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Télécharger le livre :  How We Sold Our Future
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How We Sold Our Future


Jens Beckert , Ray Cunningham


For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounting threat to ourselves...

Parution : 2024-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2
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Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 2


Theodor W. Adorno , Nicholas Walker


When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the University of Frankfurt and he immediately made a name for himself as a leading public intellectual. Adorno’s widespread influence on the...

Parution : 2024-11-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Media Industries in the Digital Age
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Media Industries in the Digital Age


Timothy Havens , Amanda D. Lotz


The digital communication technologies that emerged at the turn of the century have profoundly disrupted long-practiced norms of nearly every media industry. In particular, internet distribution has fundamentally changed the foundation of the media industry to enable...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Public Space
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The Making of Public Space


Luc Boltanski , Arnaud Esquerre


This new book by Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre is a highly original analysis of the two key processes that shape the contemporary public sphere. On the one hand, there are the processes of news provision which select out a range of facts and events and bring them to...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Antiracism
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Antiracism


John Solomos


While there has been a wealth of research and conversation about the role of racism in shaping our social, political and economic structures, antiracism – its highly publicized counterpart – has been very little studied, discussed or debated. Veteran race scholar John...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Lustful Appetites
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Lustful Appetites


Rachel Hope Cleves


We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and sexual pleasure? Rachel Hope...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Toussaint Louverture
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Toussaint Louverture


Aime Cesaire , Kate Nash


This book is the long-overdue publication in English of Aimé Césaire’s account of Toussaint Louverture, the legendary leader of the revolution in Saint-Domingue – a slave revolt against French colonial rule that led to the founding of the independent republic of Haiti. ...

Parution : 2024-11-18
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Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  Decolonizing Anthropology
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Decolonizing Anthropology


Soumhya Venkatesan


Decolonization has been a buzzword in anthropology for decades, but remains difficult to grasp and to achieve. This groundbreaking volume offers not only a critical examination of approaches to decolonization, but also fresh ways of thinking about the relationship...

Parution : 2024-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Defending Due Process
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Defending Due Process


Brandon L. Garrett


We all feel unfairness deeply when treated in rash ways.We expect, and the law requires, government officials to take fairness seriously, giving us notice and an opportunity to be heard before taking our rights away. That is why the U.S. Constitution commands, twice,...

Parution : 2024-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Hubris
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Hubris


Sharon Howe , Johannes Krause , Thomas Trappe


Humans are the most intelligent beings this planet has ever produced. But how is it that we can travel into space, cure diseases and decode the fundamentals of life, and at the same time find ourselves faced with an existential crisis that threatens to overwhelm us?...

Parution : 2024-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Human Animal
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The Human Animal


Markus Gabriel , Karl Von Der Luft


The climate crisis has forced us to recognize that we are not separate from nature but are part of the natural world on which we depend: human beings are animals and we must understand much better our place in nature and our impact on our environment if we are to avoid...

Parution : 2024-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Magic of Silence
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The Magic of Silence


Tony Crawford , Florian Illies


No German painter evokes such strong emotions as Caspar David Friedrich: his evening skies remain icons of longing, his mountain vistas testaments to the grandeur of nature.  He inspired Samuel Beckett to write Waiting for Godot and Walt Disney to create Bambi. Goethe,...

Parution : 2024-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Integrity
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Integrity


Martin Albrow


Public life is dominated from time to time by media storms around integrity. The behaviour of elected political leaders has led many to decry the deterioration in standards and the lack of integrity in public life. But what is integrity, and where does our concern with...

Parution : 2024-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Health Inequality
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Health Inequality


Mel Bartley , Michelle Kelly-Irving


The persistence of stark health inequalities in today’s world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can we advance our understanding of the full extent of health...

Parution : 2024-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The War Against Women
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The War Against Women


Ramsey Mcglazer , Rita Segato


Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Collection : Critical South
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Empire of AI
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The New Empire of AI


Rachel Adams


As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjugated by it.As Rachel Adams shows in this hard-hitting book, growing...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Rumors
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Rumors


Mladen Dolar


When Socrates was standing before the Athenian tribunal in 399 BC, he said in his defence that the opponents he feared most were the invisible ones, those who had been spreading rumors against him for years but none of whom were being brought to court – it was like...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Collection : Theory Redux
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Télécharger le livre :  Natural History of Silence
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Natural History of Silence


Helen Morrison , Jérôme Sueur


In our busy, noisy world, we may find ourselves longing for silence. But what is silence exactly? Is it the total absence of sound? Or is it the absence of the sound created by humans – the kind of deep stillness you might experience in a remote mountain landscape...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Dialogue
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Beyond Dialogue


Craig Considine


In these times of rising tensions between Christians and Muslims across the world, the need for harmony and peace has never been more urgent. As one of the world’s leading advocates of interfaith dialogue, Craig Considine introduces readers to the provocative idea of...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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Télécharger le livre :  An Invitation to Social Theory
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An Invitation to Social Theory


David Inglis , Christopher Thorpe


Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary social life is constructed. But often the key ideas of social theorists are expressed in highly technical and difficult...

Parution : 2024-11-05
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