Emerald Publishing Limited imprint: 1159 books
Childbirth and Parenting in Horror Texts
The Marginalized and the Monstrous
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book examines childbirth and parenting in horror texts. By analysing new texts, and re-analysing commonly used texts with new feminist methodology, this study provides a unique contribution to the fields of gender and horror studies. Focusing on horror fiction and film, this book reviews textual...
The Economic Decoding of Religious Dogmas
Ranking World Religions in Terms of Economic Consistency
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2017
This book proves that each religious dogma, in any of their components, contain in an encoded manner a specific ranking of human comprehensive mega-objectives, implicitly, a specific preference for absolute wealth or, in a more common parlance, for the objective of economic performance. In turn,...
Juvenile Delinquency, Crime and Social Marginalization
Social and Political Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017
This book examines the psychosocial, legal, and familial factors at play in the persistence in crime and social marginalization in adults with a history of juvenile delinquency, setting out the political and social implications, and delineating new lines of research.
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
This edited collection occupies a unique position as the first book to explore teacher leadership within the context of professional development schools (PDSs) and other school-university partnerships in the United States.
In today's educational climate of data, differentiation, and accountability,...
Perspectives on Diverse Student Identities in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2018
Higher education institutions continue to address an increasingly complex set of issues regarding equity, diversity and inclusion. Many institutions face increasing pressure to find innovative solutions to eliminate access, participation, and achievement barriers as well as practices that impede retention...
Contexts for Diversity and Gender Identities in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Equity and Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018
This volume provides educators with an understanding of challenges associated with equity and inclusion at higher education institutions globally and with evidence-based strategies for addressing the challenges associated with implementing equity and inclusion. Higher education institutions continue...
Refugee Education
Integration and Acceptance of Refugees in Mainstream Society
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
This volume examines how universities and colleges are working towards implementing various interventions to integrate refugees along with non-governmental organizations and local governments to achieve an optimal level of integration with host communities. The first part of the volume addresses the...
by Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
This volume is focused on the core areas of imparting education to the refugee population and highlights the recent developments intended to meet an urgent need: that of the refugees who have no or very little previous schooling and who are in need of both language learning and furthering their studies...
by Enakshi Sengupta, Patrick Blessinger
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2018
This volume examines how Governmental agencies, non-profit organizations and educational institutions are mobilizing their resources to promote inclusion of refugees and internally displaced people. It explores the grass root campaigns that are working towards participation and full involvement for...
Integrated Management
How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2018
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behaviour, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at the “top of the agenda” in the C-suite. Despite this, specialists...
Subcultures, Bodies and Spaces
Essays on Alternativity and Marginalization
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Alternativity delineates those spaces, scenes, club-cultures, objects and practices in modern society that are considered to be actively designed to be counter or resistive to mainstream popular culture. The idea of the alternative in popular culture became mainstream with the rise of the counter...
The Evolution of Goth Culture
The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
The origins and deeds of the old Goths were constructed by Roman historians in fear of the Goth as a barbarian outsider; at the same time, the Goths were themselves the heroic subject of their own histories, constructed by their supporters as stories of their mythical origin and the deeds that led...
Trump Studies
An Intellectual Guide to Why Citizens Vote Against Their Interests
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2018
Why do citizens vote against their own best interest?
Trump Studies addresses this key question; probing the value of thinking, reading, writing and interpretation during times of economic, social and political uncertainty. With a compelling voice and academic rigour, the authors explore...
by Pauwke Berkers, Julian Schaap
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
For over four decades, scholars have been investigating male dominance - both symbolically and numerically -within popular music. The heavier genres of popular music, metal music in particular, have been male dominated spaces, which are difficult to navigate for women participating as fans, musicians,...