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Enabling Sustainable Energy Transitions: Practices of legitimation and accountable governance

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This open access book reframes sustainable energy transitions as being a matter of resolving accountability crises. It demonstrates how the empirical study of several practices of legitimation can analytically deconstruct energy transitions, and presents a typology of these practices to help determine whether energy...

How to Program Using C++

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Welcome to a book about learning to program.

Before we go any further, you need to be absolutely clear about what it is that you are holding in your hand. This is possibly a book with the name of a programming language in the title that is unlike any book with the name of a programming language in the title that you have encountered...

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

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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...

Refugee Protection and Civil Society in Europe

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This volume analyses civil society as an important factor in the European refugee regime. Based on empirical research, the chapters explore different aspects, structures and forms of civil society engagement during and after 2015. Various institutional, collective and individual activities are...

Global Intellectual Property Rights: Knowledge, Access and Development

Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Intellectual property rights such as patents can reduce access to knowledge in genetics, health, agriculture, education, and information technology, particularly for people in developing countries. Global Intellectual Property Rights shows how the new global rules of intellectual property have been the product of the strategic behavior of...

King Zeno: A Novel

Macmillan Technical, 2018

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Paris Review Staff Pick

A January Pick by Salon, Town and Country, Southern Living, and LA Magazine

New Orleans, 1918. The birth of jazz, the Spanish flu, an ax murderer on the loose. The lives of a...

Open Source Leadership

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

'Why do we have so many theories of leadership? Because none of them work very well all of the time. For 70 years we have spewed out content leadership theories. In the new digital world of the twenty-first century we need a new leadership theory. This is it! Open Source Leadership is a process theory ruled by attention, awareness, intention!and,...

Governance and Sustainable Urban Transport in the Americas

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

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...

My Life in Football - The Autobiography

Pan Macmillan, 2019

Kevin Keegan’s illustrious career in professional football has marked him out as one of the most charismatic, talented and decorated men in the history of the sport. As a player, he is best known for a legendary 1970s spell at Liverpool under Bill Shankly then Bob Paisley. In six seasons Keegan played a pivotal role in Liverpool winning...

Climate and Energy Governance for the UK Low Carbon Transition: The Climate Change Act 2008

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

The UK Climate Change Act was the first case of a country implementing blanket legally binding long-term emissions reduction targets in order to combat climate change. This book provides the first accessible and in-depth analysis of the UK’s complex Climate Change Act framework, presenting the discussion in a...

Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

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...

Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2021

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated...

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