New approaches to recruitment and selection

Current recruitment practices are a cloning process which seeks to match applicants with their corporate culture. This ignores applicants with different points of view and differing value systems. The authors explore the idea that, while all organisations should promote their core values, the app...

Organizing for societal grand challenges

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Organizing for Societal Grand Challenges unpacks how diverse forms of organizing help tackle-or reinforce-grand challenges,while emphasizing the need for researchers to expand their methodological repertoire and r...

Enemy alien

Finalist for the 2026 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize, BC & Yukon Book Prizes The first publication devoted to Tamio Wakayama’s remarkable photographic career, Enemy Alien shares unpublished photos and a memoir by the artist about his life working alongside activist movements and in vibran...

Small business management and control of the uncertain external environment

This edited collection investigates the potential impact of long-term planning and strategic awareness on the ability of SMEs to remain competitive. The authors demonstrate that whether SMEs are able to identify and act upon external forces and factors, or not, is the defining indicator of their ...

Rich crime, poor crime

An important and challenging book comprehensively spanning across the establishment of power systems, Rich Crime, Poor Crime is a vital read for academics, professionals and those interested in the fields of history, sociology, criminology, and politics.

Big data applications in labor economics

This volume contains an Open Access chapter. This volume showcases original research using Big Data to gain fresh insights into how labor markets work, compiled by Solomon Polachek, a pioneer in gender-related labor market research, and Benjamin Elsner, an expert on causal inference and the econo...

Radical hope

In this seminal book, Krumer-Nevo introduces the Poverty-Aware Paradigm: a radical new framework for social workers and professionals working with and for people in poverty. The author defines the core components of the Poverty-Aware Paradigm, explicates its embeddedness in key theories in pover...

Storytelling

Exploring the potential for storytelling as a creative practice for health and well-being, Michael Wilson considers how the art form might help us reconsider the power relationships in healthcare contexts and restore agency to patients, in partnership with medical professionals.

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Faulkner's people

Faulkner's People is an essential reference for the student and general reader of Faulkner who seeks guidance in identifying and interrelating the more than 1,200 characters in Faulkner’s novels, short stories, and sketches. The book will help even experienced readers make their way through the ...

Criminal justice responses to maternal filicide

Milne provides a comprehensive analysis of conviction outcomes through court transcripts of 14 criminal cases in England and Wales during 2010 to 2019. Drawing on feminist theories of responsibilisation and 'gendered harm', she critically reflects on the gendered nature of criminal justice's resp...

When reproduction meets ageing

When Reproduction meets Ageing questions the nature of reproductive ageing and reproductive biomedicine.

Unifying the field of digital twins for urban management

Unifying the Field of Digital Twins for Urban Management presents a holistic and integrated approach to the rapidly evolving field of digital twins for urban management. The framework offers a structured approach that encompasses both theoretical underpinnings and practical applications.

Roadmap

What do you say when a potential employer asks, "Tell me about a project that you have managed and what you learned from that experience; tell me specifically about how you handled a difficult team member in implementing the project?" If you are like most law students, the slightest mention of "p...

Georges braque’s post-cubism masterpieces

The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’...

The emerald guide to zygmunt bauman

This book is the first introductory guide to the work of Zygmunt Bauman, designed specifically for students and those new to his work. It provides a firm foundation for the independent reading of Bauman and for exploring the many interpretations of his influential ideas.

Essentials and assessment of risk management

The first volume of The FERMA-rimap Series describes the principles of risk and enterprise risk management (ERM) as well as the aims and benefits of an effective enterprise risk management.

The international air cargo industry

The International Air Cargo Industry: A Modal Analysis provides an objective “snapshot” of this fascinating industry from the perspective of those who conduct academic research into its expansion and consolidation covering three broad economic areas: costs, demand, and development.

A simple matter of salt

Why do certain easily preventable diseases persist in the modern world? Renate Lellep Fernandez sheds light on this paradox by investigating the high incidence of iodine deficiency disease (IDD) among mountain villagers in northern Spain. Just as the mystery of non-prevention leads the author far...

The fabrication of labor

This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamen...

Social work in a diverse society

The gap between the theory and the practice of working with Black and minority ethnic groups presents an ongoing conundrum for social work. This exciting textbook presents a new theory based on a rich understanding of the constraints and creativities of practice. Taking a transformative approac...

Left-wing populism

This book conceptualizes left-wing populism as a combination of the populist impetus of expanding representation, through the appeal to 'the people' against 'the elites' and the agenda of the left to promote equality and social justice. This study undertakes an in-depth exploration into the conce...

