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This book offers the assessment of Myanmar?s societal changes, development aspects, and political situation over the course of the nation?s short lived democratic transition disrupted by the coup...

This collection revisits Steven Box's book, Power, Crime and Mystification, published in 1983, and considers its relevance forty years on. It introduces the critical analysis developed by Box which...

This book examines how World War II affected denominational colleges who faced a national crisis in relationship to their Christian tenets and particular religious communities and student bodies...

This book offers a deparochial account of global justice and addresses disenchantment stemming from its West-centricity and provincial theoretical formulations. As the recurring global poverty debate...

This book provides a comprehensive overview of funding arrangements for explicit deposit insurance schemes. Responding to international guidelines and best practice, it discusses policy decisions and...

Depth Psychology and MysticismAuthor: Thomas CattoiPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 31, 2018Number of Pages: 289 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319790951ISBN-13:...

This book argues for the necessity of a re-evaluation of our thinking about responsibly relating to future generations in the context of environmental philosophy. Using long-term nuclear waste...

Derrida's Social Ontology: Institutions in Deconstruction presents the first dedicated study of Jacques Derrida's philosophy of institutions. While previous studies of Derrida's thought have...

This book offers a new perspective on the role played by colonial descriptions and translation of Caribbean plants in representations of Caribbean culture. Through thorough examination of Caribbean...

This collection of essays sheds light on repair as a disposition to material culture and a practice rooted in diverse sociocultural experiences. It provides an in-depth exploration of how repair...

This edited collection brings together leading theoretical and applied research with the intent to design a sustainable global financial future. The contributors argue that our world cannot move...

This edited book surveys the major sustainability challenges facing Asian cities, in particular those related to urban energy and city cooling. The book discusses the key concepts and issues...

This text explores how architectural and urban design values have been co-opted by global cities to enhance their economic competitiveness by creating a superior built environment that is not just...

This book aims to advance language program evaluation and practice, building on the author's previous work in Blended Language Program Evaluation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). The book is based in...

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to...

This book describes the complex process of desistance from sexual crime as told by 74 men incarcerated for sexual offenses and released back into the community. Unlike much of the research on this...

This book explores how two generations of relatively privileged Australian men have navigated the complex terrain of same-gender friendship across their lives, to offer both empirically unique and...

This book introduces a new theoretical framework that examines Iran in relation to the theological concept of Anfal, a confiscatory regime seen in Iran since 1979 where public assets belong to the...

- Multidisciplinary topic: academic and potentially some non-academic readers- Avoids the "pick-and-choose" sociological interpretations of literature, instead providing a fully-loaded, alternative...

Detective Fiction and the Problem of Knowledge: Perspectives on the Metacognitive Mystery TaleAuthor: Antoine Dech?nePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 14, 2018Number of Pages: 347...

This volume is a collection of selected empirical studies on determinants of economic growth in Africa. Grouped into three parts, chapters examine the influence of financial sources and economic...

This book discusses the economic and geopolitical effects of globalization from historical and institutional perspectives. While it has had unintended consequences, such as displacing developed...

This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England. Socio-economic conditions in the North - and its future prospects - have become central to national debates in the...

This book draws on original research and a language based pedagogy approach to examine how secondary schools in the UK can devise and implement coherent language and literacy across curriculum...

Developing Language Teacher Autonomy Through Action ResearchAuthor: Kenan DikilitaşPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Apr 05, 2017Number of Pages: 304 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Discusses the enactment of Potentially Exploitable Pedagogic Activities (PEPAs) in classroom language learningOffers examples of Exploratory Practice in actionMoves current thinking forward by...

This edited book examines the concept of researcher independence and its various strands and manifestations using the conceptual lens of the hidden curriculum. Contributions highlight, discuss and...

Focuses on student experience and satisfaction Discusses the potential impact of socio-emotional intelligence on the Teaching Excellence Framework Takes a holistic approach to education and...

This book analyses Jamaica's ability to satisfy its short and long run foreign currency obligations in light of recurrent balance of payment support from international lending agencies. Jamaica is...

Development Aid and Adaptation to Climate Change in Developing CountriesAuthor: Carola BetzoldPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 16, 2018Number of Pages: 223 pagesBinding: Hardback or...