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Andrew Brown is Associate Professor at Massey University in New Zealand and a historian of late medieval religion and society. His books include Popular Piety in Late Medieval England (1995) and Civic Ceremony and Religion in Medieval Bruges, c.1300–1520 (Cambridge, 2010).
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Téléchargez le livre :  The Last Neanderthal
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The Last Neanderthal

Andrew Brown , Ludovic Slimak


Polity

2025-09-10

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It’s August 2015. After twenty-five years of archaeological research in a secluded cave overlooking the Rhône Valley in southern France, Ludovic Slimak uncovers the remains of a Neanderthal, frozen in time – a discovery that casts fresh light on a...

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Télécharger le livre :  Who Owns Beauty?
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Beauty belongs to no one. But what about the objects that museums celebrate as great works of art: to whom do they belong? Do they belong to the places where they originated? To the cultures whose genius they embody? To the enlightened collectors who saw their value and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-09-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Dispossessed
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Recent decades have witnessed protests that are unlike many of the social movements of previous centuries.  They are not led by any party, union or leader, but by ordinary people.  Their deep roots are existential rather than material. These protests are not driven by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Marketing
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Marketing involves a wide range of professions, activities and tools and it plays an increasingly important role in our lives.  But what exactly is marketing and how did it come to assume such importance?  Who are the marketing professionals, what exactly do they do and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-03-13

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Télécharger le livre :  A Subjective Approach to International Relations
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China’s growing power and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have thrust geopolitics back to the centre of the global stage, but the old frameworks of international relations, with their positivist methods and their emphasis on structural determinants, will not enable us to...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-02-05

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Télécharger le livre :  The Care of Things
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What does a coffee machine, a car, road signs, a smartphone, a cathedral, a work of art, a satellite, a bicycle, a washing machine, a bridge, a watch, a computer, the body of a prominent politician and a tractor have in common? Pretty much nothing – except for the fact...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-01-22

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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Emancipation
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Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization? In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-08-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertain Times
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The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire
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Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-12-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Lineages of the Feminine
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We are experiencing an anthropological revolution. We see it in the #MeToo movement, in the denunciation of femicide and in an increasingly vociferous critique of patriarchal domination. Why this sudden rise of an antagonistic conception of the relationship between men...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-06-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary China
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With a population of nearly 1.5 billion and the world’s second largest economy, China is a major player in the world today, and yet many in the West know very little about contemporary China. This book provides a clear, authoritative and up-to-date history of China...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Screen Damage
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All forms of recreational digital consumption – whether on smartphones, tablets, game consoles or TVs – have skyrocketed in the younger generations. From the age of 2, children in the West clock up more than 2.5 hours of screen time a day; by the time they reach 13,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-10-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Ways of Being Alive
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The ecological crisis is a very real crisis for the many species that face extinction, but it is also a crisis of sensibility – that is, a crisis in our relationships with other living beings. We have grown accustomed to treating other living beings as the material...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Mutual Aid
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In the merciless arena of life, we are all subject to the law of the jungle, to ruthless competition and the survival of the fittest – such is the myth that has given rise to a society that has become toxic for our planet and for our and future generations. But today...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-11-11

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Télécharger le livre :  Affluence and Freedom
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In this pathbreaking book, Pierre Charbonnier opens up a new intellectual terrain: an environmental history of political ideas. His aim is not to locate the seeds of ecological thought in the history of political ideas as others have done, but rather to show that all...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-22

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Télécharger le livre :  On the Animal Trail
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From the forests of Yellowstone to the steppes of the Haut-Var, the French philosopher and environmentalist Baptiste Morizot invites us to develop a different relationship to nature: to become detectives of nature and to follow the footprints of the many wonderful and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ungovernable Society
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Rebellion was in the air. Workers were on strike, students were demonstrating on campuses, discipline was breaking down. No relation of domination was left untouched – the relation between the sexes, the racial order, the hierarchies of class, relationships in families,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-01-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The New Progressivism
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Political parties that once dominated Western democracies have been shaken to the core. Many have suffered electoral debacles, as in France, Italy and Greece, while mainstream political parties in the UK and the US have found themselves struggling to cope with outcomes...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of Africa(s)
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This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial.  The postcolonial paradigm, and the more recent decolonial paradigm, raise the issue of the universal: is the postcolonial the first...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-04-03

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Télécharger le livre :  How Everything Can Collapse
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What if our civilization were to collapse? Not many centuries into the future, but in our own lifetimes? Most people recognize that we face huge challenges today, from climate change and its potentially catastrophic consequences to a plethora of socio-political...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-03-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Mediarchy
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We think that we live in democracies: in fact, we live in mediarchies. Our political regimes are based less on nations or citizens than on audiences shaped by the media.We assume that our social and political destinies are shaped by the will of the people without...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-11-11

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