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The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century
From Undertaker to Funeral Director
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organisational change and attempts to gain recognition as a professional service provider saw the...
Emotion and the Researcher
Sites, Subjectivities, and Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2018
Traditional research discourses continue to present academic work as rational, detached, objective and free from emotion. This volume argues that the presentation of research as ‘objective’ conceals the subject positions of researchers, and the emotional imperatives that often drive research....
Including a Symposium on Latin American Monetary Thought
Two Centuries in Search of Originality
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Volume 36C of Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology features a symposium edited by Andrés Álvarez on monetary economics in post-independence Latin America. The symposium features contributions from Matías Vernengo and Esteban Pérez Caldentey, Ricardo Solis Rosales, Florencia...
Public Relations and the Power of Creativity
Strategic Opportunities, Innovation and Critical Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2018
Creativity is the development and use of imagination to solve current challenges or create innovative ideas for the future. The complexity and challenges of the contemporary world arguably require increasing levels of creativity and innovation to manage the disruptive forces at work and build a prosperous...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Excessive military spending reduces the available financial reserves for health, education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty, unemployment, and destitution. It also strengthens dictatorial tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve...
by Sarah Gilmore
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
'What is CMS for and what might its future be- both inside the domain of academia and outside it? It's a question that has beguiled and frustrated academics within and outside its community. At the hear of CMS is an enduring skepticism concerning the social and ecological sustainability of prevailing...
Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
Underserved and Socially Disadvantaged Groups and Linkages with Health and Health Care Differentials
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2019
The contributors to this latest volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care investigate macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving the socially disadvantaged and underserved. Looking specifically at the factors impacting on health and health care differentials, this book is...
Food Retailing and Sustainable Development
European Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2018
Faced with dwindling resources and the challenge of climate change, companies are seeking to enhance production while consuming fewer resources. At the same time, consumers are altering their behaviors by seeking local production or bulk buying products. Retailers, as boundary spanners between consumers...
Heavy Metal Youth Identities
Researching the Musical Empowerment of Youth Transitions and Psychosocial Wellbeing
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Heavy Metal Youth Identities critically examines the significance of heavy metal music and culture in the everyday lives of metal youth. Historically, young metal fans have been portrayed in popular and academic literature as delinquent, mentally unwell, demotivated, and destined for low-achieving...
Tales of Brexits Past and Present
Understanding the Choices, Threats and Opportunities In Our Separation from the EU
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2018
Tales of Brexits Past and Present: Understanding the Choices, Threats and Opportunities In Our Separation from the EU provides a compelling insight into the Brexit process in a uniquely historical context. Looking at previous 'Brexits' under the lens of international risk, the book tackles five specific...
Finding Common Ground
Consensus in Research Ethics Across the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Over the past decade there has been growing national and international concern about the impact of systems for the management of research ethics in the social sciences. In particular these ‘procedural bureaucracies’ are seen as inappropriate to the ethical governance of social scientific research...
The Development of the Maltese Insurance Industry
A Comprehensive Study
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2018
Malta is the only country in the European Union, and one of only six countries in the world, that has not had a banking crisis since the 1970s. Despite its lack of raw materials, Malta currently has one of the lowest rates of unemployment and inflation in the EU, as well as a positive GDP. Yet there...
by Catherine McGlynn, Shaun McDaid
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
Higher education institutions have increasingly been identified as potentially radicalising locations. The 2015 Counter-Terrorism and Security Act consolidated this belief in the form of a legal duty of "due regard to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism". This duty made engagement...
Pervasive Punishment
Making Sense of Mass Supervision
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2018
Despite its dramatic proliferation and diversification in recent decades, supervisory forms of punishment in the community (like probation, parole and unpaid work) have been largely invisible in scholarly and public discussion of criminal justice and its development in late-modern societies. The long-standing...