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18 540 produkter

After the Nation?
Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism
AvS. O'Neill,K. Breen
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Explores the ways in which the nation-state and nationalism are challenged by contemporary realities. This volume addresses changes to our understanding of national sovereignty, problems posed by violent conflict between rival national projects, the feasibility of postnationalist democracy and citizenship, and the debate over global justice.
Democratization in the Third World
Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
AvVirgilio Rojas,Olle Tornquistm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
2 194 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
AvR. Halliwell,A. Maehlem. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.
Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon
AvDavid Seed
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1988
741 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Theoretical Contributions of Knut Wicksell
AvBjoen Thalberg,Steinar Strom
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
402 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion
AvBrian R. Clack
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 550 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion expounds and analyses the argument of Wittgenstein''s Remarks on Frazer''s Golden Bough . It details the reasons for Wittgenstein''s rejection of the intellectualist theory of religion, and suggests a new interpretation of his rival view of ritual. Denying that Wittgenstein''s account is straightforwardly expressivist, the author builds his own interpretation on Wittgenstein''s claim that magic is akin to metaphysics. In the course of the book, the author considers such matters as expressivism, ''perspicuous representation'', the nature of human sacrifice, and Wittgenstein''s cultural pessimism.
Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East
AvS. Kuftinec
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships.
Children, Film and Literacy
AvBecky Parry
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children''s lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop understandings of the common characteristics of narrative and the particular ''language'' of film. This book demonstrates the ways in which children are able to express and develop distinct and complex understandings of narrative, that is to say, where they can draw on their own experiences (including those in a moving image form). Children whose primary experiences of narrative are moving images face particular challenges when their experiences are not given opportunities for expression in the classroom, and this has urgent implications for the teaching of literacy.
Romantic Satanism
Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley and Byron
AvP. Schock
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2003
2 778 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Criticism has largely emphasised the private meaning of ''Romantic Satanism'', treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan''s solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu. Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.
Democracy, Dictatorship and Development
Economic Development in Selected Regimes of the Third World
AvGeorg Sorensen
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 126 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Questions regarding the economic consequences of various forms of regime have puzzled development researchers for many years. This book examines the theoretical debate as a starting-point for in-depth case-studies of four countries: India, China, Taiwan and Costa Rica. The case studies are used as a basis for a number of new conclusions about the circumstances under which a specific form of regime has certain consequences for economic development. The implications of these results for other third-world countries, democratic and authoritarian, are addressed in the final chapter.
Narcissism and the Self
Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology
AvR. Behrendt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
785 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena. It argues that the individual''s need regulate narcissistic supplies and maintain feelings of safety is the overriding determinant of human conduct and thought in mental health and illness.
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Text, History, Performance
AvMartin Butler
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1999
2 579 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by twelve leading scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson''s texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose Works and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain''s Burse , written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury''s commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, it is the most significant addition to Jonson''s canon this century, and is here printed for the first time.
Consuming Music in the Digital Age
Technologies, Roles and Everyday Life
AvRaphael Nowak
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 718 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives.
Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought
AvJ. Martin,T. Carver
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
1 686 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
An accessible, higher-level introduction to a key selection of continental European thinkers from Spinoza to Zizek. Covering ''classical'' exponents of the tradition such as Hegel and Marx, ''moderns'' like Gramsci and Habermas and ''postmoderns'' like Lacan and Deleuze, the volume introduces the main ideas of each thinker and reflects on their enduring theoretical relevance. The impressive breadth and contemporary angle make this a unique, up-to-date collection that will be invaluable to students and teaching staff alike.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
AvMacmillan Publishers Ltd
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
122 109 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Now in its third edition, this award-winning publication contains entries written by the world’s most influential economists, including 36 Nobel Laureates. In addition to classic and foundational articles of enduring importance, the latest edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics includes entries on topical issues including gender and economics, recent economic crises in the European Union and beyond, health economics and the economics of the Internet.
With over 3,000 individual articles, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists.
Incentives and Redistribution in the Welfare State
The Swedish Tax Reform
AvJan Sodersten,Peter Englundm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
987 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period. The authors discuss a range of behavioural responses (including tax planning, savings, labour supply, investment, etc.), and assess the overall effects on efficiency and equity. They also draw lessons for tax reform more generally. The book should be of interest to anyone with an interest in tax policy and tax reform evaluation.
Crime Script Analysis
Preventing Crimes Against Business
