Télécharger le livre :  Is AI Good for the Planet?
Artificial intelligence (AI) is presented as a solution to the greatest challenges of our time, from global pandemics and chronic diseases to cybersecurity threats and the climate crisis. But AI also contributes to the climate crisis by running on technology that...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-10-14
Collection : Digital Futures ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Deliberative Democracy
Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy. Its proponents argue that important decisions of law and policy should ideally turn not on the force of numbers but on the force of the better argument. However, it continues to strike some...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-27
Collection : Key Concepts in Political Theory ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sense of AI
Industrial robots, self-driving cars, customer-service chatbots and Google’s algorithmic predictions have brought the topic of artificial intelligence into public debate. Why is AI the source of such intense controversy and what are its economic, political, social and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Structural Anthropology Zero
This volume of Lévi-Strauss's writings from 1941 to 1947 bears witness to a period of his work which is often overlooked but which was the crucible for the structural anthropology that he would go on to develop in the years that followed. Like many European Jewish...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Black is the Journey, Africana the Name
In this highly original book, Maboula Soumahoro explores the cultural and political vastness of the Black Atlantic, where Africa, Europe, and the Americas were tied together by the brutal realities of the slave trade and colonialism. Each of these spaces has its own way...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
Collection : Critical South ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Living as a Bird
In the first days of spring, birds undergo a spectacular metamorphosis. After a long winter of migration and peaceful coexistence, they suddenly begin to sing with all their might, varying each series of notes as if it were an audiophonic novel. They cannot bear the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Skin
Skin is the border of our body and, as such, it is that through which we relate to others but also what separates us from them. Through skin, we speak: when we display it, when we tan it, when we tattoo it, or when we mute it by covering it with clothes.Skin exhibits...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  My Secret Brexit Diary
In June 2016, the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union. As the EU’s chief negotiator, for four years Michel Barnier had a seat at the table as the two sides thrashed out what ‘Brexit’ would really mean. The result would change Britain and...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for a Debt Jubilee
We were drowning in in record levels of debt before the COVID-19 crisis, and we are now deluged in it. U.S. private-sector loans have tripled relative to income since 1950 – and government debt is also at an all-time high. Soaring debt burdens individuals, stifles...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-21
Collection : The Case For ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Love
We make sense of love with fantasies, stories that shape feelings that are otherwise too overwhelming, incoherent, and wayward to be tamed. For love is a complex, bewildering, and ecstatic emotion covering a welter of different feelings and moral judgments. Drawing on...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  The Summer of Theory
‘Theory’ – a magical glow has emanated from this word since the sixties.  Theory was more than just a succession of ideas: it was an article of faith, a claim to truth, a lifestyle.  It spread among its adherents in cheap paperbacks and triggered heated debates in...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Fragile Skin of the World
Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unity. The world is neither an animal nor a machine but an interminable jumble...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Love
Western culture has endlessly represented the ways in which love miraculously erupts in people’s lives, the mythical moment in which one knows someone is destined for us, the feverish waiting for a phone call or an email, the thrill that runs down our spine at the mere...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  What is Latin American History?
What is Latin American History? surveys the development of this vibrant and dynamic field of study in North America, Latin America, and Europe. After briefly sketching the growth of the topic up to the 1960s, Marshall Eakin focuses on the past half-century, from the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-13
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Télécharger le livre :  The Night of Broken Glass
November 9th 1938 is widely seen as a violent turning point in Nazi Germany’s assault on the Jews.  An estimated 400 Jews lost their lives in the anti-Semitic pogrom and more than 30,000 were imprisoned or sent to concentration camps, where many were brutally...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  After Lockdown
After the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’.  But there is another way to learn the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Geoengineering
Stabilizing the world’s climates means cutting carbon dioxide pollution. There’s no way around it. But what if that’s not enough? What if it’s too difficult to accomplish in the time allotted or, worse, what if it’s so late in the game that even cutting carbon emissions...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy has helped to reshape the theory and practice of sociology across the Western world. Public Sociology is his most thoroughgoing attempt to explore what a truly committed, engaged sociology should look like in the twenty-first century. Burawoy looks back...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Solidarity Economics
Traditional economics is built on the assumption of self-interested individuals seeking to maximize personal gain, but that is far from the whole story. Sharing, caring, and a desire to uphold the collective good are also powerful motives. In a world wracked by...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Cedric Robinson
Cedric Robinson – political theorist, historian, and activist – was one of the greatest black radical thinkers of the twentieth century. In this powerful work, the first major book to tell his story, Joshua Myers shows how Robinson’s work interrogated the foundations of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2021-09-03
Collection : Black Lives ePub

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