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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 ...
Ver todos los detallesPreventing 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...
Ver todos los detallesPreventing 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...
Ver todos los detallesPrice Setting
PolityThe prices of some products fluctuate dramatically, while others remain more constant. What accounts for these extreme differences? Renowned econo...
Ver todos los detallesPrinciples of Vision
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...
Ver todos los detallesPrison Worlds
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...
Ver todos los detallesPrison Worlds
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...
Ver todos los detallesPrivacy
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...
Ver todos los detallesProbability
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...
Ver todos los detallesProblem Spaces
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...
Ver todos los detallesProblem Spaces
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...
Ver todos los detallesProfessionalism
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...
Ver todos los detallesProfessionalism
PolityEliot Freidson has written the first systematic account of professionalism as a method of organizing work. In ideal-typical professionalism, specia...
Ver todos los detallesProfessionalism
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 ...
Ver todos los detallesProfessionalism Reborn
PolityThis book is an original interpretation of the professions and the role of the professional in Western industrial societies today. Acknowledgement...
Ver todos los detallesProfit
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 ...
Ver todos los detallesProfit
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 ...
Ver todos los detallesProgress
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 ...
Ver todos los detallesProgressive 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...
Ver todos los detallesProgressive 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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