Palgrave Pivot imprint: 999 books
Augmented Communication
The Effect of Digital Devices on Face-to-Face Interactions
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
This book explores the ways in which handheld networked devices can be used to enhance and augment interpersonal communication. The author examines in depth how the addition of visual and multimodal input, access to online search engines and the inclusion of participants from distant geographical...
Russia’s Domestic Security Wars
Putin’s Use of Divide and Rule Against His Hardline Allies
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
The book is a case study of Putin’s use of the tactics of divide and rule in relation to, particularly, the hard-line elements among his supporters. It illustrates Putin's methods of staying in power vis-à-vis groups that might put too much pressure on him, or who might even try to oust him. The...
by Leif Johan Eliasson, Patricia Garcia-Duran Huet
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
This book investigates the politics of transatlantic trade, specifically the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership negotiations. Using a novel approach, the authors analyze the rhetorical choices made by opponents and supporters of an agreement, and the logical behind their arguments. Opponents...
Interreligous Pedagogy
Reflections and Applications in Honor of Judith A. Berling
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
This volume is a collection of essays by former students of Judith Berling based on her revolutionary interreligious pedagogy. Her pedagogy can be summarized as a student centered, collaborative, and engaging teaching and learning process sparked by various ways of boundary-crossing. In this enterprise,...
by Erik Knudsen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
This book philosophically and creatively examines ways in which independent filmmakers may explore, through practice, the discovery and development of a personal voice in the making of their films. Filmmaker and academic, Professor Erik Knudsen, uses a combination of autoethnographic experience derived...
Contemporary Masculinities
Embodiment, Emotion and Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book assesses the construction of masculinities in relation to appearance, embodiment and emotions by drawing on perspectives in psychology, sociology, gender studies and public health. Brendan Gough questions conventional assumptions about masculinity and men’s health and responds to recent...
by Deepshikha Shahi
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2018
The ancient Indian text of Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra comes forth as a valuable non-Western resource for understanding contemporary International Relations (IR). However, Kautilya’s Arthaśāstra largely suffers from the problem of ‘presentism’, whereby present-day assumptions of the dominant...
Former Foster Youth in Postsecondary Education
Reaching Higher
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2019
This book examines the attainment gap between foster youth and their peers. Specifically focusing on post-secondary access and success for foster youth, Gross points out the challenges foster youth face in the primary and secondary school context, such as being less likely to complete high school....
The Conditions for School Success
Examining Educational Exclusion and Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
This book analyses the role played by schools themselves in the high rates of educational exclusion and dropping out that affects many European education systems. The author frames the analysis according to three aspects of justice – redistribution, recognition and care – to explore both how teachers...
Sickness Work
Personal Reflections of a Sociologist
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
This is the story of a professor of Medical Sociology, diagnosed with colon cancer. He undergoes the appropriate medical treatment. Passing through that trajectory, he realizes that things happen that he never read about in the professional literature. During his illness and rehabilitation he scribbles...
Military Identity and the Transition into Civilian Life
“Lifers", Medically Discharged and Reservist Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2019
This book outlines the relationship between social identity theory and military to civilian transition, examining the mass movement of soldiers back into the civilian occupational world by considering literature specifically on role exit and in relation to the process of full-time military exit. The...
B Corp Entrepreneurs
Analysing the Motivations and Values behind Running a Social Business
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Highlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare. By examining the personal and social drivers of businesses which are not solely focused...
Personal Brand Creation in the Digital Age
Theory, Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2018
Presenting a scientific exploration of personal branding and digital communication, this ground-breaking book aims to fill a gap between theory and practice. Describing how social media can increase brand profiles online, it explains basic terms before investigating the cultural context for online...
by Alan Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Humour is a funny thing - everyone knows it but no-one knows what it is. This book addresses the question 'What is humour?' by first untangling the definitions of humour, amusement and funniness before then providing a new theory of humour which draws upon recent research in philosophy, psychology,...