Crocosmia

A revelatory novel (or parable) of art, adventure, and radical politics, set in a world on the precipice.A philosophical fable, Crocosmia centers on Maya as she recollects the “great turning”—a moment of radical social and ecological change effected in part by the art of her mother, Jane. As Maya...

The devil's best trick

Part true crime story, part religious and literary history, an investigation into the nature of evil and the figure of the Devil by acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan Throughout history, humans have struggled to explain the evils of the world and the darkest parts of ourselves. The Devil’s Bes...

Hear our stories

Despite focused efforts to stop the perpetration of campus sexual violence, the statistic that one in four college women will experience such violence has remained steady over the last sixty years. The number of higher education institutions under federal Title IX investigation for mishandling se...

Managing destinations

Topics covered include policy, planning and strategy, stakeholders, new markets, infrastructure, transport and research and knowledge transfer with contributions from countries as diverse as Brazil, Croatia, Italy, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Spain.

Problematising young people

By utilising various strands of theoretical and empirical material, this book focuses on young people to provide an ethnographic investigation of the nexus of elements that conditioned the possibility for the everyday social practice of ADHD to be in place within an NHS region in Scotland.

Nurturing wellbeing in academia

Written with a core understanding of wellbeing and the different challenges and stresses on our mental health, this easily digestible and accessible text encourages those in academia to reflect upon how they are functioning, both in and out of the classroom, offering a range of suggestions for sm...

Higher education and sdg14

Uniting real-world crises with everyday research and learning, this pioneering work champions the importance of governance and global cooperation for enacting era-defining change and sustaining and protecting life below water.

The difference

In this landmark book, Scott Page redefines the way we understand ourselves in relation to one another. The Difference is about how we think in groups—and how our collective wisdom exceeds the sum of its parts. Why can teams of people find better solutions than brilliant individuals working alone...

New perspectives on critical marketing and consumer society

Digital communication has altered the flow of global information,evolved consumer values and changed consumption practices worldwide.New Perspectives on Critical Marketing and Consumer Society provides an illuminating, challenging and thought-provoking guide for all upper-level students of market...

Appreciation post

What does an art history of Instagram look like? Appreciation Post reveals how Instagram shifts long-established ways of interacting with images. Tara Ward argues Instagram is a structure of the visual, which includes not just the process of looking, but what can be seen and by whom. She examines...

European cooperation in higher education

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Iryna Kushnir examines the perspectives from the four founding higher education stakeholders of the The European Higher Education Area through the lens of rationale-choice neoinstitutionalist view of Europeanisation.

Male rape victimisation on screen

Focusing on the under-researched area of male sexual assault, this book reveals how seemingly harmless humour can infiltrate how we think about violent and victimising behaviours.

Shell shocked

Gripping eye-witness account of Operation Protective Edge by only Palestinian reporting in English from Gaza during Israel's 2014 assault.

The intentional teacher

Seminal Text Updated and Revised Teachers of young children have turned to this book again and again for guidance on how to intentionally engage young children in meaningful learning across domains and content areas. Updated by subject matter experts and based on current thinking in each content ...

Lessons in diplomacy

Is a diplomat’s life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup d’état in Turkey? Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who held posts in Ukraine, Turkey and Austria. In this witty globe-trotting adventure through one of the most intriguing careers a person can have, Lei...

Sustainability in light of governance and artificial intelligence applications

The research presented here emphasizes the vital role of governance and artificial intelligence in ensuring business sustainability across various industries, highlighting the key elements that show how business governance and AI impact company survival.

Fuel

The poems in Fuel pick at the weave of oil-soaked world orders to interrogate the ways capitalist death-drive seeps into our unconscious lives. Traversing multivalent intimacies from the underworld of California’s Central Valley oil fields to the quotidian domestic and love’s painful retraction, ...

Golden states

Whether they were utopian communitarians, sun-seeking gurus, or Protestant health reformers, Southern California's spiritual seekers drew on the United States' deepening global encounters and consumer cultures to pair religious and personal reinvention with cultural and spiritual revitalization. ...

Schooling in capitalist america

A classic work of radical educational theory and a progressive economic vision of equity and equality in America's schools.

Growth, poverty and developmental aspects of agriculture

This collected edition delves into diverse aspects of agricultural economics and food security across various regions.

The market for skill

How apprenticeship shaped the English economy Apprenticeship dominated training and skill formation in early modern Europe. Years spent learning from a skilled master were a nearly universal experience for young workers in crafts and trade. In England, when apprenticeship reached its peak, as man...

Advances in hospitality and leisure

This nineteenth annual volume of Advances in Hospitality and Leisure includes full papers and research notes. Articles involve a quantitative or qualitative approach along with conceptual models.