Editorial Polity
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Bauman, irene; Bauman, Zygmunt; Kociatkewicz, Jerzy; Kosetera, Monika
Management in a Liquid Modern World
- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-5095-0222-6
EAN 9781509502226
Management has been one of the driving forces of the last century, indeed an idea and a language that colonized most other institutions, areas of human activity and walks of life, even those that had until recently been regarded as completely unmanageable, such as art, academia and creativity. Some it supported and others it destroyed, ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 28,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4761-6
EAN 9780745647616
We are living in a time of crisis which has cascaded through society. Financial crisis has led to an economic crisis of recession and unemployment; an ensuing fiscal crisis over government deficits and austerity has led to a political crisis which threatens to become a democratic crisis. Borne unevenly, the effects of the crisis are ...
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Shadow Sovereigns
How Global Corporations are Seizing Power
- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9782-6
EAN 9780745697826
Lobbying has long been part of the political landscape. But in recent years links between big business and government have become stronger and more far-reaching than ever. Global corporations now demand control over decisions affecting labour laws, finance, public health, food and agriculture, safety regulations, taxes and international trade and investment. They even claim the ...
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In the wake of the attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on 7 January 2015, millions took to the streets to demonstrate their revulsion, expressing a desire to reaffirm the ideals of the French Republic: liberte, egalite, fraternite. But who were the millions of demonstrators who were suddenly united under the single ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 26,95 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8712-4
EAN 9780745687124
Unde malum from where does evil come? That is the question that has plagued humankind ever since Eve, seduced by the serpent, tempted Adam to taste the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Throughout history the awareness of good and evil has always been linked to the awareness of choice ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 180 páginas
PVP: 25,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9569-3
EAN 9780745695693
In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from the plight of monotheistic religions cast onto a polytheistic world stage to the nature of religious experience ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 30,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-9036-0
EAN 9780745690360
Who exactly are the 'intellectuals? This term is so widely used today that we forget that it is a recent invention, dating from the late nineteenth century.In Birth of the Intellectuals, the renowned historian and sociologist Christophe Charle shows that the term 'intellectuals first appeared at the time of the Dreyfus Affair, and the neologism ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 28,90 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6212-1
EAN 9780745662121
Terrorism, mass uprisings, and political extremism are in the news every day. It is no coincidence that these phenomena come together at the beginning of a new era. Radicals, Revolutionaries, and Terrorists provides a comprehensive survey of the intersection of radical social movements and political violence.The book considers eight essential questions for understanding radicalism, including ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8682-0
EAN 9780745686820
Over the past 25 years, Jürgen Habermas has presented what is arguably the most coherent and wide-ranging defence of the project of European unification and of parallel developments towards a politically integrated world society. In developing his key concepts of the transnationalisation of democracy and the constitutionalisation of international law, Habermas offers the main players ...
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The Secular State under Siege
Religion and Politics in Europe and America
- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 33,35 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6542-9
EAN 9780745665429
Throughout human history, religion and politics have entertained the most intimate of connections as systems of authority regulating individuals and society. While the two have come apart through the process of secularization, secularism is challenged today by the return of public religion. This cogent analysis unravels the nature of the connection, disconnection, and attempted reconnection ...
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- Polity, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 136 páginas
PVP: 14,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8831-2
EAN 9780745688312
The Global Financial Crisis overturned decades of received wisdom on how financial markets work, and how best to keep them in check. Since then a wave of reform and re-regulation has crashed over banks and markets. Financial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been successful, and do they go far enough? ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 186 páginas
PVP: 26,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6199-5
EAN 9780745661995
No longer content to fade away into comfortable retirement, a growing number of former political leaders have pursued diplomatic afterlives. From Nelson Mandela to Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, to Tony Blair and Mikhail Gorbachev, this set of highly-empowered individuals increasingly try to make a difference on the global stage by capitalizing on their free-lance ...
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A Stranger in my Own Country
The 1944 Diary
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
PVP: 33,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6988-5
EAN 9780745669885
'I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.' Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of 'inward emigration'. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 27,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6712-6
EAN 9780745667126
In this important new book the renowned historian Serge Gruzinski returns to two episodes in the sixteenth century which mark a decisive stage in global history and show how China and Mexico experienced the expansion of Europe.In the early 1520s, Magellan set sail for Asia by the Western route, Cortes seized Mexico and some Portuguese ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 120 páginas
PVP: 16,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6540-5
EAN 9780745665405
The euro crisis is tearing Europe apart. But the heart of the matter is that, as the crisis unfolds, the basic rules of European democracy are being subverted or turned into their opposite, bypassing parliaments, governments and EU institutions. Multilateralism is turning into unilateralism, equality into hegemony, sovereignty into the dependency and recognition into disrespect ...
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A Stranger in my own Country
Prison Diary, 1944
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 300 páginas
PVP: 25,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-8156-6
EAN 9780745681566
'I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses.' Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of 'inward emigration'. Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free ...
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Religion and Immigration
Migrant Faiths in North America and Western Europe
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 206 páginas
PVP: 26,45 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4170-6
EAN 9780745641706
This concise book provides readers with a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of the key issues and varied strands of research relating to immigration and religion that have been produced during the past two decades. Religion, once a neglected topic in migration studies, is today seen as a crucially important aspect of the immigrant experience. ...
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- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-7077-5
EAN 9780745670775
In a world of high finance, unprecedented technological change, and cyber billionaires, it is easy to forget that a major source of global wealth is, literally, right under our noses. Coffee is one of the most valuable Southern exports, generating billions of dollars in corporate profits each year, even while the majority of the world's ...
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The Most Sublime Hysteric
Hegel with Lacan
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 264 páginas
PVP: 28,60 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-6375-3
EAN 9780745663753
What do we know about Hegel? What do we know about Marx? What do we know about democracy and totalitarianism? Communism and psychoanalysis? What do we know that isn't a platitude that we've heard a thousand times - or a self-satisfied certainty? Through his brilliant reading of Hegel, Slavoj Zizek - one of the most ...
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Walter Benjamin and the Media
The Spectacle of Modernity
- Polity, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 196 páginas
PVP: 24,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4521-6
EAN 9780745645216
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society. Jaeho Kang's book offers a lucid introduction to Benjamin's theory of the media and its continuing relevance today.The book provides a systematic and close reading of ...
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