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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Health and Medicine
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The Sociology of Health and Medicine


Ellen Annandale


Highly Commended - BMA Medical Awards 2015: Health and Social Care The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the book examines...

Parution : 2025-09-04
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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 :  Contemporary Conflict Resolution
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Contemporary Conflict Resolution


Hugh Miall , Oliver Ramsbotham , Harmonie Toros , Tom Woodhouse


The indispensable guide to conflict resolution in a troubled world Conflict prevention and resolution, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have never been more important as priorities on the global agenda.The wars in Ukraine and Gaza, and tensions between the major powers...

Parution : 2024-10-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Interest in Disinterestedness
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The Interest in Disinterestedness


Pierre Bourdieu , Peter Collier


A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be...

Parution : 2024-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Middle East
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The Middle East


Jean-Pierre Filiu


The Middle East, often referred to as the cradle of the three monotheisms, is saturated with symbolism. Situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, it is a land marked by the rich confluence of religions and peoples.  It has also been the focal point of...

Parution : 2023-10-16
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Télécharger le livre :  World Poverty and Human Rights
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World Poverty and Human Rights


Thomas W. Pogge


Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million...

Parution : 2023-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art
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On the Essence of Language and the Question of Art


Martin Heidegger


The texts and notes collected in this volume offer unique insight into the development of Heidegger’s thinking on language and art from the late 1930s to the early 1950s – a tumultuous period both for Heidegger personally and for Germany as a whole.  Following Germany’s...

Parution : 2022-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  My Secret Brexit Diary
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My Secret Brexit Diary


Michel Barnier , Robin Mackay


In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean. The result would change Britain and...

Parution : 2021-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Introducing Anthropology
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Introducing Anthropology


Tomislav Maric , Laura Pountney


The perfect starting point for any student new to this fascinating subject, offering a serious yet accessible introduction to anthropology. Across a series of fourteen chapters, Introducing Anthropology addresses the different fields and approaches within anthropology,...

Parution : 2021-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Sociology
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Sociology


Anthony Giddens , Philip W. Sutton


Over a million copies sold worldwideThe indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. This thoroughly revised and updated ninth edition remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors...

Parution : 2021-03-16
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Télécharger le livre :  Crisis and Inequality
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Crisis and Inequality


Mattias Vermeiren


Spiralling inequality since the 1970s and the global financial crisis of 2008 have been the two most important challenges to democratic capitalism since the Great Depression. To understand the political economy of contemporary Europe and America we must, therefore, put...

Parution : 2021-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociology of Health and Illness
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The Sociology of Health and Illness


Sarah Nettleton


Sarah Nettleton’s The Sociology of Health and Illness has become a cornerstone text, popular with students and academics alike for its rigorous and accessible overview of the field. Building on these strengths, the fourth edition integrates fresh insights from the...

Parution : 2020-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  An Introduction to Sociology
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An Introduction to Sociology


Ken Browne


This fifth edition of An Introduction to Sociology provides an accessible and engaging introduction to sociology, without oversimplifying or passing over the important and exciting insights sociology has to offer.   Building on the book's existing achievements, Ken...

Parution : 2019-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Philosophy of Religion
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The Philosophy of Religion


Beverley Clack , Brian R. Clack


For over twenty years, Beverley Clack and Brian R. Clack's distinctive and thought-provoking introduction to the philosophy of religion has been of enormous value to students and scholars, providing an approach to the subject that is bold and refreshingly alternative....

Parution : 2019-05-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The State and Politics In Japan
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The State and Politics In Japan


Ian Neary


Politics in Japan is undergoing a major transformation. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party has, since 2012, embarked upon an ambitious programme of policy reforms as well as changes to Japan’s governing structures and...

Parution : 2019-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Manet
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Manet


Pierre Bourdieu , Peter Collier , Margaret Rigaud-Drayton


What is a 'symbolic revolution'?What happens when a symbolic revolutions occurs, how can it succeed and prevail and why is it so difficult to understand? Using the exemplary case of Édouard Manet, Pierre Bourdieu began to ponder these questions as early as the 1980s,...

Parution : 2018-05-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Aesthetics
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Aesthetics


Theodor W. Adorno , Wieland Hoban


This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later Aesthetic Theory, widely regarded as one of his greatest works.  The lectures cover a wide range of topics, from an intense analysis of the work...

Parution : 2017-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  The Conservative Party
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The Conservative Party


Tim Bale


The Conservatives are back, and back with a bang ? two election wins in a row and, providing they can hold things together, in a pretty good position to win another. But many questions about their recent past, present, and future still remain. Just why did the world?s...

Parution : 2017-01-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Barthes
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Barthes


Andrew Brown , Tiphaine Samoyault


Roland Barthes (1915-1980) was a central figure in the thought of his time, but he was also something of an outsider. His father died in the First World War, he enjoyed his mother’s unfailing love, he spent long years in the sanatorium, and he was aware of his...

Parution : 2017-01-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Habermas
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Habermas


Stefan Müller-Doohm


‘Jürgen Habermas’, wrote the American philosopher Ronald Dworkin on the occasion of the great European thinker’s eightieth birthday, ‘is not only the world’s most famous living philosopher. Even his fame is famous.’ Now, after many years of intensive research and...

Parution : 2016-09-22
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