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    • Evolving Narratives of Hazard and Risk: The Gorkha Earthquake, Nepal, 2015 

      Bracken, Louise; Ruszczyk, Hanna A.; Robinson, Tom (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book presents a range of academic research and personal reflections on the Gorkha earthquake that struck Nepal in 2015. For the first time, perspectives from geography, disaster risk reduction, cultural heritage ...

    • Climate Modelling: Philosophical and Conceptual Issues 

      Lloyd, Elisabeth A.; Winsberg, Eric (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This edited collection of works by leading climate scientists and philosophers introduces readers to issues in the foundations, evaluation, confirmation, and application of climate models. It engages with important topics ...

    • Cultivating Compassion: How Digital Storytelling is Transforming Healthcare 

      Hardy, Pip; Sumner, Tony (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores how digital storytelling can catalyze change in healthcare. Edited by the co-founders of the award-winning Patient Voices Programme, the authors discuss various applications for this technique, from using ...

    • Honneth and Everyday Intercultural (Mis)Recognition: Work, Marginalisation and Integration 

      Anna, Bona (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book conducts a critical investigation into everyday intercultural recognition and misrecognition in the domain of paid work, utilising social philosopher Axel Honneth’s recognition theory as its theoretical foundation. ...

    • Arts in health : designing and researching interventions 

      Fancourt, Daisy (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Over the past few decades, the use of the arts in health has burgeoned. What, for many centuries, was seen as a fringe activity is now being recognised as a field that has enormous potential for impacting positively on ...

    • China: A Historical Geography of the Urban 

      Ding, Yannan; Marinelli, Maurizio; Zhang, Xiaohong (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of ...

    • The Evaluators’ Eye: Impact Assessment and Academic Peer Review 

      Derrick, Gemma (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book offers an empirical analysis of how academic peer review panels mediate the traditionally non-academic criterion of societal impact. The UK’s 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF2014) for the first time included ...

    • Financing in Europe: Evolution, Coexistence and Complementarity of Lending Practices from the Middle Ages to Modern Times 

      Lorenzini, Marcella; Lorandini, Cinzia; Coffman, D'Maris (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to Modern Times. It engages with the distinct political, economic and institutional frameworks of the examined areas (England, ...

    • New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy 

      Fredona, Robert; Reinert, Sophus A. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis, and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it ...

    • Reading Books and Prints as Cultural Objects 

      Stead, Evanghelia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous ...

    • Wireless Mobility in Organizations: Utilizing Social, Individual, and Organizational Intelligence 

      Clark, Stephen C.; Valvi, Theodora (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)
      This book investigates the intuitive application of strategic knowledge arbitrage and serendipity (SKARSE) principles by CEOs in their use of mobile electronic devices. CEOs of small to mid-sized organizations are responsible ...

    • System Dynamics: Soft and Hard Operational Research 

      Kunc, Martin (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book presents some of the most important papers published in Palgrave’s Journal of Operational Research relating to the use of System Dynamics (SD) in the context of Operational Research (OR). Giving the reader an ...

    • Families and Personal Networks : An International Comparative Perspective 

      Wall, Karin (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book critically assesses the main features of the modernization of family life and personal relationships by examining and comparing three European countries with different social and political pathways: Portugal, ...

    • Women’s Higher Education in the United States: New Historical Perspectives 

      Nash, Margaret A. (Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)
      This volume presents new perspectives on the history of higher education for women in the United States. By introducing new voices and viewpoints into the literature on the history of higher education from the early ...

    • The Green Economy and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus 

      Brears, Robert C. (Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)
      This book argues that a variety of policies will be required to create synergies between the water-energy-food nexus sectors while reducing trade-offs in the development of a green economy. Despite rising demand for water, ...

    • Liberalism and the welfare state : economists and arguments for the welfare state 

      Backhouse, Roger E. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      The welfare state has, over the past forty years, come under increasing attack from liberals who consider comprehensive welfare provision inimical to liberalism. Yet, many of the architects of the post-World War II welfare ...

    • American opinion on trade : preferences without politics 

      Guisinger, Alexandra (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Americans have contradictory beliefs about how international trade affects the country as whole and specific communities. Yet notwithstanding the heat of political rhetoric, these beliefs are rarely mobilized into political ...

    • Interpretive Political Science: Selected Essays, Volume II 

      Rhodes, R.A.W. (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Interpretive Political Science is the second of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R.A.W. Rhodes. Volume II looks forward and explores the 'interpretive turn' and its implications for the craft of political ...

    • Irresolvable norm conflicts in international law : the concept of a legal dilemma 

      Jeutner, Valentin (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Conventionally, international legal scholarship concerned with norm conflicts focues on identifying how international law can or should resolve them. This book adopts a different approach. It focuses on identifying those ...

    • Hedge funds : structure, strategies, and performance 

      Baker, Harold Kent; Filbeck, Greg (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Hedge Funds: Structure, Strategies, and Performance provides a synthesis of the theoretical and empirical literature on this intriguing, complex, and frequently misunderstood topic. The book dispels some common misconceptions ...