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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): 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): 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): 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): Jacques Lacan • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Psychotherapy - PsychoanalysisWhen I decided to explore the question of Witz, or wit, with you this year, I undertook a sm...

• Author(s): Jennifer Patrice Sims • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: DiscriminationEveryone has an opinion on racism. The vast majority of people would vehemently deny that they or th...

• Author(s): Patricia Hill Collins • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThe concept of intersectionality has become a central topic in academic and activist circles alike. But what exa...

• Author(s): Rob Kitchin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Popular CultureDigital technologies are having a profound effect on the temporalities of individuals, househol...

• Author(s): Cees J. Hamelink • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Communication StudiesHuman rights and communication are deeply connected: human rights need communication...

• Author(s): Caitlin Killian • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Gender StudiesWhile many claim that being a mom is the most important job in the world, in reality motherhood in the Uni...

• Author(s): Paul Willis • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThis book analyses modernity and tradition in China today and how they combine in striking ways in the Chinese school. Paul Willis - the le...

• Author(s): Neil Robertson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalLeo Strauss's lifelong intellectual mission was to recover 'classical rationalism', a pursuit that has made him a controversial figure to th...

• Author(s): Andreas Reckwitz • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that i...

• Author(s): Carey Jewitt • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: PoliticalTouch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how w...

• Author(s): Danièle Moyal-Sharrock • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Gender StudiesSocieties around the world are struggling to think clearly about trans realities and understand trans ...

• Author(s): Nicholas J. Cull • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Public Policy - Communication PolicyWe are living in turbulent times, witnessing renewed international conflict, resu...

• Author(s): Daniel Davies • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Judaism - GeneralThe most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions ...

• Author(s): Marie Bergstrom • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesOnline dating has become a widespread feature of modern social life. In less than two decades, seeking partners through commercial inte...

• Author(s): Markus Gabriel • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EpistemologyAt the centre of modern epistemology lurks the problem of scepticism: how can we know that the forms of our cognition are compatible with...

• Author(s): Catherine Porter • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThe toppling of statues in the name of anti-racism is disconcerting, as is the violence sometimes displayed towards others in the name of ge...

• Author(s): Brian Gran • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesChildren's rights appear universal, inalienable, and indivisible, intended to advance young people's interests. Yet, in practice, evide...

• Author(s): Leah Lievrouw • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Communication, Mass Media and Journalism • BISAC: Popular CultureOver the last four decades, new modes of communication have redefined people's engagement wit...

• 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...

• Author(s): Mark Andrejevic • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFacial recognition is set to fundamentally change our experience and understanding of monitoring, surveillance, and privacy. Backed by ...

• Author(s): Ash Amin • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Human GeographyIncreasingly, many people in democracies are turning to a strongarm politics for reassurance against globalizatio...

• Author(s): Julian Thomas • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFrom café culture to home schooling, remote community networks, and smart cities, Wi-Fi is an invisible but fundamental element of conte...

• Author(s): Norman Ajari • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlThis book sets out to understand the ethical dimension of Black lives and deaths in...

• Author(s): Umut Özkirimli • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PoliticalRight now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potentia...

• Author(s): David M. Berry • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralAs the twenty-first century unfolds, computers challenge the way in which we think about culture, society and what it is to be ...

• Author(s): John A. Hall • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIn his new book John A. Hall traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making...