Polity imprint: 1443 books
by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender. Throughout this lively and accessible text, Sorensen engages with the question of how gender is materially constituted,...
by Nikolas Rose
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2018
Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental...
by Karin van Es
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies. Until recently, it was associated primarily with broadcast media, and television in particular. However, the emergence of social media has brought new forms of liveness into effect. These forms challenge common assumptions about and...
by Jordan Frith
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Smartphone adoption has surpassed 50% of the population in more than 15 countries, and there are now more than one million mobile applications people can download to their phones. Many of these applications take advantage of smartphones as locative media, which is what allows smartphones to be located...
by Rebecca Gill, Gregory S. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The question “who am I?” represents one of the key challenges of contemporary life in a globalized world. For most of us, organizations play a key role in answering that question.
In this book, Gregory Larson and Rebecca Gill explain how identities are formed, managed, and regulated in...
Science, Culture and Society
Understanding Science in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2016
Science occupies an ambiguous space in contemporary society. Scientific research is championed in relation to tackling environmental issues and diseases such as cancer and dementia, and science has made important contributions to today’s knowledge economies and knowledge societies. And yet science...
Merchants of Culture
The Publishing Business in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely unchanged, but at the dawn of the twenty-first century the industry finds itself faced with perhaps the greatest challenges since Gutenberg. A combination...
by Ramon Lobato, Julian Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
How are “grey market” imports changing media industries? What is the role of piracy in developing new markets for movies and TV shows? How do jailbroken iPhones drive innovation?
The Informal Media Economy provides a vivid, original, and genuinely transnational account of contemporary media,...
Understanding the Life Course
Sociological and Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016
Understanding the Life Course provides a uniquely comprehensive guide to the entire life course from an interdisciplinary perspective. Combining important insights from sociology and psychology, the book presents the concept's theoretical underpinnings in an accessible style, supported by real-life...
Models of Capitalism
Growth and Stagnation in the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The contemporary debate on economic policy is dominated by the issue of 'which model of capitalism works best'.
Education in China
Philosophy, Politics and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Throughout its history, education in China has played a pivotal role in the nation’s governance, civic society, and the social and cultural lives of its citizens. Today we see a nation grappling with how to modernize and internationalize its education system, while still retaining China’s intellectual...
Artifictional Intelligence
Against Humanity's Surrender to Computers
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2018
Recent startling successes in machine intelligence using a technique called ‘deep learning’ seem to blur the line between human and machine as never before. Are computers on the cusp of becoming so intelligent that they will render humans obsolete? Harry Collins argues we are getting ahead of...
Affinities
Potent Connections in Personal Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2018
How is it possible to feel an affinity with a place? What is happening when someone feels almost literally transported to another time by a smell or a texture or a song? Why do striking family resemblances sometimes feel uncanny? In each of these cases a potent connection is being made, involving...
Becoming Sexual
A Critical Appraisal of the Sexualization of Girls
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
The sexualization of girls has captured the attention of the media, advocacy groups and politicians in recent years. This prolific discourse sets alarm bells ringing: sexualization is said to lead to depression, promiscuity and compassion deficit disorder, and rob young girls of their childhood. However,...