Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Vulnerability and Long-term Care in Europe
An Economic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
On average, people in Europe are living longer, and are in better health. Despite this, however, a significant degree of health inequality is emerging among different socioeconomic groups. Assessment-of-need procedures and eligibility rules define the target population in ‘need-of-care’, and represent...
Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄
A Key Muslim Thinker of the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
This book discusses various dynamic facets of the life of Rāshid al-Ghannūshi̇̄, a distinguished Islamic thinker and activist not only in Tunisia and North Africa, but in the entire Muslim world. It especially focuses on those aspects related to his intellectual understanding and response to a...
The EU after Brexit
Institutional and Policy Implications
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Much attention has been paid to the ongoing and unpredictable Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, but much less on what the absence of the UK might entail for the remaining 27 EU Member States. This book explores the range of implications for the EU after Brexit, and whether it is likely...
On Being Reformed
Debates over a Theological Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
This book provides a focus for future discussion in one of the most important debates within historical theology within the protestant tradition - the debate about the definition of a category of analysis that operates over five centuries of religious faith and practice and in a globalising religion....
Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French
Translation and Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Samson and Delilah in Medieval Insular French investigates several different adaptations of the story of Samson that enabled it to move from a strictly religious sphere into vernacular and secular artworks. Catherine Léglu explores the narrative’s translation into French in medieval England, examining...
by M. Leann Brown
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Within the context of regional integration, comparative regionalism, organizational change, and regional security literatures, this book investigates three cases wherein regional economic organizations were confronted with conventional security threats: the 1978-91 Association of Southeast Asian Nations-Vietnam...
Predicting Stock Returns
Implications for Asset Pricing
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of asset price movement. It examines different aspects of stock return predictability, the interaction between stock return and dividend growth predictability, the relationship between stocks and bonds, and the resulting implications for asset price movement....
Gender Training
A Transformative Tool for Gender Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This book develops a case for feminist gender training as a catalyst for disjuncture, rupture and change. Chapter 1 traces the historical development and current contours of the field of gender training. In Chapter 2, the key critiques of gender training are substantively engaged with from the perspective...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2018
The participatory turn in media, arts and design along with interrelated developments in the proliferation of social and network media have changed our understanding of the contemporary mediascape. Mobile Story Making in an Age of Smartphones reveals how smartphones and storytelling are forming...
Negotiated Justice and Corporate Crime
The Legitimacy of Civil Recovery Orders and Deferred Prosecution Agreements
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018
This book argues that there is a strong normative argument for using the criminal law as a primary response to corporate crime. In practice, however, corporate crimes are rarely dealt with through criminal sanctioning mechanisms. Rather, the preference – for both prosecutors and corporates – appears...
The Economics of Public Health
Evaluating Public Health Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Non-communicable diseases have surpassed infectious diseases as the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in developed countries. Prevention and treatment of the causes and consequences of lifestyle-related diseases forms an important part of health policy in the twenty-first century. Public health...
Socio-Cultural Integration in Mergers and Acquisitions
The Nordic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Taking a fresh and much-needed perspective on the management of international acquisitions, this book focuses on socio-cultural integration, and in particular the importance of emotions and values. The authors build on the human-centric and typically Nordic approach to mergers and acquisitions by...
From Partisan Banking to Open Access
The Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
How did banking in early nineteenth-century Massachusetts evolve? Lu provides a compelling narrative about the connection between inclusive political systems and open access economies, hypothesizing that entry into banking was firstly made upon partisan grounds before later becoming open access/free...
Improving Healthcare Operations
The Application of Lean, Agile and Leagility in Care Pathway Design
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
This book examines the design of two care pathways to establish how key principles associated with systems thinking, quality improvement, and supply chain management can improve the design of these services. ‘Lean’ has typically been the prominent approach when improving the design of healthcare...