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Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism (2017)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2017). Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism. In D. Tricoire (Ed.), Enlightened Colonialism : Civilization Narratives and Imperial Politics in the Age of Reason (227-246). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54280-5_11

How did abolitionism move from the margins of British society to a more central position by 1772? During the 1760s, some Britons came to see West Indian planters as especially vicious and West Indian slavery as particularly immoral. Tacky’s Rebellion... Read More about Slavery and the Enlightenment in Jamaica and the British Empire, 1760–1772: The Afterlife of Tacky’s Rebellion and the Origins of British Abolitionism.

On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics (2017)
Book Chapter
Tarn, M. D., & Pamme, N. (2017). On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics. In V. Taly, J. L. Viovy, & S. Descroix (Eds.), Microchip Diagnostics : Methods and Protocols (69-83). Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6734-6_6

Magnetic particles have become popular in recent years for immunoassays due to their high surface-to-volume ratio and the ease of their manipulation. However, such assays also require multiple reaction and washing steps that are both time-consuming a... Read More about On-chip magnetic particle-based immunoassays using multilaminar flow for clinical diagnostics.

Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film (2016)
Book Chapter
Ornella, A. D. (2016). Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film. In M. Hauskeller, T. D. Philbeck, & C. D. Carbonell (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Posthumanism in Film and Television (330-338). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137430328_33

In its Riley v. California ruling requiring the police to get a search warrant to access mobile phone content, the US Supreme Court argued that: ‘modern cell phones, (…) are now such a pervasive and insistent part of daily life that the proverbial vi... Read More about Uncanny intimacies: Humans and machines in film.

Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks (2016)
Book Chapter
Khavandkar, E., Theodorakopoulos, N., Hart, M., & Preston, J. (2016). Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks. In H. Shipton, P. Budhwar, P. Sparrow, & A. Brown (Eds.), Human Resource Management, Innovation and Performance (213-231). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465191_14

This chapter discusses how leadership interventions in science parks can promote the diffusion of intellectual capital management (ICM) practices. It focuses on how operationalisation of the different social interactions leads to the accommodation of... Read More about Leading the Diffusion of Intellectual Capital Management Practices in Science Parks.

Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems (2016)
Book Chapter
Elliott, M., Austen, M., Berg, T., Borja, A., Carstensen, J., Cochrane, S., Danovaro, R., Greenstreet, S., Heiskanen, A.-S., Lynam, C., & Snelgrove, P. (in press). Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems. In A. Borja, M. Elliott, M. C. Uyarra, J. Carstensen, & M. Mea (Eds.), . https://doi.org/10.3389/978-2-88945-004-6

Human activities,both established and emerging, increasingly affect the provision of marine ecosystem services that deliver societal and economic benefits. Monitoring the status of marine ecosystems and determining how human activities change their c... Read More about Editorial: Bridging the gap between policy and science in assessing the health status of marine ecosystems.

Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain (2016)
Book Chapter
Merali, Y. (2016). Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain. In L. Willcocks, C. Sauer, & M. Lacity (Eds.), Enacting Research Methods in Information Systems (251-281). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29272-4_8

This paper is concerned with the emergence of the information systems (IS) domain as a central feature of the management research landscape in the networked world. It shows that the emergence of the network economy and network society (Castells, 1996... Read More about Complexity and information systems: The emergent domain.

The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres (2016)
Book Chapter
Omissi, D. (2016). The Indian Army at the Second Battle of Ypres. In Innocence slaughtered: gas and the transformation of warfare and society (118-133). Uniform Press

Anticipatory Modelling and Innovation Management (2016)
Book Chapter
Winder, N., & Winder, I. (2016). Anticipatory Modelling and Innovation Management. In N. Winder, H. Liljenstrom, & R. Seaton (Eds.), The Quest for a Model-Stakeholder Fusion : COMPLEX Final Scientific Report v.1 (176-179). Sigtuna: Sigtuna Foundation Press

Spirituality and Contemporary Art (2016)
Book Chapter
Arya, R. (2016). Spirituality and Contemporary Art. In {. }. {Burch Brown} (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.209

The artworks under discussion detail the scope and breadth of art that can be described as spiritual by virtue of its revelatory, revitalizing and contemplative capacities. Rather than interrogating the relationship between art and religion, more per... Read More about Spirituality and Contemporary Art.

The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall (2016)
Book Chapter
Wynne, C. (2016). The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to transformations (185-206). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_13

In this extract from the memoir of her father, Gerald: A Portrait (1934), Daphne du Maurier resurrects the actor-manager Gerald du Maurier and places him in Whitby in 1917. This port town of North Yorkshire had been a favourite holiday retreat of Ger... Read More about The Du Mauriers and Stoker: Gothic transformations of Whitby and Cornwall.

The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars (2016)
Book Chapter
Williams, S. (2016). The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars. In C. Wynne (Ed.), Bram Stoker and the Gothic: Formations to Transformations (118-137). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465047_9

Like the bite of the vampire, the theme of marking punctuates Stoker’s work. Birthmarks, the indelible touch of the devouring mother, are seared into the skin of the child. Stoker’s lesser-read Gothics express Victorian patriarchal gynaecological anx... Read More about The Imprint of the Mother: Bram Stoker’s “The Squaw” and The Jewel of Seven Stars.

Darwin's Goldilocks Problem (2016)
Book Chapter
Winder, N., & Winder, I. (2016). Darwin's Goldilocks Problem. In N. Winder, & H. Liljenstrom (Eds.), Non-Linearities and System Flips : COMPLEX Final Scientific Report vol. 2 (11-15). Sigtuna: Sigtuna Foundation Press

Οι δικαστές του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ενοποίηση (2016)
Book Chapter
Birkinshaw, P. (2016). Οι δικαστές του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ενοποίηση.

The British, specifically the English, are widely regarded as awkward partners in the European project. Much of the criticism against Europe has come from anti-European integration politicians. Now that the outcome of the 2015 general election for th... Read More about Οι δικαστές του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου και η Ευρωπαϊκή Ενοποίηση.

Political Obedience (2016)
Book Chapter
Burgess, G. (2016). Political Obedience. In U. Rublack (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations (83-102). Oxford University Press

Project complexity for the uninitiated (2016)
Book Chapter
Gul, S., & Williams, T. (2016). Project complexity for the uninitiated. In Y. Raydugin (Ed.), Handbook of Research on Leveraging Risk and Uncertainties for Effective Project Management (202-219). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1790-0.ch010

© 2017, IGI Global. Complexity is a difficult concept to grasp. This chapter aims to provide a quick but thorough overview of the field of complexity for those project professionals and researchers who are interested in working with complex systems.... Read More about Project complexity for the uninitiated.