Palgrave Macmillan
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Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
Jessica Moberg; Jane Skjoldli
- Palgrave macmillan
- 13 January 2018
- 9783319696140
This is open access under a CC BY 4.0 licenseThe history of Charismatic Christianity in the Nordic countries reaches as far back as Pentecostalism itself. The bounds of these categories remain a topic of discussion, but Nordic countries have played a vital role in developing this rapidly spreading f...
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Fungal Disease in Britain and the United States 1850-2000
A. Homei; M. Worboys
- Palgrave macmillan
- 11 November 2013
- 9781137377029
This book is open access under a CC BY license. The narrative of 20th-century medicine is the conquering of acute infectious diseases and the rise in chronic, degenerative diseases. The history of fungal infections does not fit this picture. This book charts the path of fungal infections from the mi...
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book provides a profound insight into post-war Mostar, and the memories of three generations of this Bosnian-Herzegovinian city. Drawing on several years of ethnographic fieldwork, it offers a vivid account of how personal and collective memo...
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Multiculturalism and Conflict Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific
K. Shimizu; W. Bradley
- Palgrave macmillan
- 12 September 2014
- 9781137403605
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This edited collection focuses on theories, language and migration in relation to multiculturalism in Japan and the Asia-Pacific. Each chapter aims to provide alternative understandings to current conflicts that have arisen due to immigration and polic...
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Seeing Ourselves Through Technology
Jill W. Rettberg
- Palgrave macmillan
- 2 October 2014
- 9781137476661
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Selfies, blogs and lifelogging devices help us understand ourselves, building on long histories of written, visual and quantitative modes of self-representations. This book uses examples to explore the balance between using technology to see ourselves ...
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New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research
Julie SIMON; Alex Nicholls; Madeleine Gabriel; Christopher Whelan
- Palgrave macmillan
- 18 September 2015
- 9781137506801
This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social i...
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The Early Years
Norbert Schady; Inter-American Development Bank
- Palgrave macmillan
- 22 October 2015
- 9781137536495
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an ...
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Making Medicines in Africa
Maureen Mackintosh; Geoffrey Banda; Watu Wamae; Paula Tibandebage
- Palgrave macmillan
- 3 February 2016
- 9781137546470
This book is open access under a CC-BY license. The importance of the pharmaceutical industry in Sub-Saharan Africa, its claim to policy priority, is rooted in the vast unmet health needs of the sub-continent. Making Medicines in Africa is a collective endeavour, by a group of contributors with a ...
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The Academic Book of the Future
Rebecca E. Lyons; Samantha Rayner
- Palgrave macmillan
- 13 November 2015
- 9781137595775
This book is open access under a CC-BY licence. Part of the AHRC/British Library Academic Book of the Future Project, this book interrogates current and emerging contexts of academic books from the perspectives of thirteen expert voices from the connected communities of publishing, academia, librari...
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. Presenting rigorous and original research, this volume offers key insights into the historical, cultural, social, economic and political forces at play in the creation of world-class ICT innovations in Kenya. Following the arrival of fiber-optic c...
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Mobile Professional Voluntarism and International Development
James Ackers-Johnson; Helen Louise Ackers
- Palgrave macmillan
- 26 December 2016
- 9781137558336
This book is open access under a CC BY license. This book explores the impact that professional volunteers have on the low resource countries they choose to spend time in. Whilst individual volunteering may be of immediate benefit to individual patients, this intervention may have detrimental effec...
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Living with Disfigurement in Early Medieval Europe
Patricia Skinner
- Palgrave macmillan
- 21 December 2016
- 9781137544391
This book is open access under a CC-BY 4.0 license. This book examines social and medical responses to the disfigured face in early medieval Europe, arguing that the study of head and facial injuries can offer a new contribution to the history of early medieval medicine and culture, as well as explo...
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Microfinance, EU Structural Funds and Capacity Building for Managing Authorities
Pasqualina Porretta; Giovanni Pes
- Palgrave macmillan
- 30 September 2016
- 9781137536020
In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option available. This book presents a study of capacity...
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This book is open access under a CC BY license and charts the rise and fall of various self-harming behaviours in twentieth-century Britain. It puts self-cutting and overdosing into historical perspective, linking them to the huge changes that occur in mental and physical healthcare, social work and...
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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book explores how feelings about gender have changed over three interrelated generations of women and men of different social classes during the twentieth century. The author explores the ways in which generational experiences are connected, wh...
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Sensing Absence: How to See What Isn't There in the Study of Science and Security
Brian Rappert
- Palgrave macmillan
- 16 November 2015
- 9781137592613
Chapter 1 of this book is open access under a CC BY license. This is a chapter from Absence in Science, Security and Policy edited by Brian Rappert and Brian Balmer. This chapter is available open access under a CC BY license. Part reflection on the forthcoming chapters, part analysis of academi...
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