Parution : 2022-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Pleasure Erased
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Pleasure Erased


Catherine Malabou , Carolyn Shread


The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured....

Parution : 2022-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Wrong Body
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The Myth of the Wrong Body


Miquel Misse , Frances Riddle


The most popular narrative about transsexuality suggests that some people are born in the wrong body – that their bodies do not correspond to their inner experience and that their bodies should therefore be transformed.  But in the view of the sociologist and trans...

Parution : 2022-06-15
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Sexual Capital?
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What is Sexual Capital?


Eva Illouz , Dana Kaplan


This book does to sex what other sociologists did to culture: it shows that sex, no longer defined by religion, now plays a role in the economy and can yield tangible benefits in the realms of money, status, and occupation. How do people accumulate sexual capital, and...

Parution : 2022-03-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Hairless
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Hairless


Laura Mcgloughlin , Bel Olid


Razors, tweezers, wax and hair removal creams: these are the tools for the initiation rites that signal the passage from girl to woman. Today the only acceptable places for a woman to have hair are on her head (preferably long), her eyebrows (not too wild) and eyelashes...

Parution : 2022-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Should We Ban Killer Robots?
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Should We Ban Killer Robots?


Deane Baker


Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction – but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried, or is this a normal development in the technology of war? In this accessible volume ethicist Deane Baker cuts through the...

Parution : 2022-01-19
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Political Theory Today
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Télécharger le livre :  Solar Politics
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Solar Politics


Oxana Timofeeva


This book is a philosophical essay on the sun. It draws on Georges Bataille’s theories of the solar economy and solar violence and demonstrates their relevance to a world affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change. The sun, which, since Antiquity, has played...

Parution : 2022-01-19
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Temptation of the Wall
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The Temptation of the Wall


Alice Kilgarriff , Massimo Recalcati


Modern social and political life is characterized not only by a passion for freedom and a desire for human contact, but also by the urge to shut down, to refuse freedom and the responsibility that goes with it, to barter it away in return for our security: this is the...

Parution : 2022-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Hyperculture
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Hyperculture


Byung-Chul Han , Daniel Steuer


In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the familiar and...

Parution : 2022-01-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a New Bretton Woods
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The Case for a New Bretton Woods


Kevin P. Gallagher , Richard Kozul-Wright


After the 2008–9 global financial crisis, reforms to promote stability, social inclusion, and sustainability were promised but not delivered. As a result, the global economic situation, marred by inequality, volatility, and climate breakdown, remains dysfunctional. Now,...

Parution : 2021-12-07
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : The Case For
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Télécharger le livre :  The Time of Revolt
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The Time of Revolt


David Broder , Donatella Di Cesare


As capitalism triumphs on the ruins of utopias and faith in progress fades, revolts are breaking out everywhere. From London to Hong Kong and from Buenos Aires to Beirut, protests flare up, in some cases spreading like wildfire, in other cases petering out and...

Parution : 2021-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Journalism Manifesto
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The Journalism Manifesto


C. W. Anderson , Pablo J. Boczkowski , Barbie Zelizer


Drawing on the collaborative expertise of three senior scholars, The Journalism Manifesto makes a powerful case for why journalism has become outdated and why it is in need of a long-overdue transformation. Focusing on the relevance of elites, norms and audiences,...

Parution : 2021-11-11
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : The Manifesto Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Economics
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The New Economics


Steve Keen


In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the wall of Wittenberg church. He argued that the Church’s internally consistent but absurd doctrines had pickled into a dogmatic structure of untruth. It was time for a Reformation. Half a millennium later, Steve Keen...

Parution : 2021-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  An All-Too-Human Virus
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An All-Too-Human Virus


Sarah Clift , David Fernbach , Jean-Luc Nancy , Cory Stockwell


In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread through social interaction. What used to be divine has become human – all too human, as Nietzsche would say. But while...

Parution : 2021-10-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Is AI Good for the Planet?
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Is AI Good for the Planet?


Benedetta Brevini


Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that...

Parution : 2021-10-14
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Digital Futures
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Télécharger le livre :  Skin
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Skin


Thomas Bunstead , Sergio Del Molino


Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes.Skin exhibits...

Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Black is the Journey, Africana the Name
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Black is the Journey, Africana the Name


Kaiama Glover , Maboula Soumahoro


In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way...

Parution : 2021-09-23
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Éditeur : Polity
Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Love
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Love


Barbara H. Rosenwein


We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on...

Parution : 2021-09-21
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Éditeur : Polity
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