Palgrave Macmillan Uk: 6973 books
The Tories and Television, 1951-1964
Broadcasting an Elite
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
This book explores the role of television in the 1950s and early 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between Tories and TV. The early 1950s were characterized by recovery from war and high politics. Television was a new medium that eventually came to dominate mass media and political culture....
The Politics of Wine in Britain
A New Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
A unique look at the meaning of the taste for wine in Britain, from the establishment of a Commonwealth in 1649 to the Commercial Treaty between Britain and France in 1860 - this book provides an extraordinary window into the politics and culture of England and Scotland just as they were becoming the powerful British state.
Leading Smart Transformation
A Roadmap for World Class Government
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
In the turbulence of recent times, how we run corporations has been examined from every angle. Corporations have proved adept at change; governments have stuck to established rules. The challenge is to put in place machinery to provide services in a way that resists the growth of bureaucracy. The need for SMART government could not be starker.
How to Make Boards Work
An International Overview
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013
How to Make Boards Work offers a unique view of the thinking and doing of governance. The outside-in perspective offers a holistic framework highlighting how global cultural, social and political diversity impact boards of directors. The inside-out perspective emphasizes how governance and boards can effectively realize sustainable value creation.
The Politics of Public Sector Reform
From Thatcher to the Coalition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
The first comprehensive 'bird's eye' account of public sector reform supported by references from over 400 official sources, this book is an invaluable guide to all those in the public, private and voluntary sectors grappling with the twin challenges of managing public spending austerity and the pressure in response to transform public services.
Public Sector Reformation
Values-driven Solutions to Fiscal Constraint
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Reductions in public sector spending mean voters will face a period of austerity, higher taxes and declining availability of public sector services. Prevailing public sector management philosophies are no longer applicable. To optimise future service provision with fewer resources will demand a reformation in organisational thinking and values.
Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable Development
Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Employing a three-dimensional approach, this book discusses inclusive innovation for socio-economic growth and development, and the implications for human security within the context of developing and emerging economies. Focusing on a new and innovative area of research, Inclusive Innovation for Sustainable...
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary...
Contemporary Film Music
Investigating Cinema Narratives and Composition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The purpose of this book, through its very creation, is to strengthen the dialogue between practitioner and theorist. To that end, a film academic and musicologist have collaborated as editors on this book, which is in turn comprised of interviews with composers alongside complementary chapters that...
by S. Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
In this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the classical to the contemporary era.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This collection engages with questions of influence, a vexed and problematic concept whose intellectual history is both ancient and vast. It examines a range of texts written in French, sometimes in dialogue with visual/musical works, drawn mainly from the eighteenth century onwards. Connections are made with related work in a range of disciplines.
Dancing Genius
The Stardom of Vaslav Nijinsky
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Tracing the historical figure of Vaslav Nijinsky in contemporary documents and later reminiscences, Dancing Genius opens up questions about authorship in dance, about critical evaluation of performance practice, and the manner in which past events are turned into history.
On Voice in Poetry
The Work of Animation
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
Fandom, Image and Authenticity
Joy Devotion and the Second Lives of Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Kurt Cobain and Ian Curtis. Through death, they became icons. However, the lead singers have been removed from their humanity, replaced by easily replicated and distributed commodities bearing their image. This book examines how the anglicised singers provide secular guidance to the modern consumer in an ever more uncertain world.