Editorial Polity
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Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash.We are aware ...
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- Polity, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5221-4
EAN 9780745652214
The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, ...
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- Polity, 2011
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PVP: 24,80 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5138-5
EAN 9780745651385
Crisis? Whose crisis? Today we are in the midst of a multifaceted crisis which touches the lives of everyone on the planet. Whether it's growing poverty and inequality or shrinking access to food and water, the collapse of global financial markets or the dire effects of climate change, every aspect of this crisis can be ...
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- Polity, 2010
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PVP: 24,70 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-1880-7
EAN 9780745618807
Humour is without doubt a vital element of the human condition but it has rarely been the subject of serious historical research. Yet a closer look at jokes and other comic phenomena shows us that the nature of humour changes from one period to another, and that these changes can provide us with important insights ...
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This volume develops a novel approach to state theory. It offers a comprehensive review of the existing literature on the state and sets a new agenda for state research. Four central themes define the scope of the book: an account of the bases of the operational autonomy of the state; the need to develop state ...
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- Polity, 2010
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PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4804-0
EAN 9780745648040
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- Polity, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-2515-7
EAN 9780745625157
This engaging book introduces new readers of eighteenth-century texts to some of the major works, authors, and debates of a key period of literary history. Rather than simply providing a chronological survey of the era, this book analyzes the impact of significant cultural developments on literary themes and formsÑincluding urbanization, colonial and mercantile expansion, the ...
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- Polity, 2010
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PVP: 23,39 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4908-5
EAN 9780745649085
In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a ...
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In Imperialism and Global Political Economy Alex Callinicos intervenes in one of the main political and intellectual debates of the day. The global policies of the United States in the past decade have encouraged the widespread belief that we live in a new era of imperialism. But is this belief true, and what does 'imperialism' ...
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Bonfire of Illusions
The Twin Crises of the Liberal World
- Polity, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4876-7
EAN 9780745648767
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of 2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion of NATO to its very borders. Secondly, on ...
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Political Theology II
The Myth of the Closure of Any Political Theology
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The Empathic Civilization
The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
- Polity, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 688 páginas
PVP: 34,45 €
ISBN 9780745641461
EAN 9780745641461
this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization, bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is likely to determine our fate as a species. Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and interconnected world that will demand an unprecedented level ...
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Living on Borrowed Time
Conversations with Citlali Rovirosa-Madrazo
- Polity, 2010
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 100 páginas
PVP: 19,49 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4739-5
EAN 9780745647395
The global financial crisis has shattered the illusion that all was well with capitalism and forced us to confront the great challenges we face today with a new sense of urgency. Few are better placed to do this than Zygmunt Bauman, a social thinker whose writings on liquid modernity have pioneered a new way of ...
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- Polity, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 80 páginas
PVP: 12,99 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4097-6
EAN 9780745640976
Two controversial thinkers discuss a timeless but nonetheless urgent question: should philosophy interfere in the world? Nothing less than philosophy is at stake because, according to Badiou, philosophy is nothing but interference and commitment and will not be restrained by academic discipline. Philosophy is strange and new, and yet speaks in the name of all ...
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This widely acclaimed book is a comprehensive and authoritative account of the history and ideas of the Frankfurt School -- the most important and influential group of leftist intellectuals, philosophers and social theorists in Germany this century. Wiggershaus traces the history of the School from its establishment in the early years of the Weimar Republic, ...
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This is a unique, eye-witness account of everyday life right at the heart of the Nazi extermination machine. Slomo Venezia was born into a poor Jewish-Italian community living in Thessaloniki, Greece. At first, the occupying Italians protected his family; but when the Germans invaded, the Venezias were deported to Auschwitz.His mother and sisters disappeared on ...
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- Polity, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 300 páginas
PVP: 23,30 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-4404-2
EAN 9780745644042
What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and accomplishments that are played out behind the doors. It focuses ...
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