Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Resource Constraints and Global Growth
Evidence from the Financial Sector
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
With substantial risks arising from resource constraints on global growth, serious questions are being posed about how a scarcity of finite resources may impact global social and political fragility. The research which forms the core of this book focuses on how this scarcity will impact the financial...
Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions
Social Organization Through Language
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After...
Functionings of Land
Analysing Compulsory Acquisition Cases from Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2018
This book focuses on the 'functionings' and capabilities generated from land by their owners and the challenge in satisfactorily recreating these through the compensation paid in the case of compulsory acquisition of private land. These discussions initiate a new debate on the insufficiency of existing...
by Amanda Guidero, Maia Carter Hallward
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
This book compares different international responses to the internal conflicts in Syria and Yemen through an examination of the coverage each conflict has received in the media. The work explores and evaluates rival explanations for why the Syrian conflict has garnered so much more attention than...
by Jeremy Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2018
This book revisits and re-defines the policy style concept and explores the long-standing debate in British political science concerning how best to characterise the British policy style. The book highlights several trends that suggest that the British policy style has shifted towards the impositional...
India and Japan
Assessing the Strategic Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
This volume focuses on the rapidly expanding strategic relationship between India and Japan, expanding on the hitherto under-analyzed concept of “strategic partnership,” tracing the history of the interaction, and gauging its current and future trajectories. The rise of China and its challenge...
China's Private Army
Protecting the New Silk Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
This book illustrates the role that Private Security Companies (PSC) with ‘Chinese characteristics’ play in protecting people and property associated with the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The revival of the ancient Silk Road economic “belt,” combined with the 21st Century sea lanes of communication...
by Padmasiri de Silva
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
This book examines the psychological dimensions of emotions and humour in Buddhism. While there is a wealth of material concerning human emotions related to humour and the mindful management of negative emotions, very little has been written on the theory of Buddhist humour. Uniting both Buddhist...
Supply Chain Cases
Leading Authors, Research Themes and Future Direction
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book provides an overview and analysis of the key publications and authors in the study of supply chain management since its inauguration in the 1980s. Reviewing 1699 published research works and case studies, it is the first to combine and analyse publication data and citations in order to assess...
Reverse Entrepreneurship in Latin America
Internationalization from Emerging Markets to Developed Economies
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
This book explores the concept of reverse entrepreneurship, providing real-life examples of innovative start-ups and ventures hoping to internationalize. Traditionally, entrepreneurial ideas have flowed from developed countries to emerging markets. This book, however, examines entrepreneurial ideas...
Police and the Policed
Language and Power Relations on the Margins of the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
This book examines communication between police and residents of a designated crime ‘hotspot’ community in the Global South. It looks at communicative realities within a marginalised community in the twin island republic of Trinidad and Tobago and explores how police and the individuals that they...
by Paolo Rosa
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This book addresses the under-researched discourse of the evolution of Chinese nuclear posture, and in particular, explains the absence from this evolution of a coherent and well-defined operational doctrine. Using a neoclassical realist framework, the book explains why China, after having launched...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
This book reveals the market research, strategy, branding and communication behind the unpredictable 2017 New Zealand election result which saw Jacinda Ardern elected Labour leader just 8 weeks before the election to become Prime Minister. Utilising rich data sources that include a 250,000 Vote Compass...
The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision
A Financial, Social and Cultural Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the growth of the food aid sector in the UK following...