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Rachel Adams
The New Empire of AI

As AI takes hold across the planet and wealthy nations seek to position themselves as global leaders of this new technology, the gap is widening between those who benefit from it and those who are subjuga…

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Jeffrey C Alexander
Civil Repair

This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better li…

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Warwick Anderson
Spectacles of Waste

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can't bear the thought th…

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Robin Attfield
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for…

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Robin Attfield
The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for…

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Bertrand Badie,
A Subjective Approach to International Relations

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 …

lieferbar ab 28.4.2025.

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Tim Bale
The Conservative Party After Brexit

The Conservative Party can lay convincing claim to being the world's most successful political party, not least because it is also one of the most adaptable, often appearing to do and say pretty much what…

lieferbar ab 24.6.2025.

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Mel Bartley, Michelle Kelly-Irving
Health Inequality

The persistence of stark health inequalities in today's world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can w…

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Mel Bartley, Michelle Kelly-Irving
Health Inequality

The persistence of stark health inequalities in today's world is painfully clear to see, not least in the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and falling life expectancy in many parts of the world. How can w…

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Zygmunt Bauman,
Theory and Society

The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman's engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and nev…

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Hélé Beji,
We, the Decolonized

We, the Decolonized is a passionate reflection on the pitfalls of the decolonial venture in postcolonial countries, with particular reference to North Africa. Hélé Béji shows that in many formerly coloniz…

lieferbar ab 19.5.2025.

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Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent, Sacha Loeve,
Carbon

Carbon is much more than a chemical element: it is a polymorphic entity with many faces, at once natural, cultural and social. Ranging across 10 million different compounds, carbon has as many personas in…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black C…

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Maurits van Bever Donker
Texturing Difference

This book situates the nuanced intervention of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa within the international conjuncture of anti-colonial thought and decolonization. It argues that the Black C…

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Gautam Bhan, Michael Keith, Susan Parnell, Edgar Pieterse
Cities Rethought

"In a world of disruptions and seemingly endless complexity, cities have become - perhaps more than ever - central to thinking about the future of humanity. Yet rarely has the study of cities been more fr…

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Timothy Biggs
Mining

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more …

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Timothy Biggs
Mining

Mining has a poor public image. It is often associated with environmental degradation, human rights violations and the unacceptable excesses of capitalism. But might it also be the key to ensuring a more …

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Philipp Blom
Subjugate the Earth

Subjugate the Earth traces the biography of a strange idea: the idea that human beings can subdue nature and rule over it. Born in Mesopotamia at the dawn of civilization, the idea of subjugating the Eart…

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Pierre Bourdieu,
Forms of Capital: General Sociology, Volume 3

"Lectures at the College de France (1983-1984)."

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Pierre Bourdieu,
The Interest in Disinterestedness

"A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for t…

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