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Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137593474ISBN 13: 9781137593474
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective, the impasses that foundations often face, and the novel context in which philanthropy operates today. This study therefore assesses the shifting grounds on which higher education globally is positioned and the role of global philanthropy within these changing contexts. This is especially important in a moment where higher education is once again recognized as a driver of development and income growth, where knowledge economies requiring additional levels of education are displacing economies predicated on manufacturing, and in a context where higher education itself appears increasingly precarious and under dramatic pressures to adapt to new conditions. 196 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137593466ISBN 13: 9781137593467
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a nuanced analysis of a US-led foundation initiative of uncommon ambition, featuring seven foundations with a shared commitment to strengthen capacity in higher education in Sub-Saharan African universities. The book examines the conditions under which philanthropy can be effective, the impasses that foundations often face, and the novel context in which philanthropy operates today. This study therefore assesses the shifting grounds on which higher education globally is positioned and the role of global philanthropy within these changing contexts. This is especially important in a moment where higher education is once again recognized as a driver of development and income growth, where knowledge economies requiring additional levels of education are displacing economies predicated on manufacturing, and in a context where higher education itself appears increasingly precarious and under dramatic pressures to adapt to new conditions. 192 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137575964ISBN 13: 9781137575968
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a comprehensive overview of the overlap between personal and political aspects of life within the context of psychotherapy. It sketches out a clear and detailed narrative of the complex interrelations between psychotherapy, society, and politics. It articulates a theoretical basis for politically conscious and socially responsible therapy work, as well as the guiding principles in implementing this position. Many psychotherapists find themselves struggling when faced with political issues that come up in treatment, both overtly and covertly. Many of them find value in clarifying political aspects of clients' lives and psychotherapy itself, but are hesitant to touch upon this loaded issue or do not know how to approach it. Nissim Avissar's book opens up new possibilities of thinking afresh on psychotherapy, in a way that takes into account real life conditions and the effects of professional work on the social environment. 212 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137505141ISBN 13: 9781137505149
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores what social justice looks like for rural schools in Australia. The author challenges the consensus that sees the distribution of resources as the panacea for the myriad challenges faced by rural schools and argues that the solution to inequality and injustice in rural settings has to take into account other important dimensions of social justice such as recognition and association. These include teachers' concerns for issues of power, respect, and participation in their work that extend to policy-making processes and implementation; students' post-school aspirations and, finally, parents' hopes and fears for their children's futures and the sustainability of their community. The book brings together political and social theory with education and youth studies, provides new insights about the complex nature of schooling in rural places, and makes a strong connection between schooling and the people and communities it serves. 224 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137603100ISBN 13: 9781137603104
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the first monograph in English that comprehensively examines the ways in which Italian historical crime novels, TV series, and films have become a means to intervene in the social and political changes of the country. This study explores the ways in which fictional representations of the past mirror contemporaneous anxieties within Italian society in the work of writers such as Leonardo Sciascia, Andrea Camilleri, Carlo Lucarelli, Francesco Guccini, Loriano Macchiavelli, Marcello Fois, Maurizio De Giovanni, and Giancarlo De Cataldo; film directors such as Elio Petri, Pietro Germi, Michele Placido, and Damiano Damiani; and TV series such as the 'Commissario De Luca' series, the 'Commissario Nardone' series, and 'Romanzo criminale-The series.' Providing the most wide-ranging examination of this sub-genre in Italy, Barbara Pezzotti places works set in the Risorgimento, WWII, and the Years of Lead in the larger social and political context of contemporary Italy. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137561149ISBN 13: 9781137561145
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the evangelical Christian worship focusing primarily in the island-state of Grenada. The study is based upon the author's detailed study of Pentecostal communities in that island-state as well as her own background in Barbados. The study traces the development of Pentecostal religious communities from Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Wesleyan Methodist movement. 240 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137497890ISBN 13: 9781137497895
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This compelling book explores how Egyptian bloggers used citizen journalism and cyberactivism to chip away at the state's monopoly on information and recalibrate the power dynamics between an authoritarian regime and its citizens. When the Arab uprisings broke out in early 2011 and ousted entrenched leaders across the region, social media and the Internet were widely credited with playing a role, particularly when the Egyptian government shut down the Internet and mobile phone networks in an attempt to stave off the unrest there. But what these reports missed were the years of grassroots organizing, digital activism, and political awareness-raising that laid the groundwork for this revolutionary change. Radsch argues that Egyptian bloggers created new social movements using blogging and social media, often at significant personal risk, so that less than a decade after the information revolution came to Egypt they successfully mobilized the overthrow of the state and its president. 368 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137513462ISBN 13: 9781137513465
