Sociology: Recent submissions
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Managing Improvement in Healthcare: Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Reflecting the challenges and opportunities of achieving improvement in healthcare systems, the contributions of this innovative new text lend depth and nuance to an increasing area of academic debate. Encompassing context, ... -
NASA Spaceflight: A History of Innovation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents the first comprehensive history of innovation at NASA, bringing together experts in the field to illuminate how public-private and international partnerships have fueled new ways of exploring space since ... -
Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research: In Praise of Detours
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a variety of narratives on key elements of academic work, from data analysis, writing practices and engagement with the field. The authors discuss how elements of academic work and life – usually edited ... -
Elite Education and Internationalisation: From the Early Years to Higher Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book offers both a theoretical and empirical examination of elite education, at all stages from the early years to university level. The book explores the various manifestations of internationalisation of education, ... -
Connectivity in Motion: Island Hubs in the Indian Ocean World
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This original collection brings islands to the fore in a growing body of scholarship on the Indian Ocean, examining them as hubs or points of convergence and divergence in a world of maritime movements and exchanges. ... -
Pedagogies in the Flesh: Case Studies on the Embodiment of Sociocultural Differences in Education
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book presents a collection of vivid, theoretically informed descriptions of flashpoints––educational moments when the implicit sociocultural knowledge carried in the body becomes a salient feature of experience. The ... -
Distributed Leadership: The Dynamics of Balancing Leadership with Followership
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Addressing the area of shared leadership, also known as collective or distributed leadership, this edited book embraces the underlying idea that leadership is a dynamic process that intersects closely with followership. ... -
Nineteenth-Century Individualism and the Market Economy: Individualist Themes in Emerson, Thoreau, and Sumner
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book studies nineteenth-century American individualism and its relationship to the simultaneous rise of the market economy as articulated in the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and William Graham ... -
The Evolution and Significance of the Cuban Revolution: The Light in the Darkness
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The book interprets the Cuban revolutionary movement from 1868 to 1959 as a continuous process that sought political independence and social and economic transformation of colonial and neocolonial structures. Cuba is a ... -
Quandaries of School Leadership: Voices from Principals in the Field
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides insights into the everyday practices of school leaders as told through the real-life stories of principals. The editors and their contributors blend practice with theory, helping aspiring leaders to ... -
Resources and Applied Methods in International Relations
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book constitutes an up-to-date methodology reference work for International Relations (IR) scholars and students. The study of IR calls for the use of multiple and various tools to try and describe international ... -
Popular Culture, Voice and Linguistic Diversity: Young Adults On- and Offline
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book analyses the language practices of young adults in Mongolia and Bangladesh in online and offline environments. Focusing on the diverse linguistic and cultural resources these young people draw on in their ... -
Developments in Environmental Regulation : Risk based regulation in the UK and Europe
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a critical examination of contemporary approaches to environmental regulation in the UK and the European Union. It also explores how regulation has evolved in response to a number of factors, including ... -
Playing to Learn with Reacting to the Past: Research on High Impact, Active Learning Practices
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides classroom practice and research studies that verify Reacting to the Past (RTTP)—a student-centered, active learning pedagogy that provides college students and faculty unique teaching and learning ... -
Care in Healthcare: Reflections on Theory and Practice
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the concept of care and care practices in healthcare from the interdisciplinary perspectives of continental philosophy, care ethics, the social sciences, and anthropology. Areas addressed include dementia ... -
Rethinking Curriculum in Times of Shifting Educational Context
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book engages with the dynamic intersection of several domains such as philosophy, psychology, sociology, and pedagogy, in order to critically analyze and reinvent our understanding of curriculum. The chapters raise ... -
Rethinking Fisheries Governance: The Role of States and Meta-Governance
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores how the state can foster collective action by fisher’s communities in fisheries management. It presents a different perspective from Elinor Ostrom’s classic work on the eight institutional conditions ... -
Conflicting Philosophies and International Trade Law: Worldviews and the WTO
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book reveals how conflicting worldviews are at the root of public controversies on policy and trade issues. It highlights the particularly controversial disputes at the level of the World Trade Organization in the ... -
European Union External Environmental Policy: Rules, Regulation and Governance Beyond Borders
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book considers the environmental policies that the EU employs outside its borders. Using a systematic and coherent approach to cover a range of EU activities, environmental issues, and geographical areas, it charts ... -
Gendering Diplomacy and International Negotiation
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This path-breaking book addresses the oft-avoided, yet critical question: where are the women located in contemporary diplomacy and international negotiation? The text presents a novel research agenda, including new ...