AvHarald Haelterman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates how the concept aligns with the crime-specific orientation found in environmental criminology, and particularly explores the theoretical foundations of situational crime prevention, the approach to which it is deemed most relevant and supportive.The volume provides clear guidance on how to apply script analysis in daily practice, covering its main building blocks and key features. These are illustrated by a series of case studies into various crime types. Moving beyond the use of script analysis with the intent to disrupt the crime-commission process, the author further explores the wider benefits of the approach to both academics and practitioners. He identifies what is needed most if we want to embrace the full potential of script analysis for preventive purposes. <
Significance
Exploring the Nature of Information, Systems and Technology
AvP. Beynon-Davies
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant.
Disasters, Risks and Revelation
Making Sense of Our Times
AvSteve Matthewman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 516 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social theory, this book offers a critical examination of their causes, consequences and future avoidance.
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
Embraced By the Welfare State?
AvThomas Ugelvik,Peter Scharff Smith
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
572 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfare policies, ideologies and social control in strong centralistic states. Based on extensive new empirical data, leading Nordic and international scholars discuss the relationship between prison conditions in Scandinavia and Scandinavian social policy more generally, and argue that it is not always liberating and constructive to be embraced by a powerful welfare state. This book is essential reading for researchers of state punishment in Scandinavia, and it is highly relevant for anyone interested in the ‘Nordic Model’ of social policy.
Italian Fascism
History, Memory and Representation
AvPatrizia Dogliani,R.J.B. Bosworth
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 596 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani''s edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays here collected ask how and why and when Mussolini''s dictatorship mattered after the event, and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.
Welfare State in Korea
The Politics of Legitimization
AvH. Kwon
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 516 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common exogenous factors such as international or union pressure but to the desire of the weakly-legitimated government to have itself legitimized. Such political rationale is deeply embedded in the structure of social policy institutions and particularly in the way that the state has played a part in financing social welfare programmes. Kwon shows that the role of the Korean state is characterized as essentially that of regulator-type rather than provider.
Lloyd George and the Lost Peace
From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940
AvA. Lentin
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2001
1 562 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This lively and original book critically re-examines Lloyd George''s part, crucial but enigmatic, in the ''lost peace'' of Versailles, 1919-1940. In a re-examination of six key episodes 1919-1940, it reviews his protean role at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, his strategy on reparations, his abortive guarantee-treaty to France, and the emergence at the Conference of ''Appeasement''. It then reassesses his controversial visit to Hitler, and his bids to halt World War II after the fall of Poland and France.
Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925
AvS. Chung
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 320 kr
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Politics can be a profitable business as can be found in Republican era Canton amidst a politically fragmented China. Competing merchant groups in Hong Kong sought to finance the regional Canton government in return for financial concessions. This patronage system made commercial endeavours dependent on politics and embedded business in politics.
Hong Kong SAR Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges
Historical Perspectives
AvC. Schenk
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
1 596 kr
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Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency board since 1983 as well as new research by academics.
Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections
Second Order or Second Rate?
AvMark N. Franklin,Julie Hassing Nielsen
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
1 855 kr
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This edited collection explores the role of Euroscepticism in the European Parliament (EP) elections of 2014 both in particular EU Member States and across broader regions. It shows how the “second rate” features of elections with no clear agenda-setting role facilitated the astonishing success of Eurosceptic parties while the traditionally “second order” nature of purely legislative elections amplified this outcome, giving it a quite different character than the outcome of any previous EP elections, with potential in turn to affect outcomes of later national elections as well. The chapters draw on a number of different methodological approaches and focus on different perspectives regarding how Euroscepticism played a role in the election context, investigating public opinion, party strategies and media coverage; and assessing how these elections created links to national party politics with likely consequences for electoral success of Eurosceptic parties in future national elections and referendums. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in the fields of European politics, voting behavior Euroscepticism.
Willy Brandt: a Political Biography
AvB. Marshall
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1996
1 782 kr
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Willy Brandt, the first Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974) was perhaps the most charismatic German leader since Hitler. His life reflects German 20th-century history from the Weimar Republic to the new Germany as a result of unification with the GDR. He was mayor of Berlin when the Wall was built (1961) and as Chancellor he initiated Ostpolitik which indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain. As Chairman of the North-South Commission he drew the world''s attention to the plight of the Third World. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
13 Days
The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962
AvRobert F. Kennedy
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
1 257 kr
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Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power
AvJohn Miller
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
329 kr
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One of the first studies of the full career of M S Gorbachev as Soviet leader, this book traces his seven-year struggle to reform the Soviet system and his failure to preserve it. Mr Miller analyses characteristics of Gorbachev that puzzled the West - his reformist gradualism, his relationship to the Communist party, his attitudes to communism, revolution, democracy and nationalism - and explores their role in the collapse of Soviet power.
Gender, Ethics and Information Technology
AvA. Adam
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these issues are put under the feminist spotlight to show that traditional responses reproduce the public/private split which has so often reinforced the causes of women''s oppression.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – förlag

