This volume brings together theoretical and empirical research on L2 speech perception and production. It deals with segments, syllables, and the suprasegmental level, featuring studies conducted in countries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
This book surveys Chinese ancient currency through the ages, exploring the history of currency exchange between China and other countries like ancient Greece and Rome. It considers the influence of Chinese currency on Asia and its interaction with European and American coins.
This book discusses the development of Hebrew poetry in Andalusia and the Arab influence on its motifs. It shatters existing myths about the region during the period of Muslim rule.
Analysing Health Discourse in Digital Environments
How is the digital world changing our conversations about health? This collection analyzes online interactions to reveal the subtle yet profound shifts reshaping health communication today.
This volume introduces 10 different teaching approaches—including Montessori, Reggio Emilia, and Waldorf Pedagogy—that emerged from great transformations in schooling. It will appeal to students and researchers in the field of education and educational sciences.
Personal Finance for Everyday Challenges
We all face important career and personal decisions, from choosing a college to planning for retirement. This book provides a powerful set of personal finance concepts to help you analyze your choices and make the best decisions possible in the face of uncertainty.
Master the business lifecycle, from launch to profitable exit. Learn to hire, market, sell, grow, and negotiate while sidestepping costly mistakes. This essential guide equips you for lasting success and unlocks your highest earning potential.
Genealogy and Social History
With millions of historical documents now digitally available, this volume presents historically contextualized family case studies as a lens to enrich the reader’s understanding of the past.
The Cultural and Historical Heritage of Colonialism
Decades after independence, why do many African nations still mimic the West at their own culture’s expense? This book presents a bold challenge: to build a humane society by grounding it in local experience and synthesizing the best of indigenous and foreign values.
Digital communication transformed branding. Now, artificial intelligence offers new ways to handle big data and customize messages for mass audiences. This book shows how the intersection of these forces points to a new reality in brand communication, design, and management.
J.B. Murray and the Scripts and Spirit Forms of Africa
This book connects a Georgia sharecropper to a healer in Senegal, changing how we appreciate American folk arts. It traces both art and Islam through the African Diaspora, revealing why folk artists are vital carriers of knowledge and offering an insightful look at folk culture.
The Challenges and Prospects of Sukuk
Sukuk (Islamic bonds) are a key tool for Islamic financing. This book provides a comprehensive overview, tracking their development from the beginning to the current outlook after the global pandemic and recent Shariah rulings. It offers insights for beginners and experts alike.
The EU’s response to the COVID-19 crisis was of a completely different nature from the Eurozone crisis. Is there reason to be optimistic? Renowned European experts analyze the fiscal and monetary policy tools used and offer ideas on the future of European economic governance.
This volume analyses the evolving dialogue between humankind and nature. Spanning Africa, America, Asia, and Europe, it provides a meeting ground between plants and humanity in different dimensions.
This guide provides a clinical and forensic approach to personality disorders, comparing the categorical (ICD-10) and dimensional (ICD-11) classifications. With diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines, it will appeal to psychiatrists, psychologists, and students.
Innovation beyond Fiction
This book shows how recent advances in mathematics help us manage innovation as a collective act of imagination. Told as the fictional story of an inventor hampered by bureaucracy, it will make you rethink both innovation and mathematics in practical organizational settings.
This book investigates the global response to teaching languages online during the COVID-19 pandemic. It shares teachers’ first-hand narratives on the challenges and opportunities they faced, presenting practical solutions and good practices from around the world.
This collection of essays explores the paradoxes of freedom and the human condition. We are always faced with the same paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. This is the paradox of the human condition.
Traditional Sports and Games in the Contemporary World
A captivating journey from Denmark to the Basque Country and Scotland exploring traditional sports. This book reveals why these games are valuable, necessary, and fit the needs of our times, offering inspirational ideas for how to use them in practice.
A valuable resource for teachers and researchers, this book focuses on assessment in world Englishes. It presents case studies and new methods for evaluating learners in multilingual settings, considering their diverse styles and different local norms.