Sociology: Recent submissions
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The leadership capital index : a new perspective on political leadership
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The Leadership Capital Index develops a conceptual framework of leadership capital and a diagnostic tool - the Leadership Capital Index (LCI) - to measure and evaluate the fluctuating nature of the leadership capital of ... -
The Governance of Infrastructure
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Infrastructure only tends to be noticed when it is absent, declining, or decrepit, or when enormous cost overruns, time delays, or citizen protests make the headlines. If infrastructure is indeed a fundamental driver of ... -
A new narrative for psychology
(Oxford University Press, 2017)How can a narrative perspective help us advance our understanding of the fundamental problems of human psychology and better appreciate persons in diverse social and cultural contexts? In A New Narrative for Psychology, ... -
1517 : Martin Luther and the invention of the reformation
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Martin Luther's posting of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517 is one of the most famous events of Western history. It inaugurated the Protestant Reformation, and has for centuries ... -
Europe's growth challenge
(Oxford University Press, 2017)A cogent and systematic look at the ways in which enacting fiscal and governmental policy changes might reinvigorate Europe's stagnant economy. -
Locke’s image of the world
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Modern philosophy originates during the scientific revolution, and Michael Jacovides provides an engaging account of how this scientific background influences one of the foremost figures of early modern philosophy, John ... -
Enactivist interventions. Rethinking the mind
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Enactivist Interventions' is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free ... -
A study in monetary macroeconomics
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The present monograph was motivated by the Great Recession, which hit the global economy in 2008–09. Tis remarkable event, unparalleled in the postwar era, raised two issues. Te frst, positive in nature, was whether one ... -
Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training: A Social History of Training and Development
(Palgrave Macmillan US, 2018)This book explores the social history of training and development and describes how ordinary training systems were linked to extraordinary events. Using instrumental case studies, the author explores the direct and indirect ... -
Blue and Green Cities: The Role of Blue-Green Infrastructure in Managing Urban Water Resources
(Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018)This book offers new research on urban policy innovations that promote the application of blue-green infrastructure in managing water resources sustainably. The author argues that urban water managers have traditionally ... -
Zen and material culture
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The stereotype of Zen Buddhism as a minimalistic or even immaterial meditative tradition persists in the Euro-American cultural imagination. This volume calls attention to the vast range of "stuff" in Zen by highlighting ... -
Women and leadership
(Oxford University Press, 2017)For most of recorded history, men have held nearly all of the most powerful leadership positions. Today, although women occupy an increasing percentage of leadership positions, in America they hold less than a fifth of ... -
When doing the right thing is impossible
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Suppose that in an emergency evacuation of a hospital after a flood, not all of the patients can make it out alive. You are the doctor faced with the choice between abandoning these patients to die alone and in pain, or ... -
The future of consumer society : prospects for sustainability in the new economy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Consumer society in the United States and other countries is receding due to demographic ageing, rising income inequality, political paralysis, and resource scarcity. At the same time, steady jobs that compensate employees ... -
Welfare, work and poverty : social assistance in China
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Welfare, Work, and Poverty provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program -- Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or Dibao -- since its ... -
Treaty shopping in international investment law
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Treaty shopping, also known under the terms of nationality planning, corporate (re-)structuring or corporate maneuvering, implies a strategic change of nationality or strategic invocation of another nationality with the ... -
Tracing the roles of soft law in human rights
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Soft law increasingly shapes and impacts the content of international law in multiple ways, from being a first step in a norm-making process to providing detailed rules and technical standards required for the interpretation ... -
Towards a European public law
(Oxford University Press, 2017)A European public law is under construction, but how has this occurred and what is its character? Stirn proposes that this European public law is being constructed by the convergence of three circles: the law of the European ... -
Tomorrow's lawyers : an introduction to your future
(Oxford University Press, 2017)Tomorrow's Lawyers predicts that we are at the beginning of a period of fundamental transformation in law: a time in which we will see greater change than we have seen in the past two centuries. Where the future of the ... -
The World Trade Organization : law, practice, and policy
(Oxford University Press, 2017)The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively ...
