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Author: E. Bell
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-02-27
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1137505788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of five key policy areas, from welfare reform to foreign policy, demonstrates that the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition failed to fulfil its promise to reverse the rising power of the State. It exercised more subtle forms of 'soft power', often in partnership with the private sector, and to the detriment of ordinary citizens.
Author: J. Melissen
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-22
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0230554938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter 9/11, which triggered a global debate on public diplomacy, 'PD' has become an issue in most countries. This book joins the debate. Experts from different countries and from a variety of fields analyze the theory and practice of public diplomacy. They also evaluate how public diplomacy can be successfully used to support foreign policy.
Author: D. Das
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-08
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 113752927X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDuring the post-World War-II period, several Asian economies turned in stellar performances. This book addresses the all-important query regarding the ebullient growth performance of a group of dynamic Asian economies. Its principal focus is the so-called Asian growth model, which enabled them to achieve what became known as the 'miraculous' growth
Author: C. Carter
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-08
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 1137534052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCarter illuminates and validates the vital role of visioning in social education. The book features peace in social education with instructional recommendations, planning resources and descriptions of transdisciplinary learning. It elaborates mindful citizenship across social, environmental, ethical, geographic, economic and political realms.
Author: S. Lund
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-26
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1137480076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book enriches empirical and theoretical understandings of how school choice and school segregation are generated by the construction and negotiation of ethnic divisions by placing emphasis on feelings of belonging and we-ness as important structuring forces that guide and restrict students' school choices.
Author: C. Sá
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 113740101X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEntrepreneurship is widely embraced today in political discourse, popular culture, and economic policy prescriptions. Several groups actively promote entrepreneurial thinking and practices in higher education. This book examines how this 'Entrepreneurship Movement' impacts higher education in Canada and the United States.
Author: T. Thabet
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-04
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1137525541
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book provides a comprehensive application of narrative theory to video games, and presents the player-response paradigm of game criticism. Video Game Narrative and Criticism explains the nature of gameplay - a psychological experience and a meaning-making process in the fictional world of video games.
Author: E. Sandry
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-03-20
Total Pages: 205
ISBN-13: 1137468378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores communication between humans and robots. Using a range of communication theories, it highlights how each theory provides a different perspective on the communication that occurs. The analysis of human interactions with a variety of forms of robot suggests new ways to perceive what communication, and being a communicator, entails.
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-17
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1137528885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWe must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and markets that is more suitable to understand the present world and that is likely to offer us the tools to act, and perhaps improve it as well.
Author: M. Byron
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-04-24
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 1137535296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeviathan invests the sovereign with nearly absolute power, and that vast sovereign has drawn the reader's eye for 350 years. Yet Hobbes has much to say about subjects as well, and he articulates a normative conception of a good subject.
