Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
Holocaust as Fiction
Bernhard Schlink’s “Nazi” Novels and Their Films
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
Holocaust as Fiction seeks to explain and critically evaluate the extraordinary success of Schlink's internationally acclaimed novel, The Reader , the widely read "Selb" detective trilogy, and two popular films based closely on his work.
Rethinking Readiness in Early Childhood Education
Implications for Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
This book challenges traditional conceptions of readiness in early childhood education by sharing concrete examples of practice, policy and histories that rethink readiness. This book seeks to reimagine possible new educational worlds for young children.
Exploring Literacies
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This book is a guide to current research and debate in the field of literacies practice and education. It provides both an historical and lifespan view of the field as well as an overview of research methodologies with first-hand examples from a range of researchers involved in literacy research.
Teacher Development in Action
Understanding Language Teachers' Conceptual Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Bringing together multiple sources of data and combining existing theories across language teacher cognition, teacher education, second language motivation and psychology, this empirically-grounded analysis of teacher development in action offers new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of language teachers' conceptual change.
Discovering Language
The Structure of Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2006
Discovering language provides students with the basic knowledge they need for advanced study. Organized thematically, it can be used as a course text or help with specific aspects of language. Each section includes an introduction, worked examples, 'in context' sections relating the topic to real examples and suggestions for further reading.
Literacy and the Bilingual Learner
Texts and Practices in London Schools
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Literacy and the Bilingual Learner explores the literacy development of bilingual learners in London (UK) schools and colleges through a series of vignettes and case studies of learners and their educational experiences.
The Tragedy of American School Reform
How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On...
Geocritical Explorations
Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
In recent years the spatial turn in literary and cultural studies has opened up new ways of looking at the interactions among writers, readers, texts, and places. Geocriticism offers a timely new approach, and this book presents an array of concrete examples or readings, which also reveal the broad range of geocritical practices.
Geocriticism
Real and Fictional Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Geocriticism provides a theoretical foundation and a critical exploration of geocriticism, an interdisciplinary approach to understanding literature in relation to space and place. Drawing on diverse thinkers, Westphal argues that a geocritical approach enables novel ways of seeing literary texts and of conducting literary studies.
Performing Exile, Performing Self
Drama, Theatre, Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
This book examines the life and art of those contemporary artists who by force or by choice find themselves on other shores. It argues that the exilic challenge enables the émigré artist to (re)establish new artistic devices, new laws and a new language of communication in both his everyday life and his artistic work.
The Fear of Insignificance
Searching for Meaning in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
This book shows how, after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Gospel of the free market became the only world-religion of universal validity. The belief that all value needs to be quantifiable was extended to human beings, whose value became dependent on their rating on the various ranking-scales in the global infotainment system.
Humanity 2.0
What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
Social thinkers in all fields are faced with one unavoidable question: What does it mean to be human in the 21st century? This ambitious and groundbreaking book provides the first synthesis of historical, philosophical and sociological insights needed to address this question in a thoughtful and creative manner.
by D. Kuss, M. Griffiths
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Current knowledge about effective internet addiction treatment is limited. This book explores how 20 international internet addiction therapy experts experience the presenting problem of internet addiction in psychotherapy.
The Rise and Fall of COMSAT
Technology, Business, and Government in Satellite Communications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
After pioneering this technology and growing the market, COMSAT fell prey to changes in government policy and to its own lack of entrepreneurial talent. The author explores the factors which contributed to this rise and fall of COMSAT.