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Palgrave USA Theories of New Regionalism: A Palgrave Macmillan Reader
Theories of New Regionalism represents the first systematic attempt to bring together leading theories of new regionalism. Major theorists from around the world develop their own distinctive theoretical perspectives, spanning new regionalism & world order approaches along with regional governance, liberal institutionalism & neoclassical development regionalism, to regional security complex theory (RSCT) and the region-building approach.
£116.91
Palgrave Macmillan The Grants Register 2018: The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide
The most comprehensive guide on postgraduate grants and professional funding globally. For thirty-six years it has been the leading source for up-to-date information on the availability of, and eligibility for, postgraduate and professional awards. Each entry is verified by its awarding body and all information is updated annually.
£498.10
Palgrave Macmillan The Statesman's Yearbook 2021: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Now in its 157th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.
£411.56
Palgrave Macmillan The Statesman's Yearbook 2020: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Now in its 156th edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions.
£175.86
Palgrave Macmillan The Statesman's Yearbook 2017: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World
Now in its 153rd edition, The Statesman's Yearbook continues to be the reference work of choice for accurate and reliable information on every country in the world. Covering political, economic, social and cultural aspects, the Yearbook is also available online for subscribing institutions: www.statesmansyearbook.com.
£312.66
Palgrave Macmillan Report on the State of the European Union
The Report on the State of the European Union examines the progress of European integration and focuses on economic aspects of the process. Thissecond volume in the series explores the four crises of contemporary Europe, those of growth, trust, inequalities and unity.
£96.31
Palgrave Macmillan Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish
Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favourite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant cross in SeaWorId. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorId.
£17.04
Palgrave Macmillan Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers
Focusing on experts in technology and science, Building Europe on Expertise delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique knowledge to shape societies, set political agendas, and establish collaborations which proved decisive in integrating the continent.The Making Europe series was awarded the Freeman Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in 2014, in recognition of its significant contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation.
£24.56
Palgrave Macmillan History Education in Africa
Chapter 1. History Education in Africa: Research, Perspectives and Practices An Introduction.- Chapter 2. History Education Research in Africa: A Systematic Scoping Review (2013-2023).- Chapter 3. Can History Teaching Contribute Towards Saving the Planet? Reflections on the Value of Including Environmental History in the Zimbabwean Advanced Level History Curriculum.- Chapter 4. Re-thinking the South African School History Curriculum: Theorising Indigenous Archives of History.- Chapter 5. Do Minoritized Cultures Matter? Ethnicity, Identity, and the Politics of Inclusion in Ghana's History and Social Studies Curricula.- Chapter 6. The Use of Film as a Pedagogical Tool to Enhance Historical Consciousness in South African Postgraduate Students.- Chapter 7. Learning Difficult Histories: The Role of Monuments and Museums.- Chapter 8. Bringing History to Life: The Pedagogical Power of Heritage Sites.- Chapter 9. Teaching History in Zambia: The Use o
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Palgrave Macmillan Political Biology: Science and Social Values in Human Heredity from Eugenics to Epigenetics
This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases in the politicization of heredity: the peak of radical eugenics (1900-1945), characterized by an aggressive ethos of supporting the transformation of human society via biological knowledge; the repositioning, after 1945, of biological thinking into a liberal-democratic, human rights framework; and the present postgenomic crisis in which the genome can no longer be understood as insulated from environmental signals. In Political Biology, Maurizio Meloni argues that thanks to the ascendancy of epigenetics we may be witnessing a return to soft heredity - the idea that these signals can cause changes in biology that are themselves transferable to succeeding generations. This book will be of great interest to scholars across science and technology studies, the philosophy and history of science, and political and social theory.
£44.80
Palgrave Macmillan The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer: Gender Training and Gender Expertise
The Politics of Feminist Knowledge Transfer draws together analytical work on gender training and gender expertise. Its chapters critically reflect on the politics of feminist knowledge transfer, understood as an inherently political, dynamic and contested process, the overall aim of which is to transform gendered power relations in pursuit of more equal societies, workplaces, and policies. At its core, the work explores the relationship between gender expertise, gender training, and broader processes of feminist transformation arising from knowledge transfer activities. Examining these in a reflective way, the book brings a primarily practice-based debate into the academic arena. With contributions from authors of diverse backgrounds, including academics, practitioners and representatives of gender training institutions, the editors combine a focus on gender expertise and gender training, with more theory-focused chapters.
