The smart city in a digital world

This book looks at what makes a city smart by describing, challenging, and offering democratic alternatives to the view that the answer begins and ends with technology. Drawing on worldwide case studies documenting the redevelopment of old and the creation of new cities, it provides an essential ...

Diversity in criminology and criminal justice studies

This volume explores the theoretical and methodological maturity and diversity in reflexive accounts of criminology and criminal justice in a number of areas, such as and teaching and research in criminology, queer criminology, the intersections of race and gender, indigeneity and decolonization,...

Becoming little shell

Winner of the Reading the West Book AwardWinner of the Pacific Northwest Book AwardA People Best Memoir of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of the Year SelectionA Book Riot Best Book of the Year“I’m in awe of Chris La Tray’s storytelling. Becoming Little Shell creates a multilayered narra...

Communicating social and environmental issues effectively

This is the definitive guide to planning and delivering great communications on complex social and environmental issues. Including real-world case studies, practical exercises and clear frameworks, this book helps leaders, managers and marketing professionals plan, risk-proof and execute effectiv...

World class cooking for solving global challenges

In this book, Mercier-Laurent and Edvinsson consider a cutting-edge thought methodology for solving global challenges - by looking at societal innovation through the lens of an analogy to cooking. How might we apply the power of cooking to connect imagination, knowledge, know-how and pleasure to ...

Translating knowledge management visions into strategies

There is a critical point of failure for every knowledge management effort: when the strategy is isolated from the organization, and when there is no vision anchoring the strategy. This book guides professionals in learning to create a foundation for 21st century knowledge organizations.

Gender and contemporary horror in comics, games and transmedia

Despite the constant changes in contemporary popular media, the horror genre retains its attraction for audiences of all backgrounds. This edited collection explores modern representations of gender in horror and how this factors into the genre's appeal.

Contemporary issues in financial economics

Volume 37 of Research in Finance, Contemporary Issues in Financial Economics, presents an extensive collection of chapters that combine real world studies and theories of finance to investigate a variety of topics.

Statistical tableau

Leadership, communication, and social influence

Designed for leadership and communication students, scholars, and practitioners, this book offers a timely exploration into the evolution of leadership, communication, and social influence, and sheds light on how we can all become more responsible leaders, followers, and citizens.

International perspectives on emerging trends and integrating research-based learning across the curriculum

Research based universities occupy prime position have multiple roles to play beyond teaching, learning and supporting the academic achievements of students. Offering an international perspective, this book demonstrates how these emerging trends are being viewed across different countries with a ...

Gender and contemporary horror in television

Horror has found a resurgence on television in the post-millennial years. This book will investigate the changing and challenging roles that gender has undergone in TV horror, examining a range of shows, including Hannibal, American Horror Story, The Walking Dead, Penny Dreadful, Supernatural, Th...

Strategic responses for a sustainable future

Strategic Responses for a Sustainable Future considers how modern organizations can respond to and deal with increasingly uncertain environmental conditions with the aim of creating effective solutions that can sustain business growth and performance.

Three ways to fail

An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurperHow do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure—bot...

Organization theory meets strategy

Organization Theory Meets Strategy brings together researchers who work at the intersection of Organization Theory and Strategy to fuel cutting edge discussions around common questions and challenges faced by researchers working in this area.

Research in the sociology of education

Featuring research from settings as diverse as rural China, Germany and the United States, as well as two cross-national comparative studies, this insightful volume demonstrates that many educational issues (including student victimization and STEM outcomes) are not limited to specific societies ...

Talent management

This book contains an Open Access chapter. Aimed at researchers, postgraduate students, and professionals in the field, Talent Management: A Decade of Developments charts the evolution of talent management, illustrating the progress, prospects, and challenges that have transpired over the last te...

Strategic outlook in business and finance innovation

Strategic Outlook in Business and Finance Innovation: Multidimensional Policies for Emerging Economies brings together new theoretical frameworks and develops appropriate strategies to improve the performance of firms globally.

Advances in mergers and acquisitions

Volume 22 explores a range of issues relevant to a post-pandemic world– the cost-of-living crisis, energy insecurity, war in Ukraine and rising inflation are pushing many countries into recession, adversely affecting the global economy and leading to downsizing, restructurings and inevitably an i...

Philadelphia

A comprehensive history of Philadelphia from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first centuryPhiladelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of th...

Reconsidering patient centred care

Through the detailed examination of a large corpus of healthcare interactions collected from a range of settings over a 25 year period, Pilnick illustrates the ways in which there are good organisational and interactional reasons for what may look from a PCC perspective like ‘bad’ healthcare prac...

Interdisciplinary dialogues on organizational paradox

Interdisciplinary Dialogues on Organizational Paradox is an innovative two-part volume that enriches our understanding about paradox. Part B continues the exploration of the why, how and where of interdisciplinary research within paradox theory by looking at the realms of social structure and exp...

Achieving net zero

Achieving Net Zero brings together chapters to examine these challenges from a range of perspectives, various regions and industries. From steps on the journey to net zero and sustainability rhetoric, to case studies in Angola and Mauritius, this collection helps facilitate best practice that can...

The birds in the oaks

The first book on the birds of California's oaks, from our most lyrical and observant wanderer of the woods.With charm and delight, The Birds in the Oaks introduces us to the birds who burrow, forage, and soar among California's keystone trees. The mighty oak hosts a multitude of avian denizens—f...

Studies in law, politics, and society

This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society examines how law understands the past. Topics covered include the use of legal language to dehumanize slaves in the eighteenth century, the use of history by lawyers and judges to justify existing law or make changes to the law during th...

