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• Author(s): David Held • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationIn this pathbreaking book, one of the world’s leading analysts of globalization and global governance confronts the failures of internationa...

• Author(s): Bernard Stiegler • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Future StudiesIn July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Polan...

• Author(s): Adrian Leftwich • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe spectre of poverty, disease and ignorance still haunts much of the developing world today. But not everywhere....

• Author(s): Jonathan Sadowsky • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: Mood Disorders - DepressionDepression has colonized the world. Today, more than 300 million of us have been diagnosed as depressed. But 1...

• Author(s): Benjamin Selwyn • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - General The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises. Yet the majority of the world's population...

• Author(s): Benjamin Selwyn • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedente...

• Author(s): Colin Hay • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralPolitics was once a term with an array of broadly positive connotations, associated with public scrutiny, deliberation and accountability. Yet toda...

• Author(s): Yifei Li • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)What does it mean for the future of the planet when one of the world's most durable authoritarian...

• Author(s): Bill Jordan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationThe freedom to choose where to live and work is a fundamental right in liberal societies. The moral equality of persons is t...

• Author(s): Colin Crouch • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - TheoryCapitalism is the only complex system known to us that can provide an efficient and innovative economy, but the financial crisis has ...

• Author(s): Jurgen Habermas • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Movements - RationalismHere, for the first time in English, is volume one of Jurgen Habermas's long-awaited magnum opus: The Theory of Communicative...

• Author(s): Eva Illouz • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Love & RomanceNeues Buch der preisgekrönten Soziologin Eva Illouez über die moderne Liebe, das der Frage nachgeht, waru...

• Author(s): Steve Keen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThe Great Financial Crash had cataclysmic effects on the global economy, and took conventional economists completely by su...

• Author(s): Simone Chambers • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalIs democracy worth saving? Responding to the erosion of democracy, philosophical debates have pivoted from an...

• Author(s): Adam Arvidsson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book argues that, as industrial capitalism enters a period of prolonged crisis, a new paradigm of ‘industrious modernity’ is ...

• Author(s): Joseph Vogl • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThe global financial crisis of 2008 ushered in a system of informal decision-making in the grey zone between economics and politics. Leg...

• Author(s): Donatella Di Cesare • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalMarranos were Spanish or Portuguese Jews who converted to Christianity at the time of the Spanish Inquisition to avoid being massacred ...

• Author(s): Harry Collins • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsTo ordinary people, science used to seem infallible. Scientists were heroes, selflessly pursuing knowledge for the comm...

• Author(s): Peter Sloterdijk • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History - GeneralIn this wide-ranging book, renowned philosopher and cultural theorist Peter Sloterdijk examines art in all its rich and varied for...

• Author(s): Suzannah Weiss • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Social Topics - Dating & SexSubjectified is a book about subjects, objects, and verbs. It is also a book about clothi...

• Author(s): Amelia Johns • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Media StudiesIn the 2010s, as chat apps became a primary mode of communication for many people across the wor...

• Author(s): Baptiste Morizot • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralAs the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstandin...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Ingham • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyFew economic phenomena provoke as much confusion as money. From the first measures of value and the physical coins th...