Télécharger le livre :  Frontlash / Backlash
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Frontlash / Backlash


Jeffrey C. Alexander


In the aftermath of the Cold War, many societies seemed firmly set on a pathway to cultural reintegration, progressive reform, and democratic government. This didn?t happen. Instead, they have become increasingly polarized, and far-right antidemocratic forces are...

Parution : 2025-10-29
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Power
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Performing Power


Marcus Morgan


When the bronze statue of Edward Colston was thrown into the Bristol harbour, what was it about this spectacle that made it more effective than countless petitions to have the slaver’s icon removed? What animated Trump’s supporters to answer his rhetorical question...

Parution : 2025-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of the Gay Rights Revolution
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The End of the Gay Rights Revolution


Ronan Mccrea


The gay rights movement in the West has succeeded beyond its wildest dreams – but this success seems suddenly fragile. Ronan McCrea’s important book argues that this is no blip. Forces favourable to gay rights – such as the wider cultural shift towards greater sexual...

Parution : 2025-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Epochal Crisis
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Epochal Crisis


William I. Robinson


In a groundbreaking new study, acclaimed scholar of global capitalism William I. Robinson presents a bold, original, and timely 'big picture' analysis of the unprecedented global crisis. Robinson synthesizes the different economic, social, political, military, and...

Parution : 2025-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Witch Power
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Witch Power


Emma Quilty


When most people hear the word 'witch', they immediately think of crones conspiring over a cauldron, a force of dark and vindictive power. But to hundreds of thousands across the world, being a witch is a living, everyday reality, much more varied than the fairytale...

Parution : 2025-09-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Imperialisms
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Imperialisms


Pierre Bourdieu , Peter Collier


While Bourdieu’s work on cultural production, the reproduction of inequality and the rise of the modern state is well known, his writings on the phenomena of internationalization and imperialism have received much less attention. Bourdieu’s analyses of the international...

Parution : 2025-08-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Who's Afraid of Gender?
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Who's Afraid of Gender?


Judith Butler


An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the...

Parution : 2024-03-19
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Doppelganger
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Doppelganger


Naomi Klein


*WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION* *THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE TIMES, NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, AND PROSPECT*‘If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one’...

Parution : 2023-09-12
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  The Semiotics of Love
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The Semiotics of Love


Marcel Danesi


The Semiotics of Love brings together work on early symbolism, literary practices, and contemporary communication on the theme of romance and the idea of love to forge an understanding of the semiotic-cultural side of romance. Moving beyond psychological and...

Parution : 2019-07-30
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Éditeur : Palgrave Macmillan
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Télécharger le livre :  Salt
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Salt


Mark Kurlansky


Homer called it a divine substance. Plato described it as especially dear to the gods. As Mark Kurlansky so brilliantly relates here, salt has shaped civilisation from the beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of mankind. Wars...

Parution : 2011-09-30
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  Freakonomics
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Freakonomics


Stephen J. Dubner , Steven D. Levitt


'A sensation ... you'll be stimulated, provoked and entertained. Of how many books can that be said?' Sunday Telegraph'Prepare to be dazzled' Malcolm GladwellWITH A NEW FOREWORD CELEBRATING 20 YEARS SINCE PUBLICATIONAssume nothing, question everything. This is the...

Parution : 2006-10-05
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  America Day by Day
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America Day by Day


Simone De Beauvoir , Carol Cosman


In 1947 Simone de Beauvoir took a road trip across America.She travelled from coast to coast, from New York to Hollywood, taking in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Washington DC. She rode a pony through the Grand Canyon, listened to jazz in New Orleans and visited the...

Parution : 2025-08-07
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Éditeur : Vintage Digital
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Télécharger le livre :  The Risk of Compressed Modernity
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The Risk of Compressed Modernity


Chang Kyung-Sup


In many Asian societies, the process of modernization often took place in a rapid and highly compressed fashion – not over centuries, as had happened in most Western societies, but in several decades. This enabled Asian societies to achieve high levels of economic...

Parution : 2025-07-11
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Éditeur : Polity
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Télécharger le livre :  The Indian Civil Sphere
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The Indian Civil Sphere


Jeffrey C. Alexander , Suryakant Waghmore


Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and the press, and disputatious vis-à-vis organized counter-powers....

Parution : 2025-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Precarious Migrant Worker
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The Precarious Migrant Worker


Panos Theodoropoulos


Migrant workers in the West are at the frontline of the precarious condition that is coming to dominate social and economic life in neoliberal societies. Yet despite the highly insecure and exploitative working conditions they routinely face, labour mobilizations by...

Parution : 2025-06-13
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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 :  The Last Jewish Joke
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The Last Jewish Joke


Cory Stockwell , Michel Wieviorka


The golden age of Jewish humour flourished in the second half of the twentieth century, enjoyed by Jews and non-Jews alike, but its twilight years are now in sight.  Telling jokes has the potential to reaffirm community once religion, political loyalties and...

Parution : 2025-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Critical Environmental Justice?
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What is Critical Environmental Justice?


David Naguib Pellow


Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before. These dynamics mirror those experienced by marginalized communities across the planet, but...

Parution : 2025-05-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Solidarity Between Species
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Solidarity Between Species


Frederic Keck


This book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic can be described as a biopolitical crisis, taking into account a fact often overlooked by commentators: Covid-19 is a zoonosis, a disease transmissible between animal species. The Sars-Cov2 virus causing this respiratory...

Parution : 2025-05-06
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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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Éditeur : Polity
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