Palgrave Macmillan

This short book describes the role big banks played in the financial crisis of 2008 while denouncing the financial oligarchy's seizing of power and the dangers it represents for democracy today...

This book addresses the need for maturational growth in undergraduate and entry-level graduate students as a foundation for professional and civic development. It presents an engaged learning...

Building on the thriving discussion on the role of attention within the phenomenological tradition, from Aron Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty to Bernhard Waldenfels, this book investigates the enigmatic...

Elucidates the many co-existing chaos definitionsExplores a topic that is of interest to both philosophers and scientistsAnalyses the unresolved question of whether there is in fact chaos in...

This book presents the first book-length study of ambient sound as a key issue in sound studies and sonic philosophy. Taking a broad, media-philosophical approach, it explores ambient sound as a...

Introduces new philosophy of "person-centered" Israel educationLeading scholar in the field of history and practices of Israel education Focuses on character development and exploring a vision of...

This book provides an optimistic account of the value and role of schooling. Schooling is a common but not universal approach to education and has need of its own distinctive justification, in...

This original and authoritative book offers a first-ever attempt to define a poetics of the editing arts. It proposes a new field of editing studies, in which the 'ideal editor' can be understood in...

?This monograph aims to explore the mind-narrative nexus by conducting a cognitive narratological study on the mad minds in fictional narratives. Set on the interface of narrative and cognitive...

This book presents a history of Swedish sport, highlighting in particular the relationship between sport politics and people?s changing attitudes towards sport from the eighteenth century until today...

This book offers a new alternative to understanding the relationship between China and Africa. Here, the author not only explores the changing nature of Ethiopia's internal politics as a result of...

This textbook offers a practical and engaging introduction to spatial econometric modelling, detailing the key models, methodologies and tools required to successfully apply a spatial approach. The...

This book introduces and explains the production-oriented approach (POA) to teaching foreign languages, a new approach developed by the author through 15 years of rigorous experimentation. Addressing...

This book explores the themes of identity, suffering, and hope in the stories of Puerto Rican people to surface the anthropology, soteriology, and eschatology of a Puerto Rican decolonial theology...

A Quarter Century of Post-Communism AssessedAuthor: M. Steven FishPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 20, 2017Number of Pages: 360 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

This is a reading of Gilles Deleuze's masterpiece Logic of Sense. It provides a thorough and systematic reading of Deleuze's book by focusing on the aspects that are neglected in the existing...

The book initiates a relational turn in policy making and governance by developing further relational political analysis and by taking relational thinking to bear on not just analytic/descriptive...

This edited collection articulates a future direction for research at the nexus of criminology and human rights by bringing together experts from different branches of criminology and criminal...

Youth justice has always focused on criminal justice but this work argues that taking a social justice approach is the best way to reduce youth crime. Drawing on philosophy, new research, and...

This book explores the various ramifications and consequences of the violent civil protests that affected Kazakhstan in January 2022. In this compelling study, the authors examine the underlying...

This book draws on the work of one of the sharpest minds of the 20th century, Piero Sraffa. Ludwig Wittgenstein credited him for 'the most consequential ideas' of the Philosophical Investigations...

This book offers a theory of those formal properties of art that are apt to afford strong aesthetic experience - a project resembling Aristotle's in the Poetics, where he analysed structures in...

In its portrayal of Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization, the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion remains one of the most infamous documents...

Outlines a new approach to develop business ethics as a truly scientific discipline Critiques the current methodologies in business ethicsProvides a genuine cross-over between philosophy and business...

A Shamanic Pneumatology in a Mystical Age of Sacred Sustainability: The Spirit of the Sacred EarthAuthor: Jojo M. FungPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jul 28, 2017Number of Pages: 218...

Drawing on the rich trove of recently declassified Russian and Chinese archival materials, this history of Sino-Soviet relations in the 20th century sheds new light on key events during this period...

This book bridges media, technocultural, urban and journalism studies to examine the role of journalism in relation to a smart city project on Toronto?s waterfront. From the announcement of the...

A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities: The Gift, the Wager, and PoethicsAuthor: Elizabeth-Jane BurnettPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 02, 2017Number of...

This book explores how, through spirituality and the development of character, Islamic financial institutions and Muslim communities can integrate their businesses with contemporary social...

This book focuses on improving reading comprehension by targeting the jargon, idiomatic language and academic expressions used in the business world. A Student? Guide to the Language of Finance is a...