Palgrave imprint: 15119 books
by T. Pappas
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2014
Exploring the negative effects of populism, this study presents an original explanation of Greece's current political and economic failures. It argues that the sovereign debt crisis only exacerbated the malfunctioning of a democracy long ago contaminated by populist politics while also offering a more general insight into the impact of populism
by N. Carnot, V. Koen, B. Tissot
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2011
Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasting. The focus is first on a wide range of theories as well as empirical methods: business cycle analysis, time series methods, macroeconomic models, medium and long-run projections, fiscal and financial forecasts, and sectoral forecasting.
Digital Methods for Social Science
An Interdisciplinary Guide to Research Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
This timely book inspires researchers to deploy relevant, effective, innovative digital methods. It explores the relationship of such methods to 'mainstream' social science; interdisciplinarity; innovations in digital research tools; the opportunities (and challenges) of digital methods in researching social life; and digital research ethics.
Social Media and Personal Relationships
Online Intimacies and Networked Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This book explores how digital communication generates new intimacies and meanings of friendship in a networked society, developing a theory of mediated intimacies to explain how social media contributes to dramatic changes in our ideas about personal relationships, through themes of self, youth, families, digital dating and online social capital.
Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law
The Shape of Diversity to Come
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
Crossroads in New Media, Identity and Law is a compilation of essays on the nexus of new information and communication technologies, cultural identity, law and politics. The essays provoke timely discussions on how these different spheres affect each other and co-evolve in our increasingly hyper-connected and globalized world.
International Place Branding Yearbook 2012
Managing Smart Growth and Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
This third annual volume of the International Place Branding Yearbook looks at the case for applying brand and marketing strategies to the economic, social, political and cultural development of cities, towns and regions around the world to help them compete in the global, national and local markets. It focuses on sustainability and smart growth.
Digital Sociology
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Sociology and our sociological imaginations are having to confront new digital landscapes spanning mediated social relationships, practices and social structures. This volume assesses the substantive challenges faced by the discipline as it critically reassesses its position in the digital age.
Travel Journalism
Exploring Production, Impact and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Contributors from diverse backgrounds explore a range of issues in relation to the media and journalism's role in ascribing meaning to tourism practices. This fascinating account offers a thoroughly international and interdisciplinary perspective on an increasingly important field of journalism scholarship.
by Sara Bragg, Mary Jane Kehily
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
This book explores the impact of globalisation and new technologies on youth cultures around the world, from the Birmingham School to the youthscapes of South Korea. In a timely reappraisal of youth cultures in contemporary times, this collection profiles the best of new research in youth studies written by leading scholars in the field.
The New Chinese Traveler
Business Opportunities from the Chinese Travel Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
This book explains the emerging trends and developments of Chinese outbound travel, alongside the motivations, desires and expectations of Chinese travelers themselves. Packed with interviews, this book will help businesses create products and services that meet the rapidly evolving and diversifying requirements of tech-savvy Chinese travelers.
President Obama and Education Reform
The Personal and the Political
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of President Obama's education agenda. Obama's reforms have drawn skepticism from supporters of traditional public schools. Robert Maranto and Michael McShane believe that the Obama-era reforms have led to successful innovation in both the private and public sector.
Global Brand Strategy
World-wise Marketing in the Age of Branding
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
Steenkamp introduces the global brand value chain and explains how brand equity factors into shareholder value. The book equips executives with techniques for developing strategy, organizing execution, and measuring results so that your brand will prosper globally.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
This book critically examines the planning, management, and operations of the world’s premier event for Para sport athletes. Noting a lack of research into how these games are planned and managed, the authors of this contributed volume discuss how the Paralympics are essentially different to the...
Quantitative Trading with R
Understanding Mathematical and Computational Tools from a Quant’s Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Quantitative Finance with R offers a winning strategy for devising expertly-crafted and workable trading models using the R open source programming language, providing readers with a step-by-step approach to understanding complex quantitative finance problems and building functional computer code.