Palgrave Macmillan imprint: 14111 books
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.
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.
by R. Ayson
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Offering a comprehensive account of the work of Hedley Bull, Ayson analyses the breadth of Bull's work as a Foreign Office official for Harold Wilson's government, the complexity of his views, including Bull's unpublished papers, and challenges some of the comfortable assertions about Bull's place in the English School of IR.
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays
Selected Essays of G. C. Harcourt
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
On Skidelsky's Keynes and Other Essays is a collection of essays, biographies, review articles and tributes, focusing on the lives and times of the Cambridge School of Economists, and the immense contribution that these thinkers, including the author, made to the discipline.
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist
Cambridge Harvest
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
The Making of a Post-Keynesian Economist: Cambridge Harvest gathers up the threads of the last decade of the author's twenty eight years in Cambridge, before his return to Australia. The essays include autobiography, theory, review articles, surveys, policy, intellectual biographies and tributes, and general essays.
Cold War Social Science
Knowledge Production, Liberal Democracy, and Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
From World War II to the early 1970s, social science research expanded in dramatic and unprecedented fashion in the United States. This volume examines how, why, and with what consequences this rapid and yet contested expansion depended on the entanglement of the social sciences with the Cold War.
Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics
Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
This book highlights the catalytic role of workers’ education in mobilizing political activism and women’s involvement in labour struggles and politics. Through a comprehensive study of the gendered aspects of workers’ education it explores the intellectual lives of women workers. Drawing on...
Criminal Actions and Social Situations
Understanding the Role of Structure and Intentionality
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
This book develops a more nuanced, and technically rigorous, account of persons and groups in the context of intentional action and responsibility. Until now criminologists have taken groups as fairly straightforward associations and neglected the technical – and problematic – issues of how intention...
by Matt Perry
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2002
Marxism and History examines Marxism's enormous impact on the way historians approach their subject. Tackling current historiographical questions in a lively, jargon-free way, Matt Perry offers a concise introduction to: Marxist views of history; key Marxist historians and thinkers; and the relevance of Marxist theory and history to students' own work.