Visar alla produkter från förlaget Palgrave Macmillan UK. Handla med fri frakt och snabb leverans.

18 540 produkter

Kategorier

18 540 produkter

After the Nation?
Critical Reflections on Nationalism and Postnationalism
AvS. O'Neill,K. Breen
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Explores the ways in which the nation-state and nationalism are challenged by contemporary realities. This volume addresses changes to our understanding of national sovereignty, problems posed by violent conflict between rival national projects, the feasibility of postnationalist democracy and citizenship, and the debate over global justice.
Democratization in the Third World
Concrete Cases in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
AvVirgilio Rojas,Olle Tornquistm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
2 194 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Democratization in the Third World addresses many current issues of development, democratization and civil society in countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America against the background of theoretical introductions and comparisons with the Swedish historical experience of democratisations. The authors, from seven different continents, examine civil society and its relation to the state throughout the world and assess prospects for sustainable democratization.
Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept
AvR. Halliwell,A. Maehlem. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The concept of specific receptors for drugs, hormones and transmitters lies at the very heart of biomedicine. This book is the first to consider the idea from its 19th century origins in the work of John Newport Langley and Paul Ehrlich, to its development of during the 20th century and its current impact on drug discovery in the 21st century.
Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon
AvDavid Seed
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1988
741 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Theoretical Contributions of Knut Wicksell
AvBjoen Thalberg,Steinar Strom
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
402 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion
AvBrian R. Clack
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 550 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion expounds and analyses the argument of Wittgenstein''s Remarks on Frazer''s Golden Bough . It details the reasons for Wittgenstein''s rejection of the intellectualist theory of religion, and suggests a new interpretation of his rival view of ritual. Denying that Wittgenstein''s account is straightforwardly expressivist, the author builds his own interpretation on Wittgenstein''s claim that magic is akin to metaphysics. In the course of the book, the author considers such matters as expressivism, ''perspicuous representation'', the nature of human sacrifice, and Wittgenstein''s cultural pessimism.
Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East
AvS. Kuftinec
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2009
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
How might theatre intervene in violent inter-ethnic conflicts? This book addresses this question through detailed case studies in the Balkans and the Middle East, showing how theatrical facilitations model ways that ethnic oppositions can move towards ethical relationships.
Children, Film and Literacy
AvBecky Parry
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2013
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Children, Film and Literacy explores the role of film in children''s lives. The films children engage in provide them with imaginative spaces in which they create, play and perform familiar and unfamiliar, fantasy and everyday narratives and this narrative play is closely connected to identity, literacy and textual practices. Family is key to the encouragement of this social play and, at school, the playground is also an important site for this activity. However, in the literacy classroom, some children encounter a discontinuity between their experiences of narrative at home and those that are valued in school. Through film children develop understandings of the common characteristics of narrative and the particular ''language'' of film. This book demonstrates the ways in which children are able to express and develop distinct and complex understandings of narrative, that is to say, where they can draw on their own experiences (including those in a moving image form). Children whose primary experiences of narrative are moving images face particular challenges when their experiences are not given opportunities for expression in the classroom, and this has urgent implications for the teaching of literacy.
Romantic Satanism
Myth and the Historical Moment in Blake, Shelley and Byron
AvP. Schock
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2003
2 778 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Criticism has largely emphasised the private meaning of ''Romantic Satanism'', treating it as the celebration of subjectivity through allusions to Paradise Lost that voice Satan''s solitary defiance. The first full-length treatment of its subject, Romantic Satanism explores this literary phenomenon as a socially produced myth exhibiting the response of writers to their milieu. Through contextualized readings of the major works of Blake, Shelley, and Byron, this book demonstrates that Satanism enabled Romantic writers to interpret their tempestuous age: it provided them a mythic medium for articulating the hopes and fears their age aroused, for prophesying and inducing change.
Democracy, Dictatorship and Development
Economic Development in Selected Regimes of the Third World
AvGeorg Sorensen
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 126 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Questions regarding the economic consequences of various forms of regime have puzzled development researchers for many years. This book examines the theoretical debate as a starting-point for in-depth case-studies of four countries: India, China, Taiwan and Costa Rica. The case studies are used as a basis for a number of new conclusions about the circumstances under which a specific form of regime has certain consequences for economic development. The implications of these results for other third-world countries, democratic and authoritarian, are addressed in the final chapter.
Narcissism and the Self
Dynamics of Self-Preservation in Social Interaction, Personality Structure, Subjective Experience, and Psychopathology
AvR. Behrendt
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
785 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
The book examines how coevolved intraspecific aggression and appeasement gestures can give rise to complex social, cultural, and psychopathological phenomena. It argues that the individual''s need regulate narcissistic supplies and maintain feelings of safety is the overriding determinant of human conduct and thought in mental health and illness.
