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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Drawing evidence from North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, the contributors illustrate that even within the common framework of economic globalization, the ways in which the interests of state actors and the agency of migrants intersects continuously shapes and reshapes both home and destination societies.
Bottom-Up Politics
An Agency-Centred Approach to Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2011
Adopting a people-centred perspective to globalization, the authors explore complex, counterintuitive and even unintended forms and consequences of bottom-up politics, going beyond simplistic understandings of ordinary people as either victims or beneficiaries of globalization.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
New Directions in the History of the Novel challenges received views of literary history and sets out new areas for research. A re-examination of the nature of prose fiction in English and its study from the Renaissance to the 21st century, it will become required reading for teachers and students of the novel and its history.
Reading Modernism with Machines
Digital Humanities and Modernist Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This book uses the discipline-specific, computational methods of the digital humanities to explore a constellation of rigorous case studies of modernist literature.
From data mining and visualization to mapping and tool building and beyond, the digital humanities offer new ways for scholars...
People Data
How to Use and Apply Human Capital Metrics in your Company
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
People are an organizations' biggest asset and easily amount to 30% of company costs so even small improvements can have a bottom-line impact. A unique toolkit to an important new trend, People Data demystifies and simplifies the process of understanding and working with human capital metrics.
Managing Joint Innovation
How to balance trust and control in strategic alliances
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012
'Open Innovation' is good up to a certain point, past a certain level, however, it becomes extremely dangerous. It is crucial therefore that a companies 'sweet spot', the optimum point where open innovation is beneficial, is found before it becomes hazardous. Using strong research Francis Bidault guides the reader through this innovation journey.
Luxury Online
Styles, Systems, Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
This new book focuses on the analysis of the online strategy and development of the luxury industry, tracing the evolution of the Internet from a means of communication to a trade and distribution channel. The author provides a comprehensive evaluation and a critical assessment of the tactics required for the management of luxury brands online.
Music, Health and Wellbeing
Exploring Music for Health Equity and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This book explores the power music has to address health inequalities and the social determinants of health and wellbeing. It examines music participation as a determinant of wellbeing and as a transformative tool to impact on wider social, cultural and environmental conditions. Uniquely, in this...
Identity, Health and Women
A Critical Social Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
This book provides a three-part investigation into identity construction. Theory, voice and praxis are all represented as the book follows the rationale, stories and narrative methodology of the study of a group of women. The final part of the book presents a new model of identity construction framed in women's health identity.
Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan
Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This edited collection problematizes trajectories of health promotion across the lifespan. It provides a distinctive critical social science perspective of the various directions taken by dominant policies in their approach to promoting sport for all ages. It offers an array of theoretical and methodologically...
Designing Listening Tests
A Practical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
This book examines the crucial role that sound file selection plays in assessing listening ability and introduces the reader to the procedure of textmapping, which explores how to exploit a sound file. The book discusses the role of the task identifier, the task instructions and the example, and analyses...
Virtual Social Networks
Mediated, Massive and Multiplayer Sites
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses and experiences with them have changed as well. The emergence of new technologies offer opportunities for new ways of interacting, playing, working and learning. It is within the context of simultaneous excitement and anxiety that we discuss Virtual Social Networks.
The Immersive Internet
Reflections on the Entangling of the Virtual with Society, Politics and the Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Collecting short thought pieces by some of the leading thinkers on the emerging 'Immersive Internet', Power and Teigland's book questions what a more immersive and intimate internet – based on social media, augmented reality, virtual worlds, online games, 3D internet and beyond – might mean for society and for each of us.
Educational Developments, Practices and Effectiveness
Global Perspectives and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2015
Exploring a range of educational developments and practices in different national contexts in Australia, Canada and Switzerland, this book analyses the effectiveness of such initiatives. Case studies in the book include business and online education, supporting students with disabilities and school-wide pedagogical improvement.