Search results for “[Subject: applied-sciences]”

• Author(s): Rosi Braidotti • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Movements - HumanismThe question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques o...

• Author(s): Ulrich Beck • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationEurope is Europe’s last remaining realistic political utopia. But Europe remains to be understood and conceptualized. This historically uni...

• Author(s): Eric Protzer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralPopulist upheavals like Trump, Brexit, and the Gilets Jaunes happen when the system really is rigged. Citizens the world ...

• Author(s): Seyla Benhabib • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Human RightsThe language of human rights has become the public vocabulary of our contemporary world. Ironically, as the political influence of human ...

• Author(s): Julia Adeney Thomas • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyHumans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-...

• Author(s): Maurie J. Cohen • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Human GeographySustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technologica...

• Author(s): Giuseppe a. Veltri • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralTo analyse social and behavioural phenomena in our digitalized world, it is necessary to understand the main research opportun...

• Author(s): Kathleen Tierney • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyDisasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do ...

• Author(s): Goran Therborn • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GlobalizationInequality is not just about the size of our wallets. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to fu...

• Author(s): Patrick Porter • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralIn an age of demagogues, hostile great powers and trade wars, foreign policy traditionalists dream of restoring libe...

• Author(s): Stacey Keltner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralJulia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials ...

• Author(s): Helga Nowotny • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: EpistemologyUncertainty is interwoven into human existence. It is a powerful incentive in the search for knowledge and an inherent component of scient...

• Author(s): Charles Taliaferro • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: ReligiousAn important part of philosophy is concerned with religious questions. What is the meaning of life, and how might religious faith or dou...

• Author(s): Theodor W. Adorno • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis volume comprises Adorno's first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the ...

• Author(s): Ulrike Klinger • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Communication StudiesPolitical communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasi...

• Author(s): Kengo Miyazono • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralAre we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions hav...

• 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): Benjamin Moffitt • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalPopulism is the key political phenomenon of the 21st century. From Trump to Brexit, from Chávez to Podemos,...

• Author(s): Anthony D. Smith • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismFor the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature...