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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Data
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Exploring Data


Jane Elliott , Catherine Marsh


Exploring Data: An Introduction to Data Analysis for Social Scientists, 2nd Edition The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive statistics and graphical approaches,...

Parution : 2025-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Work
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The Sociology of Work


Keith Grint , Darren Nixon


The Sociology of Work, 4th Edition This leading, authoritative textbook has been carefully and substantially revised to provide the indispensable foundational resource for the sociology of work.The fourth edition has been transformed to combine unrivalled explanations...

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Social Theory in the Twentieth Century and Beyond


Patrick Baert , Filipe Carreira Da Silva


This revised edition of Patrick Baert's widely acclaimed Social Theory in the Twentieth Century, now benefitting from the collaboration of Filipe Carreira da Silva has been brought right up-to-date with cutting-edge developments in social theory today. It offers an...

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Télécharger le livre :  Who Owns Beauty?
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Who Owns Beauty?


Andrew Brown , Benedicte Savoy


Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose genius they embody? To the enlightened collectors who saw their value and...

Parution : 2025-09-03
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Existential Hope


Sj Beard


We live in an era of existential risk, facing multiple threats to the survival of our species.We also face an epidemic of existential anxiety, struggling to find meaning and purpose in a complex and dehumanizing world. In such times, hope can be hard to find.    Yet, we...

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Télécharger le livre :  I Suffer Therefore I Am
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I Suffer Therefore I Am


Pascal Bruckner , Stephen Muecke


In the West today, suffering has become a new sacred cow.  Once a common feature of the human condition, it is now a special trait you can use to impress your contemporaries.  It provides you with a borrowed identity, transforming you into an exceptional being who can...

Parution : 2025-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  A Short History of Stupidity
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A Short History of Stupidity


Stuart Jeffries


We are living, it is often said, in a golden age of stupidity, in which boneheaded, mendacious politicians get elected by voters who’ve become too mindless to realize their interests are ill served by narcissists, while vapid social media influencers corrupt their no...

Parution : 2025-08-21
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Inspiration


Ap Dijksterhuis , Liz Waters


Inspiration propels us. It’s the basis of every accomplishment. But the idea that it simply falls into your lap is a myth.Inspiration doesn’t come to us in a gust of wind, only to disappear into the mist again. You make it happen; it’s a reward for work that you’ve...

Parution : 2025-08-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Political Economy of China
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The Political Economy of China


Hongying Wang


China’s economic rise over the last four decades has been as confounding as it has been impressive. Few economies have grown as fast and changed the lives of so many people in such a short time. How is it that a nominally Communist state has been able to achieve this...

Parution : 2025-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The State and the Soldier
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The State and the Soldier


Kori Schake


America’s Founding Fathers feared that a standing army would be a permanent political danger, yet the U.S. military has in the 250 years since become a bulwark of democracy. Kori Schake explains why in this compelling history of civil-military relations from...

Parution : 2025-07-21
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Télécharger le livre :  One Nation Under the Influence
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One Nation Under the Influence


Kevin A. Sabet


We are in the midst of the worst drug crisis in American history. What are we going to do about it?Around 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose last year – nearly double the number who died in Vietnam. More than 1,000,000 have perished since 2000, thanks largely to...

Parution : 2025-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Museum Studies
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Introducing Museum Studies


Gordon Fyfe


Introducing Museum Studies is the first introductory textbook for museum studies. Providing a wide-ranging and original overview of museums from a historical and contemporary perspective, it covers key topics such as the history of the museum, the museum as a public...

Parution : 2025-06-17
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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Journalism
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An Introduction to Journalism


Silvio Waisbord


Journalism remains a vital, irreplaceable institution in the public sphere, even though technology, political and economic trends, and globalization continue to impact it in negative ways.An Introduction to Journalism is the new go-to textbook for journalism...

Parution : 2025-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Exile
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Exile


Anne-Claire Defossez , Didier Fassin


In recent decades, the forced displacement of populations has fueled nationalism and xenophobia across the world, arousing fear and hostility. Policies have been implemented to deter migrants, crack down on humanitarian workers and externalize border monitoring in...

Parution : 2025-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Marseille 1940
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Marseille 1940


Daniel Bowles , Uwe Wittstock


June 1940: France surrenders to Germany. The Gestapo is searching for Heinrich Mann and Franz Werfel, Hannah Arendt, Lion Feuchtwanger and many other writers and artists who had sought asylum in France since 1933. The young American journalist Varian Fry arrives in...

Parution : 2025-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Progress Trap
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The Progress Trap


Ben Cobley


The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things will get better and that...

Parution : 2025-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  The Expressway World
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The Expressway World


Richard J. Williams


In the demonology of the contemporary city, is there anything more toxic than the expressway? Dividing neighbourhoods, depressing land values, concentrating atmospheric pollutants, the mammoth infrastructure of the expressway is now increasingly crumbling into the...

Parution : 2025-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Disasters
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Disasters


Kathleen Tierney


Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not wreak their damage equally across nations and populations. Every disaster has social forces at its very core. This important book sheds light on the social conditions and the global,...

Parution : 2025-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  The Rich and the Poor
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The Rich and the Poor


Philip Kitcher


The Rich and the Poor is part chronicle, part analysis of a disturbing sea-change: the abandonment of ethics in public policy. Seventy years ago, it was possible for serious thinkers, including some in the governments of affluent nations, to consider policies for...

Parution : 2025-04-11
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Télécharger le livre :  When Nobody's Listening
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When Nobody's Listening


Diamant Salihu , Jan Salomonsson


In a quiet little town in northern France, an improbable sequence of events takes place which will go on to transform completely the struggle against organised crime in Europe. It all starts when the French cybercrime police hacks into an encrypted service called...

Parution : 2025-04-07
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