Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
Explaining News
National Politics and Journalistic Cultures in Global Context
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The book challenges the idea that processes of globalization are leading to an increasing homogenization of news on a worldwide scale by focusing on two defining crises of our time - 9/11 and the War in Afghanistan. The empirical analysis combines process-tracing, as well as both quantitative and...
by J. M. van der Laan
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2016
This book documents and investigates the stories we have told and continue to tell about technology-now the dominant feature of our civilization-in fiction, non-fiction, film, and advertising. It answers important questions about the meanings people ascribe to technology, the hopes and fears we express...
Art Education Beyond the Classroom
Pondering the Outsider and Other Sites of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
By focusing on children and adults with disabilities, each contributor offers critical research which challenges the non-transferable divide between us and them , encouraging art teachers, therapists, critics, and general readers alike to uncover their biases regarding the nature of art and education.
Walking and the Aesthetics of Modernity
Pedestrian Mobility in Literature and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016
This book gathers together an array of international scholars, critics, and artists concerned with the issue of walking as a theme in modern literature, philosophy, and the arts. Covering a wide array of authors and media from eighteenth-century fiction writers and travelers to contemporary film,...
Protecting Nature, Saving Creation
Ecological Conflicts, Religious Passions, and Political Quandaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Can religions help us tackle the ecological crisis we are now facing? Can we redefine our relationship with the Earth, giving spiritual depth to ecological issues? This book attempts to answer these questions by exploring the relationship between ecology and theology.
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present
Operation Urgent Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The Grenada Revolution in the Caribbean Present: Operation Urgent Memory is the first scholarly book from the humanities on the subject of the Grenada Revolution and the US intervention. It is simultaneously a critique, tribute, and memorial. It argues that in both its making and its fall, the 1979-1983...
by F. Baumgartner
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
A noteworthy development in recent history has been the disappearance of formal declarations of war. Using primary sources, this book examines the history of declaring war in the early modern era up to the writing of the US Constitution to identify the influence of early modern history on the framing of the Constitution.
Understanding Geography and War
Misperceptions, Foundations, and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
By delving into the history of geopolitics and bringing us up to date with cutting-edge case studies looking at infrastructure, terrain, and maps, this book will dispel simplistic and misleading notions about the nature of how humans interact with the environment. Stops on the way will include critical...
Morals and Markets
The Dangerous Balance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013
Friedman and McNeill draw on recent research in evolutionary game theory and behavioral economics to explore the relationship between our moral codes and our market systems. They show how imbalance between morals and markets is at the root of the recent corporate scandals in the US as well as the global financial crisis the world continues to face.
Spirits without Borders
Vietnamese Spirit Mediums in a Transnational Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2011
Spirits without Borders is an ethnographic study of the transnational and multicultural expansion of Vietnam's Mother Goddess Religion and its spirit possession ritual. The work explores how and why the ritual spread from Vietnam to the US and back again and the impact of ritual transnationalism in both countries.
The Financial Value of Entrepreneurship
Using Applied Research to Quantify Entrepreneurial Competence
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
This Palgrave Pivot examines the essence of competence value in corporate and small business finance, offering empirical evidence to better understand financial practices within entrepreneurial settings. Mantovani suggests an innovative methodology to detect the financial value of entrepreneurial...
Toward a Framework of Resources for Learning to Teach
Rethinking US Teacher Preparation
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016
This book advances a new framework for learning to teach, using in-depth case studies to show how learning to teach—in any type of program—can best be understood as a recursive and dynamic process, wherein teachers differentially access programmatic, relational, experiential, disciplinary, and...
The Women of Totagadde
Broken Silence
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book depicts one South Indian village during the fifty-year period when women’s education became a possibility—and then a reality. Despite illiteracy, religious ritual marking them as inferior, and pre-pubertal marriages, the daughters and granddaughters of the silent, passive women of the...
Basic Income Guarantee
Your Right to Economic Security
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
A Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) is the unconditional government-ensured guarantee that all citizens will have enough income to meet their basic needs without a work requirement. Significant questions include: Why should we adopt a BIG? Can the U.S. afford it? Why don't the current welfare programs...