Search results for “[Subject: development-general]”

• Author(s): Peter Wagner • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely bel...

• Author(s): Stuart Corbridge • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: GeneralTwenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor peo...

• Author(s): Peter Burke • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralWhat is Cultural History? has established itself as an essential guide to what cultural historians do and how they do it. Now fully upda...

• Author(s): Richard Lachmann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralSociology began as a historical discipline, created by Marx, Weber and others, to explain the emerge...

• Author(s): Marshall Eakin • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaWhat is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Lat...

• Author(s): Bruce Haddock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralBruce Haddock's lucid and original textbook combines historical and theoretical analysis, setting political thought in t...

• Author(s): Jeremy Black • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Military - GeneralThis book provides an accessible and up-to-date account of the rich military history of the nineteenth century. It takes a fresh appr...

• Author(s): Armin Nassehi • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWe are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything - including...

• Author(s): Svend Brinkmann • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralA defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all,...

• Author(s): Andrew Schrank • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBringing the study of international inequality back into the core of sociological theory, this book offers a user-friendly introdu...

• Author(s): Mark Koyama • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Economics • BISAC: Economic HistoryMost humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its wealth in the last two centuries...

• Author(s): Michael Woolcock • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentWhether understood as a long-run historical process or an intentional political project, international developmen...

• 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): Muriel Darmon • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralHow does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its ince...

• 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): Jenny Shaw • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWe spend more time shopping than doing anything else, after sleep and work. So why is it not taken more seriously? The answer: we take...

• 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): James Schleifer • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: PoliticalAlexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat paradoxically famous for his insights into democracy and equality, is one of history's greatest ...

• Author(s): Jill Walker Rettberg • Publisher: Wiley • Publisher Imprint: Polity Pr • Subject: Computer Science and Information Technology • BISAC: Media StudiesHumans have used technology to expand our limited vision for millennia, from the inve...

• Author(s): Graham Meikle • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Media StudiesWhat happens when we can no longer believe what we see? Show the AI technologies that create deepfakes enough images of a celebrity or a ...

• 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): Jacques Ranciere • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWhat distinguishes fiction from ordinary experience is not a lack of reality but a surfeit of rationality - this was the thes...

• Author(s): Robin Attfield • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: GeneralEnvironmental thought has a rich and extensive history. Philosopher Robin Attfield guides readers through the key developments and debates tha...

• 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): Anthony A. J. Williams • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateChristianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially conservative - in short, necessarily aligned wi...

• 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): 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): 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...