Re-Presenting Ben Jonson
Text, History, Performance
AvMartin Butler
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1999
2 579 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Work on Ben Jonson has long been dominated by the 11-volume Oxford text of his Works , edited by C.H. Herford, Percy Simpson and Evelyn Simpson (1925-52). In this monumental edition, Jonson seems a remote and forbidding figure, an author of formidable learning and literariness. This collection of essays by twelve leading scholars, editors, historians and bibliographers explores ways in which modern understanding of Jonson''s texts has undermined the emphasis of the Oxford edition, and generated a Jonson whose Works and career look quite different. Addressing the competing needs of future readers, teachers and performers, it asks how this reconceptualized Jonson might best be transmitted into the next century. The volume also includes a new Jonson text, The Entertainment at Britain''s Burse , written in 1609 to celebrate the royal opening of the Earl of Salisbury''s commercial development in the Strand. Discovered in 1996, it is the most significant addition to Jonson''s canon this century, and is here printed for the first time.
Consuming Music in the Digital Age
Technologies, Roles and Everyday Life
AvRaphael Nowak
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 718 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book addresses the issue of music consumption in the digital era of technologies. It explores how individuals use music in the context of their everyday lives and how, in return, music acquires certain roles within everyday contexts and more broadly in their life narratives.
Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought
AvJ. Martin,T. Carver
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
1 686 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
An accessible, higher-level introduction to a key selection of continental European thinkers from Spinoza to Zizek. Covering ''classical'' exponents of the tradition such as Hegel and Marx, ''moderns'' like Gramsci and Habermas and ''postmoderns'' like Lacan and Deleuze, the volume introduces the main ideas of each thinker and reflects on their enduring theoretical relevance. The impressive breadth and contemporary angle make this a unique, up-to-date collection that will be invaluable to students and teaching staff alike.
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
AvMacmillan Publishers Ltd
E-bok
Engelska, 2018
122 109 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Now in its third edition, this award-winning publication contains entries written by the world’s most influential economists, including 36 Nobel Laureates. In addition to classic and foundational articles of enduring importance, the latest edition of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics includes entries on topical issues including gender and economics, recent economic crises in the European Union and beyond, health economics and the economics of the Internet.
With over 3,000 individual articles, this is the definitive scholarly reference work for a new generation of economists.
Incentives and Redistribution in the Welfare State
The Swedish Tax Reform
AvJan Sodersten,Peter Englundm. fl.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
987 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book reviews the lessons from the Swedish 1991 tax reform, the most far-reaching tax reform in any Western industrialized country in the post-war period. The authors discuss a range of behavioural responses (including tax planning, savings, labour supply, investment, etc.), and assess the overall effects on efficiency and equity. They also draw lessons for tax reform more generally. The book should be of interest to anyone with an interest in tax policy and tax reform evaluation.
Crime Script Analysis
Preventing Crimes Against Business
AvHarald Haelterman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
779 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book positions script analysis as a useful and pragmatic tool, which can guide the selection and implementation of preventive measures in business environments. It illustrates how the concept aligns with the crime-specific orientation found in environmental criminology, and particularly explores the theoretical foundations of situational crime prevention, the approach to which it is deemed most relevant and supportive.The volume provides clear guidance on how to apply script analysis in daily practice, covering its main building blocks and key features. These are illustrated by a series of case studies into various crime types. Moving beyond the use of script analysis with the intent to disrupt the crime-commission process, the author further explores the wider benefits of the approach to both academics and practitioners. He identifies what is needed most if we want to embrace the full potential of script analysis for preventive purposes. <
Significance
Exploring the Nature of Information, Systems and Technology
AvP. Beynon-Davies
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2010
803 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Signs are critically important in all forms of activity, including business, because they establish what it is to be human. Without signs we could not think, we could not communicate what we think and we could not ensure that we collaborate together in our work, home and leisure. The aim of this book is to explain how and why they are significant.
Disasters, Risks and Revelation
Making Sense of Our Times
AvSteve Matthewman
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 516 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Disasters are part of the modern condition, a source of physical anxiety and existential angst, and they are increasing in frequency, cost and severity. Drawing on both disaster research and social theory, this book offers a critical examination of their causes, consequences and future avoidance.
Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice
Embraced By the Welfare State?
AvThomas Ugelvik,Peter Scharff Smith
E-bok
Engelska, 2017
572 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
This book draws on historical and cross-disciplinary studies to critically examine penal practices in Scandinavia. The Nordic countries are often hailed by international observers as ‘model societies’, with egalitarian welfare policies, low rates of poverty, humane social policies and human rights oriented internal agendas. This book, however, paints a much more nuanced picture of the welfare policies, ideologies and social control in strong centralistic states. Based on extensive new empirical data, leading Nordic and international scholars discuss the relationship between prison conditions in Scandinavia and Scandinavian social policy more generally, and argue that it is not always liberating and constructive to be embraced by a powerful welfare state. This book is essential reading for researchers of state punishment in Scandinavia, and it is highly relevant for anyone interested in the ‘Nordic Model’ of social policy.
