Ebooks de Valentine A. Pakis en PDF et EPUB

9 Livre(s)
Télécharger le livre : Democracy Needs Religion
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Democracy Needs Religion
Valentine A. Pakis , Hartmut Rosa
What role does religion play in modern societies?  Is it merely an anachronism that hinders our economic growth?  Is it a kind of superstition that people should be left to enjoy in private but should refrain from discussing in public?  It is no secret that the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-05-09

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13,61 €
Télécharger le livre : Late Modernity in Crisis
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Late Modernity in Crisis
Valentine A. Pakis , Andreas Reckwitz , Hartmut Rosa
In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2023-05-25

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21,52 €
Télécharger le livre : Political Masculinity
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Political Masculinity
Susanne Kaiser , Valentine A. Pakis
Men with assault rifles, balaclavas and Hawaiian shirts pulled over bulletproof vests. Horned warriors with painted faces and fur headdresses draped over their naked torsos.  The storming of the Capitol brought together men who had previously come across one another...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2022-04-21

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19,10 €
Télécharger le livre : The End of Illusions
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The End of Illusions
Valentine A. Pakis , Andreas Reckwitz
We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future.  Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-06-28

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21,52 €
Télécharger le livre : Felix Klein
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Felix Klein
Valentine A. Pakis , Renate Tobies
About Felix Klein, the famous Greek mathematician Constantin Carathéodory once said: “It is only by illuminating him from all angles that one can come to understand his significance.” The author of this biography has done just this. A detailed study of original sources...

Editeur : Birkhäuser
Parution : 2021-06-23
Collection : Vita Mathematica
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79,11 €
Télécharger le livre : Society of Singularities
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Society of Singularities
Valentine A. Pakis , Andreas Reckwitz
Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique.  The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-04-21

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41,78 €
Télécharger le livre : Theory of the Hashtag
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Theory of the Hashtag
Andreas Bernard , Valentine A. Pakis , Daniel Ross
This is a short book about the most prominent sign of our times.  The simple # sign is now used so widely that it is easy to overlook the fundamental effects it has had in the structuring of public debate.  With its help, statements are bundled together and discourse is...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-08-05

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11,92 €
Télécharger le livre : The Triumph of Profiling
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The Triumph of Profiling
Andreas Bernard , Valentine A. Pakis
Until fairly recently, only serial killers and lunatics had profiles. Yet today, almost everyone is profiled through social media, mobile phones, and a multitude of other methods. But where does the idea of “profiling” come from, how has it changed over time, and what...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-07-20

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19,10 €
Télécharger le livre : The Digital Condition
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The Digital Condition
Valentine A. Pakis , Felix Stalder
Our daily lives, our culture and our politics are now shaped by the digital condition as large numbers of people involve themselves in contentious negotiations of meaning in ever more dimensions of life, from the trivial to the profound. They are making use of the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2018-01-16

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19,84 €