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The Islamic headscarf has become the subject of heated legal and political debate. France and Germany have legislated against it, and even the UK, long a champion of multiculturalism, has recently restricted the veil proper. Ever since home-grown Islamic terrorism...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-25
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-7%
21,60€
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Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can learn from...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-25
ePub
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-7%
21,60€
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One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital media strategy, new...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
Collection :
Theory and Media
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Journalism, what happened? In the last decade, the industry and the profession have been rocked to the core. Newspapers as consumer product are as ripe for comic mocking and satire as are the techniques of the journalism profession. The contemporary death and life of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
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Now with a substantial new postscript on the financial crisis This book provides a basic introduction to the 'nuts and bolts' of capitalism. It starts by examining the classic accounts of capitalism found in the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Joseph...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
Collection :
Key Concepts
ePub
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-8%
26,00€
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The book is a study of the most recent American fiction, published at the turn of the 21th century, which demonstrates a renewed interest in the matters of history. Using the concepts of memory and experience, the author points at the ways in which subjective history...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-24
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Die Arbeit ist ein Beitrag zur Historisierung der Körper, vornehmlich des weiblichen Körpers, zu Körpervorstellungen und -praktiken sowie deren Wandel im deutschen und im tschechischen Turnmilieu. Der besondere Reiz dieser Thematik besteht in ihrer Mehrdimensionalität,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-04-24
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What do we know about ordinary people in our towns and cities, about what really matters to them and how they organize their lives today? This book visits an ordinary street and looks into thirty households. It reveals the aspirations and frustrations, the tragedies and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-24
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,60€
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This is the first textbook on the central ethical issues of digital media, ranging from computers and the Internet to mobile phones. It is also the first book of its kind to consider these issues from a global perspective, introducing ethical theories from multiple...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
ePub
Offre spéciale
-17%
18,10€
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What does it mean that we can be reached on our mobile phones wherever we are and at all times?What are the cultural consequences if we are informed about ‘everything and anything important’ via television? How are our political, religious and ethnic belongings impacted...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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This cutting-edge text offers an introduction to the emerging field of media archaeology and analyses the innovative theoretical and artistic methodology used to excavate current media through its past. Written with a steampunk attitude, What is Media Archaeology?...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
ePub
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Digital War Reporting examines war reporting in a digital age. It shows how new technologies open up innovative ways for journalists to convey the horrors of warfare while, at the same time, creating opportunities for propaganda, censorship and control. Topics discussed...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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Offre spéciale
-9%
23,00€
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Search engines have become a key part of our everyday lives. Yet while much has been written about how to use search engines and how they can be improved, there has been comparatively little exploration of what the social and cultural effects might be. Like all...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Digital Media and Society
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Offre spéciale
-7%
20,40€
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Bob Dylan’s contribution to popular music is immeasurable. Venerated as rock’s one true genius, Dylan is considered responsible for introducing a new range of topics and new lyrical complexity into popular music. WithoutBob Dylan, rock critic Dave Marsh once claimed,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
Celebrities
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Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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It is commonly assumed that capitalism has created an a-emotional world dominated by bureaucratic rationality; that economic behavior conflicts with intimate, authentic relationships; that the public and private spheres are irremediably opposed to each other; and that...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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Over-consumption is one of the key issues of our time, especially in the Western world. Over the past decade, in the face of historically unprecedented levels of consumer spending in the West - and the more recent impact of recession - a vigorous politics of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,50€
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Currently there are more than 125 Chinese cities with a population exceeding one million. The unprecedented urban growth in China presents a crucial development for studies on globalization and urban transformation. This concise and engaging book examines the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
Collection :
China Today
ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
20,40€
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This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees. It moves between the offices and homes of workers in the knew "knowledge" economy to provide intimate insight into the personal, family,...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
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The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century. It was commonly believed that there was a natural progression from Antiquity through Feudalism to Capitalism which could not...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2013-04-23
PDF, ePub
Offre spéciale
-7%
21,60€
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