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    • Psychologized Language in Education: Denaturalizing a Regime of Truth 

      Bekerman, Zvi; Zembylas, Michalinos (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book explores how psychologized language has come to dominate education and schooling. Taking a critical lens to some major constructs in education—e.g. the mind, the self, identity, emotion, emotional intelligence, ...

    • Strategic Management for Public Governance in Europe 

      Drumaux, Anne; Joyce, Paul (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book investigates the role and effectiveness of strategic management within public governance in Europe. Using findings from qualitative studies, it explores the governance processes at the level of the European Union ...

    • International Perspectives on Teachers Living with Curriculum Change 

      Wedell, Martin; Grassick, Laura (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      “This book gives a voice to English language teachers faced with the challenges posed by English language curriculum change. As a core component of national state system curricula in virtually every country in the world, ...

    • Disability, Health and Human Development 

      Mitra, Sophie (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This open access book introduces the human development model to define disability and map its links with health and wellbeing, based on Sen’s capability approach. The author uses panel survey data with internationally ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education 

      Mansfield, Louise (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Biology and Society 

      Meloni, Maurizio (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This comprehensive handbook synthesizes the often-fractured relationship between the study of biology and the study of society. Bringing together a compelling array of interdisciplinary contributions, the authors demonstrate ...

    • The Palgrave Handbook of Political Elites 

      Best, Heinrich; Higley, John (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This handbook presents a comprehensive view of the current theory and research surrounding political elites, which is now a pivotal subject for academic study and public discourse. In 40 chapters by leading scholars, it ...

    • The Influence of Business Cultures in Europe: An Exploration of Central, Eastern, and Northern Economies 

      Crane, Robert A. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book explores the way that culture and societal values impact the economies of eight European countries, focussing on businesses and their organisation and management processes. With contributions from skilled authors ...

    • The Trajectory of Global Education Policy: Community-Based Management in El Salvador and the Global Reform Agenda 

      Edwards, Brent Jr. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book provides new insights into the phenomena of global education policies and international policy transfer. While both of these issues have gained popularity in the field of international and comparative education, ...

    • The International Political Economy of Oil and Gas 

      Raszewski, Slawomir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book addresses energy research from four distinct International Political Economy perspectives: energy security, governance, legal and developmental areas. Energy is too important to be neglected by political scientists. ...

    • The Age of Post-Rationality: Limits of economic reasoning in the 21st century 

      Colic-Peisker, Val; Flitney, Adrian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book challenges the hegemonic view that economic calculation represents the ultimate rationality. The West legitimises its global dominance by the claim to be a rational, democratic, science-based and progressive ...

    • Employees’ Emotional Intelligence, Motivation and Productivity, and Organizational Excellence : A Future Trend in HRD 

      Chakrabarti, Gagari; Chatterjea, Tapas (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book focuses on emotional intelligence, which has emerged as a factor in superior on-the-job performance and ability to lead an effective life. Based on an emerging country, namely India, the book deviates from ...

    • Rethinking the Silk Road: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Emerging Eurasian Relations 

      Mayer, Maximilian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book discusses China’s opportunities to translate economic leverage into political outcomes. The central question is how China’s expanding economic influence will transform the global political landscape. This volume ...

    • Bourdieu’s Field Theory and the Social Sciences 

      Albright, James; Hartman, Deborah; Widin, Jacqueline (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      Highlighting the conceptual work at the heart of Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology, this cutting edge collection operationalizes Bourdieusian concepts in field analysis. Offering a unique range of explorations and ...

    • Minister of Finance Incorporated : Ownership and Control of Corporate Malaysia 

      Gomez, Edmund Terence (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This is a study of Malaysia’s new political economy, with a focus on ownership and control of the corporate sector. It offers a pioneering assessment of government-linked investment companies (GLICs), a type of state-owned ...

    • Cultural Perspectives on Millennials 

      Berger, Arthur Asa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book provides a cultural studies analysis of Millennials and their impact on American culture and society. Beginning with an introduction that touches upon which part of the population is described as Millennial, the ...

    • Leadership Theory and Research : A Critical Approach to New and Existing Paradigms 

      Harrison, Christian (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book provides a concise yet comprehensive literature review on leadership. As well as offering critical insight into leadership research, the author addresses emerging paradigms and identifies new approaches. A vital ...

    • Power, Curriculum, and Embodiment: Re-thinking Curriculum as Counter-Conduct and Counter-Politics 

      Burns, James P. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores curriculum inquiry through the theoretical lens of governmentality as a site of disciplinary biopolitics and a system of heteropatriarchal political economy. Examining the powerscape in which education ...

    • Agroecology: Reweaving a New Landscape 

      Hilmi, Angela (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book argues that sustainable development, based on sustained growth, has led us to an impasse. In response, Agroecology brings back and utilises notions of eco-development and co-evolution with nature as a refreshing ...

    • Tanzania : the path to prosperity 

      Adam, Christopher; Collier, Paul; Ndulu, B. J. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      This book, the third in the Africa: Policies for Prosperity series, is concerned with the challenges of securing economic prosperity in Tanzania over the coming decades. Building on widespread economic reforms in the early ...