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This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.Author: Matilda Hellman, Michael Egerer, Janne Stoneham, Sarah Forberger, Vilja Männistö-Inkinen, Doris...

This book offers an autoethnographic examination of the author's last three years as a serving police officer and as Head of the Professional Standards Department, recorded in personal journals. It...

This book explores the efforts of marginalized communities to address the health inequalities that characterize life in many deprived areas of post-industrialized cities in the UK. Spread over six...

This book examines the construction of adolescent girlhood across a range of genres in the closing decades of the nineteenth century. It argues that there was a preoccupation with defining,...

- Provides a complex, comparative analysis of adolescent girls' migration and mobility- Analyzes a life-course approach to the adolescent migration in the Global South- Offers thorough field research...

Adoption in the Digital Age explores the transformation of adoption due to social and digital media technologies. The most prolific of these changes can be seen within contact arrangements,...

This book focuses on a central notion in Theodor. W. Adorno's philosophy: the nonidentical. The nonidentical is what our conceptual framework cannot grasp and must therefore silence, the unexpressed...

This book explores the realities of adult education practice in the current political and economic climate. With a particular focus on examining the effect of the multitude of changes in policy and...

Advances in Culture Theory from Psychological AnthropologyAuthor: Naomi QuinnPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Dec 26, 2018Number of Pages: 337 pagesBinding: Paperback or...

The purpose of this book is to honour D.S. Prasada Rao and his many outstanding contributions to economic measurement, including index number methods for international comparisons of prices, real...

This book examines advanced approaches to finance infrastructure projects. In doing so, it synthesizes developments and generates new understandings in the field. Infrastructure financing has moved...

Provides a comprehensive summary of the field, giving the reader the ability to dig deeper into challenges for research Gives insights to management challenges and solutions, based on the results of...

This book includes studies that employ a variety of research techniques from diverse fields targeting a better understanding of the second language (L2)/foreign language (FL) acquisition process...

- Presents a collection of original contributions on TRIZ and systematic creativity- Focuses upon three main themes; real world cases, management issues and education- Appeals to an interdisciplinary...

This book covers the latest advances in the theory and practice of public investment management. It includes the most up-to-date developments in the implementation of public asset management -...

This book centralizes the importance of using culturally relevant models within health promoting schools (HPS) to promote the participation of Black students. In current HPS models Black students are...

Advancing Entrepreneurship in the United Arab Emirates: Start-Up Challenges and OpportunitiesAuthor: Wasif A. MinhasPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 24, 2018Number of Pages: 250...

Information systems research (IS) is an exciting multidisciplinary area that links the rapidly changing technology of information (or communications and information technology, ICT) to the business...

This edited volume breaks new ground by innovatively drawing on multiple disciplines to enhance our understanding of international relations and conflict. The expansion of knowledge across...

Advancing Medical Posthumanism Through Twenty-First Century American Poetry places contemporary poetics in dialogue with posthumanism and biomedicine in order to create a framework for advancing a...

This edited collection advances the call for continued multicultural dialogues within education. Dialogue and education are the two most essential tools that can help tackle some of the biggest...

This is the first scholarly book dedicated to reading the work of contemporary filmmakers and their impact on modern marketing and advertising. Drawing from consumer culture theory, film and media...

This book explores the concept of advertising and the different ways advertising is understood and evaluated. It dives deep into planning, designing, and executing advertising campaigns on different...

Global governance is no longer a matter of state cooperation or bureaucratic politics. Since the end of the cold war, advocacy groups have proliferated and enjoyed increasing access to global...

This book introduces and explores a new pedagogical approach, Aesthetic Positive Pedagogy (APP), for teachers and students in a variety of educational contexts. The book is built on the need for...

By examining cultural consumption, tastes and imaginaries as a means of relating to the world, this book describes the effects of globalization on young people from an aesthetic and cultural...

Through comparative and integrated case studies, this book demonstrates how aesthetics becomes politics in cultural policy. Contributors from Norway, Sweden and the UK analyse exactly what happens...

Examines the global politics of representation of Havana through visual cultureChallenges existing representations of various recognizable spaces of Havana and interrogate the diverse forces which...

Aesthetics of Universal KnowledgeAuthor: Simon SchafferPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: May 24, 2017Number of Pages: 271 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319425943ISBN-13:...

Offers a broad overview and interpretation of twenty-first century Spanish fiction and filmWeaves together a diverse range of fiction and films and also draws on some of the most significant lines of...