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Télécharger le livre :  Seeing Double
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Seeing Double


Raymond Geuss


The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning?This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays...

Parution : 2024-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of the Climate Crisis
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The Ethics of the Climate Crisis


Robin Attfield


The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future...

Parution : 2024-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  The Triumph of the Slippers
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The Triumph of the Slippers


Pascal Bruckner , Cory Stockwell


Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place.  In response to this situation, it is understandable that many people are...

Parution : 2024-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Sad Planets
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Sad Planets


Dominic Pettman , Eugene Thacker


“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations,...

Parution : 2024-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Spectacles of Waste
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Spectacles of Waste


Warwick Anderson


The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must...

Parution : 2024-03-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It
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Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It


Mark Coeckelbergh


Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it?    In this...

Parution : 2024-02-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertain Times
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Uncertain Times


Andrew Brown , Jacques Ranciere


The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned...

Parution : 2024-02-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Social Mobility
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Social Mobility


Anthony Heath , Yaojun Li


Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of persistent political interest and concern.Social mobility is frequently used...

Parution : 2023-11-28
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Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  A Global Racial Enemy
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A Global Racial Enemy


Steve Garner , Inaash Islam , Saher Selod


Prejudice against Muslims has a long and complex history. In recent decades, discrimination, violence, and human rights abuses against Muslims have taken a significant turn, with rising reports and discussions of Islamophobia across the globe. However, much of the...

Parution : 2023-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  WhatsApp
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WhatsApp


Emma Baulch , Amelia Johns , Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández


In the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the world, WhatsApp quickly outpaced rival messaging apps and developed into a platform.In this book, the authors provide a comprehensive account of WhatsApp’s global growth....

Parution : 2023-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Darkening Blackness
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Darkening Blackness


Norman Ajari , Matthew B. Smith


The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia, and to a radical distrust in white narratives of inclusivity. What if the ideas and reforms we regard as progressive were just the...

Parution : 2023-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Bodies and Mobile Media
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Bodies and Mobile Media


Ingrid Richardson , Rowan Wilken


Have you ever considered how mobile media change what we see, hear and pay attention to, or how they alter our movement through the city? Over the last decade, mobile media and communication technologies have become deeply integral to our perception and bodily...

Parution : 2023-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Families
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Families


Vanessa May


In this accessible and engagingly written book, Vanessa May invites readers into the rich world of thought, research and study of the highly diverse phenomenon of families and family life. The book explores what is and has been understood by ‘family’ in different...

Parution : 2023-11-08
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Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  The Trade Weapon
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The Trade Weapon


Ken Heydon


Prompted by geostrategic rivalry and the war in Ukraine, COVID-19 and the climate transition, trade policy is increasingly being weaponized. This trend towards protectionist capture and retaliation is self-sabotaging and bad for growth. But there is another way. In this...

Parution : 2023-11-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Recognition in the Age of Social Media
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Recognition in the Age of Social Media


Bruno Campanella


The desire to be recognized is a basic human trait. In contemporary society, social media platforms play a key role in defining how processes of recognition take shape. To post, to like, or to comment have become daily practices of expressing individual recognition. On...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Democratic Regression
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The Democratic Regression


Stephen Curtis , Armin Schäfer , Michael Zürn


There is a tendency in public debate to downplay the significance of populism by attributing its rise to the inadequacies of those who vote for populist leaders and parties.  But this way of thinking prevents us from seeing that the rise of populism may be linked to...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Foreverism
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Foreverism


Grafton Tanner


What do cinematic “universes,” cloud archiving, and voice cloning have in common? They’re in the business of foreverizing – the process of revitalizing things that have degraded, failed, or disappeared so that they can remain active in the present. To foreverize...

Parution : 2023-10-30
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Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  The Kindertransport
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The Kindertransport


Andrea Hammel


In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a...

Parution : 2023-10-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Socialization
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Socialization


Muriel Darmon , Lucy Garnier


How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and “socialization” has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives...

Parution : 2023-10-23
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Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  In the Name of Sharks
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In the Name of Sharks


Stephen Muecke , François Sarano


Twenty metres below water, the oceanographer François Sarano came face to face with a five-and-a-half metre great white shark. Seduced by the gentle elegance of this majestic creature, Sarano experienced a profound sense of affinity with her as they swam side by side,...

Parution : 2023-10-17
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