“…In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action. …”

“…Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. …”

“…With an eye to making defense acquisition more effective and efficient, the authors explore defense contractor motivations in pursuing defense contracts and identify mechanisms that might more closely align those incentives with Department of Defense goals. …”

“…Hors des murs traditionnels et soumis à un champ d'actions extrêmement vaste, le savoir-faire se développe sur un mode expérimental à la marge des référentiels classiques. Explorer ces nouvelles pratiques offre une mise en perspective de l'évolution des professions du travail social…”

“…Varia : Le volume comporte également huit autres contributions qui explorent : la figure de Pénélope ; les récits sur les rapts de jeunes filles ; les armes d’Achilles ; la perception visuelle chez Empédocle ; la monnaie spartiate ; le sens des termes archaios et palaios ; la sexualité et le genre ; la polarité nietzschéenne entre Apollon et Dionysos et sa perception par les modernes…”

“…From the economic consequences of the international book trade to the history of women music printers, the contributors explore the nuances of the interrelation between the materiality of print music and cultural, aesthetic, religious, legal, gender and economic history. …”

“…This book brings together researchers who approach plasticity from diverse perspectives to explore new ideas and recent findings about the causes and consequences of plasticity. …”

“…The rhetorical use of the past has become a defining characteristic of Russian politics, creating a historical foundation for the regime’s emphasis on a strong state and centralised leadership.Exploring memory politics, this book analyses a wide range of actors, from the central government and the Russian Orthodox Church, to filmmaker and cultural heavyweight Nikita Mikhalkov and radical thinkers such as Aleksandr Dugin. …”

“…Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence. …”

“…As American leadership over climate change declines, China has begun to identify itself as a great power by formulating ambitious climate policies.Based on the premise that great powers have unique responsibilities, this book explores how China’s rise to great power status transforms notions of great power responsibility in general and international climate politics in particular. …”

“…Andrew Asibong argues that at the heart of NDiaye's world lurks an indefinable 'blankness' which makes it impossible for the reader to decode narrative at the level of psychology or event. NDiaye's texts explore social stigmata and familial disintegration with a violence unmatched by any of her contemporaries, but in doing so they remain as strangely affectless and 'unrecognizable' as their dissociated protagonists. …”

“…Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. …”

“…Written by a thirty-something psychotherapist and queer theorist, Aural History is structured as a sequence of three sections that each use different narrative styles to represent a distinctive stage in the protagonist's evolving relationship to trauma. Aural History explores how a cascade of self-dissolving losses crisscrosses a girl's coming of age. …”

“…Against the background of the debates on the American Revolution of 1776 and the French Revolution of 1789, to which he made significant contributions, Bentham worked first on producing a complete penal code, which involved him in detailed explorations of fundamental legal ideas, and then on his panopticon prison scheme. …”

“…On the eve of the sixteenth-century economic transformation and the age of exploration that was to propel China into the modern world, the scholar-official Lu Rong (1436-94) recorded his observations of contemporary society in Miscellaneous Records from the Bean Garden (Shuyuan zaji). …”

“…Cet ouvrage, à travers trois révélateurs - l’espace, les logiques de l’extrême et la modélisation - explore et décrypte le travail de la techno-logique des TIC dans le montage politique de cette opération idéologique du « glissement de la prérogative politique » où l’on confond volontiers intérêt public et intérêt privé, au bénéfice peut-être de ce dernier mais pas forcément de la démocratie…”

“…As missions to Mars increase and diversify, national and international processes for developing planetary protection measures recognize the need to consider the interests of scientific discovery, commercial activity, and human exploration. The implications of these changes for planetary protection should be considered in the context of how much science has learned about Mars, and about terrestrial life, in recent years.At the request of NASA, this report identifies criteria for determining locations on Mars potentially suitable for landed robotic missions that satisfy less stringent bioburden requirements, which are intended to manage the risk of forward contamination…”

“…Cet ouvrage fait le bilan de plusieurs années de recherches en sciences sociales sur le macro-système technique de l’aviation civile. Cette exploration radicalement nouvelle dans le milieu confronte les développements technologiques en l’air et au sol en France, et remet la machine automatisée dans son contexte humain. …”