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In the decades following the 9/11 attacks, complex webs of anti-terrorism laws have come into play across the world, promising to protect ordinary citizens from bombings, hijackings and other forms...

Nietzsche?s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler?s...

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in ?earthly things? and pay...

Carol Gilligan?s landmark book In a Different Voice ? the ?little book that started a revolution? ? brought women?s voices to the fore in work on the self and moral development, enabling women to be...

The death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity?s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the...

Affirmative action in college admissions ? considering whether an applicant is part of an underrepresented group when making selection decisions ? has long been a topic of heated public debate. Some...

As a heat wave hits Paris, the author?s entire existence is disrupted and disoriented by the effects of climate change. All his normal reference points are destroyed. He can?t sleep because of the...

Late Capitalist FascismAuthor: Mikkel Bolt RasmussenPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 140 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509547444ISBN-13:...

Letter To D: A Love StoryAuthor: Andre GorzPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Sep 28, 2020Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 150954397XISBN-13: 9781509543977

Indigenous thinker and leader Ailton Krenak exposes the destructive tendencies of our ?civilization?: rampant consumerism, environmental devastation and a narrow and restricted understanding of...

The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology and medicine and an influence that extends into the wider world...

As countries went into lockdown in 2020, many people turned to music for comfort and solidarity. In Verona, neighbours sang to each other from their balconies; across the world, people participated...

National security intelligence is a vast, complex and intriguing topic, made doubly hard for citizens to understand because of the thick veils of secrecy that surround it. In the third edition of his...

This book traces the interactions between nations, states and empires in the making of the modern world. It is commonly assumed that nation states succeeded and replaced empires, relegating empires...

What would happen if we were to awaken one day and suddenly realize that the world we live in appeared eerily alien, as if we?d been teleported to some other distant world? That frightening prospect...

The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask: why was the country?which had the knowledge, resources, and plans...

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide...

Our prevailing vision of social progress is fatally dependent on a false promise: that there will always be more and more for everyone. Forged in the crucible of capitalism, this foundational myth...

From everyday apps to complex algorithms, Ruha Benjamin cuts through tech-industry hype to understand how emerging technologies can reinforce White supremacy and deepen social inequity. Benjamin...

This is a book for people energized by the possibilities of modern intimacy, but who feel unsure about their own romantic lives. Alternative lifestyles such as nonmonogamy, while liberating in...

In February 2022, Russian missiles rained on Ukrainian cities and tanks rolled towards Kyiv to end Ukrainian independent statehood. President Zelensky declined a western evacuation offer and rallied...

?Everything is sad,? wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be...

Author: Byung-Chul HanPublisher: PolityPublication Date: Nov 13, 2017Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1509515100ISBN-13: 9781509515103

The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of...

At the end of the last century, the idea of self-esteem became enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was published, and before long was...

Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded ?LIBERTY FOR EVER!?, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won...

Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction ? but also increasingly of science fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried about this, or is this a normal development in the technology...

Love is the most important and intense experience of one?s life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential...

Social mobility has long been one of the central topics of sociology. It has been the subject of major theoretical contributions from the earliest generations of scholars, as well as being of...

Today, our excremental captivation defines what it means to be a modern person. Pressing concerns about fecal matters challenge our sense of ourselves, making us question whether we can ever be truly...