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Gender and action films 2000 and beyond
Gender and Action Films 2000 and Beyond: Transformations looks at Action Cinema from the old to the new, offering an exciting interrogation of the portrayal of gender in the new millennia. A necessity for academics, students and lovers of film and media and those interested in gender studies.
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Database management systems
Zygiaris provides an accessible walkthrough of all technological advances of databases in the business environment. Readers learn how to design, develop, and use databases to provide business analytical reports with the three major database management systems: Microsoft Access, Oracle Express and...
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Religion and belief literacy
This book presents a crisis of religion and belief literacy to which education at every level is challenged to respond. As understanding different religions, beliefs and influences becomes increasingly important, it fills a gap for a resource in bringing together the debates around religious lite...
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The extinction curve
Attempts to create a greener capitalism have failed and the world stands on the edge of a climate and ecological catastrophe. This book maps out a fresh direction - based on a democratic social, economic and sustainable ecological transformation in the interests of the global majority - and demon...
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Diversity in action
Diversity in Action: Managing Diverse Talent in a Global Economy highlights the latest development in relation to strategies and practices on diversity management, providing specific examples of how different talent diverse groups should be involved in organizational business processes and effect...
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Contemporary challenges of climate change, sustainable tourism consumption, and destination competitiveness
This volume presents twenty updated and new theories of travelers’ decisions and behaviors. The volume describes the advances in theory construction and practical applications of theory in the disciplines of tourism, hospitality, leisure, and entertainment (THLE) research.
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Critical race theory and the search for truth
This book presents a comprehensive exploration of Critical Race Theory, offering a clear understanding of its origins, the way it has been problematized and its potential for societal change. By examining the historical influence of imperialism and capitalism, the author critiques both liberal a...
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University-community partnerships for promoting social responsibility in higher education
This book provides empirical evidence on how universities have considered social responsibilities as their prime focus, and engaged with civil society to enhance their values. Case studies from Indonesia to the United Kingdom enrich the book through experience, interventions and narratives.
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Digital humanism
Digital Humanism explores how Humanism can help us to critically understand how digital technologies shape society and humanity, providing an introduction to Humanism in the digital age.
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Climate of denial
Many people today experience the climate crisis with a divided state of mind: aware of the extreme effects, but living everyday life as if the crisis is not actually happening. This book argues that this structure of feeling has roots that can be traced back to the nineteenth century, when Wester...
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Specifics of decision making in modern business systems
Specifics of Decision Making in Modern Business Systems focuses on the regularities and tendencies that are peculiar for the modern Russian practice of decision making in business systems, as well as the authors’ solutions for its optimization in view of new challenges and possibilities.
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The definitive guide to blockchain for accounting and business
Blockchain is a disruptive technology potentially impacting how economic transactions are recorded, stored, and verified. Despite such ramifications, there is a lack of literature discussing this from the accountant’s perspective. Through real-world cases this book distils an abstract technology ...
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Chinese families
Chinese societies have undergone a tremendous amount of social, political, and economic change, which have been a catalyst for substantial shifts in fundamental structures within Chinese families. This edited collection focuses on the continuities and changes in gender and inter-generational rela...
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Work and alienation in the platform economy
Once hidden behind the veils of entrepreneurship, it is now clear that platforms are reshaping the world of work, and Amazon has been a forerunner in setting the trend. This book examines two key and contrasting Amazon platforms that differ in how they organize workers: its e-commerce platform an...
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Research in economic history
Volume 34 contains articles on the economic history of Europe, North America and South America and brings new analysis, and newly created datasets to address issues of interest.
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Organizational hybridity
This book contains Open Access chapters This volume integrates and redirects research on organizational hybridity, the mixing of logics, forms, and identities that do not conventionally go together. It sets a foundation for continued analytical rigor and real-world relevance.
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Digital transformations of illicit drug markets
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The digital revolution has transformed the selling and buying of illicit substances, upending how the market is policed and regulated, as explored in this book.
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Inclusive socratic teaching
For more than fifty years, scholars have documented and critiqued the marginalizing effects of the Socratic teaching techniques that dominate law school classrooms. In spite of this, law school budgets, staffing models, and course requirements still center Socratic classrooms as the curricular co...
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Performance measurement and management control
This volume contains exemplary papers that were presented at the 2017 Conference on Performance Measurement and Management Control in Nice, France, by researchers in the field from North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia.
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Theory and method in higher education research
This volume of Theory and Method in Higher Education Research contains analyses and discussions of, amongst others, relational working, corpus linguistics, data dialogues, instrumental variables, participatory pedagogy, diverse participation, policy discourse, quality management and knowledge str...
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Gender and action films
Focusing on a less acknowledged period in Action Cinema history, Gender and Action Films prioritises female led action movies and champion a more meaningful interaction and representation between the Action genre and contemporary issues of race, sexuality, and gender.
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Politics and policy making in the uk
Over the past decade, the UK has experienced major policy and policy making change. This text examines this shifting political and policy landscape while also highlighting the features of UK politics that have endured. Written by Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin, leading voices in UK public policy a...
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Communication as gesture
This book critiques current assumptions about 'communication', particularly digitally mediated communication, by re-examining conceptual foundations in rhetoric, linguistics, semiotics, information theory, and cybernetics. The result is a dimensional account of interaction that is at once both in...
