Palgrave Macmillan

This book is a comprehensive text for those interested in formal education in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides a thought-provoking overview of the key educational ideas, themes and issues facing...

This book analyses the uses of Arnold Schwarzenegger as a foreign star in Hollywood through a film philosophical, de-westernizing and sonic critical framework. It offers very close readings of the...

This edited volume offers new and exciting perspectives on the social study of science and religion through current scholarship grounded in Science and Technology Studies (STS). The contributors...

This volume, the first of a two-volume set, provides a foundation for future research and development in science curriculum. Drawing upon complexity and systems theories, this book provides a...

This edited volume, the second of a two-volume set, presents science curriculum exemplars based on existing and future curriculum models. Drawing upon complexity and systems theories, this book will...

This book explores the impact of the socio-historical, political, and economic environment in South Africa, both during and after Apartheid. During this time, the South African education system...

Science in Metaphysics: Exploring the Metaphysics of Properties and LawsAuthor: Vassilis LivaniosPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 30, 2016Number of Pages: 251 pagesBinding: Hardback...

This book provides an overview of the importance of science, technology, and innovation in the history of economic thought. It charts how science has responded to societal needs and global challenges...

This book offers a new interpretation of political reform in the settler colonies of Britain's empire in the early nineteenth century. It examines the influence of Scottish Presbyterian dissenting...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This inaugural volume in Palgrave?s new SCOTUS series describes, explains, and...

Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgrave's SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the...

This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children's lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements. It focuses...

This book traces the cultural transformation of nostalgia on the Chinese screen over the past three decades. It explores how filmmakers from different generations have engaged politically with...

Aimed at students and educators across all levels of Higher Education, this agenda-setting book defines what screen production research is and looks like--and by doing so celebrates creative practice...

Examines the emergence of screens in society and their impact on every aspect of everyday life Based on the most ambitious online qualitative research project to date Challenges prevailing thinking...

This ethnographic book enhances our understanding of asylum screening, an area of immigration that is often overlooked and remains under-researched. Falsely perceived as a one-dimensional function of...

This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish Literature and the Irish cinema, with twelve chapters written by experts in the field that deal with...

This book provides aspiring screenwriters with a practical and informed way to learn how to think and write like a "creative". It stands apart from, yet complements, other screenwriting "how to"...

Scripting the Environment: Oil, Democracy and the Sands of Time and SpaceAuthor: Geo TakachPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 16, 2016Number of Pages: 238 pagesBinding: Hardback or...

This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices. Starting from a national case study, Greece, the book analyzes the gradually evolving global...

In this volume, Richard Gilmore explores film as a channel through which to engage in philosophical reflection and analyzes the relationship between philosophy and film. This book argues that...

This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law...

Explores the topic of secessionism in Post-Colonial Africa in comparative perspective.Explains how secessionism plays a role in different African countries.Draws comparisons regarding the legal...

Second Language Study Abroad: Programming, Pedagogy, and Participant EngagementAuthor: John L. PlewsPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jun 05, 2018Number of Pages: 414 pagesBinding:...

This book reveals the origins of the American religious marketplace by examining the life and work of reformer and journalist Orestes Brownson (1803-1876). Grounded in a wide variety of sources,...

This edited collection examines the concept and nature of the 'people's martyrology', raising issues of class, community, religion and authority. It examines modern martyrdom through studies of...

Secularisms in a Postsecular Age?: Religiosities and Subjectivities in Comparative PerspectiveAuthor: Jos? MaprilPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Mar 03, 2017Number of Pages: 300...

This open access book examines from the perspective of secularization. Since the publication of Max Weber's Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism, how to realize modernization in developing...

This book answers questions about secularization: Does it dissolve religion, or transform it into faith in a universally valid value? Is it restricted to the west or can it occur everywhere? Using...

This book offers a snappy but comprehensive investigation of how the resource needs of today could become the resource conflicts of tomorrow. As the most populous country in the world, the security...