£22.36
Palgrave Macmillan Feminists Organising Against Gendered Violence
McMillan provides the first detailed account of the women's anti-violence movement in Europe, from an international comparative perspective. Exploring how feminists have responded to violence in society, this study also examines how they have organized their response, their achievements and the factors that have facilitated their calls to change.
£49.95
Palgrave Macmillan Opposing Europe in the European Parliament: Rebels and Radicals in the Chamber
The book provides an in-depth analysis of Eurosceptics’ strategies in the European Parliament. It explores the paradoxical situation of Eurosceptic MEPs: particularly successful during EP elections, how then, once elected, do they operate in a political system they oppose? This book analyses how Eurosceptic MEPs conceive and carry out their mandate within the institution. On the basis of more than 100 interviews, it proposes a typology of four strategies developed by these actors. It also explains the diversity of Eurosceptics’ strategies, showing the relevance of the interaction between the institutional context and the individuals’ preferences. With the growing success of Eurosceptic parties and the challenges they pose to the future of integration, this study also reflects on the consequences of their presence for the EP and for the legitimacy of the EU. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of European politics, European integration, comparative politics, legislative studies and political parties.
£109.65
Palgrave Macmillan Digital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space Literacies
This book provides a critical commentary on key issues around learning in the digital age in both formal and informal educational settings. The book presents research and thinking about new dynamic literacies, porous expertise, digital making/coding/remixing, curation, storying in digital media, open learning, the networked educator and a number of related topics; it further addresses and develops the notion of a ‘third space literacies’ in contexts for learning. The book takes as its starting point the idea that an emphasis on technology and media, as part of material culture and lived experience, is much needed in the discussion of education, along with a criticality which is too often absent in the discourse around technology and learning. It constructs a narrative thread and a critical synthesis from a sociocultural account of the memes and stereotypical positions around learning, media and technology in the digital age, and will be of great interest to academics interested in the mechanics of learning and the effects of technology on the education experience. It closes with a conversation as a reflexive ‘afterword’ featuring discussion of the key issues with, amongst others, Neil Selwyn and Cathy Burnett.
£69.90
Palgrave Macmillan The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll
Lewis Carroll is one of the world's best-loved writers. His immortal Wonderland and delightful nonsense verses have enchanted generations of children and adults alike. The wit and imagination, the wisdom, sense of absurdity and sheer fun which fill his books shine just as clearly from the many letters he wrote. '...each is a miniature Wonderland... They reveal a truly delightful man...the combination of intense goodness and unselfishness with a magic, nonsense wit is unique'. The Scotsman '...a magnificent collection of delightful and entertaining letters reflecting all that was embraced in that remarkable character...all his charm, inventive fun, wisdom, generosity, kindliness and inventive mind'. Walter Tyson, Oxford Times.
£49.95
Palgrave Macmillan A Concise History of Economic Thought: From Mercantilism to Monetarism
This book presents a brief history of economic thought from the 17th century to the present day. Each chapter examines the key contributions of a major economist or group of economists and includes suggestions for further reading. Economists covered include Keynes, Marshall, Petty and Jevons, and less familiar theorists such as Galiani and Turgot.
£46.39
Palgrave Macmillan Psychopedagogy: Freud, Lacan, and the Psychoanalytic Theory of Education
Examining the work of Lacan and Freud, Cho argues that a theory of pedagogy is already embedded within psychoanalysis. Psychopedagogy is the name given to this embedded theory. Through a discussion of key psychoanalytic concepts, as well as a variety of other topics, Cho develops the contours of psychopedagogy.
£96.31
Palgrave Macmillan Winning At Innovation: The A-to-F Model
Innovation is a responsibility normally assigned to R&D departments but this is not enough. Companies need a systematic framework so innovation can occur at different levels of the organization. The world's leading expert in marketing and innovation Philip Kotler, and Fernando Trias de Bes together present a revolutionary model for innovation.
