Unlocking Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Emerging markets in sub-Saharan Africa present vast opportunities, but their volatility makes sustainable profitability a major challenge. This book provides a framework, using cases and illustrations, to help organisations navigate these markets and achieve lasting success.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought challenges and innovation to English for Academic Purposes (EAP). This volume shares the experiences and reflections of EAP practitioners, teacher trainers, and leaders on how their response to the crisis has shaped our future ‘new normal’.
Pathways to Professionalism in English Language Teaching
This seventh volume on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Applied Linguistics shifts its focus to data-driven, empirical research. The assembled papers emphasize an empirically grounded approach to teaching and acquiring English, offering new Pathways to Professionalism.
Survivors of Suicide
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
Towards a Complex Model of Interpretation of Recognition
Recognizing an Other is how we create belonging. When people are perceived as a radical Other, the risk is exclusion, if not aggression. Through case studies of migrants, this book clarifies misrecognition and its subsequent dehumanization to help build a shared, fairer society.
Teaching Psychology around the World
A handbook for psychology professors aiming to internationalize and diversify their curricula. This work provides practical tips, innovative teaching ideas, and global perspectives on psychology education from distinguished authors representing every major region of the world.
This book reconsiders teaching and learning in media studies, arguing that many academics have been slow to respond to transformations in digital media. It critically reassesses key debates in the field and asks: is media studies still relevant in its current form?
Explore the intricate connections between history, ethnicity, mythology, and literature. This book unravels how historical events, cultural myths, and ethnic heritage weave together to create multifaceted identities and shape the values of contemporary times.
Gender-Based Differences in Exposure to and Usage of Camfranglais in Yaoundé
This book explores the Cameroonian youth language Camfranglais—a mix of French, English, Pidgin and local languages—from a rare gender-based approach. It focuses on female speakers, their experiences of exclusion, and the factors that contribute to male dominance in its usage.
Stratified Nature in Women’s Writing
This book presents a diverse collection of essays about women writers and nature. Ranging across time periods and the globe, it approaches the nature-focused work of women-identifying writers through several conceptual frameworks.
The form of money is changing. Are new digital currencies safe? Should the central bank issue its own? This nontechnical book answers these questions, exploring everything from blockchain and Bitcoin to the life-changing, phone-based money already used by millions.
Multidisciplinary Humane Perspectives on Education
How can education help humanity realize its full potential? This book addresses equality, inclusiveness, and conflicting pressures in education, arguing that it must make every member of the human community accountable to the others.
Democracy of the Oppressed
This book assesses the impact of India’s MGNREGA scheme on Adivasi/Indigenous people. It uncovers rampant corruption and inefficiency in the scheme’s implementation, while also providing new data showing the policy can be an important tool for mitigating violent conflict.
This volume examines bilingualism and multilingualism, covering second, third, and heritage language acquisition. Through critical analysis, it investigates new approaches to language learning and teaching, offering frameworks for understanding multilingualism.
Issues and Challenges in Trade
This book is a study of the issues and inter-linkages concerning trade, environment and sustainability. It suggests approaches for understanding their complexities in order to achieve balanced economic development, international cooperation and policy coherence.
This book overcomes the traditional dichotomy between knowledge and values. Drawing on European critical rationalism from Kant to Husserl, it illustrates a new conception of knowledge, showing its value and limits for scholars and anyone interested in a new image of science.
In 18th-century Britain, castrato singers challenged cultural and sexual norms. This book investigates fears that their sensual Italian music could feminize men and weaken the nation, while also examining the castrati’s contributions as cultural leaders.
Jewish Humor
Explore the evolution of Jewish humor from the Bible to today. Tracing its development across Eastern Europe, the US, and Israel, this book reveals how historical experience, survival, and wisdom created a truly unusual sense of humor.
IoT, AI, and Blockchain are transforming daily life, enhancing sectors like healthcare, cities, and agriculture. This comprehensive survey covers the integration of these technologies, their smart applications, and the open issues and future challenges ahead.
This book argues that all rationality is social and explains the far-ranging consequences. It highlights the need for methodological reforms and for changing social scientific theories in economics, sociology, and psychology.
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