This book presents the best papers from the first Management Theory Conference. Featuring the world’s top researchers, it showcases the latest theoretical developments, an award-winning paper, and a fascinating debate on the future of management theory.
Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Recessionary Times
This volume of papers in English analyzes the many changes in the Italian labour market. The book provides an international readership with a frame of reference for Italian Labour Law and adds a comparative dimension to the national reform debate.
This book studies how conflicts, changes, and ideologies appear in Hispanic discourse. It analyzes how ideological shifts of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries are reflected in the language, literature, and culture of Spain and Latin America.
Indigenous Perspectives of North America
Exploring contemporary Native reality, this volume unites researchers from diverse disciplines under the theme ‘Indigenous perspectives.’ Articles on human rights, law, and culture offer a platform for critical investigation and classroom discussion.
Mapping the Broad Field of Multicultural and Intercultural Education Worldwide
This volume addresses core matters in diverse societies, from the needs of migrant populations to enriching school curricula with new intercultural dimensions. It highlights the importance of Intercultural Education in developing a new, dynamic citizen.
Communicating without Language and Grammar
This book introduces a new hard science, born from the effort to solve the problems of linguistics. This new approach provides a scientific theory that unifies the hard sciences, soft sciences, and the humanities, focusing on people, not abstract grammar or language.
The Carer’s Role in Recovery
After a disabling stroke left Karin Cox dependent on full-time care, she and her husband investigated the world of social care. This book combines their experiences with wider research to highlight their belief that person-centred care is fundamental to recovery.
Iran, Turkey and the Levant
The endless wars in the Levant have allowed Iran and Turkey to shift toward militarized nationalism and reshape their authoritarian rule. This book offers new perspectives on the resilience of authoritarianism, highlighting its connection to the region’s protracted conflicts.
This book explores conventional breeding and modern molecular techniques to enhance yield, quality, and resilience in major cereals. It bridges foundational principles with cutting-edge innovations, providing an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, and students.
Using autobiographies from transgender and intersex lives, this book challenges static notions of gender. It reveals how identity is shaped by the material world, offering a nuanced analysis of gender as a fluid, evolving experience for anyone seeking a deeper understanding.
This practical book provides comprehensive coverage of key terms in language syllabus design and materials development. It offers clear, concise definitions, serving as an essential source for curriculum researchers, language educators, and students of applied linguistics.
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.
Through in-depth interviews with luminaries in public health, this book explores the effective leadership skills required to navigate modern healthcare crises. Conversations highlight shared challenges, effective communication, and making difficult decisions for the greater good.
Teaching English in Multilingual Secondary Schools
This book argues that to effectively teach English to a multilingual population, teaching must be done in the child’s own language. Teachers must realize this is the key to effective learning and ensuring no hard barriers exist. For students in ELT, Linguistics, and Education.
The Social-Structural Determinants of Health
An understanding of the human body and mind is incomplete without examining the social environment. Social forces create conditions that can either strengthen or undermine the wellbeing of individuals, groups, and entire communities—the social-structural determinants of health.
Coevolution of Mutualistic Species Assemblages
While new evidence suggests complex human societies preceded agriculture, little attention has been given to how humans extended cooperation to animals. This book provides a novel framework, offering insight into our coevolution with nonhuman animals.
This book uses food and feasts as a tool to understand the social organisation of the Newāḥ of Nepal. It details life-cycle rituals and kinship obligations to exchange food, considering married daughters’ special role, to show how sharing is an integral part of their culture.
Politics and Left Politics
This unapologetically political study of the Left outlines the core ideas of Socialism, Humanism, and Emancipation. It argues for a better Left, one that can change the world.
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.
Holocaust Memorial Day in Britain
How is Holocaust Memorial Day commemorated in Britain? This book analyses TV, radio, and national ceremonies to reveal how these events are tied to collective identity, politics, and power, focusing on their rhetorical, normative and affective dimensions.
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