£23.39
Palgrave Macmillan The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World
With the KeystonePipelinedominating the news, and America's addiction to oil showing no signs of waning, it is more urgent than ever that we reconsider our energy needs in light of economic reality. In this New York Times bestseller, Jeremy Rifkin explores how Internet technology and renewable energy are merging to create a powerful new engine of economic growth, wherein hundreds of millions of people will produce their own green energy in their homes, offices, and factories and share it with each other in an "energy Internet." This process will usher in a fundamental reordering of human relationships, from hierarchical to lateral, that will impact the way we conduct commerce, govern society, educate our children, and engage in civic life. The Third Industrial Revolution is an insider's account of the next great economic era, including a look into the personalities and players - heads of state, global CEOs, social entrepreneurs, and NGOs - who are pioneering its implementation around the world.
£17.03
Palgrave Macmillan Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching
Bringing together cases written by experienced leadership and executive coaches from all over the world, this project explores the most demanding and challenging situations they have faced in their professional practices. By analysing and reflecting on the real life case studies the authors show how to deal with these situations in daily life.
£66.09
Palgrave Macmillan Europeans Globalizing: Mapping, Exploiting, Exchanging
Over the course of 150 years, Europe's protean technologies inspired and underpinned the globalizing ambitions of European nations. This book aims to show how technology mediated European influence in the rest of the world and how this mediation in turn transformed Europeans. Europeans mapped, they exploited, and they exchanged - their interactions ranged from technological and biological genocide to treaties of cooperation and the construction of elaborate colonial infrastructures. Quite aside from the enormous variety of political settings, cultures and colonial programs, interrelations created dependencies on both sides. Cultural transfers were rarely unidirectional, and often a kind of Pidgin-knowledge emerged, a hybrid fusion of European and local knowledge and skills. As observers have rightly pointed out, Europe played both the role of 'Prometheus unbound' and the 'Sorcerer's apprentice'.
£65.43
Palgrave Macmillan UniversityCommunity Partnerships for Transformative Education
Chapter 1. Introductions: University-Community Links & Core Commitments for Transformative Education.- Chapter 2. Transforming Systems of Activity Through Expansive Learning: A Journey of Renewal.- Chapter 3. Putting Culture, Language, and Power in the Middle: Dual-Language Participatory Arts for Building Community and Making Change.- Chapter 4. Heart of Language: Teamwork as Sociogenesis.- Chapter 5. Critical Digital Literacies Among Youth: From Food Eating Contests to Societal Transformation.- Chapter 6. Nurturing Connection Through Joyful, Creative, Play: A Heart-driven Approach to Educator Preparation.- Chapter 7. Co-designing Science Lessons in Spanish: Connecting Science, Home Language, and Community for Undergraduates.- Chapter 8. Math CEO: A Mutually Beneficial Partnership between College Mentors and Latinx Youths.- Chapter 9. Making Connections: Pandemic era Lessons from a Maker-centered University-Community Partnership.-&nb
£48.10
Palgrave Macmillan The Chechen Struggle: Independence Won and Lost
Told from the perspective of its former Foreign minister, this is a uniquely candid account of Chechnya's struggle for independence and its two wars against Russia which will revise our understanding of the conflict and explain how it continues. Features new insights, intimate portraits of key personalities and a foreword by Zbigniew Brzezinski.
£48.10
Palgrave Macmillan Intermedial Praxis and Practice as Research: 'Doing-Thinking' in Practice
Nominated for the TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2018In this book, Jo Scott shares writing and documentation from her practice as research (PaR) project, which explored and analysed a mode of performance she developed, called live intermediality. The book offers a much-needed example of fully developed writing in relation to a practice as research (PaR) project. Weaving together theory, documentation and critical reflection, it offers fresh insights into both the process and presentation of PaR work, as well as theories around intermediality in performance, the role and actions of the live media performer and how live media events are created. It can be read alongside Robin Nelson's 2013 text, Practice as Research in the Arts, as it demonstrates how Nelson's model for PaR can be applied and developed. It also includes a set of online videos and commentaries, which complement and reflect on the writing in the core text.
£39.19
Palgrave Macmillan How Politics Makes Us Sick: Neoliberal Epidemics
Ted Schrecker and Clare Bambra argue that the obesity, insecurity, austerity and inequality that result from neoliberal (or 'market fundamentalist') policies are hazardous to our health, asserting that these neoliberal epidemics require a political cure.