Italian Fascism
History, Memory and Representation
AvPatrizia Dogliani,R.J.B. Bosworth
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
1 596 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Bringing together scholars from the Italian and English-speaking worlds, Bosworth and Dogliani''s edited book reviews the history of the memory and representation of Fascism after 1945. Ranging in their study from patriotic monuments to sado-masochistic films, the essays here collected ask how and why and when Mussolini''s dictatorship mattered after the event, and so provide a fascinating study of the relationship between a traumatic past and the changing present and future.
Welfare State in Korea
The Politics of Legitimization
AvH. Kwon
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 516 kr
Läs direkt efter köp
Through the analysis of institutional dynamics Kwon argues that social policy development in Korea is not due to common exogenous factors such as international or union pressure but to the desire of the weakly-legitimated government to have itself legitimized. Such political rationale is deeply embedded in the structure of social policy institutions and particularly in the way that the state has played a part in financing social welfare programmes. Kwon shows that the role of the Korean state is characterized as essentially that of regulator-type rather than provider.
Lloyd George and the Lost Peace
From Versailles to Hitler, 1919-1940
AvA. Lentin
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2001
1 562 kr
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This lively and original book critically re-examines Lloyd George''s part, crucial but enigmatic, in the ''lost peace'' of Versailles, 1919-1940. In a re-examination of six key episodes 1919-1940, it reviews his protean role at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919, his strategy on reparations, his abortive guarantee-treaty to France, and the emergence at the Conference of ''Appeasement''. It then reassesses his controversial visit to Hitler, and his bids to halt World War II after the fall of Poland and France.
Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925
AvS. Chung
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1998
1 320 kr
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Politics can be a profitable business as can be found in Republican era Canton amidst a politically fragmented China. Competing merchant groups in Hong Kong sought to finance the regional Canton government in return for financial concessions. This patronage system made commercial endeavours dependent on politics and embedded business in politics.
Hong Kong SAR Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges
Historical Perspectives
AvC. Schenk
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2008
1 596 kr
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Hong Kong SAR is now highly unusual as a large economy running a currency board system that pegs the Hong Kong Dollar to the US Dollar. This volume explores the origins and persistence of this system, presenting the viewpoint of several of the main protagonists in the operation of the currency board since 1983 as well as new research by academics.
Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections
Second Order or Second Rate?
AvMark N. Franklin,Julie Hassing Nielsen
E-bok
Engelska, 2016
1 855 kr
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This edited collection explores the role of Euroscepticism in the European Parliament (EP) elections of 2014 both in particular EU Member States and across broader regions. It shows how the “second rate” features of elections with no clear agenda-setting role facilitated the astonishing success of Eurosceptic parties while the traditionally “second order” nature of purely legislative elections amplified this outcome, giving it a quite different character than the outcome of any previous EP elections, with potential in turn to affect outcomes of later national elections as well. The chapters draw on a number of different methodological approaches and focus on different perspectives regarding how Euroscepticism played a role in the election context, investigating public opinion, party strategies and media coverage; and assessing how these elections created links to national party politics with likely consequences for electoral success of Eurosceptic parties in future national elections and referendums. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in the fields of European politics, voting behavior Euroscepticism.
Willy Brandt: a Political Biography
AvB. Marshall
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 1996
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Willy Brandt, the first Social Democratic Chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974) was perhaps the most charismatic German leader since Hitler. His life reflects German 20th-century history from the Weimar Republic to the new Germany as a result of unification with the GDR. He was mayor of Berlin when the Wall was built (1961) and as Chancellor he initiated Ostpolitik which indirectly contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain. As Chairman of the North-South Commission he drew the world''s attention to the plight of the Third World. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991.
13 Days
The Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962
AvRobert F. Kennedy
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2015
1 257 kr
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Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power
AvJohn Miller
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2016
329 kr
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One of the first studies of the full career of M S Gorbachev as Soviet leader, this book traces his seven-year struggle to reform the Soviet system and his failure to preserve it. Mr Miller analyses characteristics of Gorbachev that puzzled the West - his reformist gradualism, his relationship to the Communist party, his attitudes to communism, revolution, democracy and nationalism - and explores their role in the collapse of Soviet power.
Gender, Ethics and Information Technology
AvA. Adam
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2005
779 kr
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This book brings feminist philosophy, in the shape of feminist ethics, politics and legal theory, to an analysis of computer ethics problems including hacking, privacy, surveillance, cyberstalking and Internet dating. Adam claims that these issues cannot be properly understood unless we see them as problems relating to gender. For the first time, these issues are put under the feminist spotlight to show that traditional responses reproduce the public/private split which has so often reinforced the causes of women''s oppression.

