Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Wellness City
Health and Well-being in Urban Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Addressing the continuous need for new growth sectors in post-industrial cities, this book considers the economic significance of wellness from a development policy perspective. The author goes beyond personal health discourse to conceptualise wellness as an emerging industry, presenting empirical...
The Sulphur Cap in Maritime Supply Chains
Environmental Regulations in European Logistics
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This book examines the current and controversial topic of the sulphur cap in maritime supply chains, a new regulation set to be enforced in 2020. The author presents extensive research on three northern countries - Finland, Sweden and Estonia - and the effects they felt when these regulations were...
Trade Facilitation Capacity Needs
Policy Directions for National and Regional Development in West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of both national and regional trade facilitation capacities, issues, challenges and lessons, with a special interest in sustainably advancing West Africa’s regional trade facilitation agenda. It examines the contributions of trade facilitation towards...
The End of Poverty
Inequality and Growth in Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2019
In this book Edward and Sumner argue that to better understand the impact of global growth on poverty it is necessary to consider what happens across a wide range of poverty lines. Starting with the same datasets used to produce official estimates of global poverty, they create a model of global consumption...
Taming Childhood?
A Critical Perspective on Policy, Practice and Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
This book explores the links between recent reports of increasing levels of unhappiness and mental health problems amongst children and young people, and changes within childhood which restrict and reduce opportunities for children to develop and maintain resilience. Although in academic terms children...
Management Studies in South Africa
Exploring the Trajectory in the Apartheid Era and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
This book examines the trajectory of management studies in South Africa during the apartheid and post-apartheid periods. The unique political journey of South Africa provides a distinctive context in which to explore the progression of management studies within a developing state. The authors consider...
by Jan Hendrick Nel, Bennie Linde
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
This book introduces a framework to assist human resource practitioners and organisations embrace strategies that will drive high engagement levels within organisations with a union presence.
The authors address established definitions of engagement and how they have been conceptualised...
by Heather E. Yates
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2019
This book examines the highly emotional context of the 2016 US presidential campaign through the scope of political theater and emotional attribution. It takes inventory of the political landscape that defined the campaign and advances the argument that the campaign’s high intensity generated a...
The Changing Shape of Politics
Rethinking Left and Right in a New Britain
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book investigates whether politics in Britain in the twenty-first century is driven more by issues of culture and identity than by “left versus right” issues of wealth distribution. Drawing from a number of opinion surveys, it explores the shifting positions of voters on both economic matters...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
Exploring archaeology, community engagement and cultural heritage protection in South Asia, this book considers heritage management strategies through community engagement, bringing together the results of research undertaken by archaeologists, heritage practitioners and policy makers working...
by Scott Walker
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2019
This book explores the motivations behind American military interventions in the Post-World War II era that purported to replace autocratic regimes with democratic ones. It delves into the Forced Democracy (FD) phenomenon, focusing on its intellectual roots and previous attempts to study it in the...
by Michelle Faubert
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
This book delineates the discovery of a previously unknown manuscript of a letter from Granville Sharp, the first British abolitionist, to the “Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.” In the letter, Sharp demands that the Admiralty bring murder charges against the crew of the Zong for forcing 132...
Indigenous Pacific Approaches to Climate Change
Aotearoa/New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
Situating Māori Ecological Knowledge (MEK) within traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) frameworks, this book recognizes that indigenous ecological knowledge contributes to our understanding of how we live in our world (our world views), and in turn, the ways in which humans adapt to climate...
by George A. Gonzalez
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
The Absolute, philosophized most saliently about by Georg Hegel, encompasses the entirety of reality. The absolute (reality) is composed of five dimensions – height, length, width, time, and justice. The five dimensions operate dialectically, and the normative values of reality inhere within...