All Outputs (39)

Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality (2018)
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The 21st century has witnessed, to date, a dramatic resurgence in the forces of nationalism, but nationalisms taking new forms, and engaging gender and sexuality in innovative and transformational ways. This book explores the shifting and complex rel... Read More about Gendering Nationalism: Intersections of Nation, Gender and Sexuality.

Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry (2018)
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As a social space, the web provides researchers both with a tool and an environment to explore the intricacies of everyday life. As a site of mediated interactions and interrelationships, the ‘digital’ has evolved from being a space of information to... Read More about Doing Research In and On the Digital: Research Methods across Fields of Inquiry.

Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century: Offshore finance, local élites and contentious politics (2018)
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This edited collection examines the realities of the last remnants of the European colonial empires in the Caribbean, namely the British, Dutch and French overseas territories. Although known and perhaps infamous for their role as high-end touris... Read More about Euro-Caribbean Societies in the 21st Century: Offshore finance, local élites and contentious politics.

The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis (2018)
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Peter Jarvis is a towering figure in adult and lifelong education and a leading and original theorist of learning. This book explores the breadth and significance of his work. Sixteen chapters by leading international scholars explain and engage crit... Read More about The Learning Adult: Building and Reflecting on the Work of Peter Jarvis.

Entanglement (2018)
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On a hot October day in a London park, Stella sits in her red wedding dress opposite John. Pregnant and lost in thoughts of the future, she has no idea that lying in the grass, a stone’s throw away, is a man called Charlie. From this moment, Stella a... Read More about Entanglement.

Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food (2018)
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Long before there was the ready meal, humans processed food to preserve it and make it safe. From fire to fermentation, our ancestors survived periods of famine by changing the very nature of their food. This ability to process food has undoubtedly m... Read More about Best Before: The Evolution and Future of Processed Food.

3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers (2018)
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Fully revised and with a new chapter and international case studies, this second edition of the best-selling book traces how artists and designers continue to adapt and incorporate 3D printing technology into their work and explains how the creative... Read More about 3D Printing for Artists, Designers and Makers.

Reportage Illustration: Visual journalism (2018)
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The power of reportage drawing is in the immediacy of the images that are created and the feeling of the illustrator's presence on location. Comparable in some ways to photojournalism, reportage illustrators are acting as visual journalists, proactiv... Read More about Reportage Illustration: Visual journalism.

The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods (2018)
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Disabled children’s lives have often been discussed through medical concepts of disability rather than concepts of childhood. Western understandings of childhood have defined disabled children against child development ‘norms’ and have provided the r... Read More about The Palgrave handbook of disabled children's childhoods.

Higher education and social inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes (2018)
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An edited collection of twelve original chapters of contemporary research into higher education and social inequality. The book is divided into three distinct sections exploring how social inequality manifests itself in three stages of the student li... Read More about Higher education and social inequalities: University admissions, experiences and outcomes.

Edmund Husserl between Platonism and Aristotelianism (2018)
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Edited volume on the relations between Husserl's philosophy and Plato's and Aristotle's legacy.

The Palgrave international handbook of adult and lifelong education and learning (2018)
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This Handbook provides a wide-ranging frame of reference for researching adult and lifelong education and learning. With contributions from scores of established and newer scholars from six continents, the volume covers a diverse range of geopolitica... Read More about The Palgrave international handbook of adult and lifelong education and learning.

Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry (2018)
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The selected papers in this book deal with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations. Application of BIM throughout the construction industry is progressing at an accelerated rate, with the development of new softwar... Read More about Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry.

Management Control in UK Innovation Companies (2018)
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The management control systems (MCS) of innovative companies is a topic of ongoing relevance, as MCS are expected to encompass a broader set of instruments in innovative settings (Davila 2000). This study builds on Merchant and Van der Stede’s (2012)... Read More about Management Control in UK Innovation Companies.

Artificial Life and Intelligent Agents (2018)
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Second International Symposium, ALIA 2016, Birmingham, UK, June 14-15, 2016

The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook (2018)
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Best Interests Assessors (BIA) are specialist practitioners with a unique professional identity. This is the first book to consider this complex role in depth, offering practical guidance and exploring its particular challenges in the context of the... Read More about The Best Interests Assessor Practice Handbook.

Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions (2018)
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Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions explores the rich and fascinating topic of virtual worlds by bringing together research findings and discussion pieces from an international group of leading practitioners in the field. The... Read More about Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions.

Sustainable Development Studies (2018)
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Containing a series of specially selected papers, this book deals with advances in disciplines contributing to sustainable development, such as planning, architecture, engineering, policy making, environmental sciences and economics, and identifies s... Read More about Sustainable Development Studies.

Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage (2018)
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This book presents a new approach to understanding contemporary personal life, taking account of how people build their lives through a bricolage of ‘tradition’ and ‘modern’. The authors examine how tradition is used and adapted, invented and re-inve... Read More about Reinventing Couples: Tradition, Agency and Bricolage.