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The argument offered in this book is that new technology, as opposed to traditional media such as television, radio, and newspaper, is working against the national grain to weaken its imagined community. Online activities and communications between people and across borders suggest that digital media has strong implications for different articulations of identity and belongingness, which open new ways of thinking about the imagined community. The findings are based on transnational activities by Kurdish diaspora members across borders that have pushed them to rethink notions of belonging and identity. Through a multidisciplinary and comparative approach, and multifaceted (online-offline) methodologies, the book unveils tensions between new and old media, and how the former is not only changing social relations but also exposing existing ones. Living in two or more cultures, speaking multiple languages, and engaging in transnational practices, diaspora individuals may have created a momentum that discloses how the imagined nation is diminishing in this digital era. 260 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137557168ISBN 13: 9781137557162
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book tells the story of nearly five decades of Indian migration to Australia from the late 1960s to 2015, through the eyes of migrants and their families. Firstly, there is the marked increase of Indian migrants, shifting from the earlier professionals to a dominance of student-migrants. The India-born in Australia are the fourth largest overseas born group. Secondly, remittances flow two ways in families between Australia and India. Thirdly, family communication across borders has become instantaneous and frequent, changing the experience of migration, family and money. Fourthly, mobility replaces the earlier assumption of settlement. Recent migrants hope to settle, but the large group who have come to study face a long period of precarious mobility. Lastly, recent migrants re-imagine the joint family in Australia, buying homes to accommodate siblings and parents. This is changing the contours of some major cities in Australia. 268 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137604395ISBN 13: 9781137604392
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book makes a timely and engaging contribution to geography's resurgent interest in art and artistic practice, as well as to growing geographical concerns with embodied or pre-reflective experience. It introduces Eugene Gendlin's philosophical and methodological work to stimulate geographical thinking and practice, and explores its disciplinary potential through innovative practice-based research into artistic spatial experience. Gendlin's philosophy and techniques for articulating the pre-reflective are explained and illustrated using artists' accounts of their practices, both retrospectively and during their practice. The geographical implementation of research methods informed by those techniques is detailed and critiqued. Diverse and potentially contradictory findings, and potentially problematic methodological choices, are discussed, accounted for, and reframed through Gendlin's ideas. Significant geographical potential within Gendlin's work-philosophical, conceptual and methodological-is identified and described, and avenues and challenges for further investigation are highlighted. This first step towards a Gendlin-informed geography invites further engagement with his work. 172 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137589035ISBN 13: 9781137589033
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the practices of cybercriminals who steal and sell personal information acquired through various means, including mass data breaches, to engage in cybercrime and fraud. Using data from multiple English and Russian language web forums, the authors identify the range of products sold in these active on-line marketplaces and the prospective profits earned by these actors.The social organization of these markets is analysed using sociological theory to understand the sophistication of the markets. Social network analyses of therelational networks of participantsare also utilised to examine theirsophistication and structure. In doing so, this work will contribute to the development of cybercrime studies, and willappealto both social andcomputerscientists alike with an interest in the human aspects of cybercrime. 168 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1349949825ISBN 13: 9781349949823
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a practical approach to insuring financial sustainability of US colleges, presented through the lens of organizational strategic thinking. The book does not simply offer models of how colleges can become financially sustainable in cost cutting, online education, international student recruiting, etc. Rather, it presents a succinct historical perspective of how foundational problems emerged, how some universities transformed themselves, and introduces an organizational strategic thinking process that can be used to develop unique solutions for almost any institution. 192 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137567988ISBN 13: 9781137567987
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book considers the status of constitutional literacy in the United States along with ways to assess and improve it. The author argues that pervasive constitutional illiteracy is a problem for both law enforcement agencies and for ordinary citizens. Based on the author's decades of teaching in law enforcement agencies around the country, this book argues for the moral and pragmatic value of constitutional literacy and its application in twenty-first century society. 256 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137560991ISBN 13: 9781137560995
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Focusing on ten islands through the Caribbean, this ethnography examines how charismatic religious leaders develop creative transnational religious networking strategies that help spread the movement and increase its potential to become a greater force in shaping the future in the English-speaking Caribbean. The large and explosive global Charismatic movement spread in powerful ways in the small and tranquil English-speaking Caribbean. It is here in the deep Caribbean world of demonic possessions, spiritual demons, and supernatural healers where the Charismatic movement continues to shape a resilient culture. Placing the Charismatic movement in the realm of culture provides some highly surprising findings that reveal the potential of a religious movement and its ability for change in a late-modern social world. 268 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137513233ISBN 13: 9781137513236
