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Télécharger le livre :  Business and the Sustainable Development Goals
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Business and the Sustainable Development Goals


André Martinuzzi , Norma Schönherr


This innovative and engaging book discusses the contribution of business to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015. It critically analyses selected impact measurement and management tools to highlight their respective benefits and...

Parution : 2019-05-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Authoritarianism and How to Counter It
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Authoritarianism and How to Counter It


Bill Jordan


After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards...

Parution : 2019-05-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Corporate Social Responsibility in Finland
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Corporate Social Responsibility in Finland


Laura Olkkonen , Anne Quarshie


This book introduces a Finnish approach to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and embeds it within a broader discussion on the Nordic roots of business responsibility and stakeholder thinking. The first part of the book traces the origins of Finnish CSR from...

Parution : 2019-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Migration and Community in the Early Modern Mediterranean
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Migration and Community in the Early Modern Mediterranean


Niccolò Fattori


This book analyses the processes of formation, consolidation and dissolution of the migrant community in Ancona, a sixteenth-century Italian port city, connecting it to the wider development that took place in Europe and the Mediterranean. The book initially looks at...

Parution : 2019-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education
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The Sociolinguistics of Higher Education


Lídia Gallego-Balsà , Josep Soler


This book investigates the sociolinguistic dimension of the internationalisation of higher education, examining the linguistic tensions and ambiguities experienced by universities around the world, particularly in non-anglophone contexts. Joining current debates within...

Parution : 2019-05-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Britain's War Powers
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Britain's War Powers


Tara Mccormack


This book provides a state of the art discussion of the royal prerogative over war powers in the UK.This issue has received particular attention over proposed military strikes against the Syrian regime and it was claimed by many observers and scholars that parliament...

Parution : 2019-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Emancipatory Climate Actions
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Emancipatory Climate Actions


Laurence L. Delina


This book calls for a collective strengthening of the progressive dimension of climate action in the face of continued myopic governmental response. Delina argues that consent must be revoked and power realigned to avoid suffering the consequences of unabated climate...

Parution : 2019-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States
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Astronomy at the Turn of the Twentieth Century in Chile and the United States


Bárbara K. Silva


This Palgrave Pivot tells the transnational story of the astronomical observatory in the hills near Santiago, Chile, built in the early twentieth century through the efforts of astronomers from the Lick Observatory in California. Venturing abroad to learn from largely...

Parution : 2019-05-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Flirting in the Era of #MeToo
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Flirting in the Era of #MeToo


Alison Bartlett , Kyra Clarke , Rob Cover


This book provides a contemporary review of the social practices and representations of flirting. In the wake of #MeToo, flirting has become entangled with stories of harassment and abuse that have generated both outrage and confusion. Nevertheless, this book argues...

Parution : 2019-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Moral Respect, Objectification, and Health Care
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Moral Respect, Objectification, and Health Care


Meredith Celene Schwartz


This book fills an important gap in existing health care ethics literature by describing an egalitarian conception of moral respect which applies to autonomous and non-autonomous patients alike. It reframes questions about respect, from its target to the role that...

Parution : 2019-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Multimodal Communication
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Multimodal Communication


May Wong


This book draws on visual data, ranging from advertisements to postage stamps to digital personal photography, to offer a complex interpretation of the different social functions realised by these texts as semiotic artefacts. Framed within the media environment of the...

Parution : 2019-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Democracy, Rights and Rhetoric in Southeast Asia
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Democracy, Rights and Rhetoric in Southeast Asia


Avery Poole


Southeast Asia is a vast, populous and diverse region. The Association ofSoutheast Asian Nations (ASEAN) promotes democracy and human rights as central to regional order and cooperation, but most members are not democratic and have poor or questionable human rights...

Parution : 2019-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Economics for a Fairer Society
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Economics for a Fairer Society


Tim Gooding


This Palgrave Pivot presents experiments that reveal core dynamics of trade in a complex system. Monetary trade is stripped of all its complications and placed in agent-based models, a complexity research tool capable of reproducing emergent behaviour and evolution....

Parution : 2019-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  The End of Poverty
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The End of Poverty


Peter Edward , Andy Sumner


In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines. Starting with the same datasets used to produce official estimates of global poverty,...

Parution : 2019-04-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Traces of Fukushima
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Traces of Fukushima


Risto Kunelius , Anna Rantasila , Mikihito Tanaka , Katja Valaskivi


This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion. Through an ambitious and innovative combination of theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses...

Parution : 2019-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  A Philosophy of Humour
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A Philosophy of Humour


Alan Roberts


Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question 'What is humour?' by first untangling the definitions of humour, amusement and funniness before then providing a new theory of humour which draws upon recent...

Parution : 2019-04-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia
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Postcolonial Citizenship in Provincial Indonesia


Gerry Van Klinken


This book examines the history of state formation in postcolonial Indonesia by starting with the death of Jan Djong, an activist and a former village head in the little town of Maumere. It historicizes contemporary debates on citizenship in the postcolonial...

Parution : 2019-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Banking in Europe
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Banking in Europe


Mariarosa Borroni , Simone Rossi


This Palgrave Pivot provides a comprehensive overview of the dynamics that are affecting the profitability of European banks since the recent crisis period. More specifically, it sheds light on the most crucial changes in profit generation and on the consequential...

Parution : 2019-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Impacts of Deregulation in Planning
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Understanding the Impacts of Deregulation in Planning


Patricia Canelas , Ben Clifford , Jessica Ferm , Nicola Livingstone


In England, it has been possible since 2013 to convert an office building into residential use without needing planning permission (as has been required since 1948). This book explores the consequences of this central government driven deregulation on local communities....

Parution : 2019-04-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Making Sport Great Again
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Making Sport Great Again


David L. Andrews


Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing,...

Parution : 2019-04-05
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