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Designing a Sustainable Financial System: Development Goals and Socio-Ecological Responsibility
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move toward sustainability, ... -
Full Employment and Social Justice: Solidarity and Sustainability
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited collection investigates how full employment programs can sustain the economy and the environment, promote social justice, and reinvigorate local communities. The contributing authors focus on the formation of ... -
Grammar, Philosophy, and Logic
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book argues that a basic grasp of philosophy and logic can produce written and spoken material that is both grammatically correct and powerful. The author analyses errors in grammar, word choice, phrasing and sentences ... -
Big Law in Latin America and Spain: Globalization and Adjustments in the Provision of High-End Legal Services
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book, part of the Stanford Law School research project on the future of the legal profession, thoroughly examines the future of “big law,” defined as the large and mid-size multiservice highly specialized law firms ... -
The Discourse of Business Meetings: Agency and Power in Financial Organizations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the social organizational discourse of task-oriented business meetings in a Kuwaiti financial organization and an American non-profit trade organisation. Focusing primarily on the linguistic behaviours ... -
Materiality and Managerial Techniques : New Perspectives on Organizations, Artefacts and Practices
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited book examines the relationship between the materiality of artefacts and managerial techniques, combining the recent scholarly interest on socio-materiality with a focus on management. Exploring managerial ... -
Constructivist Education in an Age of Accountability
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book contrasts authentic approaches to education with classroom practices based primarily on standards external to the individuals who are supposed to learn. While other books tend to promote either a desperate scramble ... -
The New Normal of Working Lives: Critical Studies in Contemporary Work and Employment
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This critical, international and interdisciplinary edited collection investigates the new normal of work and employment, presenting research on the experience of the workers themselves. The collection explores the formation ... -
Learning Vocabulary Strategically in a Study Abroad Context
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book focuses on case studies of vocabulary strategy use and presents an in-depth account of the vocabulary learning experiences of Chinese students in the UK. It challenges the view that vocabulary strategies result ... -
Post-Crash Economics: Plurality and Heterodox Ideas in Teaching and Research
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of economics for understanding the world, through a restatement of the importance of plurality and heterodox ideas for teaching and research. The Great Financial Crash of ... -
Teacher Education in Lifelong Learning: Developing Professionalism as a Democratic Endeavour
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book promotes the idea that professionalism among teachers should be marked by democratic relations, rather than by managerialism and performance management. It provides a thorough investigation of issues around the ... -
Longitudinal Studies on the Organization of Social Interaction
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book advances our understanding of change over time in human social conduct, and represents the first consolidated effort to reveal how micro-analytic studies of social interaction address such issues. The book presents ... -
The Worlds of Positivism: A Global Intellectual History, 1770–1930
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is the first to trace the origins and significance of positivism on a global scale. Taking their cues from Auguste Comte and John Stuart Mill, positivists pioneered a universal, experience-based culture of ... -
Multi-Owned Property in the Asia-Pacific Region: Rights, Restrictions and Responsibilities
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book provides critical insight into the experience of multi-owned property, and showcases different cultural responses across the Asia-Pacific region. Escalating demand for properties within global cities has created ... -
The Regulation of Securities Markets in China
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)This book offers an in-depth analysis of China’s contemporary securities markets regulatory system, with a focus on regulation in practice. Examining the roles of both the China Securities Regulatory Commission and local ... -
Communicating Creativity: The Discursive Facilitation of Creative Activity in Arts
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book provides an extensive and original analysis of the way that written and spoken communication facilitates creative practice in the university art and design studio. Challenging the established view of creativity ... -
Blending Technologies in Second Language Classrooms
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book analyses the classroom blending of face-to-face and online technologies in the teaching and learning of second languages. Its theoretical framework integrates the rapidly changing and developing fields of both ... -
Autonomy in Language Learning and Teaching: New Research Agendas
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book seeks to expand the research agendas on autonomy in language learning and teaching in diverse contexts, by examining the present landscape of established studies, identifying research gaps and providing practical ... -
Second Language Acquisition as a Mode-Switching Process: An Empirical Analysis of Korean Learners of English
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book analyses processes of mode-switching in second language acquisition as they relate to Korean learners of English. In this empirical study, the author examines how native language influences and shapes usage of ... -
The Palgrave Handbook of Paralympic Studies
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This handbook provides a critical assessment of contemporary issues that define the contours of the Paralympic Movement generally and the Paralympic Games more specifically. It addresses conceptualisations of disability ...
