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Teaching Business Discourse (Research and Practice in Applied Linguistics)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book presents research in business discourse and offers pedagogical approaches to teaching business discourse in both classroom and consultancy contexts that address the key issues of dealing with different types of learners, developing teaching materials and evaluation. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience of researching...

Complexity Economics: Building a New Approach to Ancient Economic History (Palgrave Studies in Ancient Economies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

Economic archaeology and ancient economic history have boomed the past decades. The former thanks to greatly enhanced techniques to identify, collect, and interpret material remains as proxies for economic interactions and performance; the latter by embracing the frameworks of new institutional economics. Both disciplines, however,...

Formative Assessment in United States Classrooms: Changing the Landscape of Teaching and Learning

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book examines the history of formative assessment in the US and explores its potential for changing the landscape of teaching and learning to meet the needs of twenty-first century learners. The author uses case studies to illuminate the complexity of teaching and the externally imposed and internally constructed contextual...

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies (Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This volume investigates the emergence and spread of maritime commerce and interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World?the world’s first “global economy”?from a longue durée perspective. Spanning from antiquity to the nineteenth century, these essays move beyond the usual focus on geographical sub-regions...

Family Business Models: Practical Solutions for the Family Business

Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

In the early 20th century, American sociologist W. I. Thomas won fame with the statement: ‘If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.’ This fundamental observation on human behavior, now known as the Thomas theorem, became a cornerstone of contemporary sociology. The idea that our...

Boardroom Secrets: Corporate Governance for Quality of Life

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

Trust is the foundation of development both in relations among humans, as well as in relations between institutions such as the firm and its stakeholders. As the world continues to get smaller, the mutual interdependence of the corporations and their stakeholders grows larger. To achieve...

Authoritarianism and How to Counter It

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it was assumed that liberal democracies would flourish worldwide. Instead, today authoritarian leaders are gaining power – from Trump’s US and Bolsonaro's Brazil to Orban's Hungary – while Russia and China have turned back towards their old, autocratic traditions. This...

Encyclopedia of Business & Finance 2 VOL SET(Encyclopedia of Business and Finance)

Macmillan Technical, 2006

Business is the backbone of American society and is one of the keys to making our system work as well as it has for over two hundred years. Yet as a body of knowledge, business is much younger, and in its brief history, there have been few attempts to present the discipline of business in a single place. The major purpose of the Encyclopedia of...

Tribal Politics in the Borderland of Egypt and Libya (Palgrave Series in African Borderlands Studies)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores the tribal politics of the Awlad ‘Ali Bedouin in the borderland of Egypt and Libya. These tribal politics are part of heterarchy in which sovereignty is shared between tribes, states and other groups and, within this dynamic setting, the local politicians of the Awlad ‘Ali are essential producers of order beyond...

Disinformation and Fake News

Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

This book is a collection of chapters penned by practitioners from around the world on the impact that disinformation and fake news has had in both the online and social sphere.

While much has been said about individual disinformation campaigns in specific countries, this book offers a panoramic view of how these...

Understanding and Deploying Ldap Directory Services

Macmillan Technical, 1998

This comprehensive tutorial provides the reader with a thorough treatment of LDAP directory services. Minimal knowledge of general networking and administration is assumed, making the material accessible to intermediate and advanced readers alike. Designed to meet multiple needs, the first part of the book presents a general overview...

Computer Sciences: Macmillan Science Library

Macmillan Technical, 2002

The science of computing has come a long way since the late 1930s, when John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry began work on the first electronic digital computer. One marvels to see how the science has advanced from the days of Charles Babbage, who developed the Difference Engine in the 1820s, and, later proposed the...

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