Palgrave Macmillan

This book examines how recent fundamental changes influence Sino-Russian relations and the wider long-term implications of the revolving Sino-Russian dynamic on international affairs. It brings...

This book examines the paradox of China and the United States' literary and visual relationships, morphing between a happy duet and a contentious duel in fiction, film, poetry, comics, and opera from...

This book examines the development of British post-Second World War short-term residential adult education, through the lens of the Shropshire Adult Education College (1948-1976) and the tenure of...

This book is about the crises of the world economy that have occurred from the 1970s to the present day. It makes the specific case that the global economy has experienced six crises during this...

This book is about skateboard video and experimental ways of thinking about cities. It makes a provocative argument to consider skate video as an archive of the city from below. Here ?below? has a...

This book explores how cultural, social and political change happens through a unique analysis of the ?ethical turn? in skateboarding today. Insights shared by key change-makers and industry insiders...

Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Does divine hiddenness provide an evidential problem for theism? Is our evolutionary history evidence that God doesn't exist? Skeptical theism is the...

Slave Trade Profiteers in the Western Indian Ocean: Suppression and Resistance in the Nineteenth CenturyAuthor: Hideaki SuzukiPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 27, 2017Number of...

Sleep and the Novel is a study of representations of the sleeping body in fiction from 1800 to the present day which traces the ways in which novelists have engaged with this universal, indispensable...

This book critically evaluates the popular notion that today's society is suffering from 'sleep debt', or what Horne calls 'societal insomnia' - an apparent chronic loss of sleep, which can lead to...

Outlines a new approach to ICT, taking environmentalism and fairness at work into accountSatisfies the need for a more proactive computer ethics that addresses issues at design stageLays out a set of...

Research in this book enhances the understanding of small and medium-sized businesses as a result of unprecedented challenges presented to them. It elaborates on how some small and medium-sized...

This book explores the issues around small business and entrepreneurial activities in Africa within the context of frequent collapse of businesses, seizures by governments, lack of access to capital...

Small Powers and Trading Security: Contexts, Motives and OutcomesAuthor: Michael Intal MagcamitPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 20, 2016Number of Pages: 269 pagesBinding: Hardback...

Small state behavior has been largely ignored by academics in both international relations and strategic/intelligence studies. Yet, when we analyze the root causes of war, insurrections, rebellions,...

This book examines a crucial question about small states and their governments' influence in the European Union (EU) decision-making processes. - Are EU small member state governments influential in...

In this edited volume, academics and practitioners from various disciplines investigate the challenges, opportunities and frameworks in the implementation of Smart Cities in the Gulf.The volume...

This book examines smart growth entrepreneurs--innovators in government, development companies, architectural firms, and other organizations, who coalesce to shift policies and markets toward green...

This open access book explores the use of technologies for urban safety and security. Rather than focusing on the technologies themselves, it provides and in-depth analysis of the complex urban...

Provides empirical case studies of start-ups in the smartphone industry Explores the key factors that helped each featured start-up sustain growth and development Uses Apple's iPhone as an example of...

This edited collection synthesises recent research into smell and taste and relates it to eating behaviour. Olfaction - the sense of smell - together with taste are known as the ?chemical senses? and...

This Open Access Pivot represents the first extensive exploration of social accountability within the Arab world following the 2011 Arab uprisings. Drawing on insights from development studies,...

This book theorizes aesthetic classroom management through a hermeneutical approach with three fields of literature: history and philosophical foundations of chivalry, chivalry's promulgation through...

This book conducts a comparative analysis of social and economic changes in the welfare state transformations in China and India, at national and sub-national levels. Discussions are made based on...

This book focuses on the discourse of de-globalisation in Malaysia by looking at the implications of this process politically, economically, socially, and environmentally. The rise of right-wing...

Examines the complex developments in debates about tthe contemporary state, the character of capital and enterprise, and what is understood by "the social" in current discourses, policies and...

This book addresses the role of social capital in promoting rural and local development. The recent financial and economic crises have exposed the European Union (EU) to an increased risk of social...

Excavates a tradition of class analysis that influenced Marx but differs significantly.Emphasizes the role of politics in constituting class position.Links class analysis with a critique of state...

China?s Social Credit System has fundamentally re-shaped of surveillance worldwide, with discussions of it making it into hundreds of media headlines and all the way into European Union legislation...

This book describes a way of sharing dreams in a group, called 'social dreaming'. It explores how the sharing of real, night time dreams, in a group, can offer information on and insight into...