Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Translation and Social Media
In Theory, in Training and in Professional Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
Offering a discussion of translation and social media through three themes, theory, training and professional practice, this book builds on emerging research in Translation Studies, including references citing recent translation and social media industry data. Topics include the translation of hashtags and the relevance of indexing, among others.
by N. Trimikliniotis, D. Parsanoglou, V. Tsianos
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This book examines the relationship between urban migrant movements, struggles and digitality which transforms public space and generates mobile commons. The authors explore heterogeneous digital forms in the context migration, border-crossing and transnational activism, displaying commonality patterns and inter-dependence.
Innovation in Luxury Fashion Family Business
Processes and Products Innovation as a Means of Growth
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
A large number of family businesses operate in the luxury fashion sector which shows their importance as a source of growth, development and social and economic stability. This book analyses how a strategy of innovation in terms of products and processes can offer a competitive advantage to family businesses operating in the luxury fashion sector.
Administrating Victimization
The Politics of Anti-Social Behaviour and Hate Crime Policy
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
This study addresses the management of victims and victim policy under the Coalition government, in light of an increasing move towards neoliberal and punitive law and order agendas. With a focus on victims of anti-social behaviour and hate crime, Duggan and Heap explore the changing role of the victim in contemporary criminal justice discourses.
by Helen Ringrow
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book offers a cross-cultural comparison of French and British cosmetics advertisements and explores how the discourse of beauty advertising represents ideas about femininity in French and English language contexts. As the global beauty industry expands and consumers become more critical of the...
Linking Form and Meaning
Studies on Selected Control Patterns in Recent English
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
This book documents changes and trends in English predicate complementation. In-depth case studies of grammatical patterns presented here uncover new links between form and meaning in these constructions, offering fresh insights into explanatory principles to account for variation and change in the system of English predicate complementation.
Germany’s War Debt to Greece
A Burden Unsettled
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The book chronicles the Occupation Loan that was forcibly obtained by the Third Reich from the Greece in 1942-1944 and demonstrates why Greece's claim for the repayment of the loan is still valid. To overcome the absence of a normal debt agreement between the two countries, various assessments of its current value are presented and discussed.
by D. Hruška
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2014
Radical Decision Making offers a controversial new framework to the conventional strategic change management conversation. While many approaches provide a discussion on a singular level, Dr. Hruška blends theory and research of decision making and social interaction to develop a consistent framework of strategic change.
The Contemporary Embassy
Paths to Diplomatic Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
This innovative study considers why embassies today are especially relevant to the international system, examining the new representation options and global diplomacy techniques in an information age. Rana uniquely presents perspectives from developing states and analyses how embassies can improve their modes of function.
Cyber-War
The Anatomy of the Global Security Threat
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014
Cyber-War provides a critical assessment of current debates around the likelihood and impact of cyber warfare. Approaching the subject from a socio-political angle, it argues that destructive cyber war has not yet been seen, but could be a feature of future conflict.
by J. Yamin-Ali
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Yamin-Ali shows how schools can undertake responsible decision-making through gathering and evaluating data, using as examples six fully developed case studies that shed light on common questions of school culture and student life, including student stress, subject selection, and the role of single-sex classes.
Preparing Teachers of Color to Teach
Culturally Responsive Teacher Education in Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
A rich, comparative case study systematically exploring two program approaches for preparing teachers of color, Gist's work explores culturally responsive pedagogy as a strategy for organizing teacher education.
by E. Rossi, Rok Stepic, Mahvash Alerassool
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Project sponsors in Europe are facing more and more difficulty when acquiring conventional long-term bank loans for infrastructure projects. The regulatory landscape for debt markets will evolve further with implementation of Basel III requirements. Recently, the Asset Quality Review under the European...
The Spirit of Selflessness in Maoist China
Socialist Medicine and the New Man
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Assuming power in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party was soon faced with a crucial problem: how to construct the socialist 'New Man'? Using Foucault's theory of 'technologies of the self', Lynteris examines the conflict between self-cultivation and the abolition of the self in the biopolitically neuralgic field of 'socialist medicine'.