This practical guide helps disability services staff use data analytics to improve services for adult learners. With a statistics primer, practical tools, and 30 case studies, learn to identify targeted interventions, demonstrate your value, and practice continuous improvement.
Latin American Buen Vivir and Rights of Nature
This book challenges the UN’s development goals with Ecuador’s “Good Living.” It champions the indigenous, biocentric worldview: “Let Mother Earth lead.” Human governance must follow the laws of the earth. A provocative and essential read for a world seeking a new path.
This book introduces the High-Performance Organization (HPO) cultural framework, an evidence-based model for driving sustainable change. Discover actionable insights to fuel innovation, optimize talent management, boost performance, and elevate employee engagement.
A legacy of the Napoleonic era, the Baccalauréat exam has long mirrored French society. This book hones on its first century, tracing its evolution from a single oral exam into a complex, standardized test battery designed to channel the nation’s academic elite.
A Shakespearean Reading of Pirandello’s Henry IV
This innovative comparative analysis of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Pirandello’s Enrico IV delves into the intertextual relationship between the two tragedies, presenting an original interpretation that connects concepts like original sin, farce, and simulacrum.
What is rational choice? Can a society make rational decisions? This book is a primer in rational and social choice theory for students and teachers. An up-to-date textbook full of examples and exercises, it combines formal results with the latest research.
A Critique of British Marxism
This book argues that the British Marxist focus on human agency is misconceived. It recommends recovering classical concepts like ‘modes of production’ and focusing on the ideological unconscious, resulting in a radically new take on the history of ideological production.
An adventure into the hidden connections that unite science and the humanities. Discover how mathematics can be a humanistic subject and science a branch of literature, where discoveries can be examined like fairy tales and rigor is a form of aesthetic research.
Uniting traditional and technological sustainability, this book explores the India-Japan partnership’s potential. It delves into new tech, international relations, and climate change, offering a forward-looking perspective on sustainable development for policymakers and industry.
Black Hamlet, The Play
A newly discovered stage version of the famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, dramatised by its author, Wulf Sachs, and screenwriter John Bright. This extraordinary play, written in 1949, foresees the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system before the menace had begun.
African Tragedy
Unknown since 1946, African Tragedy is the original version of Wulf Sachs’s famous Black Hamlet. This enthralling novel tells the story of John Chawafambira, an nganga in a psychic and political struggle within the inhospitable Johannesburg of the 1930s.
Private Instincts and Public Ideals
How do you choose a school? Most guides focus only on your child’s success. This collection of essays features parents who also consider the flourishing of others, equal opportunity, and diverse schools. Their stories will challenge and enrich your own parenting journey.
Origins of Power Struggles
The cause of evil is human nature. Progress depends on political-legal institutions, not improved morality. This book reinterprets history, showing how 20th century Communism betrays socialist utopianism and is a modernized restoration of traditional tyranny.
A Historical Social Science of Modernity’s Climate Catastrophe
We are changing the Earth’s climate in dangerous ways. This unorthodox text mixes fact, fiction, and prediction to locate climate change at the centre of future social change, creating a scenario where empathy triumphs over toxic politics and unsustainable economics.
What did the creators of the ancient Yijing (Book of Changes) think about the mind and the universe? This book explores the connections between modern quantum science and the Yijing, showing how the principles of quantum theory were also contemplated by its creators.
Understanding Digital Labour Platforms
Dive into the future of work as digital platforms reshape the global labour market. This essential guide examines the gig economy through economic, social, and legal perspectives, offering invaluable insights for navigating the new employment landscape.
Rural Industry Development
This book explores the “whole of chain approach” to improve farmers’ livelihoods in developing countries. It provides a methodology to evaluate this approach and offers lessons for practitioners, policymakers, and businesses on linking farmers to the market.
Exploring New Occupational Discourses and Identities across Genres
This collection explores the reconceptualisation of work following the Great Resignation. Focusing on Millennials and Gen Z, it investigates shifting narratives on work-life balance, well-being, and the new power dynamics between employers and employees in a post-COVID world.
Activism in the Works of the Beat Generation
For the Beat Generation, the city was the stage. This book traces the literary maps of writers like Kerouac and Ginsberg, revealing how they used urban spaces to challenge norms on gender, race, and class, and uncovering their lasting legacy on modern culture.
In a series of judgments, an error in one is passed to the next because each judgment acts as a reference point for its successor. This book explores this phenomenon, known as ‘absolute identification,’ and the biases that result. A key text for psychologists studying judgment.