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Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are num...

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In nine short days, Taliban forces destroyed two decades of American armed statebuilding in Afgha...

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The third edition of Jill Steans' popular and highly respected text offers a comprehensive and up...

Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office...

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrop...

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Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We s...

The concept of democratic freedom refers to more than the kind of freedom embodied by political i...

This book is the first in-depth account of the uprising in Iran that began on 16 September 2022, ...

Critical Data Studies has come of age as a vibrant, interdisciplinary field of study. Taking data...

Utilitarianism - a commitment to 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number' - has been the ...

On 22 July 2011 a young man named Anders Behring Breivik carried out one of the most vicious terr...

By foot, in buses, prison vans and trains, a steady stream of refugees traveled from the Greek is...

The Real Politics of the Horn of Africa delves into the business of politics in the turbulent, wa...

The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular c...

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. ...

How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called 'human sciences.' But t...

The pursuit of wealth has captivated people's attention for centuries. Yet, as a topic of social ...

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literat...

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'This is a superb piece of scholarship. Joppke manages to cover an extraordinary range of theoret...

In 2005, the international community made a landmark commitment to prevent mass atrocities by una...

Translation of: Oáu suis-je?: leðcons du confinement áa l'usage des terrestres.

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A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as H...

'Everything is sad,' wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, proj...