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Strategic information system agility
Ensuring an efficient and agile information system in organizations is a real challenge. Only an agile IT strategy can underpin this. Strategic Information System Agility offers methodological and practical support to achieve effective IT agility in complex and dynamic environments.
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Advances in group processes
This volume includes papers that address theoretical and empirical issues related to occupational deference structures, emotions generated by social identities, racial threat, sticky expectations, status and response latency, race and moral expectations in employment, comparison processes and com...
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Transforming healthcare in africa
The current available books and literature that shed light on health policies in many African countries are limited. This book examines the key players in the health system game in many African countries. It explores the regulatory regimes that impact the health systems, such as the Ministry of H...
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William a. paton
This groundbreaking study explores major influences on Paton’s thoughts on accounting and shows how Paton was an active participant in the professional accounting organizations of his day.
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Tensions and paradoxes in temporary organizing
This volume brings together empirical and conceptual papers that investigate the Tensions and Paradoxes in Temporary Organizing. Temporary organizing is a widespread phenomenon that continues to grow in importance, and reflects the uncertainty resulting from competition in globalized markets.
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Global historical sociology of race and racism
In this volume of Political Power and Social Theory, a special collection of papers reconsiders race and racism from global and historical perspectives. Together, these articles serve as an entry point for sharpening our sociological understandings of how racism operates in current times.
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Polis
A definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offe...
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Advances in management accounting
This volume of Advances in Management Accounting (AIMA) represents the diversity of management accounting topics, methods and author affiliation which form the basic tenets of AIMA.
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Health and labor markets
This volume investigates the relationship between a nation's health policies, employee health, and the resulting labor market outcomes. Containing nine original and innovative articles, it is a fundamental text for anyone interested in labor economics.
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Rape myths
Rape Myths: Understanding, Assessing, and Preventing is ideal for anyone wishing to know more about their theoretical background, prevalence, assessment, and functions. Outlining their meaning and foundations, this book also considers their conceptualisation and the construct of rape myth accepta...
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Skin, meaning, and symbolism in pet memorials
This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, afte...
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Cultivating gardens of god
This book deals with the theme of Kingdom of God in religion, politics and spirituality and strives to rethink and reconstitute it is as Gardens of God.
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Tech development through hrm
This book argues that knowledge management and HRM systems should be integrated. This integration provides the foundation for designing knowledge-oriented high-performance HR practices.
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Advances in taxation
Advances in Taxation is essential reading for those looking to keep abreast of the most recent research, including empirical studies using a variety of research methods from different institutional settings and contexts.
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Pervasive punishment
This book challenges the centrality of the prison in our understanding of punishment, inviting us to see, hear, imagine, analyse and restrain 'mass supervision'. Though rooted in social theory and social research, its innovative approach complements more conventional academic writing with photogr...
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How the west became antisemitic
An examination of how the Jews—real and imagined—so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new ways In medieval Europe, Jews were not passive victims of the Christian community, as is often assumed, but rath...
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Modeling economic growth in contemporary malaysia
This book considers crucial changes to Malaysian economic areas and social well-being. The chapters cover diverse industries such as IT, green technology, retailing, banking, tourism and hospitality, education, logistics, finance, banking, and many others.
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Emotions and negativity
The chapters in this volume of Research on Emotion in Organizations book show how negative emotions at work can be intense, and can be due to feelings of failure, rejection, job insecurity, negative feedback, stressful work demands, role conflict, unethical supervisor behaviours, and poor coping ...
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Australian metal music
This book explores heavy metal music in Australia, engaging with the nuanced ways in which metal music, scenes and cultures are experienced. Leading metal scholars and active scene members examine the diversity of practices, histories and identities within Australian metal music, and question wha...
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Employer engagement
Active labour market policies aim to assist people not in work to move into employment through a range of interventions including job search, preparation, training and in-work support and development. While policies, programmes and scholarship predominantly focus on jobseekers’ engagement with th...
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Sustainable entrepreneurship
Sustainable Entrepreneurship: How entrepreneurs create value from sustainable opportunities offers unique new insights, represents a step towards the development of a more comprehensive analysis of sustainable entrepreneurship.
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Human dignity
This special issue investigates the meaning of justice and dignity and how they have changed over time. What do we mean by human dignity? How do we understand and interpret that meaning? How has it evolved?
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Subcultures, bodies and spaces
This edited collection provides sociological and cultural research that expands our understanding of the alternative, liminal or transgressive; theorizing the status of the alternative in contemporary culture and society.
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Occupied words
How Yiddish changed to express and memorialize the trauma of the HolocaustThe Holocaust radically altered the way many East European Jews spoke Yiddish. Finding prewar language incapable of describing the imprisonment, death, and dehumanization of the Shoah, prisoners added or reinvented thousand...
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Elusive cures
A neuroscientist’s bold proposal for tackling one of the greatest challenges of our time—brain and mental illnessesBrain research has been accelerating rapidly in recent decades, but the translation of our many discoveries into treatments and cures for brain disorders has not happened as many exp...
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On practice and institution
The concepts of practice and institution are of longstanding importance across the social sciences, that have been too disconnected. Bringing together novel theoretical statements and empirical studies that bridge these social worlds, these two volumes provide a major touchstone for scholars inte...
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Exploring the roles and practices of libraries in prisons
Exploring the Roles and Practices of Libraries in Prisons aims to strengthen and expand the small body of knowledge currently published regarding libraries in prisons, with each chapter addressing different aspects of the roles and practices of library services to prisons and prisoners.
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