£65.43
Palgrave Macmillan Bergson and Phenomenology
Examining the revival of Bergsonism for phenomenology, leading scholars of both areas inaugurate a dialogue long overdue. By assessing phenomenology's readings of Bergson and Bergsonian challenges to phenomenological methods, the essays in this volume explore anew the issues of central concern in contemporary continental philosophy.
£99.75
Palgrave Macmillan Letters from Barcelona: An American Woman in Revolution and Civil War
Through the eyes of a young American female radical socialist, living and working in Barcelona during the Catalan Revolution and the Spanish Civil War, the dreams, the nightmares and the realities of European politics in the age of dictatorship are fully brought to life. An autobiographical commentary written on the eve of World War Two.
£30.30
Palgrave Macmillan Therapeutic Songwriting: Developments in Theory, Methods, and Practice
Therapeutic Songwriting provides a comprehensive examination of contemporary methods and models of songwriting as used for therapeutic purposes. It describes the environmental, sociocultural, individual, and group factors shaping practice, and how songwriting is understood and practiced within different psychological and wellbeing orientations.
£36.91
Palgrave Macmillan The Shawshank Experience: Tracking the History of the World’s Favorite Movie
This book features an in-depth analysis of the world’s most popular movie, The Shawshank Redemption, delving into issues such as: the significance of race in the film, its cinematic debt to earlier genres, the gothic influences at work in the movie, and the representation of Andy’s poster art as cross-gendered signifiers. In addition to exploring the film and novella from which it was adapted, this book also traces the history of the Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, which served as the film’s central location, and its relationship to the movie’s fictional Shawshank Prison. The last chapter examines why this film has remained both a popular and critical success, inspiring diverse fan bases on the Internet and the evolution of the Shawshank Trail, fourteen of the film’s actual site locations that have become a major tourist attraction in central Ohio.
£31.29
Palgrave Macmillan People, Risk, and Security: How to prevent your greatest asset from becoming your greatest liability
Lance Wright shows why business in the 21st century requires a new understanding of the intersection of risk, security, and human resource management. He argues that these areas should no longer be considered separate processes, handled by technical specialists with limited spheres of expertise. People, risk and security management should be treated as a critically important integrated business management system. People may be your greatest asset – but they can also be your biggest liability.They expose you to all sorts of risks – risks from things they can do (or fail to do) and from things that can be done to them. No matter how tight a risk and security management policy may be in theory, it can fail on its first contact with reality if it doesn’t understand the people involved.Wright understands people, risk and security like few others. For years he was in charge people management for leading oil companies – getting people into and out of some of the most dangerous and hostile work environments on the planet – and keeping them safe while they were there. Then he was responsible for a private army, literally licenced to kill, guarding nuclear submarines that were being decommissioned as part of the Megatons to Megawatts program. Risk is more than a set of formulas. Security is more than guns, gates, and badges. Both ultimately come down to the people you are responsible for. One day, the depth of your understanding of that connection may what stands between you and disaster.
£36.56
Palgrave Macmillan Conservative Party Economic Policy: From Heath in Opposition to Cameron in Coalition
Covering the period from Ted Heath's assumption of the leadership of the Conservative Party through to the early years of the Coalition, this volume provides a detailed analysis of the Tory Party's Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Policy-Making over the past 50 years providing an historical context for the political and economic events of today.
£39.46
Palgrave Macmillan Democracies and the Populist Challenge
Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.
