Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Questioning the Assessment of Research Impact
Illusions, Myths and Marginal Sectors
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of non-academic research impact in relation to a marginal field of study, namely tourism studies. Informed by interviews with key informants, ethnographic reflections on the author’s extensive work with trade and professional associations, and...
Healthcare Reform in China
From Violence To Digital Healthcare
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
How efficient is the Chinese healthcare system? Milcent examines the medication market in China against the global picture of healthcare organization, and how public healthcare insurance plans have been implemented in recent years, as well as reforms to tackle hospital inefficiency. Healthcare reforms,...
Space and Food in the City
Cultivating Social Justice and Urban Governance through Urban Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
Urban social movements are influential agents in shaping cityscapes to reflect values and needs of communities. Alongside urban population growth, various forms of urban agriculture activity, such as community and market gardens, are expanding, globally. This book explores citizens’ ‘rights to city’ and alternative views on urban space and the growing importance of urban food systems.
Digital Media and Documentary
Antipodean Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2018
This collection of essays by Australian based practitioner–theorists brings together new research on interactive documentary making. The chapters explore how documentary theory and practice is influenced by digitisation, mobile phones, and new internet platforms. The contributors highlight the questions...
Negotiating Business Narratives
Fables of the Information Technology, Automobile Manufacturing, and Financial Trading Industries
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This book challenges the widely-held belief that popular narratives about business are invariably critical. It develops a more nuanced analytic model of private sector narrative and applies it to 63 recent narrative texts (movies, histories, biographies) produced in the US dealing with three major...
Teaching and Learning Chinese in Schools
Case Studies in Quality Language Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
This book presents the principles of quality teaching in Chinese, as exemplified in case studies of primary and secondary school classrooms. Drawing on data from five Australian schools, the authors identify the key practices necessary to produce a quality learning experience for students. The book...
by David Huxley
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
This book examines the role of comics in the perpetuation of the myth of the American West. In particular, it looks at the ways in which lone central characters, and their acts of violence, are posited as heroic. In doing so, the book raises questions both about the role of women in a supposedly...
Death and the Machine
Intersections of Mortality and Robotics
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2018
This book challenges conventional notions of biological life and death in the area of robotics, discussing issues such as machine consciousness, autonomous AI, and representations of robots in popular culture. Using philosophical approaches alongside scientific theory, this book offers a compelling...
Spreading Activation, Lexical Priming and the Semantic Web
Early Psycholinguistic Theories, Corpus Linguistics and AI Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2018
This book explores the interconnections between linguistics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, their mutually influential theories and developments, and the areas where these two groups can still learn from each other. It begins with a brief history of artificial intelligence theories focusing...
Korean Women, Self-Esteem, and Practical Theology
Transformative Care
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
This book offers a critical-constructive study of Korean women’s self-esteem from a feminist practical theological perspective. Jaeyeon Lucy Chung recognizes two different and yet related problems: the absence of scholarly work on women’s self-esteem from non-white, non-Western groups in the field...
by Andreas Luescher, Sujata Shetty
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This book focuses on the relationship between the auto industry and the built environment at multiple scales, a topic of particular interest now as the industry is going through a period of major transformation. Drawing from multiple perspectives, including architecture, urban design and urban planning,...
by Thia Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
What is good sex from the perspective of liberation theology? Thia Cooper argues that sex can be a way to know God. God created humans with a desire to be in relation with each other. From this understanding, sexual desire, sex, and partnerships are re-imagined positively. Good sex is enjoyable and...
Legalising Mitochondrial Donation
Enacting Ethical Futures in UK Biomedical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In 2015 the UK became the first country in the world to legalise mitochondrial donation, a controversial germ line reproductive technology to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial disease. Dimond and Stephens track the intense period of scientific and ethical review, public consultation and parliamentary...
by Tony Gillam
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
This book argues that some aspects of mental health practice have become mechanical, joyless and uninspiring, leading to a loss of creativity and wellbeing. A high level of wellbeing is essential to mental health and contemporary mental health care – and creativity is at the heart of this.
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