Télécharger le livre :  Harmonism as an Alternative
This Key Concepts pivot considers the fundamental Chinese cultural ideal of harmony (hé/?). Historically originating from Confucianism, the concept of harmony sits at the heart of Chinese traditional culture, which is characteristically morality-based and...

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Télécharger le livre :  A Political Sociology of Regionalisms
This book provides an alternative approach to regionalism in neglected parts of the world. Taking stock of several decades of conceptualization, the author provides a political sociology approach of regionalisms fed by recent contributions from the sociology of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The British Horseracing Film
This book constitutes the first full volume dedicated to an academic analysis of horseracing in British cinema. Through comprehensive contextual histories of film production and reception, together with detailed textual analysis, this book explores the aesthetic and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Modernization Through Globalization
This pivot considers how China deals with the globalization of its energy companies in the face of global efforts to combat climate change. It examines how China, following its emergence as the world’s largest energy consumer and its resultant growing dependence on...

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Télécharger le livre :  Inclusive Young Adult Fiction
This book examines ‘diversity’, or the lack thereof, in young adult fiction (YA) publishing. It focuses on cultural hegemony in the United Kingdom and explores how literary culture aimed at young adults reproduces and perpetuates ‘racial’ and ethnic cultural...

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Télécharger le livre :  Poverty in Afghanistan
This book examines the patterns, characteristics, causes and coping mechanisms of the poor in Afghanistan applying econometric and statistical techniques. The authors address and identify the extent of poverty in Afghanistan over the years, the spatial patterns and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Consumption and Life-Styles
This book takes an interdisciplinary approach to the world of consumption, covering different topics and including sociological, economic and marketing aspects. The term ‘consumption’ is vague and even in academic disciplines the term is used in a variety of ways....

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-31
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Télécharger le livre :  Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Policy-making in public health is highly complex, which is one reason why the behavioural turn is now playing a significant role in this field. Against this backdrop, this book aims to develop a theoretical understanding of how policymakers take up public health...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Global Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change
This book explores the link between climate change and resiliency on each continent of the world. It reviews how climate change affects populations, not only through environmental exposures and health outcomes, but how people live their lives. Zolnikov brings together a...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-30
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Navigating Social Security Options
This book explores a variety of social risks and possible policy options that could be put in place to either prevent, or lessen the negative consequences of their materialisation. Pieters groups these policy issues into four major social risks -- income replacement in...

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Télécharger le livre :  Rent-Seekers, Profits, Wages and Inequality
Mihályi and Szelényi provide a timely contribution to contemporary debates about inequality of incomes and wealth, offering a careful examination of various sources of rent in contemporary societies, and considering several policy options to reduce inequality in order...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  A Starter on Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining in Twenty-Eight Digestible Bites
This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises from the propensity of all individuals to seek the support of those around them and is the underlying mechanism of democratic societies. It...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
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Télécharger le livre :  A Critical Analysis of Basic Income Experiments for Researchers, Policymakers, and Citizens
At least six different Universal Basic Income (UBI) experiments are underway or planned right now in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Finland, and Kenya. Several more countries are considering conducting experiments. Yet, there seems to be more...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of Vaccination
This open access book discusses individual, collective, and institutional responsibilities with regard to vaccination from the perspective of philosophy and public health ethics. It addresses the issue of what it means for a collective to be morally responsible for the...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Socially Responsible Investments
This Palgrave Pivot aims to build a bridge between corporate social responsibility (CSR) and sustainable finance in financial markets. It investigates classic CSR topics in the light of a modern conception of sustainability. The first part emphasizes four relevant...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-27
Collection : Palgrave Studies in Impact Finance PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Higher Education and Social Justice
This book demonstrates how the pedagogical decision making of university academics can be shaped by engagement with an educational philosophy known as “relationship-centred education”. Beginning with critical analysis of concepts such as student engagement, student...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Understanding the Impact of INSET on Teacher Change in China
This pivot considers the impact of INSET courses on EFL teachers practicing under the national curriculum reform in China. Providing context-specific findings on the policy and implementation of INSET as well as its impact on teacher education initiatives in both China...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Paulin Hountondji
Paulin J. Hountondji is one of the most important and controversial figures in contemporary African philosophy. His critique of ethnophilosophy as a colonial, exoticising and racialized undertaking provoked contentious debates among African intellectuals on the proper...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Changing Shape of Politics
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2018-12-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights Practices during Financial Crises
From the Great Depression in the twentieth century to the Great Recession in the twenty-first, systemic banking crises have been a recurring problem for both developing and developed countries. This book offers a human rights perspective on financial crises vis-à-vis...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
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