Palgrave Macmillan Us: 3342 books
by M. Hallward
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This book examines the polarization of positions surrounding the transnational boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement aimed at ending the Israeli occupation. The author compares four US-based case studies in which activists for and against BDS struggle over issues of identity, morality, legitimacy, and conceptions of "peace."
The Tragedy of American School Reform
How Curriculum Politics and Entrenched Dilemmas Have Diverted Us from Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2011
Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s' new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Dramatic academic freedom controversies ended reform and led to a conservative restoration. On...
by K. Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Through a wide spectrum of horror sub-genres, this book examines how the current state of horror reflects the anxieties in Western culture. Horror films bring them to a mass audience and offer new figures for the nameless faceless 'antagonist' that plagues us and provides material with which to build a different understanding of ourselves.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
What does global justice look like, and how can leadership help get us there? The contributors explore justice in various spheres: citizenship, the marketplace, health, education, and the environment. And they provide creative and constructive moral approaches for evaluating and promoting global justice.
The Gamification of Higher Education
Developing a Game-Based Business Strategy in a Disrupted Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Instead of thinking about education as the mastery of a body of knowledge where the subject matter becomes the focus of our attention, The Gamification of Higher Education encourages us to think of it as a process that draws out the best in individuals and prepares them for happy, productive, and successful lives.
Challenge and Change
Global Threats and the State in Twenty-first Century International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2016
This edited volume addresses how the state system, the organizing political institution in world politics, copes with challenges of rapid change, unanticipated crises, and general turmoil in the twenty-first century. These disruptions are occurring against the background of declining US influence...
Exchange Rates and International Financial Economics
History, Theories, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
The recent financial crisis has troubled the US, Europe, and beyond, and is indicative of the integrated world in which we live. Today, transactions take place with the use of foreign currencies, and their values affect the nations' economies and their citizens' welfare. Exchange Rates and International...
by Sabrina Zajak
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
This book explores rising labor unrest in China as it integrates into the global political economy. The book highlights the tensions present between China’s efforts to internationalize and accept claims to respect freedom of association rights, and its continuing insistence on a restrictive, and...
Transforming Global Governance with Middle Power Diplomacy
South Korea's Role in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
This book examines South Korea’s recent strategic turn to middle power diplomacy, evaluating its performance so far in key areas of security, maritime governance, trade, finance, development assistance, climate change, and cyber space. In particular, the authors pay special attention to how South...
The Chinese Birdcage
How China's Rise Almost Toppled the West
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
This book vividly describes how China’s rise in the early 2000s led to rising profits and declining labor income everywhere, ultimately resulting in the global financial crisis. Under Deng Xiaoping’s policy of ‘reform and opening up’ in the 1980s, China quickly became the world’s factory...
Religion, Politics, and the Earth
The New Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2012
"Following Vattimo's postmodern philosophy, Badiou's postmetaphysical ontology, and i ek's revolutionary style, the authors of this marvelous book invites us to reactivate our politics of resistance against our greatest enemy: corporate capitalism. The best solution to the ecological, energy,...
The Challenge of Working for Americans
Perspectives of an International Workforce
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
The global focus of corporations, government institutions, and NGOs have led to a defining question of the era: How do foreigners feel about working for Americans? Through surveys with over 700 Foreign Service nationals working within the US State Department, Benton examines perceptions of non-Americans working in overtly American environments.
by Michelle Holder
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
This book analyzes the status and position of African American men in the U.S. labor market prior to, during, and after the Great Recession. Using a model of occupational crowding, the book outlines how the representation of African American men in major occupational categories almost universally...
Africa and the New World Era
From Humanitarianism to a Strategic View
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2010
Over the last decade, there has been a shift toward a strategic view of Africa. China and the US import much of their oil from Africa which is clearly emerging on the world stage as a strategic player. Africa and the New World Era probes the importance and significance of this shift and its implications for Africa's international relations.