Transcendent development

Transcendent Development contains morally courageous, creative storytelling prose offering paradigm shifts, empirical evidence and surprising “antenarratives” that explain how a harmonious Africa may be realised, starting in the Mother Continent’s Southern-most tip.

Understanding the mexican economy

This book provides a full, historical, economic, and political context through which to understand the actions of the people and government of Mexico, and it gives insights into how those actions impinge -- and might continue to impinge -- on the United States.

Social factors, health care inequities and vaccination

Employing a sociological and broader social sciences approach, this volume draws on a variety of contexts, including the COVID-19 pandemic, to explore wider trends in healthcare and the impact they may have on historically disadvantaged communities.

Leadership u: preparing students for college, career, and beyond

Welcome to Leadership U., a comprehensive, equitably designed college and career preparation program for students in grades four through twelve intended to complement the academic groundwork being laid by educators. Early and ongoing intervention is known to be a critical element in increasing th...

The economics of covid-19

The Economics of COVID-19 contains selected contributions analysing the effects of the global pandemic on macroeconomics, computable general equilibrium models and financial markets, as well as health studies proposing to improve the traditional epidemic models.

Reputation management

The book aims to give senior executives and communications professionals a guide to the importance of reputation (in terms of how positively or negatively an organisation is perceived by stakeholders such as employees, customers and members of the media), and inspire their thinking in managing re...

Festschrift in honor of david r. maines

Highlighting the significance of Maines’ works in symbolic interactionism, Volume 57 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction documents his most celebrated areas of scholarship, including social structure, narrative sociology, social interaction, dialectic perspective, temporality, and mesostructure.

The (latin) american scene, present and future (im-)perfect

The author converses with five noted scholars who have done important academic work in the United States since the 1980s. The conversations address academic agendas and university life dilemmas in the vicinity of the signs “Latin” and “Hispanic” in the United States. The volume addresses Spanish ...

Sports charity and gendered labour

Sports Charity and Gendered Labour provides examples for teaching and knowledge sharing across analyses of gender, sport, leisure, health and wellbeing in ways that will have broad relevance to a range of audiences.

Social sciences

Are the social sciences a dying fire? This book skilfully lays out how, apart from their misguided approach to knowledge production and specializations, social sciences continue to remain prisoners of a prescribed historical, cultural and anthropogenic narrative.

Perspectives on access to higher education

This book brings together researchers and practitioners to critically reflect upon the current diversity of Access to Higher Education programmes and their different perspectives on widening participation and access education.

Entrepreneurship development in the balkans

Entrepreneurship Development in the Balkans directly engages questions of innovation and risk management within various types of entrepreneurship, including female, social, migrant, and corporate entrepreneurship in the context of the Balkans.

Music in orbit

Years before the advent of music streaming, Sirius and XM established satellite radio services that attracted paying subscribers through their ever-expanding lineup of niche music channels and exclusive celebrity-hosted programming. Music in Orbit is the first book to explore how satellite radio...

Working-class schooling in post-industrial britain

Providing a historical development of the UK education system and its policies, Alex McInch offers insight on how structural decisions impact how working-class pupils view and navigate the educational field. 

Wayi wah! indigenous pedagogies

★ Starred selection for CCBC's Best Books Ideal for Teachers 2023!Now a National Best Seller! How can Indigenous knowledge systems inform our teaching practices and enhance education? How do we create an education system that embodies an anti-racist approach and equity for all learners? This pow...

Critical realism, history, and philosophy in the social sciences

This volume examines the relationship between history, philosophy, and social science, and contributors explore questions concerning realism, ontology, causation, explanation, and values in order to address the question “what does a post-positivist social science look like?”

Organizational wrongdoing as the “foundational” grand challenge

Organizational Wrongdoing as the “Foundational” Grand Challenge: Definitions and Antecedents consolidates and extends knowledge on the subject of organizational wrongdoing and highlights potential directions for future research.

Touristic world-making and fan pilgrimage in popular culture destinations

This volume considers world-making as the intersection of the fan pilgrimage experience and the responses of destinations. It examines the emerging field of popular culture tourism and its connection with fan studies and placemaking. It integrates theory and practice and provides evidence-based r...

Listening without borders

This book asks what it takes for people to encounter one another ethically when practices, worldviews and imaginations clash. It uses ‘listening’ as an encompassing metaphor for attending to others and engages over 40 contributors across geographies, disciplines, art forms and practices in a conv...

Teacher preparation in the united states

Starting in New England with academies, seminaries, institutes, and the birth of the state normal schools, Kelly Kolodny and Mary-Lou Breitborde explore the origins of teacher preparation in the United States as these schools expanded geographically, in substance and form, throughout the south an...

Entrepreneurship for social change

Social entrepreneurship is revolutionizing the way societal challenges are being approached and solved. Instead of waiting for government or big business to take action, individuals across the world are developing and implementing innovative, effective, and sustainable solutions to some of our mo...

Navigating the investment minefield

H. Kent Baker and Vesa Puttonen show new investors how to avoid rash financial decisions and basic investing sins. They help them to recognize and avoid common investing mistakes, behavioral biases, and traps that can affect sound judgment and reduce wealth. Ultimately, they explain how to separa...

Sport and tourism

In confronting growing concerns around environmental, social and economic issues facing sports and tourism, this collection presents different perspectives to develop new plans for future needs and problems.

The skills advantage

Anish Lalchandani provides reskilling strategies that align the organization and the individual’s needs – including practical application, agility, and building alliances for an ecosystem-based reskilling strategy. With case studies and practical steps, you will discover how skills are the new cu...