£161.84
Palgrave Macmillan Civilians Under Siege from Sarajevo to Troy
This edited volume analyses siege warfare as a discrete type of military engagement, in the face of which civilians are particularly vulnerable. Siege warfare is a form of combat that has usually had devastating effects on civilian populations. From the near-contemporary Siege of Sarajevo to the real and mythical sieges of the ancient Mediterranean, this has been a recurring type of military engagement which, through bombardment, starvation, disease and massacre, places non-combatants at the heart of battle. To date, however, there has been little recognition of the effects of siege warfare on civilians. This edited volume addresses this gap. Using a distinctive regressive method, it begins with the present and works backwards, avoiding teleological interpretations that suggest the targeting of civilians in war is a modern phenomenon. Its contributors interrogate civilians’ roles during sieges, both as victims and active participants; the laws and customs of siege warfare; its place in historical memory, and the ways civilian survivors have dealt with trauma. Its scope and content ensure that the collection is essential reading for all those interested in the place of civilians in war.Chapter 2 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com
£122.28
Palgrave Macmillan Strategy and Sustainability: A Hardnosed and Clear-Eyed Approach to Environmental Sustainability For Business
Business and environmental sustainability are not natural bedfellows. Business is about making money; sustainability is about protecting the planet. Business is measured in months and quarters; sustainability often requires significant short term costs to secure a sometimes uncertain long-term benefit. To some activists, all executives are exploitative, selfish “1 percenters”. To some executives, all activists are irresponsible, unyielding extremists.And yet engaging with the issue isn’t optional – all businesses must have a strategy to deal with sustainability and, like any strategy, this involves making choices. Strategy and Sustainability encourages its readers to filter out the noise and make those choices in a hard-nosed and clear-eyed way. Rosenberg’s nuanced and fact-based point of view recognizes the complexity of the issues at hand and the strategic choices businesses must make. He blends the work of some of the leading academic thinkers in the field with practical examples from a variety of business sectors and geographies and offers a framework with which Senior Management might engage with the topic, not (just) to save the planet but to fulfil their short, medium, and long-term responsibilities to shareholders and other stakeholders.<
£43.15
Palgrave Macmillan Managing Flow: A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm
Presents an ultimate theory of knowledge-based management and organizational knowledge creation based on empirical research and an extensive literature review. It explores knowledge management as a global concept and is relevant to any company that wants to prosper and thrive in the global knowledge economy.
£132.16
Palgrave Macmillan Fascist Hybridities: Representations of Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini
Under Italian Fascism, African-Italian mulattoes and white Italians living in Egypt posed a particular threat to the pursuit of a homogenous national identity. This book examines novels and films of the period, showing that their attempts at stigmatization were self-undermining, forcing audiences to reassess their collective identity.
£91.71
Palgrave Macmillan Philosophy and Terry Pratchett
Philosophy and Terry Pratchett is the first attempt by philosophers to explore themes in Sir Terry Pratchett's writings. It will appeal to both specialists and fans of Pratchett with serious essays written in a manner accessible to anyone who enjoys, or is curious about, Pratchett's work.
£27.63
Palgrave Macmillan The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China
This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and that this quasi-civil society that plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratisation in China. It makes a contribution to existing theories on democratic functions of civil society by applying, testing, revising and developing these theories in the context of Chinese democratization.
£176.68
Palgrave Macmillan The Future of Private Equity: Beyond the Mega Buyout
The easy money that flowed through the banking system prior to 2008 fueled a boom in buy-outs. Now it is gone, how will the private equity industry reinvent itself? A series of interviews with some of the most respected and innovative firms, give rare insights to the strategies that will drive this secretive sector over the next economic cycle.
£67.88
Palgrave Macmillan Building Europe on Expertise: Innovators, Organizers, Networkers
Focusing on experts in technology and science, Building Europe on Expertise delivers a new reading of European history. The authors show that modern Europe was built by experts using their unique knowledge to shape societies, set political agendas, and establish collaborations which proved decisive in integrating the continent.The Making Europe series was awarded the Freeman Award by the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) in 2014, in recognition of its significant contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of innovation.
£43.51
Palgrave Macmillan Soviet Space Culture: Cosmic Enthusiasm in Socialist Societies
Starting with the first man-made satellite 'Sputnik' in 1957 and culminating four years later with the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, space became a new utopian horizon. This book explores the profound repercussions of the Soviet space exploration program on culture and everyday life in Eastern Europe, especially in the Soviet Union itself.
£109.36
Palgrave Macmillan Relocating Modern Science: Circulation and the Construction of Knowledge in South Asia and Europe, 1650-1900
Relocating Modern Science challenges the belief that modern science was created uniquely in the West and was subsequently diffused elsewhere. Through a detailed analysis of key moments in the history of science, it demonstrates the crucial roles of circulation and intercultural encounter for their emergence.
£109.36
Palgrave Macmillan Human Well-Being: Concept and Measurement
This book provides insights into how human well-being could be better defined and empirically assessed. It takes stock of and reviews various concepts and measures and provides recommendations for future practice and research.
