Social Sciences

Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition

A Generative Perspective

Edited By: Merle Weicker, Rabea Lemmer, Andrea Listanti, Angela Grimm

From £38.99

This volume presents original research in language acquisition, connecting linguistic theory with experimental work. It covers diverse learners and languages, offering novel insights to psycholinguists and theoretical linguists on how language is acquired and processed.

Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics

Analyzing Real-Life Data

Edited By: Milla Luodonpää-Manni, Johanna Viimaranta

£68.99

This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and provides innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The areas covered vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition.

Empirical Paradox, Complexity Thinking and Generating New Kinds of Knowledge

By: Paolo Grigolini, Korosh Mahmoodi, Bruce J. West

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Is another world war inevitable? Yes, if we continue to think in “either/or” terms that lead to war or peace with no middle ground. This book reveals “both/and” thinking, a way to resolve paradox and find novel solutions beyond simple conflict.

Empowered Femininity

The Textual Construction of Femininity in Women’s Fitness Magazines

By: Tracy Rundstrom Williams

£39.99

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women's fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, "empowered femininity," which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

This book traces two competing ideologies—traditional and resistant femininity—in women’s fitness magazines. It investigates how these discourses merge into a single hybrid, “empowered femininity,” which balances valued male traits with traditional femininity.

Empowering Autism Education with AI

Tools for Learning, Communication, and Growth

By: Oyeyemi Patricia Adako, Peter Adeniyi Alaba

£72.99

This book shows how AI can personalize learning, enhance communication, and support social development for children on the autism spectrum. A guide for educators and parents, it provides a roadmap to AI tools that foster inclusion and independence.

Empowering the Visibility of Croatian Cultural Heritage through the Digital Humanities

Edited By: Marijana Tomić, Mirna Willer, Nives Tomašević

From £33.99

This volume brings together selected papers on Digital Humanities and cultural heritage. It provides insights into the description, access, and digitization of cultural heritage, and explores written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research.

Empowering Transformations

Mrs Pepperpot Revisited

Edited By: Maria Lassén-Seger, Anne Skaret

£39.99

Alf Prøysen’s classic Mrs Pepperpot stories have received surprisingly little critical attention. This overdue collection of essays by experts explores Prøysen’s heroine through modern theory to deepen the understanding of her enduring popularity.

Empowerment and Fragility

Biopolitics and Ethics in International Relations and Strategic Studies

By: Maria João Ferreira

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The book discusses how biopolitics and ethics influence the fields of international relations and strategic studies, critically questioning how international policies in areas like terrorism, health, and are being built through global policy regimes and global discursive regimes.

Empowerment versus Oppression

Twenty First Century Views of Popular Romance Novels

Edited By: Sally Goade

£39.99

Are women readers oppressed by patriarchal romance narratives, or empowered by them? Building on early critics, these selections add new perspectives, examining diverse subtypes and featuring unique voices from international readers, novelists, and critics.

Enabling the Differently Abled

The Journey of Indian Mental Health Jurisprudence

By: Gireesh Kumar J

£66.99

This book is a critical examination of disability rights and law in India, with a focus on the mentally challenged. It critiques systemic barriers to equality and advocates for progressive legal reforms, calling for a more inclusive and equitable society. A vital read for all.

Enacting English across Borders

Critical Studies in the Asia Pacific

Edited By: Raqib Chowdhury, Roby Marlina

£47.99

Emergent researchers challenge misconceptions about teaching English in a globalised world. Drawing on Asian contexts, these studies critique existing assumptions, highlight inconsistencies in the field of ELT, and provide suggestions to address these issues.

Enacting Nationhood

Identity, Ideology and the Theatre, 1855-99

Edited By: Scott R. Irelan

£39.99

This collection of essays explores constructions of “We the People” during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. It interrogates pro- and anti-enslavement nationalism, partisanship, and armed conflict through dramatic literature and live performance.

Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings

A Conversation Analytic Study of How Social Roles are Co-Constructed

By: Tobias Barske

£41.99

This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how "doing-being-boss" and "doing-being-employee" depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.

This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.

Encoding the Past, Decoding the Future

Corpora in the 21st Century

Edited By: Isabel Moskowich

£39.99

Corpus Linguistics is an essential methodology to approach empirical studies on languages. This volume offers an outline of the advances made in the past decade and what is yet to come, with papers that address a wide range of scholars, both corpus compilers and users.

Encountering Entrepreneurs

An Ethnography of the Construction Business in the North of Italy

By: Elena Sischarenco

From £30.99

This monograph probes the daily life of businessmen in a particularly productive area of Northern Italy, Lombardy. It provides insights into their business and entrepreneurialism, offering a different approach to capitalism and reflections on human nature.

Encountering Ephemera 1500-1800

Scholarship, Performance, Classroom

Edited By: Joshua B. Fisher, Rebecca Steinberger

£44.99

This collection redefines ephemera by challenging the opposition between the transitory and the enduring. Essays explore how materials from broadside ballads to performance reveal the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth-century cultural practices.

Encounters | Materialities | Confrontations

Archaeologies of Social Space and Interaction

Edited By: Per Cornell, Fredrik Fahlander

From £17.99

This collection provides a theoretical and methodological platform for studying social encounters in archaeology. A social encounter focuses on the confusion, tension, and social change that emerge when people and things interact, with often unpredictable effects.

Encounters in Greek and Irish Literature

Creativity, Translations and Critical Perspectives

Edited By: Paschalis Nikolaou

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Literary experts and novelists explore the relationships between Greek and Irish writing. Through fiction, self-reflective essays, and discussions, this volume considers two literatures at the edges of Europe. Selected works are presented in both Greek and English.

Encounters in the Turkey-Syria Borderland

By: Bezen Balamir Coşkun, Selin Yıldız Nielsen

£58.99

This book voices individual stories of Syrians who sought shelter in Turkey. Rather than a dry scholarly account, it details the emotional odyssey of two academics who lived alongside Syrians in the Turkey-Syria borderland, presenting them as individuals, not a category.

Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema

Edited By: Loredana Di Martino, Pasquale Verdicchio

£57.99

This book explores the Italian contribution to the current global phenomenon of a “return to reality” by examining the country’s rich cultural production in literature and cinema. It focuses on works from the period spanning the Nineties to the present day.

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