Palgrave Pivot

This book explores the history, effects, diagnosis and treatment of chronic fatigue as well its significant links to other illnesses. Fatigue is a difficult symptom to accurately assess and quantify...

A Brief History of UniversitiesAuthor: John C. MoorePublisher: Palgrave PivotPublication Date: Oct 20, 2018Number of Pages: 126 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3030013189ISBN-13:...

A Christian Guide to Liberating Desire, Sex, Partnership, Work, and ReproductionAuthor: Thia CooperPublisher: Palgrave PivotPublication Date: Nov 27, 2017Number of Pages: 121 pagesBinding: Hardback...

This volume presents a distinctively Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to the theorizing, understanding, and critique of curriculum in higher education. In this work, the author presents the main...

This book combines political theory with media and communications studies in order to formulate a theory of post-truth, concentrating on the latter's preconditions, context, and functions in today's...

This Palgrave Pivot examines the history of the largely urban offence once known as vitriol throwing because the substance most commonly used was strong sulphuric acid, oil of vitriol. A relatively...

This book discusses a variety of different perspectives involved in biodiversity management and bio-sequestration projects in Australia, working towards achieving adaptive governance in carbon...

This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and...

This new book examines the relationship between agency theory and executive pay. It argues that while Jensen and Meckling (1976) were right in their analysis of the agency problem in public...

Explores a range of heavily under-researched alternative schooling methods Examines the history and impact of each alternative schooling method and how they've been theorisedAnalyses the New...

Focusing on Lagos Business School (LBS) in Nigeria, this book explores the impact of strong alumni leadership on university excellence in Africa. Strong leadership is crucial to the success of...

An Economic Analysis of Intellectual Property Rights Infringement: Field Studies in Developing CountriesAuthor: Koji DomonPublisher: Palgrave PivotPublication Date: Jun 15, 2018Number of Pages: 92...

Arab Film and Video Manifestos presents, in their entirety, five key documents that have fundamentally shaken up and helped change the face of image culture in the Middle East and beyond. The book...

Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the...

In recent years the Arctic has become the focus of political, popular and scholarly debates around the future of our world's Energy. Increasing consumption, dwindling reserves, climate warming and...

Although Asia has been the world engine of economic growth since World War II, growth rates have differed sharply among the countries of the region. Still, all Asian countries have experienced some...

This book takes an intimate, collaborative, interdisciplinary autoethnographic approach that both emphasizes the authors' entangled relationships with the more-than-human, and understands the land...

Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as...

Badiou and American Modernist Poetics explores the correspondence between Alain Badiou's thinking on art and that of the canonical modernists T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Ezra Pound. Utilizing a...

This monograph applies Kingdon?s Multiple Streams Framework to two policymaking episodes of implementing pay for performance in general practice, conducted in England and New Zealand. The Framework?s...

Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one's potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske - which includes belonging, understanding, control/competence,...

Behavioral Economics and Bioethics: A JourneyAuthor: Li Way LeePublisher: Palgrave PivotPublication Date: Apr 23, 2018Number of Pages: 113 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Offers for the first time an English translation of Roas' landmark work Tras los l?mites de lo real. Una definici?n de lo fant?stico (2011)Examines the works of some Spanish authors born between 1960...

A brief commentary on the necessity and the impossibility of black men's participation in the development of black feminist theory and politics, Black Men, Black Feminism examines the basic...

This book explores the 'invisible' impact whiteness has on the lived 'black' experience in the UK. Using education as a philosophical and ethical framework, the author interrogates the vision of...

Uncovers multiple dimensions of the technoscientific mechanisms of control of immigration and re-reads them through the prism of the 2008 crisisJuxtaposes the lived experience of migration, i.e. the...

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the brain drain from Turkey, with particular focus on its gender dimension. The author presents a review of brain drain literature, as well as analyzing...

Builds a theoretical infrastructure based on the idea of a professional sport ecosystem in which many stackholders contribute to the growth of the industryArgues for the expansion of the fan base...

This book argues that Brexit will wholly re-shape the legal framework and public policy norms relating to linguistic diversity that have dominated public life in the UK and the EU since the Treaty on...

This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style. The book...