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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): 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): Christina Howells • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralThis wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twen...

• 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): 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): 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): 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 ...

• Author(s): David Keen • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the late twentieth century, disasters seemed like distant happenings in countries far away from the prosperous West. But today they are ‘coming...

• Author(s): William E. Scheuerman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many deca...

• Author(s): Nick Couldry • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesOver the past thirty years, humanity has made a huge mistake. We handed over to big tech decisions that have allowed them to build what ha...

• Author(s): Leah Henrickson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWe tell stories to make sense of chaos. We come to understand the world and our places in it through these stories. And we share these ...

• 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): Mary Kaldor • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralWhy do politicians think that war is the answer to terror when military intervention in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sy...

• Author(s): David Frisby • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe modern metropolis has been one of the crucial sites for the exploration of modernity since at least the mid-nineteenth century. In...

• Author(s): Marion Zilio • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History - GeneralWe have long accepted the face as the most natural and self-evident thing, believing that in it we could read, as if on a screen, our ...

• Author(s): Tim Ingold • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHumanity is at a crossroads. We face mounting inequality, escalating political violence, warring fundamentalisms and ...

• Author(s): Theodor W. Adorno • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Movements - Critical TheoryWhen Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and rese...

• Author(s): David Theo Goldberg • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralA pervasive sense has taken hold that any and all of us are under suspicion and surveillance, walking on a tightrope, a step ...

• Author(s): Nathaniel Tkacz • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesOnce the rarified stuff of scientists and statisticians, data are now at the heart of our global digital economy, transforming everythi...

• Author(s): Arne Hintz • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Civil RightsDigitization has transformed the way we interact with our social, political and economic environments. While it has enhanced the potential fo...

• Author(s): Mary Hamer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyIn this major new book, Mary Hamer offers a new perspective on incest, making a link with the scandal of sexual abuse on...

• Author(s): Ivy O'Neil • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliverySearching the internet for health information or using health apps on mobile devices has become part of our daily routine, yet can be...

• Author(s): Irving M. Zeitlin • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryThis book is a comprehensive account of how the Jews became a diaspora people. The term 'diaspora' was first applied exclusively...

• Author(s): Ramesh Srinivasan • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesIn the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of polit...

• Author(s): Steffen Mau • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIt is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that t...

• Author(s): Mark Pesce • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesSlated as ‘the next big thing in tech’, augmented reality promises to take the screen out of our hands and wrap it around the world via ‘sma...

• Author(s): Stephanie Lawson • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralInternational relations emerged as a distinct academic discipline in the early twentieth century, but its philosop...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyContemporary understanding of human subjectivity has come a long way since the Cartesian 'thinking thing' or Freud's view of the self ...

• Author(s): Robert R. Geyer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social PolicyWith the growing challenges of economic globalization and national welfare state retrenchment, the development and futu...