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Re-Visioning Education in Africa: Ubuntu-Inspired Education for Humanity
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents the case for a conceptual and pragmatic revolution of Africa’s formal educational systems. Using the context of Ubuntu-inspired education, the authors explore innovative ways to tackle the challenges ... -
Alternative Approaches in Macroeconomics: Essays in Honour of John McCombie
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book honours Professor John McCombie’s retirement by exploring a variety of themes, theories and debates in non-orthodox macroeconomics. With contributions from leading scholars, the book covers diverse ground in ... -
Translating War
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the role played by the international circulation of literature in constructing cultural memories of the Second World War. War writing has rarely been read from the point of view of translation even though ... -
Leadership and Role Modelling: Understanding Workplace Dynamics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This edited volume explores the influence of role modelling as a process in the workplace, in particular, whether it can aid career development, offer psycho-social support, and provide the motivation and means to achieve ... -
Towards Wise Management
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book contributes to the discussion on wisdom in management, leadership and strategy by developing a unique theoretical approach. Integrating rational-analytical, intuitive and philosophical dimensions of wise ... -
Artificial Intelligence in Value Creation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyses various models of value creation in projects and businesses by applying different forms of Artificial Intelligence in their products and services. First presenting the main concepts and ideas behind AI, ... -
Neoliberal Bio-Economies?
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In this book, Kean Birch analyses the co-construction of markets and natures in the emerging bio-economy as a policy response to global environmental change. The bio-economy is an economic system characterized by the use ... -
Gender and Relatability in Digital Culture
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the practices and the politics of relatable femininity in intimate digital social spaces. Examining a GIF-based digital culture on Tumblr, the author considers how young women produce relatability through ... -
Illicit Markets, Organized Crime, and Global Security
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explains the existence of illicit markets throughout human history and provides recommendations to governments. Organized criminal networks increased in strength after the enforcement of prohibition, eventually ... -
Development and the Right to Education in Africa
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is about the right to basic education and its impact on development in Africa. It focuses on the elusive subject of litigating the right to education by examining jurisprudence from select African countries and ... -
Civil Service Management and Administrative Systems in South Asia
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines public administration in South Asia in the context of rapid changes and modernization of administrative traditions, thoughts, and practices. The existing literature has, however, not given adequate ... -
Ecologically Unequal Exchange
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)At a time of societal urgency surrounding ecological crises from depleted fisheries to mineral extraction and potential pathways towards environmental and ecological justice, this book re-examines ecologically unequal ... -
The Design Imperative
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines how to optimize design management processes in order to produce innovation within organizations. It first looks at how to harvest a culture of design and then examines topics specific to product and ... -
Historiographical Investigations in International Relations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book critically investigates the historiography of International Relations. For the past fifteen years, the field has witnessed the development of a strong interest in the history of the discipline. The chapters in ... -
Rankings and Global Knowledge Governance: Higher Education, Innovation and Competitiveness
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of indicator-based global knowledge ... -
Mapping Migration, Identity, and Space
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This interdisciplinary collection of essays focuses on the ways in which movements of people across natural, political, and cultural boundaries shape identities that are inexorably linked to the geographical space that ... -
Gender Innovation in Political Science
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In this book, leading gender scholars survey the contribution of feminist scholarship to new norms and knowledge in diverse areas of political science and related political practice. They provide new evidence of the breadth ... -
Spirituality, Sustainability, and Success
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book offers a pragmatic approach to the benefits of spirituality and sustainability for both individual and organizational success. It introduces sustainability and workplace spirituality as contemporary solutions to ... -
Weird IR
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The scholarly study of international relations tends to go over the same cases, issues, and themes. This book addresses this by challenging readers to think creatively about international politics. It highlights some of ... -
Exploratory Practice for Continuing Professional Development
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the use of Exploratory Practice (EP) as a tool for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) by language teachers, and responds to the increasing demand for teachers to engage in research. It presents ...