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book enables Western scholars and educators to recognize the roles and contributions of shadow education/hakwon education in an international context. The book allows readers to redefine the traditional and limited understanding of the background success behind Korean schooling and to expand their perspectives on Korean hakwon education, as well as shadow education in other nations with educational power, such as Japan, China, Singapore, and Taiwan. Kim exhorts readers and researchers to examine shadow education as an emerging research inquiry in the context of postcolonial and worldwide curriculum studies. 240 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113757819XISBN 13: 9781137578198
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware - This book reconstructs the intellectual and social context of several influential proponents of European unity before and after the First World War. Through the lives and works of the well-known promoter of Pan-Europe, Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, and his less well-known predecessor, Alfred Hermann Fried, the book illuminates how transnational peace projects emerged from individuals who found themselves alienated from an increasingly nationalizing political climate within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the new nation states of the interwar period. The book's most important intervention concerns the Jewish origins of crucial plans for European unity. It reveals that some of the most influential ideas on European culture and on the peaceful reorganization of an interconnected Europe emerged from Jewish milieus and as a result of Jewish predicaments. 268 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137596732ISBN 13: 9781137596734
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of 'lyric' and 'state' as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today. 288 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137469099ISBN 13: 9781137469090
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book applies the psychopathy concept toward the understanding of crime. Drawing on hundreds of studies and his own clinical, research, and practitioner experience working with the most antisocial and violent offenders, the author demonstrates that psychopathy can explain all forms of crime across the life course, and also examines the biosocial foundations of the disorder. With an abundance of case studies and historical references, written in a distinctive writing style, the book is equally fascinating to the academic scholar and the true crime buff alike. 252 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137592133ISBN 13: 9781137592132
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Bridging the fields of Religion and Latina/o Studies, this book fills a gap by examining the 'spiritual' rhetoric and practices of the Chicano movement. Bringing new theoretical life to biblical studies and Chicana/o writings from the 1960s, such as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán and El Plan de Santa Barbara, Jacqueline M. Hidalgo boldly makes the case that peoples, for whom historical memories of displacement loom large, engage scriptures in order to make and contest homes. Movement literature drew upon and defied the scriptural legacies of Revelation, a Christian scriptural text that also carries a displaced homing dream. Through the slipperiness of utopian imaginations, these texts become places of belonging for those whose belonging has otherwise been questioned. Hidalgo's elegant comparative study articulates as never before how Aztlán and the new Jerusalem's imaginative power rest in their ambiguities, their ambivalence, and the significance that people ascribe to them. 328 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137521198ISBN 13: 9781137521194
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This edited collection testifies to the fact that the animal liberation movement is now entering its political phase, after a period dominated by ethical approaches that undermined the paradigm of human supremacy and demanded justice for nonhuman beings. The contributors of this book collectively confront and take on questions of social transformation, guided by the idea that philosophy has an important role to play even at such a new level. They start from such diverse perspectives as critical theory, left liberalism, and biopolitical thought. The result is an articulated picture in which, beyond any principled divergence, it is possible to detect the emergence of a relevant set of shared political preoccupations. This exploration of those offers fresh theoretical insights and suggestions for praxis. 296 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137543426ISBN 13: 9781137543424
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is the first critical anthology to examine the controversial history of the zoo by focusing on its close relationship with screen media histories and technologies. Individual chapters address the representation of zoological spaces in classical and contemporary Hollywood cinema, documentary and animation, amateur and avant-garde film, popular television and online media. The Zoo and Screen Media:Images of Exhibitionand Encounter providesa new map of twentieth-century human-animal relations by exploring how the zoo, that modern apparatus for presenting living animals to human audiences, has itself been represented across a diverse range of moving image media. 312 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113759666XISBN 13: 9781137596666
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The first collection to address the vexing issue of Nabokov's moral stances, this book argues that he designed his novels and stories as open-ended ethical problems for readers to confront. In a dozen new essays, international Nabokov scholars tackle those problems directly while addressing such questions as whether Nabokov was a bad reader, how he defined evil, if he believed in God, and how he constructed fictional works that led readers to become aware of their own moral positions. In order to elucidate his engagement with aesthetics, metaphysics, and ethics, Nabokov and the Question of Morality explores specific concepts in the volume's four sections: 'Responsible Reading,' 'Good and Evil,' 'Agency and Altruism,' and 'The Ethics of Representation.' By bringing together fresh insights from leading Nabokovians and emerging scholars, this book establishes new interdisciplinary contexts for Nabokov studies and generates lively readings of works from his entire career. 256 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113754290XISBN 13: 9781137542908
