Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by Karen Sands-O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2017
This book examines a critical period in British children’s publishing, from the earliest days of dedicated publishing firms for Black British audiences to the beginnings of the Black Lives Matter movement in the UK. Taking a historical approach that includes education acts, Black protest, community...
by DeNel Rehberg Sedo
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
Reading is both a social process and a social formation, as this book illustrates across centuries and cultural contexts. Highlighting links evident in reading communities from literary salons to online environments, each essay reflects the rich repertoire of research methods available to reading scholars.
The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Micha? Kalecki
Volume 1 of Essays in Honour of Tadeusz Kowalik
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
Rosa Luxemburg, Oskar Lange and Michal Kalecki made important contributions to twentieth century political economy that guided the thinking of their student Tadeusz Kowalik. These contributions are re-examined by renowned economists, highlighting the common themes in their political economy and the neglected aspects of their work.
Marx Today
Selected Works and Recent Debates
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
This book provides, in one volume, primary sources by Marx and critical commentary which relates Marxism to contemporary social and political topics. It includes six brief works by Marx and ten articles by scholars, sympathetic to, but critical of, Marxism. For example, the author includes the classic...
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part 1 Influences from Mises to Bartley
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2013
This is the first collaborative biography of Hayek. Some of the world's most distinguished scholars will integrate the archival evidence with Hayek's published writings to illuminate the process by which Hayek changed the direction of world history.
Hayek: A Collaborative Biography
Part IV, England, the Ordinal Revolution and the Road to Serfdom, 1931-50
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
This fourth volume examines his time in Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), when Hayek held the prestigious University of London Tooke Professorship of Economic Science and Statistics. Between Vienna and Chicago (1931-1950), although his business cycle work was apparently defeated, this study takes a closer look at Hayek's successes.
by C. Fleck
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Sociology in Austria has been frequently affected by political developments in the country. This first history of sociology in Austria examines the impact of the break-up of the Habsburg Empire and of two consecutive dictatorships, which destroyed academic freedom by means of forced migration and...
by M. Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Marketing Big Oil begins with an historical perspective looking at how Big Oil came to be and then analyzes the marketing and corporate branding programs of these oil titans to demonstrate what does and doesn't work, showing us how even the largest companies sometimes fail to get their message across.
Who Runs the Economy?
The Role of Power in Economics
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Since the financial crisis of 2008 and the following Great Recession, there has been surprisingly little change in the systems of ideas, institutions and policies which preceded the crash and helped bring it about. 'Mainstream' economics carries on much as it did before. Despite much discussion of...
Michał Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography
Volume I Rendezvous in Cambridge 1899-1939
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
This volume of intellectual biography takes the Polish economist Micha Kalecki (1899-1970) from the shattering of his prosperous childhood, in Tsarist Łódź in the 1905 Revolution, to Cambridge and the failure of his co-operative research with John Maynard Keynes's supporters in Cambridge.
by G. Brooks, A. Aleem, M. Button
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
This book offers historical and contemporary international analysis of fraud and corruption in sport, including a diverse range of cases from the sporting world including football, cricket, horse racing and boxing.
Doing Business With China
Avoiding the Pitfalls
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
This book is about understanding the differences and risks, ownership, culture and management practices when investing, managing or working with Chinese companies. It explores the progression of overseas listing of Chinese companies and the reasons behind theattitude shifts towards overseas Chinese stocks.
Marketing to the 90s Generation
Global Data on Society, Consumption, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2014
Marketing to the 90s Generation is based on original research conducted by sociologists and psychologists on generational cohorts, how they come about, what defines them and what it means to society, its institutions and companies.
Customers at Work
New Perspectives on Interactive Service Work
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Explores the ongoing transformation of service relationships, focusing on the incorporation of the customer's active contribution to virtually all aspects and stages of the production process. This volume illuminates social relations and interaction between customers and service providers as well as between the users of web-based services.