Palgrave Macmillan

Stars with Stripes

Anthony Luzzatto Gardner

Palgrave macmillan
24 mars 2020
9783030299668

For sixty years, the United States has supported European integration on a bipartisan basis-not only because this has served European interests, but because it has promoted American interests as well. As core partners in transatlantic efforts to address regional and global economic, political and se...

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International Joint Double Degrees and International Transitions in Higher Education

Jan Katherine Bamford

Palgrave macmillan
31 juillet 2020
9783030486228

This book explores the interplay between culture and pedagogy within the student experience of international joint double degree programmes. The author posits that international higher education can be seen within a construct of mutuality, with the experience of internationalisation being a driving ...

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The Palgrave Handbook of Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility

Lukasz Bogucki, Mikolaj Deckert

Palgrave macmillan
31 juillet 2020
9783030421052

This handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date resource covering the booming field of Audiovisual Translation (AVT) and Media Accessibility (MA). Bringing together an international team of renowned scholars in the field of translation studies, the handbook surveys the state of the discipline, conso...

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Australia's Energy Transition

Glen Currie

Palgrave macmillan
1 aout 2020
9789811561450

This book studies Australia, a country characterized by the highest concentration of domestic photovoltaic systems. In addition, the high level of solar energy that Australia receives makes these systems a significant part of its energy mix. International electricity system managers take note; your ...

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Family Language Policy

Sonia Wilson

Palgrave macmillan
31 juillet 2020
9783030524371

This book explores the question of family language policy in multilingual households. Presenting six case studies which focus on the experiences of parents and children in French-English bilingual contexts, the author draws conclusions about the impact of parental language management on the family a...

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The Quest for a New International Aid Architecture

Hatice Karahan

Palgrave macmillan
31 juillet 2020
9783030504427

This book examines Turkey's success within international development cooperation and how this could create a framework for a new international aid architecture. Turkey has become a world leader in humanitarian assistance and shared an extraordinary burden in official development assistance (ODA). It...

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Nouv.

Interpretation and Film Studies

Phillip Novak

Palgrave macmillan
31 juillet 2020
9783030447397

This book argues that the sustained interpretation of individual movies has, contrary to conventional wisdom, never been a major preoccupation of film studies-that, indeed, the field is marked by a dearth of effective, engaging, and enlightening critical analyses of single films. The book makes this...

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The Metaphysics of Action

David-Hillel Ruben

Palgrave macmillan
25 juin 2018
9783319903477

In this book, the author provides an account of three central ideas in the philosophy of action: trying to act, acting or doing, and one's action causing further consequences. In all three cases, novel theories of these phenomena are offered: trying to act is not a particular mental or physical act ...

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Sartre, Nietzsche and Non-Humanist Existentialism

David Mitchell

Palgrave macmillan
11 avril 2020
9783030431082

This book argues that existentialism's concern with human existence does not simply make it another form of humanism. Influenced by Heidegger's 1947 `Letter on Humanism', structuralist and post-structuralist critics have both argued that existentialism is synonymous with a naïve `humanist' idea of t...

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Marriage and Late-Victorian Dramatists

Christian Mary

Palgrave macmillan
23 avril 2020
9783030406394

?This book examines plays produced in England in the 1890s and early 1900s and the ways in which these plays responded to changing perceptions of marriage. Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, and other late-Victorian dramatists challenged romanticized ideals of love and domesticity, and, in the process, thes...

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See no evil - comments and quotes from the crisis

Erik Banks

Palgrave macmillan
3 novembre 2010
9780230299177

The story of the recent global economic crisis is told in the words of the main players in the drama. Including quotes from bankers, rating agencies, housing agencies, regulators, politicians and media figures. Erik Banks' latest book shows why we are doomed to experience further financial crises in...

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Sport and Challenges to Racism

J. Long, K. Spracklen

Palgrave macmillan
17 novembre 2010
9780230305892

With an international line-up of contributors, this book examines challenges to racism in and through sport. It addresses the different agents of change in the context of wider socio-political shifts and explores issues of policy formation, practices in sport and anti-racism in sport, and the challe...

