Sociology: Recent submissions
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Globalization and the Challenges of Public Administration: Governance, Human Resources Management, Leadership, Ethics, E-Governance and Sustainability in the 21st Century
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book is an attempt to understand the challenges of globalization and governance in the public sector. Written from the perspectives of both developed and developing countries, it uses governance and public administration ... -
Open-Access, Multimodality, and Writing Center Studies
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The disciplinary triad of open-access, multimodality, and writing center studies presents a timely, critical lens for discussing academic publishing in a moment of crucibilic change, where rapid technological advancements ... -
The Present Image: Visible Stories in a Digital Habitat
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The Present Image explores the world of images in the contemporary, increasingly digitized, habitats of the world. Moving across a theoretical spectrum that brings visual and digital culture in touch with anthropology, ... -
Bank Funding Strategies: The Use of Bonds and the Bail-in Effect
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book illustrates the importance of bonds as a funding tool available to banks. After providing the reader with an overview of the funding strategies adopted during the last ten years by European banks, the book offers ... -
Measuring and Managing Operational Risk: An Integrated Approach
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book covers Operational Risk Management (ORM), in the current context, and its new role in the risk management field. The concept of operational risk is subject to a wide discussion also in the field of ORM’s literature, ... -
Multi-Market Antitrust Economics
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Antitrust economics is a field that draws extensively on the economic theory of industrial organization, and the field's frontier is at the cutting edge of economic research. This book bridges the gap between introductory ... -
Caribbean Achievement in Britain: Psychosocial Resources and Lived Experiences
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores a range of psychosocial resources, and discusses them in relation to lived experiences and outcomes in educational and socioeconomic domains. It offers close insights into the complex relationship between ... -
Climate Change and Storytelling: Narratives and Cultural Meaning in Environmental Communication
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)Climate change is as much a cultural phenomenon as it is a natural one. This book is about those cultural patterns that surround our perception of the environmental crisis and which are embodied in the narratives told by ... -
Multimodal Pragmatics and Translation: A New Model for Source Text Analysis
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book proposes a new model for the translation-oriented analysis of multimodal source texts. The author guides the reader through semiotics, multimodality, pragmatics and translation studies on a quest for the ... -
Economic Growth in Small Open Economies: Lessons from the Visegrad Countries
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book studies the economic growth and development of four Visegrad economies (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) between 1995-2014. The author uses a neoclassical growth model with distortions (wedges) to ... -
Mapping Violeta Parra’s Cultural Landscapes
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)One of the leading figures in Latin American folk music and art during her lifetime, Violeta Parra was a vital force in the artistic, musical, visual, cultural, and social cultural production of the Chilean 1960s. Fifty ... -
Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed ‘kinesic intelligence’, a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through analyses of authors including ... -
A Scientific Approach to Ethics: Developing Greater Respect for Ethics in Business and Society
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book suggests that normative ethics should be developed as a social science, and that this will improve its reputation in business and society. Storchevoy defines four criteria of a good scientific method (clear ... -
Autoethnographies on the Environment and Human Health
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book explores the link between individual lives and significant environmental issues affecting millions of people around the world. Zolnikov offers a novel perspective on the environment and human health through ... -
Towards Intellectual Property Rights Management: Back-office and Front-office Perspectives
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides insights into the intellectual property rights (IPR) managerial practices of key IPR executives from a range of multinational companies, including major research and development firms. It identifies gaps ... -
Slow Tech and ICT: A Responsible, Sustainable and Ethical Approach
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book makes an important contribution to the recent evolution in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) that are human-centred and socially desirable, environmentally sustainable, and ethically acceptable. ... -
Business Ethics as a Science: Methodology and Implications
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)The book considers how to make the methodology of business ethics more scientific, especially its normative branch. Storchevoy explores the attempts of economic theory to contribute to the scientific normative analysis of ... -
Qualitative Methodologies in Organization Studies: Volume II: Methods and Possibilities
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book provides a thorough review of tested qualitative methods often used in organization studies, and outlines the challenges and essential requirements of designing a qualitative research project. The methods examined ... -
Weather and Climate Services for the Energy Industry
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This open access book showcases the burgeoning area of applied research at the intersection between weather and climate science and the energy industry. It illustrates how better communication between science and industry ... -
Nurse Practitioners and the Performance of Professional Competency : Accomplishing Patient-centered Care
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)This book examines the interactional practices of nurse practitioners (NPs) and the delivery of health care in the US. The author takes a discourse analytic approach, examining the linguistic resources that NPs employ in ...
