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This comprehensive and stimulating Handbook examines the
contribution of political economy to public policy. It provides an
overview of several strands of critical political economy,
supported by case studies from OECD countries, Latin America, South
Africa, and South and East Asia. With discussions on key theories
of political economy, the Handbook introduces cultural and feminist
political economies, engaging critically with ordoliberalism and
New Public Management. Chapters feature discussions on political
economic approaches to the global division of labor,
financialization and dispossession in Latin America, ecological
perspectives on sustainability in China, global exploitation chains
in agriculture, and postcolonial criticisms of economic
development. The Handbook concludes with an exploration of the
relationship between political economy and social policy, global
health, and public policies. Providing a combination of critical
engagement with the various theories of political economy and their
application to key economic policies, this will be essential
reading for students and academics in comparative politics,
economics and finance, international relations, political economy,
public policy, and political science. Policymakers interested in
addressing socially and environmentally unsustainable practices
will also find this an illuminating and informative resource.
Nearly all the discussions to date about BRICS have been
uncritical. Many well-known analysts have greeted it with outright
enthusiasm, on the mistaken perception that it represents a new
power bloc that will democratise the world order or offer an
emerging economic market for financial investors. A recent New York
Times editorial claimed, for instance, that the BRICS countries
“aimed at challenging the American-led global economic order”,
while the Mail & Guardian pronounced, “South Africa is the
nation that stands to benefit the most”. This volume aims to fill a
gap in studies of BRICS. It offers a critical analysis of the rise
of the BRICS countries’ economies within the framework of a global
capitalism that is increasingly predatory, exclusionary and
unequal, no more so than in the BRICS countries themselves. The
authors reflect upon the rise of a Global South (and East), which
is sometimes cooperative with and sometimes antagonistic to the
traditional powers of the US, Europe and Japan. Most importantly,
BRICS’s rise occurs in the context of the expansion of capitalism
in the 21st century, and also in the midst of world capitalism’s
worst crisis since the 1930s. The point of this analysis is,
firstly, to promote debate between social movements, organised
labour and other activists in the struggle for social justice and
for alternatives to the current international capitalist order.
BRICS is a new area of concern for many. The second goal is to
generate critical debate on contemporary themes and theoretical
discussions. The book will be required reading for those who wish
to have an alternative perspective on this Global south
partnership.
This timely and accessible volume explores how our understanding of
research in child development can help cultivate the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes children need for informed and thoughtful
participation in society by viewing the curriculum through a
developmental lens. Gordon Biddle and Garcia-Nevarez cover a range
of key topics including characteristics of physical, cognitive, and
psychosocial development of children; heritable and environmental
influences on children's developing self; language and literacy
development; mathematical cognition; growth mindsets; and
evidence-based positive behavioral interventions and supports. The
expert team of contributors offers an advanced exploration of
developmental science and how this applies to learning and
education in order to create inclusive environments that support
children with a range of abilities, including those with the most
significant medical, intellectual, and developmental delays. Each
chapter contains boxes exploring how the topic relates to the
themes of "Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Theory,"
"Research to Practice Connection," "Common Core and Other
Standards," and "Social Justice and Diversity," ensuring
comprehensive and consistent coverage across the volume.
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction will be
essential reading for students of child development and education,
as well as educators and those in teacher training who are
interested in how theory and research can be effectively harnessed
to improve children's outcomes.
This timely and accessible volume explores how our understanding of
research in child development can help cultivate the knowledge,
skills, and attitudes children need for informed and thoughtful
participation in society by viewing the curriculum through a
developmental lens. Gordon Biddle and Garcia-Nevarez cover a range
of key topics including characteristics of physical, cognitive, and
psychosocial development of children; heritable and environmental
influences on children's developing self; language and literacy
development; mathematical cognition; growth mindsets; and
evidence-based positive behavioral interventions and supports. The
expert team of contributors offers an advanced exploration of
developmental science and how this applies to learning and
education in order to create inclusive environments that support
children with a range of abilities, including those with the most
significant medical, intellectual, and developmental delays. Each
chapter contains boxes exploring how the topic relates to the
themes of "Promoting Social and Emotional Competence Theory,"
"Research to Practice Connection," "Common Core and Other
Standards," and "Social Justice and Diversity," ensuring
comprehensive and consistent coverage across the volume.
Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction will be
essential reading for students of child development and education,
as well as educators and those in teacher training who are
interested in how theory and research can be effectively harnessed
to improve children's outcomes.
Six captivating and engaging stories with clear phonics
progression, ideal for children who are growing in reading
confidence. Join Tops and friends on a journey to meet the Dinosaur
King, discover a planet made out of cake and find out what Snoot
really, really wants for his birthday! With a variety of stunning
artwork styles and six funny, heart-warming and exciting stories,
this collection has something for everyone. The stories have been
specially written to support and develop your child's growing
reading skills as they start to read more words and longer
sentences with less help. Activities after every story make reading
fun and reinforce comprehension. Each collection also features tips
for parents to help you support your child's developing reading
skills. Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging
storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting
range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's
reading confidence. Read with Oxford Stage 3 equates to Oxford
Levels 4 and 5 used in schools. For more information about the Read
with Oxford Stages, as well as practical advice, free eBooks and
fun activities to help your child progress, go to
readwithoxford.com. Let's get them flying!
This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data
research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that
facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It
provides insights into the key elements for research and
innovation, technical architectures, business models, skills, and
best practices to support the creation of data-driven solutions and
organizations. The book is a compilation of selected high-quality
chapters covering best practices, technologies, experiences, and
practical recommendations on research and innovation for big data.
The contributions are grouped into four parts: * Part I: Ecosystem
Elements of Big Data Value focuses on establishing the big data
value ecosystem using a holistic approach to make it attractive and
valuable to all stakeholders. * Part II: Research and Innovation
Elements of Big Data Value details the key technical and capability
challenges to be addressed for delivering big data value. * Part
III: Business, Policy, and Societal Elements of Big Data Value
investigates the need to make more efficient use of big data and
understanding that data is an asset that has significant potential
for the economy and society. * Part IV: Emerging Elements of Big
Data Value explores the critical elements to maximizing the future
potential of big data value. Overall, readers are provided with
insights which can support them in creating data-driven solutions,
organizations, and productive data ecosystems. The material
represents the results of a collective effort undertaken by the
European data community as part of the Big Data Value
Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the European Commission
and the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) to boost data-driven
digital transformation.
BRICS is a grouping of the five major emerging economies of Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa. Volume five in the
Democratic Marxism series, BRICS and the New American Imperialism
challenges the mainstream understanding of BRICS and US dominance
to situate the new global rivalries engulfing capitalism. It offers
novel analyses of BRICS in the context of increasing US induced
imperial chaos, deepening environmental crisis tendencies (such as
climate change and water scarcity), contradictory dynamics inside
BRICS countries and growing subaltern resistance. The authors
revisit contemporary thinking on imperialism and anti-imperialism,
drawing on the work of Rosa Luxemburg, one of the leading theorists
after Marx, who attempted to understand the expansionary nature of
capitalism from the heartlands to the peripheries. The richness of
Luxemburg's pioneering work inspires most of the volume's
contributors in their analyses of the dangerous contradictions of
the contemporary world as well as forms of democratic agency
advancing resistance. While various forms of resistance are
highlighted, among them water protests, mass worker strikes,
anti-corporate campaigning and forms of cultural critique, this
volume grapples with the challenge of renewing anti-imperialism
beyond the NGO-driven World Social Forum and considers the
prospects of a new horizontal political vessel to build global
convergence. It also explores the prospects of a Fifth
International of Peoples and Workers.
