Sociology: Recent submissions
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Water, Energy, Food and People Across the Global South: ‘The Nexus’ in an Era of Climate Change
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This collection critically engages the resource use nexus. Clearly, a nexus-approach to resource policy, planning and practice is essential if sustainable development goals are to be met. In particular, in an era of climate ... -
Classroom Management in Teacher Education Programs
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book investigates the impact of integrating culturally relevant and pedagogically dynamic classroom management strategies into the curriculum of an urban secondary education pre-service methods course. The book begins ... -
The Executive Guide to Artificial Intelligence: How to identify and implement applications for AI in your organization
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book takes a pragmatic and hype–free approach to explaining artificial intelligence and how it can be utilised by businesses today. At the core of the book is a framework, developed by the author, which describes in ... -
The Coming Crisis
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a timely warning of the dangers still present and building in the global economic system, whose frailty was exposed by the global financial crisis, and the Eurozone crisis it spawned. The contributors ... -
The anatomy of corporate law : A Comparative and Functional Approach
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This is the long-awaited third edition of this highly regarded comparative overview of corporate law. This edition has been comprehensively revised and updated to reflect the profound changes in corporate law and governance ... -
The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation
(Oxford University Press, 2017)This book is about media, mediation, and meaning. The Art of Interpretation focuses on a set of interrelated processes whereby ostensibly human-specific modes of meaning become automated by machines, formatted by protocols, ... -
Navigating Educational Change in China: Contemporary History and Lived Experiences
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is a reflection on the complexity of educational change in China through the lens of a senior academic who has occupied many diverse roles in the academe, from political worker to dean of faculty. It narrates his ... -
Embodied Performance as Applied Research, Art and Pedagogy
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book follows a physically disabled researcher's journey from stigmatized embodiment on her way to creating accessible storytelling performances. These unique performances function not only as traditional, peer-reviewed ... -
Teaching Graphic Novels in the English Classroom: Pedagogical Possibilities of Multimodal Literacy Engagement
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This collection highlights the diverse ways comics and graphic novels are used in English and literature classrooms, whether to develop critical thinking or writing skills, paired with a more traditional text, or as ... -
The Taming of Education: Evaluating Contemporary Approaches to Learning and Teaching
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book evaluates contemporary approaches to education, with a particular focus on the ways in which assessment shapes the educational experience and influences pupils and students. It adopts a critical approach, arguing ... -
Postsecondary Education for First-Generation and Low-Income Students in the Ivy League: Navigating Policy and Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines how previously excluded high-achieving, low-income students are faring socially and academically at an Ivy League college in New England. In the past, research conducted on low-income students in elite ... -
International Perspectives on Teaching the Four Skills in ELT: Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book offers a range of perspectives and insights from around the world on the teaching and learning of listening, speaking, reading and writing. It brings together contributors from across six continents, who analyse ... -
International E-Government Development : Policy, Implementation and Best Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides an examination of e-Government frameworks and maturity stages in governments around the world, including an overview of the legal frameworks that have supported them. Divided into three sections, the ... -
Conservation of Tropical Rainforests: A Review of Financial and Strategic Solutions
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book critically engages with how the conservation of tropical rainforests is financed. Beginning with the context of tropical deforestation, alongside an overview of tropical ecology, global environmental policy and ... -
The Shifting Global Economic Architecture: Decentralizing Authority in Contemporary Global Governance
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyzes the shifting global economic architecture, indicating the decentralizing authority in global economic governance since the Cold War and, especially, following the 2008-09 global financial crisis. The ... -
The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a critical analysis of the corporate university. The author's personal narrative unfolds between the reality of the corporate university and the rhetoric of the entrepreneurial university, which allows ... -
Higher Education and Post-Conflict Recovery
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book offers a critical review of higher education and post-conflict recovery. It provides the first systematic study with a global scope that investigates the role of higher education systems in conflict-affected ... -
Educating for Citizenship and Social Justice: Practices for Community Engagement at Research Universities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)In this edited volume, authors explore the ways in which departments, programs, and centers at public research universities are working to better engage students in the work of citizenship and social justice. The chapters ... -
Economic Analysis of Contract Law: Incomplete Contracts and Asymmetric Information
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the main issues arising in economic analysis of contract law with special attention given to the incomplete contracts. It discusses both the main features of contract law as they relate to the problem ... -
Authentic Leadership and Followership: International Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book shines a spotlight on two missing foci of authentic leadership research: international and follower perspectives. The concept of ‘authenticity’ has been in vogue since the times of Greek philosophy, but it wasn’t ...
