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Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist,  1780–1915
Women, Performance and the Material of Memory: The Archival Tourist, 1780–1915

This book proposes that the performance of archival research is related to the experience of tourism, where an individual immerses herself in a foreign environment, relating to and analyzing visual and sensory materials through embodiment and enactment. Each chapter highlights a particular set of tangible objects including: pocket...

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas
Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas
This volume explores the governance patterns of three cities of the Americas, Seattle, Montreal, and Curitiba, which all present different but interesting  cases in dealing with  sustainable urban transport challenges. The authors study empirical  data from these three cities to analyze how specific governmental and...
Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return
Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct areas and addresses the different approaches and the range...

Inspectors and Enforcement at the Front Line of Government
Inspectors and Enforcement at the Front Line of Government
This book explores the social dynamics of the interaction between inspectors and their inspectees in the public sector. Government inspectors have a crucial role in enforcing rules and standards. The role of inspectors has changed. Their task is no longer to merely inspect and enforce, but also to educate, to negotiate, and to make compromises....
Reading Breath in Literature (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)
Reading Breath in Literature (Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine)

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments. Breath, for all its ubiquity in literary texts, has received little attention as a transhistorical literary device. Drawing together scholars of Medieval...

The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)
The Discourse of Security: Language, Illiberalism and Governmentality (Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse)

This book explores how language constructs the meaning and praxis of security in the 21st century. Combining the latest critical theories in poststructuralist and political philosophy with discourse analysis techniques, it uses corpus tools to investigate four collections of documents harvested from national and...

Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Genders and Sexualities in History)
Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the Eighteenth Century to the Present (Genders and Sexualities in History)
This book investigates the wide-ranging connections between sculpture, sexuality, and history in Western culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Sculpture has offered a privileged site for the articulation of sexual experience and the formation of sexual knowledge. As historical objects, sculptures also draw attention to the...
Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
Positioning Theory in Applied Linguistics: Research Design and Applications
This book is about Positioning Theory (Davies & Harré, 1990) and its potential applications in bilingual and multilingual contexts involving teachers, learners, speakers, and users of a second/foreign or additional language. By using Positioning Theory as a theoretical lens and analytical approach, the author illustrates how various...
Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Service Industries
Managing Employee Well-being and Resilience for Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge-intensive Service Industries

This book employs a multidisciplinary and multi-level perspective to understand how well-being and resilience can influence innovation in knowledge-intensive contexts. Building on the authors’ work in the areas of innovation management, human resource management and the psychological aspects of employee well-being, rich...

Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)
Ecosystem Services: Economics and Policy (Palgrave Studies in Natural Resource Management)

This book bridges the gap between economic and ecological theory and practice. Its main focus is on how the principles of the Austrian School of economics could improve the validity of Ecosystem Services.

The concept of ‘Ecosystem Services’ is a relatively recent innovation in environmental thought. The...

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

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...

Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions (The European Union in International Affairs)
Shaping the EU Global Strategy: Partners and Perceptions (The European Union in International Affairs)
This book explores the images and perceptions of the EU in the eyes of their Strategic Partners. Spanning four continents, these ten important global actors – the BRICS together with the USA, Canada, Japan, South Korea and Mexico – are of profound significance to the EU in economics, politics, security and global governance. In 2015,...
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