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• Author(s): Daniel Steuer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThe tsunami of information unleashed by digitization is threatening to overwhelm us, drowning us in a sea of frenzied communication and disrupt...

• Author(s): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is underst...

• Author(s): Susan J. Hekman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn 1949 Simone de Beauvoir asked, “What does it mean to be a woman?” Her answer to that question inaugurated a radical transformation of the ...

• Author(s): Dany-Robert Dufour • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralAfter the hell of the Nazis and the terror of Communism, it is possible that a new catastrophe has appeared on the horizon: th...

• Author(s): Molly Anne Rothenberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn The Excessive Subject: A New Theory of Social Change, Molly Anne Rothenberg uncovers an innovative theory of social chan...

• Author(s): Jean-Francois Bayart • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationTaking the plane or sending an e-mail: globalization has become part of the fabric of our daily lives. And yet it is often seen as...

• Author(s): Bento Prado Jr • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of ...

• Author(s): Karen Wells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Developmental - ChildWhat does it mean to think of children as social subjects and how should we go about studying childhood in society? Childhood is a ...