Télécharger le livre :  The Good Enough Life
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This book is a highly original exploration of what life could and should be. It juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town.  Attending carefully to the everyday lives of these people,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-11-08

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23,10
Télécharger le livre :  The Comfort of People
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At the end of life, our comfort lies mainly in relationships. In this book, Daniel Miller, one of the world's leading anthropologists, examines the social worlds of people suffering from terminal or long-term illness. Threading together a series of personal stories,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-11-10

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19,75
Télécharger le livre :  Webcam
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The use of webcam, especially through Skype, has recently become established as one more standard media technology, but so far there has been no attempt to assess its fundamental nature and consequences. Yet webcam has profound implications for many facets of human...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-03-12

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22,79
Télécharger le livre :  A Theory of Shopping
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A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping. We commonly assume that shopping is primarily concerned with individuals and materialism. But Miller rejects this assumption and follows the surprising...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-05-31

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22,79
Télécharger le livre :  Stuff
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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

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22,79
Télécharger le livre :  Stuff
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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

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21,10
Télécharger le livre :  Tales from Facebook
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Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until now there has been no...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25

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21,52
Télécharger le livre :  The Comfort of Things
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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

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22,79
Télécharger le livre :  Consumption and Its Consequences
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This is a book for those looking for different answers to some of today's most fundamental questions. What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-17

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20,26
Télécharger le livre :  Au Pair
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Many families leave their children for years to be looked after by young people about whom they know next to nothing, from places they have barely heard of. Who are these au pairs, why do they come and what is their experience of this arrangement? Do they, for their...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-17

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24,26