Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Basic Needs, Wellbeing and Morality
Fulfilling Human Potential
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2018
Basic needs fulfilment is fundamental to becoming human and reaching one’s potential. Extending the BUCET list proposed by Susan Fiske - which includes belonging, understanding, control/competence, autonomy, self-enhancement, trust, purpose and life satisfaction - this book demonstrates that the...
by Alessandro Stanziani
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress. And yet it often suffers from the same Eurocentrism that plagues national history, accepting Western categories and values uncritically and largely ignoring...
by Jean Mercier, Fanny Tremblay-Racicot, Mario Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting cases in dealing with sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical data from these three cities to analyze how...
by David H. Wenkel
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2018
In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus promised his disciples kingship and thrones of judgment at the Last Supper. Many commentators have long seen this as a totally futuristic promise that is unrelated to the book of Acts. David H. Wenkel argues that the Twelve inaugurated their co-regency with Christ in the...
Value-Creating Global Citizenship Education
Engaging Gandhi, Makiguchi, and Ikeda as Examples
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book fills an existing gap within the practice of global citizenship education by offering Asian perspectives. In this book, Soka or value-creating education developed by the Japanese educators, Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (1871-1944) and Daisaku Ikeda (b. 1928) is compared to the ideas of the Indian...
Flipping the College Classroom
An Evidence-Based Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Flipped learning—in which students view recorded lectures outside of the classroom and then utilize class time to develop a broad range of knowledge and skills—is a relatively new phenomenon. This timely volume examines and organizes the emerging research on flipped learning in higher education....
Siloed Diversity
Transnational Migration, Digital Media and Social Networks
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
This book examines the experiences of transient migrants in the Asia-Pacific, and in so doing provides new ways of understanding diversity. By focusing on the transient destination hubs of Australia and Singapore, Catherine Gomes shifts our thinking about diversity for two disruptive reasons: the...
On Running and Becoming Human
An Anthropological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How does the simple act of running make us human? As a form of enskilled movement that shapes how we perceive our surroundings, running enacts a mindful bodily engagement with the world, an engagement that generates our very minds through perceptual learning. Thomas F. Carter examines the interrelated...
by Christi Siver
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
War crimes have devastating effects on victims and perpetrators and endanger broader political and military goals. The protection of civilians, one of the most fundamental norms in the laws of war, appears to have weakened despite almost universal international agreement. Using insights from organizational...
Making Sport Great Again
The Uber-Sport Assemblage, Neoliberalism, and the Trump Conjuncture
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2019
Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, *Making Sport Great Again *introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism’s conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces. On...
by Preston Jordan Lim
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
This book evaluates the prosecution of British counter-insurgency operations during the Cyprus Revolt of 1955-1959. Historians have typically cast the Cyprus Revolt as a failure, situating it within the larger pattern of the post-1945 failure of conventional armies to deal with insurgencies. By analyzing...
by Marc Wiggam
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
This book is the first major study of the blackout in the Second World War. Developing a comparative history of this system of civil defense in Britain and Germany, it begins by exploring how the blackout was planned for in both countries, and how the threat of aerial bombing framed its development....
Traces of Fukushima
Global Events, Networked Media and Circulating Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
This book explores the mediated aftermath and remembrance of the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster through three crucibles: time, space and emotion. Through an ambitious and innovative combination of theoretical and methodological approaches, the book discusses how meanings, emotions and interpretations...
Mistrust
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2019
This book examines the social practice of mistrust through the lens of social anthropology. In focusing on the citizens of the Caucasus, a region located at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, Mühlfried counters the postcolonial discourse that routinely treats these individuals, known for their mistrust...