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The Portfolio Theorists

C. Read

Palgrave macmillan
7 décembre 2011
9780230362307

Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz. These Portfolio Theorists provided us with a dramatic leap forward in our understanding of and insights into financial rewards under risk and unce...

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Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West

L. Goodchild, R. Jonsen, P. Limerick, D. Longanecker

Palgrave macmillan
16 avril 2014
9781137403780

Public Policy Challenges Facing Higher Education in the American West is the first regional public policy study of American higher education. Presidents of the Western State Commission for Higher Education and the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, alongside nationally recogniz...

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The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism

Jung H. Lee

Palgrave macmillan
2 avril 2014
9781137384867

The Ethical Foundations of Early Daoism: Zhuangzi's Unique Moral Vision argues that we can read early Daoist texts as works of moral philosophy that speak to perennial concerns about the well-lived life in the context of the Way. Lee argues that we can interpret early Daoism as an ethics of attuneme...

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Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia

A. Croissant, D. Kuehn, P. Lorenz, P. Chambers

Palgrave macmillan
29 janvier 2013
9781137319272

How can civilians in newly democratized countries ensure their control over the military? While establishing civilian control of the military is a necessary condition for a functioning democracy, it requires prudent strategic action on the part of the decision-makers to remove the military from posi...

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The Presidents of the French Fifth Republic

D. Bell, J. Gaffney

Palgrave macmillan
29 janvier 2013
9781137302847

In the French Republic political leadership is normally provided by the presidency, albeit from a very narrow constitutional base. This volume examines the strengths and weaknesses of that leadership as well as the way that executive power has been established in the republican context....

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Sport as a Business

H. Dolles, S. Soderman

Palgrave macmillan
17 mai 2011
9780230306639

Sport has a number of distinctive characteristics whichimpact onthe extent of its globalization. This book seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the unique development in sports, its governance, its logic of co-creation of value and the advancement of the industry towards internationalisation, pro...

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Ageing, Health and Pensions in Europe

Lans Bovenberg, Asghar Zaidi

Palgrave macmillan
27 octobre 2010
9780230307346

Providing an overview of the future research challenges for economists and social scientists concerning population ageing, pensions, health and social care in Europe, this book examines how scientific research can provide cutting-edge evidence on income security and well-being of the elderly, and la...

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When Business Meets Culture

B. Munoz-Seca, J. Riverola

Palgrave macmillan
30 novembre 2010
9780230295117

The cultural sector is gaining increasing importance in our economies, consistantly registering growth rates above average GDP. This book presents insights on how cultural institutions can find new perspectives in their management and provides ideas to hasten culture's role as an economic developer....

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Russian Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

R. Kanet

Palgrave macmillan
29 octobre 2010
9780230293168

After the collapse of the Soviet Union expectations were high that a 'new world order' was emerging in which Russia and the other former Soviet republics would join the Western community of nations. That has not occurred. This volume explains the reasons for this failure and assesses likely future d...

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Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade

J. Stobart, I. Van Damme, Ilja Van Damme

Palgrave macmillan
30 novembre 2010
9780230290549

Bringing together the latest research on the neglected area of second-hand exchange and consumption, this book offers fresh insights into the buying and selling of used goods in western-Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and seeks to re-examine and redefine the relationship betwe...

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Keeping Cool in Southeast Asia

M. Sahakian

Palgrave macmillan
14 avril 2014
9781137308832

Against the backdrop of the environmental impact of household electricity consumption and the history of cooling practices, Marlyne Sahakian considers how people keep cool, from Metro Manila to other mega-cities in Southeast Asia....

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Movies That Move Us

C. Batty

Palgrave macmillan
3 octobre 2011
9780230348158

From a screenwriting perspective, Batty explores the idea that the protagonist's journey is comprised of two individual yet interwoven threads: the physical journey and the emotional journey. His analysis includes detailed case studies of the films Muriel's Wedding , Little Voice , Cars , Forgetting...

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