£109.36
Palgrave Macmillan Energy Capitalism and World Order
1. Energy, Capitalism and World Order; Tim Di Muzio; Jesse Salah OvadiaPART I: ENERGY, CAPITAL AND INTERNATIONAL THEORY2. IPE and the Unfashionable Problematic of Capital and Energy; Tim Di Muzio3. Reassessing the Crisis: Ecology and Liberal International Relations; Shane Mulligan4. The Political Economy of Trade in the Age of Carbon Energy; Silke Trommer; Tim Di MuzioPART II: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE (RE)MAKING OF WORLD ORDER5. Oil-Backed Capitalist Development in the Global South: A Case of Positive Oil Exceptionalism?; Jesse Salah Ovadia6. A Different Kind of Magic? Oil, Development and the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela; Tom Chodor7. Towards a North American Energy Bloc: the Geopolitical implications of Market Preserving Federalism; Dan Bousfield8. The Political Economy of (Climate) Change: Low Carbon Energy Transitions under Capitalism; Peter NewellPART III: ENERGY, CAPITALISM AND THE 21ST CENTURY9. The Ethanol Boom and Distributio
£102.49
Palgrave Macmillan Applied Financial Macroeconomics and Investment Strategy
The absolute and relative performance of various asset classes is systematically related to macroeconomic trends. In this new book, Robert McGee provides a thorough guide to each stage of the business cycle and analyzes the investment implications using real-world examples linking economic dynamics to investment results.
£42.95
Palgrave Macmillan Critique and Resistance in a Neoliberal Age Towards a Narrative of Emancipation
Part I: Neoliberal Processes.- Introduction of part I.- Financialization.- 2. Flexibilization.- 3. Personal Responsibilization.- 4. Privatization.- 5. The Neoliberalization of Nature.- Conclusion of part I.- Part II: Domination.- Introduction of part II.- 6. Probing Neoliberal Domination.- 7. Conceptualizing Neoliberal Domination.- 8. Modernization and the Neoliberal Condition.- Conclusion of part II.- Part III: Resistance.- Introduction of part III.- 9. Making Sense of Contemporary Social Movements.- 10. Conceptualizing Resistance.- 11. On the Agent of Resistance.- Conclusion of Part III.- Part IV: Emancipation.- Introduction of part IV.- 12. Emancipatory Political Action Re-Imagined.- 13. Narrative Identity and Emancipation. - 14. Emancipatory Strategy.- Conclusion of part IV.- General Conclusion.- Bibliography.
£110.66
Palgrave Macmillan The Zero Marginal Cost Society
The capitalist era is passing. Rising in its wake is a new global collaborative Commons that will fundamentally transform our way of life. Bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin explains that intense competition is forcing the introduction of ever newer technologies, in turn boosting productivity to the point where the marginal cost of producing additional units is nearly zero, making the product essentially free. In turn, profits are drying up, property ownership is becoming meaningless, and an economy based on scarcity is giving way to an economy of abundance. Rifkin describes how hundreds of millions of people are already transferring parts of their economic lives from capitalist markets to networked Commons. "Prosumers" are producing their own information, entertainment, energy, and 3-D printed products at nearly zero marginal cost, and sharing them via social media sites and other venues. Students are enrolling in massive open online courses (MOOCs) that also operate at near-zero marginal cost. As a result, "exchange value" in the marketplace is increasingly being replaced by "use value" on the collaborative Commons. Identity is less bound to what one owns and more to what one shares. Cooperation replaces self-interest, access trumps ownership, and networking drubs autonomy. We are, Rifkin says, entering a world beyond markets where we are learning how to live together collaboratively and sustainably.
£17.54
Palgrave Macmillan A Miscellany of Modern Musings
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: René Descartes.- Chapter 3: John Locke.- Chapter 4: Blaise Pascal.- Chapter 5: Mary Astell.- Chapter 6: Benedict Spinoza.- Chapter 7: David Hume.- Chapter 8: Immanuel Kant.- Chapter 9: Georg W.F. Hegel.- Chapter 10: Søren Kierkegaard.- Chapter 11: John Stuart Mill.- Chapter 12: Friedrich Nietzsche.- Chapter 13: Leo Tolstoy.- Chapter 14: Albert Einstein.
£32.44
