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This book presents an in-depth analysis of young people's experiences of diverse drinking practices, including heavy drinking and drunkenness, as fun and pleasurable as they navigate gendered leisure...

Reconfiguring Relations in the Empty Nest: Those Who Leave and Those Who StayAuthor: Magdalena ŻadkowskaPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 21, 2024Number of Pages: 340...

This volume frames the concept of a national play. By analysing a number of European case studies, it addresses the following question: Which play could be regarded as a country's national play, and...

This volume provides a unique view of the movement for peace during the First World War, with authors from across Europe and the United States, each providing a distinctive cultural analysis of peace...

This book explores the privileged powers commercial banks hold, namely, their ability to create money out of nothing and then have that money grow in tune with a positive interest rate. Said powers...

Reconstructing Identity: A Transdisciplinary ApproachAuthor: Nicholas MonkPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 15, 2017Number of Pages: 332 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This open access book explores what makes women decide to pursue a career in male-dominated fields such as information technology (IT). It reveals how women experience gendered stereotypes but also...

Drawing together insights and provocations from diverse fields of inquiry, this important new book asks probing questions about the lived experience of substance use and misuse, health and recovery...

Recruiting International Students in Higher Education: Representations and Rationales in British PolicyAuthor: Sylvie LomerPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 03, 2017Number of Pages:...

This book is the first attempt to re-define objective risk. It addresses the cost of running out of capital as a generalized cost syndrome and explains how it is possible to describe this cost in...

Redemptive Leadership: Offering Second Chances as a Value-Added Management PracticeAuthor: Joseph J. BucciPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Aug 31, 2016Number of Pages: 191 pagesBinding:...

This book spotlights new pathways for academic career progression beyond the traditional teaching-and-research model. It sets out key parameters for constructive conversations about alignment to...

Rediscovering Kurdistan's Cultures and Identities: The Call of the Cricket offers insight into little-known aspects of the social and cultural activity and changes taking place in different parts of...

Rediscovering Social Economics: Beyond the Neoclassical ParadigmAuthor: Roger D. JohnsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 02, 2017Number of Pages: 191 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Presents contributions from internationally recognised specialists of socioeconomic inequalities and European process from distinct scientific disciplines and different European countriesCritically...

Kenneth Garcia presents an edited collection of papers from the 2015 conference on academic freedom at religiously affiliated universities, held at the University of Notre Dame. These essays...

This book interrogates how new digital-visual techniques and technologies are being used in emergent configurations of research and intervention. It discusses technological change and technological...

This book navigates global educational policy concerning critical thinking skills and competencies. The author explores the concept of criticality from the perspectives of several critical...

This book elaborates Jean Am?ry's critique of philosophy and his discussion of some central philosophical themes in At the Mind's Limits and his other writings. It shows how Am?ry elaborates the...

Suggests thoughts on developing governments--effective institutions and a clear and transparent path to effective human and economic developmentProvides Muslim countries a benchmark for their...

Nearly one-third of US workers must obtain a license from a government agency to perform their jobs legally. This impacts employees across all areas, including lawyers, doctors, and accountants, as...

This book provides an analysis of the urban government system in Bangladesh, focusing on its upper tier, the City Corporation (CC), and the institutional and legal frameworks within which it operates...

- Uses comparative ethnographic evidence, based on contemporary first-hand fieldwork in four European countries- Looks at case studies to assess the growth, development, and use of highly prepared...

This book participates in the ongoing debate about the alleged "death of theory" and the current post-theoretical condition, arguing that the "finitude" of theoretical projects does not mean "end",...

This book reconstructs major paradigms in the history of economic ethics up to, and including, the present day. Asserting that ethics should be integral rather than marginal to economics and...

SMEs face unique challenges directly stemming from their size, which create pressures, tensions and dilemmas with regard to people management. These include the liabilities of smallness and newness,...

This book surveys the development of the Italian economy over the 150 years since unification, integrating economic analysis with an economic and social history of Italian society. The book...

This book focuses on those features of the Roman economy that are less traceable in text and archaeology, and as a consequence remain largely underexplored in contemporary scholarship. By...

Presents a global coverage with case studies from Eastern Europe, Central America and South-East AsiaIncludes policy responses to the various issues and challenges that come with major refugee and...

This book presents a decolonial and Afrocentric critique of prolonged encampment of refugees, centred on the case study of refugee camps in Kenya, introduced through the author?s decades-long...