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In the midst of the current ecological crisis, there is often lofty talk of the need for humanity to ‘overcome its divisions’ and work together to tackle the big challenges of our time. But as this new book by Razmig Keucheyan shows, the real picture is very different....
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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The prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand the place that the correctional system occupies in contemporary societies? What are the experiences of those who are...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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We have long since lost our faith in the idea that human beings could achieve human happiness in some future ideal state—a state that Thomas More, writing five centuries ago, tied to a topos, a fixed place, a land, an island, a sovereign state under a wise and...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Throughout the Western world, governments and financial elites responded to the financial crisis of 2008 by trying to restore the conditions of business as usual, but the economic, social and human damage inflicted by the crisis has given rise to a reconsideration of...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within...
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Polity
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2017-05-23
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Key Thinkers on Cities provides an engaging introduction to the dynamic intellectual field of urban studies. It profiles the work of 40 innovative thinkers who represent the broad reach of contemporary urban scholarship and whose ideas have shaped the way cities around...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2017-05-22
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'Magisterial . . . you reach the end of this profound, revealing book rewarded. West shows how scientific method helps to peel back the hidden reality of our world' MATTHEW SYED, THE TIMESGeoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2017-05-18
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Der vorliegende Text diskutiert sinntheoretische Grundlagen der neueren Organisationsforschung und macht diese durch die Analyse erkenntnisleitender Begriffe aktueller organisationswissenschaftlicher Diskurse (Kognition, Institution, Praxis, Kultur, Kommunikation,...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-16
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What we can learn from Atlanta's struggle to reinvent itself in the 21st Century Atlanta is on the verge of tremendous rebirth-or inexorable decline. A kind of Petri dish for cities struggling to reinvent themselves, Atlanta has the highest income inequality in the...
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Basic Books
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2017-05-16
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A major objective of this book is to identify the key determinants of the “East” and the “West” in the field of intercultural communication. It examines but also counter-attacks essentialist and culturalist analyses of intercultural communication between China and the...
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Springer
Parution :
2017-05-15
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Jan Felix Engelhardt untersucht die Etablierung der islamischen Theologie an deutschen Universitäten erstmals aus wissenschaftssoziologischer Perspektive. Die Studie analysiert, wie sich islamische Wissensproduktion in Deutschland als eigenständiges Fach...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2017-05-12
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In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliché that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2017-05-12
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In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2017-05-11
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Leopold Ringel entwickelt die These, dass Organisationen beständig versuchen, ihr Inneres vor äußerer Einsicht zu verstecken, um eine idealisierte Selbstdarstellung aufrechtzuerhalten - auch dann, wenn sie sich dazu bekennen, mehr Transparenz herzustellen. Daraus folgt...
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Springer VS
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2017-05-11
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This provocative new introduction to the field of digital sociology offers a critical overview of interdisciplinary debates about new ways of knowing society that are emerging today at the interface of computing, media, social research and social life. Digital...
Editeur :
Polity
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2017-05-11
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Community is a central idea in urban studies but remains conceptually vague and empirically difficult to work with. Building on existing theories of community, Talja Blokland offers an important contribution to defining and understanding this key theme. Blokland...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2017-05-11
Collection :
Urban Futures
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Der vorliegende Band bietet einen aktuellen Überblick über die Vielzahl neuerer sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschungen zur Bedeutung, Funktion und Theorie von Dispositiven in und für die Ökonomie. Denn die Ökonomie ist „instrumentiert“ – Organisationen und Märkte sind...
Editeur :
Springer VS
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2017-05-10
Collection :
Interdisziplinäre Diskursforschung
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In the early twenty-first century it had become a cliché that there was a 'God Gap' between a more religious United States and a more secular Europe. The apparent religious differences between the United States and western Europe continue to be a focus of intense and...
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OUP Oxford
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2017-05-05
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What if highlighting solutions and telling positive stories was the best way to solve the ecological, economic, and social problems our countries are grappling with?
In 2012, Cyril Dion learned about a study carried out by twenty-two scientists from around the world...
Editeur :
Éditions Actes Sud
Parution :
2017-05-03
Collection :
Domaine du possible
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