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines both the theory and applications of marketing higher education in a global environment. Universities and colleges face new challenges in student recruitment and international competition. This book is designed to offer new insights into international marketing of higher education.With declining domestic enrollments and continuing funding cuts, many higher education institutions are exploring new ways to market and promote themselves to international students. Higher education institutions view international students not only as a source of revenue, but also as an integral part of an overall academic strategy. While international students face many destination choices, they normally choose universities and colleges in developed countries such as the US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The international marketing of higher education is of growing importance to universities and colleges today. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137499591ISBN 13: 9781137499592
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the long-term effects of violence on the everyday cultural and religious practices of a younger generation of Ahmadis and Sikhs in Frankfurt, Germany and Toronto, Canada. Comparative in scope and the first to discuss contemporary articulations of Sikh and Ahmadiyya identities within a single frame of reference, the book assembles a significant range of empirical data gathered over ten years of ethnographic fieldwork. In its focus on precarious sites of identity formation, the volume engages with cutting-edge theories in the fields of critical diaspora studies, migration and refugee studies, religion, secularism, and politics. It presents a novel approach to the reading of Ahmadi and Sikh subjectivities in the current climate of anti-immigrant movements and suspicion against religious others. Michael Nijhawan also offers new insights into what animates emerging movements of the youth and their attempts to reclaim forms of the spiritual and political. 308 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 113759697XISBN 13: 9781137596970
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book addresses issues central to today's Catholic Church, focusing on the relationship between various religions in different contexts and regions across the world. The diverse array of contributors present an inclusively interfaith enterprise, investigating a wide range of encounters and perspectives. The essays include approaches from the Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, and Bahá'í traditions, in a variety of geographic contexts. Contributors reflect on Muslims in the West, Christian-Buddhist social activism, and on Chinese, Indian, and Japanese religions. The volume also explores the experiences of communities that are often marginalized and overlooked such as the Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders of Australia and the Karen tribal peoples of Thailand. Contributors examine the works of the Focolare, Gülen, and Rissh K sei-kai movements, and integrate the vision of Raimon Panikkar and Ken Wilber. Chapters incorporate discussions of dialogue documents such as Nostra Aetate and Dabru Emet, and methodologies such as Receptive Ecumenism, Comparative Theology, and Scriptural Reasoning. Among other goals, the book seeks to offer glimpses into interfaith dialogues across the world and examine what Christians can learn from other religions and global contexts. 316 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137588497ISBN 13: 9781137588494
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of 'spoiling' - or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle - provides a way of thinking about England's relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England. 332 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137517387ISBN 13: 9781137517388
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the value of duoethnography to the study of interdisciplinary practice. Through rich stories, scholars illustrate how dialogic and relational forms of research help to facilitate deeply emic, personal, and situated understandings of practice and promote personal reflexivity and changes in practice. In this book, students, teachers, and practitioners use duoethnography to become more aware, dialogic, imaginative, and relational in their teaching. Forms of practice examined in this book include education, drama, nursing, counseling, and art in classroom, university, and larger professional spaces. 200 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137539003ISBN 13: 9781137539007
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the intersection of policy and practice in the use of student growth measures (SGMs) for high-stakes purposes as per such educator evaluation systems. The book also focuses on examinations of educators' perceptions of and reactions to the use of SGMs; ethical implications pertaining to the use of SGMs; contextual challenges when implementing SGMs; and legal implications of SGM use. The use of student test score data has been the cornerstone of the recent transfiguration of educator evaluation systems in forty-two states and the District of Columbia. Three leading voices on SGMs-Sean Corcoran, Henry Braun, and David Berliner-also serve as section and concluding commentators. 308 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137456507ISBN 13: 9781137456502
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a much-needed consideration of Melusine within medieval and contemporary theories of space, memory, and gender. The Middle English Melusine offers a particularly rich source for such a study, as it presents the story of a powerful fairy/human woman who desires a full human life-and death-within a literary tradition that is more friendly to women's agency than its continental counterparts. After establishing a 'textual habitus of wonder,' Jan Shaw explores the tale in relation to a range of Middle English traditions including love and marriage, the spatial practices of women, the operation of individual and collective memory, and the legacies of patrimony. Melusine emerges as a complex figure, representing a multifaceted feminine subject that furthers our understanding of Middle English women's sense of self in the world. 280 pp. Englisch.
Published by Palgrave Macmillan US Sep 2016, 2016
ISBN 10: 1137442875ISBN 13: 9781137442871
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Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book analyzes Germany's path-breaking Energiewende , the country's transition from an energy system based on fossil and nuclear fuels to a sustainable energy system based on renewables. The authors explain Germany's commitment to a renewable energy transition on multiple levels of governance, from the local to the European, focusing on the sources of institutional change that made the transition possible. They then place the German case in international context through comparative case studies of energy transitions in the USA, China, and Japan. These chapters highlight the multifaceted challenges, and the enormous potential, in different paths to a sustainable energy future. Taken together, they tell the story of one of the most important political, economic, and social undertakings of our time. 272 pp. Englisch.