Palgrave Macmillan

This book uses Viktor Frankl's Existential Psychology (logotherapy) to explore the ways some professors use unusually personal scholarship to discover meaning in personal adversity. A psychiatrist...

Navigates between formalist criticism and context-based criticismExamines a carefully selected group of key texts from a broad spectrum of Anglophone literatureTakes an original approach to twentieth...

This edited collection demonstrates how discourses and practices associated with marketisation, differentiation and equality are manifested in UK higher education today. Uniting leading scholars in...

This Open Access edited volume presents twelve African case studies that systematically reconstruct, document and analyse how national governments and other stakeholders took equity into account in...

This book constructs a Chinese Social Equality Index?he Mongoose Social Equality Index?ith the wealth gap index as its core, and the legal equality index, the socio-cultural equality index, and the...

This book describes community ophthalmology professionals in South Asia who demonstrate social entrepreneurship in global health to help the rural poor. Their innovations contested economic and...

Decentralized energy systems paradigm calls for ? a) evidence-based policy for local resource assessment, and b) context-specific energy needs assessment for- overcoming ?barriers? to decentralized...

This book focuses on different sustainable products and services, such as electrical vehicles, green buildings, and biophilic and biomimetic systems, at multiple hierarchical levels within its...

This edited volume examines the critical issues of the 21st century through the prism of Ernest Gellner's work. The contributors look critically at Gellner s legacy, questioning whether he remains an...

This book, drawing from internationally renowned scales like Bayley and Gesell, develops a child developmental assessment scale based on research data from Chinese children. It stands as a meticulous...

The book raised the question of how relations between the US and China will unfold is one of the most consequential of the 21st century. In the past decade, perhaps no thinker has had a greater...

This is an edited book that fills a gap in knowledge by providing a comprehensive view of esports practice from the Asia and Pacific region. The volume looks at the development of esports through the...

Esports is an industry that has catapulted into the mainstream with massive prize pools and millions of global viewers. But what is esports? Is it esports, Esports, E-sports, or eSports? Is it a...

This book is the culmination of and a collection of distinguished scholar Lawrence Officer's principal research over 50 years of scholarly activity. The collection consists primarily of three topics...

This book is the first collection of critical essays on Hilda Hilst (1930-2004) published in English. It brings together a variety of perspectives on one of Latin America's most inventive and...

Essays Reflecting the Art of Political and Social AnalysisAuthor: Lawrence DavidsonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 10, 2018Number of Pages: 255 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book offers a detailed analysis of China's original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern period, providing views on dancing, image making, the...

This book uses Norbert Elias and John L. Scotson?s The Established and The Outsiders to map selected established-outsiders figurations in Poland after 1989. Looking at gender and sexual orientation,...

This book explores Queen Esther as an idealized woman in Iberia, as well as a Jewish heroine for conversos in the Sephardic Diaspora in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The biblical Esther...

This book explores the role of HRD professionals in ethical and legal decision making in the workplace. While previous books have described the need for ethics in HRD, this book presents ways that...

Ethical and Political Approaches to Nonhuman Animal IssuesAuthor: Andrew WoodhallPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 06, 2017Number of Pages: 410 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

Ethical Dimensions of Islamic Finance: Theory and PracticeAuthor: Zamir IqbalPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 06, 2017Number of Pages: 192 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased...

This book draws upon ethical dimensions of Muslim education as a means through which to address contemporary issues, such as social and societal conflicts, exclusion and marginalisation, and violence...

This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society. Much ethics taught in the UK has been dominated by Christian ethics, their relation to secularism and by the...

This book draws attention to the non-biological--political, economic, societal and cultural--variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to...

This book explores the ethical dimensions surrounding the development of education for sustainable development within schools, and examines these issues through the lens of ethical literacy. The book...

Genocide murders innocents in a society, and it leaves behind moral corruption and societal twistedness. A genocide like the Holocaust can happen only if the normative ethical commitments to honor...

This edited collection focuses on the ethics, politics and practices of responsiveness in the context of racism, inequality, difference and controversy. The politics of difference has long been...

Based on content analyses of three international organizations' policy reports and interviews with Somali refugees and refugee organizations, Dilek Karal examines the construction of ethico-political...

This book is a fascinating treatment of ethics, governance, and anti-corruption initiatives from a public sector management perspective and is especially relevant for an Africa looking to benefit...