Editorial Polity
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Defiant Earth
The Fate of Humans in the Anthropocene
- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1975-0
EAN 9781509519750
Humans have become so powerful that we have disrupted the functioning of the Earth System as a whole, bringing on a new geological epoch - the Anthropocene - one in which the serene and clement conditions that allowed civilisation to flourish are disappearing and we quail before 'the wakened giant'.The emergence of a conscious creature ...
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- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 31,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1775-6
EAN 9781509517756
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- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 140 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1373-4
EAN 9781509513734
The Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by surprise. Many leading commentators declared shortly before the crisis that the magical recipe for eternal stability had been found. Less than a year later, the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression erupted. In this explosive book, Steve ...
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Stand Firm
Resisting the Self-Improvement Craze
- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 152 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1426-7
EAN 9781509514267
The pace of modern life is accelerating. To keep up, we must keep on moving and adapting constantly striving for greater happiness and success. Or so we are told. But the demands of life in the fast lane come at a price: stress, fatigue and depression are at an all-time high, while our social interactions ...
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- Polity, 2017
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 1192 páginas
PVP: 43,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9668-3
EAN 9780745696683
Now in its eighth edition, this continues to be the indispensable guide to understanding the world we make and the lives we lead. Revised and updated throughout, it remains unrivalled in its vibrant, engaging and authoritative introduction to sociology. The authors provide a commanding overview of recent global developments and new ideas in sociology. Classic ...
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The soldiers who occupied Germany after the Second World War were not only liberators: they also brought with them a new threat, as women throughout the country became victims of sexual violence. In this disturbing and carefully researched book, the historian Miriam Gebhardt reveals for the first time the scale of this human tragedy, which ...
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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 homosexuality from an early age: all ...
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On 13 November 2015, Paris suffered the second wave of brutal terrorist attacks in a year, leaving 130 dead and many more seriously injured. How are we to make sense of these violent acts and what do they tell us about the forces shaping our world today? In this short book the influential philosopher Alain ...
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Since the outbreak of the Ukraine crisis, there has been much talk of a new Cold War between the West and Russia. Under Putin s authoritarian leadership, Moscow is widely seen as volatile, belligerent and bent on using military force to get its way. In this incisive analysis, top Russian foreign and security policy analyst ...
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New York, Washington, Madrid, London and now Paris D the list of Western cities targeted by radical Islamic terrorists waging global jihad continues to grow. Does this extreme violence committed in the name of Islam point to a fundamental enmity between the Muslim faith and the West? In this compelling essay, leading scholar of Islam ...
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- Polity, 2016
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PVP: 15,85 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1203-4
EAN 9781509512034
Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it's not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? That is precisely the issue at stake in this dialogue, which serves as a ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,29 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-0578-4
EAN 9781509505784
The book offers a deeply reflective analysis of the Charlie Hebdo affair in Paris, and uses it brilliantly to explore and criticise the inner tensions and selective historical amnesia of French society that are taken to be responsible for its current Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. It shows with great insight and wisdom how to deal with ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,23 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-0744-3
EAN 9781509507443
Seven decades after its establishment, the United Nations and its system of related organizations and programs are perpetually in crisis. While the twentieth-century's world wars gave rise to ground-breaking efforts at international organization in 1919 and 1945, today's UN is ill-equipped to deal with contemporary challenges to world order. Neither the end of the Cold ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 22,55 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-0457-2
EAN 9781509504572
With the United States superpower status rivalled by a rising China and emerging powers like India and Brazil playing a growing role in international affairs, the global balance of power is shifting. But what does this mean for the future of the international order? Will China dominate the 21st Century? Will the so-called BRICS prove ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 232 páginas
ISBN 978-0-7456-5087-6
EAN 9780745650876
Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and political movements. We must put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies. Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
ISBN 978-1-5095-0781-8
EAN 9781509507818
Catastrophic events like the bombing of Hiroshima, Hurricane Katrina s devastation of New Orleans, and drone strikes periodically achieve renewed political significance as subsequent developments summon them back to public awareness. But why and how do different conceptions of time inform and challenge these key events and the narratives they create? In this book, Michael ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 15,90 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-1217-1
EAN 9781509512171
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. For the people behind the doors, these uninvited guests were always strangers, and strangers tend to generate fear and anxiety precisely because they are unknown. Today we find ourselves confronted with an ...
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- Polity, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9654-6
EAN 9780745696546
Thinking about the future is essential for almost all organizations and societies. States, corporations, universities, cities, NGOs and individuals believe they cannot miss the future. But what exactly is the future? It remains a mystery perhaps the greatest mystery, especially because futures are unpredictable and often unknowable, the outcome of many factors, known and unknown.The ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 248 páginas
PVP: 33,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-7080-5
EAN 9780745670805
The environmental histories of the Arctic and Antarctica are characterised by contrast and contradiction. These are places that have witnessed some of the worst environmental degradation in recent history. But they are also the locations of some of the most farsighted measures of environmental protection. They are places where people have sought to conquer nature ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 26,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9100-8
EAN 9780745691008
The idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the condition of humankind could be radically improved. History had embarked on an unstoppable forward trajectory, realizing the promise of freedom and reason. The scientific revolution, the industrial revolution, and the French Revolution, ...
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