Edited by art historian Noelia Garcia Perez, this first-ever
collection of essays on Juana of Austria, the younger daughter of
Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and sister to Philip II of Spain,
offers an interdisciplinary study of the Habsburg princess that
addresses her political, religious, and artistic dimensions. The
volume's contextual framework shows her sharing agency with other
women of her dynastic family who governed in the sixteenth century
and developed an outstanding reputation for promoting artists and
works of art. The Making of Juana of Austria demonstrates how
Juana's role as a leading patron of the arts offered her a means of
creating her own image, which she then promulgated through the
objects she collected and her crowning architectural endeavor, the
Monastery-Palace of the Descalzas Reales. Drawing on early modern
literature, archival documents, and artworks, the essays in this
volume delineate a new portrait of Juana of Austria. Contributors
not only highlight her multiple facets-princess of Portugal, regent
of Castile, and the only female Jesuit in history-but also show her
as a discerning art patron and collector who pursued an active role
of patronage, through which she constructed her own art collection
and used it to articulate a visual statement of her lineage, power,
and religious convictions. Her role as an art promoter culminated
with the foundation of the Descalzas Reales and the works of art
she collected and displayed within its walls. The Making of Juana
of Austria offers a new perspective on female rule and patronage,
exploring the achievements of a crucial figure in the history of
art, court, and gender in early modern Europe.
Beth zooms to Planet Cake in her rocket. But on Planet Cake, the
rocks are not what they seem! Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is
an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children's
imaginations and develop their comprehension skills. The variety of
authors and illustrators broadens children's reading experience,
with something to appeal to every child. This story is one of six
titles at Oxford Level 4, which are phonically decodable with some
extra high-interest words to expand children's vocabularies and
enrich the stories. All the books in the series are carefully
levelled, making it easy to match every reader to the right book.
This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern
portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially
responsible investment is a "new deal" championed by the
institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence
mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear
that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm
sustainable growth and prosperity. The book shows how to combine
financial criteria such as profitability and risk with
non-financial criteria such as the protection of the ecosystem,
responsible consumption of energy, and healthcare campaigns. The
book's first part presents critical issues in ethical investment,
while the second explains in detail the application of goal
programming techniques for SRI funds, illustrating their use in
actual cases. Part three demonstrates how compromise programming
can be applied in the contexts of portfolio selection and risk
management. Finally, in its fourth part the book examines the
application of other decision-making support methods like the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) framework, the Reference Point
Method, and soft computing techniques for portfolio selection.
Pig A Doodle is an Adult Coloring Book that contains pigs decorated
in mandala style drawings.
The rise of the BRICS - a bloc of emerging economies, comprised of
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is one of the
defining features of the modern global economy. This book explores
these nations, which seem to be growing at a much faster rate than
the developed nations of the Eurozone and North America. Will they
drag the developed world out of the economic mire? Will they force
social change and innovation into the tired 'old world order'? And
politically, do they herald a new dawn for democracy or do they
represent a continued political repression? This edited collection
answers these questions by offering critical analysis of the rise
of the BRICS economies within the framework of a predatory,
exclusionary and unequal global capitalism. From Chinese oil
geopolitics to the ruinous 'mega-events' in Brazil, the authors
provide a new, radical way of understanding these controversial
developments.
This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern
portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially
responsible investment is a "new deal" championed by the
institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence
mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear
that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm
sustainable growth and prosperity. The book shows how to combine
financial criteria such as profitability and risk with
non-financial criteria such as the protection of the ecosystem,
responsible consumption of energy, and healthcare campaigns. The
book's first part presents critical issues in ethical investment,
while the second explains in detail the application of goal
programming techniques for SRI funds, illustrating their use in
actual cases. Part three demonstrates how compromise programming
can be applied in the contexts of portfolio selection and risk
management. Finally, in its fourth part the book examines the
application of other decision-making support methods like the
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) framework, the Reference Point
Method, and soft computing techniques for portfolio selection.
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