Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
by C. Giachetti
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
This book explores which kind of competitive moves and countermoves have been taken by mobile phone vendors like Nokia, Samsung, Motorola and Apple, as well as emerging rivals from developing countries, to defend their competitive position over the industry life cycle, and which factors have driven these actions.
Future Security of the Global Arctic
State Policy, Economic Security and Climate
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
In the globalized Arctic there has been a transformation from military security to human security. Climate change, the utilization of Arctic resources and other global challenges have caused the Arctic 'paradox' and a need to redefine security.
Nobody's Law
Legal Consciousness and Legal Alienation in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Nobody’s Law shows how people – who are disappointed, disenchanted, and outraged about the justice system – gradually move away from law. Using detailed case studies and combining different theoretical perspectives, this book explores the legal consciousness of ordinary people, businessmen,...
Folklore, Horror Stories, and the Slender Man
The Development of an Internet Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
The Slender Man entered the general popular consciousness in May 2014, when two young girls led a third girl into a wooded area and stabbed her. Examining the growth of the online horror phenomenon, this book introduces unique attributes of digital culture and establishes a needed framework for studies of other Internet memes and mythologies.
Organs for Sale
An Ethnographic Examination of the International Organ Trade
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons in the Philippines. Utilizing unique source material she depicts a rapidly growing organ market characterized by both advanced medical technology and human trafficking.
Preventing Youth Violence
Rethinking the Role of Gender and Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
Young people explain, excuse and justify violence in a range of situations and view violence prevention as a difficult, if not impossible, endeavour. But how do young people form these views, and how can this knowledge be used by schools to reduce youth violence? This book explores these questions in a study with British teenagers.
by K. Jungnickel
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Based on extensive fieldwork, Jungnickel's research into community WiFi networking explores the innovative digital cultures of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. Committed to making 'ournet, not the internet', these digital tinkerers re-inscribe wireless broadband technology with new meanings and re-imagined possibilities of use.
Portuguese Sociology
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Sociology in Portugal provides the first English-language account of the history of sociology in Portugal from 1945 to the present day. Banned by the fascist regime until 1974, the institutionalization of sociology as an academic discipline came relatively late. Understanding academic disciplines...
Classroom Interaction
The Internationalised Anglophone University
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Internationalisation has had a forceful impact on universities across the Anglophone world. This book reviews what we know about interaction in the Anglophone university classroom, describes the challenges students and tutors face, and illustrates how they can overcome these challenges by drawing on their own experiences and practices.
The Tropes of War
Visual Hyperbole and Spectacular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
This book examines the myriad ways in which war is culturally reassembled, appropriated, and commodified as it manifests itself in our culture and invades our public imagination and becomes an indelible part of our landscape through fashion, movies, graphic novels, television etc.
Law Enforcement and Technology
Understanding the Use of Technology for Policing
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
This edited book explores the history, development and use of technology in the policing of society, showing that technology plays a key, if not pivotal role in the work of law enforcement. The authors analyse several examples of technology in common use today, which include both officers' equipment...
by Neil J. MacKinnon
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Self-esteem is a concept which everybody experiences but there is conceptual confusion between self-feelings and self-conceptions. This book addresses the issue by replicating past studies with analysis of original data and proposing a three-factor theory of self-sentiments consisting of self-esteem, self-efficacy and self activation.
by C. Lugg
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book presents a history of queer erasure in the US public school system, from the 1920s up until today. By focusing on specific events as well as the context in which they occurred, Lugg presents a way forward in improving school policies for both queer youth and queer adults.
by Christopher A. Riddle
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016
This book presents the argument that health has special moral importance because of the disadvantage one suffers when subjected to impairment or disabling barriers. Christopher A. Riddle asserts that ill health and the presence of disabling barriers are human rights issues and that we require a foundational...