Télécharger le livre :  Latina/o Studies
Who are Latinos? What’s the difference between Hispanic and Latino – or indeed Latina, Latina/o, Latin@, Latinx? Beyond the political rhetoric and popular culture representations, how can we explore what it means to be part of the largest minority group in the United...

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Parution : 2018-12-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Improvised Lives
The poor and working people in cities of the South find themselves in urban spaces that are conventionally construed as places to reside or inhabit. But what if we thought of popular districts in more expansive ways that capture what really goes on within them? In such...

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Collection : After the Postcolonial PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Social Deviance
The new edition of this popular introduction explores the meaning of social deviance in contemporary society. It traces the path by which we create deviance: how we single out behavior, ideas, and appearances that differ from the “norm,” label them as either offensive...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Responsibility to Protect
In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by unanimously adopting the UN’s “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P) principle. As often as not, however, R2P has failed to translate into decisive action. Why does this gap persist...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sketches in the Theory of Culture
Sketches in the Theory of Culture is a remarkable work by all measures. Written by Zygmunt Bauman when he was still a professor in Poland, and originally intended for publication in 1968, it was suppressed by the Polish government in the wave of repression following the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Artifictional Intelligence
Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called ‘deep learning’ seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before. Are computers on the cusp of becoming so intelligent that they will render humans obsolete? Harry Collins argues...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Are Chief Executives Overpaid?
Wages for the majority have been stagnant for decades, but a lucky few have enjoyed a pay bonanza. Top company bosses take home in several days as much as most people earn in a whole year. In this hard-hitting book, Deborah Hargreaves explains why pay for the top 0.1%...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
Collection : The Future of Capitalism ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Digital Citizenship in a Datafied Society
Digitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential for citizen agency, it has also enabled the collection and analysis of unprecedented amounts of personal data. This requires us to...

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Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Born Liquid
Born Liquid is the last work by the great sociologist and social theorist Zygmunt Bauman, whose brilliant analyses of liquid modernity changed the way we think about our world today. At the time of his death, Bauman was working on this short book, a conversation with...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sugar Daddy Capitalism
What is the connection between the sleaziness of Harvey Weinstein’s ‘business meetings’ and the passionless doctrine of neoclassical economics? In this witty and incisive examination of the new economy, Peter Fleming argues that they are closer than you might think. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Down to Earth
The present ecological mutation has organized the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalization into a nightmare for most...

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Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Our Psychiatric Future
Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  In Defense of Universal Human Rights
Should African and Muslim-majority countries be obliged to protect LGBT rights, or do such rights violate their cultures?Should Western-based corporations be held liable if their security guards injure union activists in another part of the world, or should such...

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Télécharger le livre :  Why Can't You Afford a Home?
Throughout the Western world, a whole generation is being priced out of the housing market. For millions of people, particularly millennials, the basic goal of acquiring decent, affordable accommodation is a distant dream. Leading economist Josh Ryan-Collins argues that...

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Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  H.L.A. Hart
H.L.A. Hart is among the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, with an especially great influence on the philosophy of law. His 1961 book The Concept of Law has become an enduring classic of legal philosophy, and has also left a significant imprint on...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-11-26
Collection : Key Contemporary Thinkers PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  An Imaginary Racism
‘Islamophobia’ is a term that has existed since the nineteenth century. But in recent decades, argues Pascal Bruckner in his controversial new book, it has become a weapon used to silence criticism of Islam. The term allows those who brandish it in the name of Islam to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rupture
The majority of citizens in the world today do not trust their political representatives, the mainstream political parties, the established political institutions or their governments. This widespread crisis of legitimacy underlies a series of dramatic changes that have...

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Parution : 2018-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Neo-Existentialism
In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind. His view, Neo-Existentialism, is thoroughly anti-naturalist in that it repudiates any...

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Télécharger le livre :  Colorblind Racism
How can colorblindness – the idea that race does not matter – be racist? This illuminating book introduces the paradox of colorblind racism: how dismissing or downplaying the realities of race and racism can perpetuate inequality and violence. Drawing on a range of...

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Télécharger le livre :  I Know There Are So Many of You
The history of humanity has only just begun.The Neolithic Revolution may have endowed us with unparalleled means of communication, subsistence, and knowledge acquisition. However, it is clear in today’s world that inequality, power hierarchies, and violence persist on a...

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