Palgrave Macmillan UK – förlag

After the Nation?

Democratization in the Third World

Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept

Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon

Theoretical Contributions of Knut Wicksell

Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion

Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East

Children, Film and Literacy

Romantic Satanism

Democracy, Dictatorship and Development

Narcissism and the Self

Re-Presenting Ben Jonson

Consuming Music in the Digital Age

Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Incentives and Redistribution in the Welfare State

Crime Script Analysis

Significance

Disasters, Risks and Revelation

Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice

Italian Fascism

Welfare State in Korea

Lloyd George and the Lost Peace

Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925

Hong Kong SAR Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges

Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections

Willy Brandt: a Political Biography

13 Days

Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power

Gender, Ethics and Information Technology

Palgrave Macmillan UK – förlag

After the Nation?

Democratization in the Third World

Short History of the Drug Receptor Concept

Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon

Theoretical Contributions of Knut Wicksell

Wittgenstein, Frazer and Religion

Theatre, Facilitation, and Nation Formation in the Balkans and Middle East

Children, Film and Literacy

Romantic Satanism

Democracy, Dictatorship and Development

Narcissism and the Self

Re-Presenting Ben Jonson

Consuming Music in the Digital Age

Palgrave Advances in Continental Political Thought

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Incentives and Redistribution in the Welfare State

Crime Script Analysis

Significance

Disasters, Risks and Revelation

Scandinavian Penal History, Culture and Prison Practice

Italian Fascism

Welfare State in Korea

Lloyd George and the Lost Peace

Chinese Business Groups in Hong Kong and Political Change in South China 1900-1925

Hong Kong SAR Monetary and Exchange Rate Challenges

Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections

Willy Brandt: a Political Biography

13 Days

Mikhail Gorbachev and the End of Soviet Power

Gender, Ethics and Information Technology