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Télécharger le livre :  Framing Big Data
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Framing Big Data


Maria Cristina Paganoni


This book addresses big data as a socio-technical construct with huge potential for innovation in key sectors such as healthcare, government and business. Big data and its increasingly widespread use in such influential spheres can generate ethically controversial...

Parution : 2019-07-03
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  The Indigenization and Hybridization of Food Cultures in Singapore
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The Indigenization and Hybridization of Food Cultures in Singapore


Tai Wei Lim


This pivot considers the use of porcelain vessels within multi-dialect cultural spaces in the consumption of cooked food in Singapore. In a place of ubiquitous hawker centres and kopitiams (coffee shops), the potteries used to serve hawker foods have a strong presence...

Parution : 2019-07-02
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  Maritime Security in East and West Africa
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Maritime Security in East and West Africa


Dirk Siebels


This book examines the nexus between maritime security and the ‘blue economy’ in sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years, maritime security issues have received increasing attention, but academic and policy-related discussions are largely limited to counter-piracy...

Parution : 2019-07-02
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  A Sociology of Shame and Blame
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A Sociology of Shame and Blame


Graham Scambler


This book presents a novel approach to framing the concept of stigma, and understanding why and how it functions.  Graham Scambler extends his analysis beyond common social interactionist understandings of stigma by linking experiences to the larger social...

Parution : 2019-07-01
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotional Workplace Abuse
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Emotional Workplace Abuse


Marjut Jyrkinen , Elina Penttinen , Elisabeth Wide


Addressing emotional workplace abuse, this Palgrave Pivot takes a multidisciplinary approach which combines feminist research on violence with organisation and management studies, in order to offer a new approach on workplace violations. The book analyses why it is...

Parution : 2019-06-29
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  A New Cold War?
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A New Cold War?


Nicholas Ross Smith


This book examines the contention that current US-Russia relations have descended into a ‘New Cold War’. It examines four key dimensions of the original Cold War, the structural, the ideological, the psychological, and the technological, and argues that the current...

Parution : 2019-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Being an Interdisciplinary Academic
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Being an Interdisciplinary Academic


Catherine Lyall


This book highlights the importance of interdisciplinarity in the academic landscape, and examines how it is understood in the context of the modern university. While interdisciplinarity is encouraged by research funders, academics themselves receive mixed messages...

Parution : 2019-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Emotion and the Contemporary Museum
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Emotion and the Contemporary Museum


Candice P. Boyd , Rachel Hughes


This book outlines a geographically-informed method of evaluating the emotional impact of museum exhibits. The authors have personally developed the method they describe over several years of working with the Museo Laboratorio della Mente in Rome and the Melbourne...

Parution : 2019-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Dark Pedagogy
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Dark Pedagogy


Stefan Bengtsson , Martin Hauberg-Lund Laugesen , Jonas Andreasen Lysgaard


Dark pedagogy explores how different perspectives can be incorporated into a darker understanding of environmental and sustainability education. Drawing on the work of the classic horror author H.P. Lovecraft and new materialist insights of speculative realism, the...

Parution : 2019-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Personal Values and Managerial Behaviour
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Personal Values and Managerial Behaviour


Zlatko Nedelko , Vojko Potocan


This book investigates the influence of personal values on managerial behaviour in modern organizations, and how this impacts upon company performance and relationships. With a focus on central Europe, the authors explore the notion of a personal values system and seek...

Parution : 2019-06-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Gender Equality in the Workplace
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Gender Equality in the Workplace


Alka Obadic , Nina Pološki Vokic , Dubravka Sincic Coric


Focusing on the status of highly educated women in the workplace, this book examines how a particular demographic and workforce group can help to close the gender gap worldwide. Despite contributing to the substantial fall of differentials between men and women on a...

Parution : 2019-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Rewriting Humour in Comic Books
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Rewriting Humour in Comic Books


Dimitris Asimakoulas


This book examines comic book adaptations of Aristophanes’ plays in order to shed light on how and why humour travels across cultures and time. Forging links between modern languages, translation and the study of comics, it analyses the Greek originals and their English...

Parution : 2019-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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Changes in Population, Inequality and Human Capital Formation in the Americas in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries


Enriqueta Camps-Cura


The evolution of inequality and its causes are of crucial importance to all scholars working in the social sciences. By focusing on the divergent development of North America and Latin America in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Camps-Cura offers a comparative...

Parution : 2019-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations
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Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations


Matthew Breay Bolton


This book explores the global politics of disarmament through emerging international relations (IR) theories of discourse and imagination. Each chapter reflects on an aspect of contemporary activism on weapons through an analogous story from literary tradition....

Parution : 2019-06-25
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  Institutional Disrespect
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Institutional Disrespect


Ibolya Losoncz


This book is about the institutional disrespect experienced by refugee immigrants at the hands of the state and its institutions. The desire to be treated respectfully is not felt only by refugees, but they are a much higher risk of not receiving it. Using a case study...

Parution : 2019-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Existential Health Psychology
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Existential Health Psychology


Patrick M. Whitehead


This volume critiques the increasingly reductive, objectifying, and technologized orientation in mainstream biomedicine. Drawing on the methods of hermeneutic phenomenology and existential analysis in the work of Martin Heidegger, Kurt Goldstein, Medard Boss, and...

Parution : 2019-06-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia
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Nuclear Weapons and Deterrence Stability in South Asia


Devin T. Hagerty


This book examines the theory and practice of nuclear deterrence between India and Pakistan, two highly antagonistic South Asian neighbors who recently moved into their third decade of overt nuclear weaponization. It assesses the stability of Indo-Pakistani nuclear...

Parution : 2019-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing
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Evidence, Policy and Wellbeing


Ian Bache


This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the...

Parution : 2019-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century
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Debates on Colonial Genocide in the 21st Century


Marouf Hasian Jr.


This book analyses the debates on colonial genocide in the 21st century and introduces cases where states are reluctant to acknowledge genocides. The author departs from traditional studies of the work of Raphael Lemkin or U.N. definitions of genocide so that readers...

Parution : 2019-06-21
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  Plurality and the Poetics of Self
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Plurality and the Poetics of Self


Bruce Bond


Plurality and the Poetics of Self investigates the words “I” and “self” as suggestive of eight territories of meaning. Via poetry’s lens into language and its limits, Bruce Bond explores the notion of self as identity, volitional agent, ego, existential monad,...

Parution : 2019-06-18
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Éditeur : Palgrave Pivot
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