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Presumed Intimacy: Parasocial Interaction in Media, Society and Celebrity Culture
Polity‘Presumed intimacy’ refers to a relationship that requires instant trust, confidence, disclosure and the recognition of vulnerability. Chris Rojek ...
View full detailsPreventing Deadly Conflict
PolityConflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict e...
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PolityConflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict e...
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PolityThe prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned econo...
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PolityThis is the fourth of five volumes based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the Collège de France in the early 1980s under the title ‘Gene...
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PolityThe prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand t...
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PolityThe prison is a recent invention, hardly more than two centuries old, yet it has become the universal system of punishment. How can we understand t...
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PolityPrivacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of p...
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PolityPrivacy: A Short History provides a vital historical account of an increasingly stressed sphere of human interaction. At a time when the death of p...
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PolityWhen a doctor tells you there�s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably...
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PolityWhen a doctor tells you there�s a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably...
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PolityIn this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach to...
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PolityIn this innovative book, Celia Lury argues that the time has come for us to explore the world not only with new methods, but with a new approach to...
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PolityProfessionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire ...
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PolityEliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specia...
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PolityEliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specia...
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PolityProfessionalism is a complex and highly disputed idea of crucial importance in a range of fields, not least health and social care. It can inspire ...
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PolityThis book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today. Acknowledgement...
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PolityProfit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored ...
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PolityProfit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored ...
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PolityThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the ...
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PolityThe idea of progress guided human expectations and actions for over two centuries. From the Enlightenment onwards, it was widely believed that the ...
View full detailsProgressive Foreign Policy
PolityIn May 1997, the then UK Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, famously said that foreign policy should have ‘an ethical dimension’, and that the Labour G...
View full detailsProgressive Politics in the Global Age
PolityProgressive politics has been concerned with rolling back prejudices, improving democratic accountabilities, and promoting the common good for over...
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