Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Post-PhD Career Trajectories
Intentions, Decision-Making and Life Aspirations
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
This book argues that post-PhD career planning should ideally begin at the same time as the PhD itself. Drawing from ten years of research and stories of close to 50 individuals, each chapter focuses on the stories of individuals who share common career intentions and how they negotiate these both...
EU Gas Security Architecture
The Role of the Commission’s Entrepreneurship
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
This study traces the activities of the European Commission in the natural gas sector from 1990 to 2016, by concentrating on market liberalisation and infrastructure development as the main pillars of the European gas security architecture. By building on previous literature, the Commission's policymaking...
Post-Materialist Business
Spiritual Value-Orientation in Renewing Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Post-Materialist Business presents a spiritual-based approach to business and management. It uses pluralistic view of spirituality and provides a number of inspiring cases of alternative organizations which go beyond the materialistic mindset of business and serve the common good of society, nature, and future generations.
Membership in Service Clubs
Rotary's Experience
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.
by Peter Alldridge
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
This book surveys the development of laws surrounding the crime of money laundering and the associated changes in the anti-money laundering (AML) industry. The policy of attempting to deal with crime by attacking its financial products started in the arena of drugs, but quickly moved to organised...
by Chapman Rackaway
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2014
The world of political communication is morphing almost constantly into new areas and realities. Online-only news, Web 2.0 user-created content, hyperlocal news, and the rise of the Twittersphere have all contributed to an ever-changing media environment. Communicating Politics Online captures the constant change of new online media.
Confirmatory Feedback in Teacher Education
An Instigator of Student Teacher Learning
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book examines the intricacies of the discourse of post-observation feedback that student teachers receive following group teaching practice. In particular, the author explores confirmatory feedback as an instigator of student teacher learning, and examines the potential links between feedback...
Neoliberal Industrial Relations Policy in the UK
How the Labour Movement Lost the Argument
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2014
From attempts to control inflation in the 1970s, through the reforms of the Thatcher years, to the rise and fall of New Labour, this book shows how different theories and conceptual models have been critical to the development of industrial relations in the UK.
by Dr. Filipe Teles
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Territory and scale have been some of the most relevant topics in recent political science, but do we know enough about cooperation between local governments? How we think about local government has changed significantly and requires us to be equipped with new epistemological gear, considering more variables...
by C. Hallwood, T. Miceli
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Maritime Piracy and its Control develops an economic approach to the problem of modern-day maritime piracy with the goal of assessing the effectiveness of remedies aimed at reducing the incidence of piracy.
by Scott L. Crabill
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
As higher education is disrupted by technology and takes place less and less on campus, what does meaningful community engagement look like? How can it continue to enrich learning? In Community Engagement 2.0? , Crabill and Butin convene a dialogue: five writers set out theoretical and practical considerations, five more discuss the issues raised.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations. It will feature six books, five of which will cover continental and regional groups. This last book in the series focuses on historiographical and theoretical approaches.
The Future of Foreign Aid
Development Cooperation and the New Geography of Global Poverty
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Sumner and Mallett review the literature on aid in light of shifts in the aid system and the increasing concentration of the world's poor in middle-income countries. As a consequence, they propose a series of practical, policy relevant options for future development cooperation, with the aim of provoking discussion and informing policy.
The Political Economy of Euro-Mediterranean Relations
European Neighbourhood Policy in North Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
The author analyses the implementation of the agricultural and industrial parts of the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. Following a sectoral approach to assess the implementation of the ENP, he investigates which interest groups win and which lose from the policy.