This study investigates the validity of the Chinese Proficiency Test (HSK) from the classroom to society. It addresses pedagogical issues in CSL teaching, provides implications for the HSK’s development, and helps test developers and users build assessment literacy.
Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, Astronomer-Poet of Persia
Omar Khayyam’s validity as a poet is highly debated. This book focuses on 100 quatrains authenticated by Persian authorities. To bring out Khayyam’s true voice, this unique bilingual volume provides the Persian originals side-by-side with literal English translations.
This book reconstructs Deleuze and Guattari’s micropolitics toward a philosophy of ‘becoming-revolutionary.’ It challenges practices that allow people to choose their own oppression, searching for new modes of thinking and resistance for a people- and world-to-come.
Agricultural Development in Andhra Pradesh
This book examines fifty years of agricultural development in India through a case study of Andhra Pradesh. It explores the impact of the green revolution and major policy shifts like globalization and liberalization on land use, input usage, and rural institutions.
This series of critiques explores three literary forums. “Modern Sonneteers” shows that the sonnet thrives still. “Homage to Hilary Mantel” offers new analyses of the pre-eminent novelist. “Critical Letters” gathers pensees on literature written during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book compares Hegel’s and Aquinas’s Trinitarian studies, renouncing the separation of philosophy and theology. Beneath their very different idioms, a near-perfect harmony is found, offering enriched participation in thought’s self-understanding.
Japan’s Military Power
Japan’s leading submariner, Hideki Nakamura, delivers a bestselling insider’s account of the problems facing the Self-Defense Forces. He reveals how legal, political, and operational restrictions dangerously undermine the SDF’s ability to fight and partner with other countries.
The Psalms are a key text of world literature, but archaic language can be an impediment for modern readers. This book provides a compact apparatus for exploring the text, including descriptions of places and events and a practical index to find psalms for real-world problems.
How do affect and cognition shape managerial decisions? This book unpacks their interplay at the individual, group, and organizational levels, revealing how these powerful influences can be harnessed or mitigated.
To address diverse student needs, education must move to an inclusive, student-centric approach. This volume highlights diversity and inclusion practices, helping educators understand and address the challenges students face.
The Lake Poets in Prose
Focusing on their prose, this collection challenges assumptions about the Lake Poets. Far from idealistic dreamers or “Jacobins,” they consistently challenged the government, defended democratic impulses, and argued from a complex and surprising religious standpoint.
Political correctness cripples public debate, limits knowledge, and threatens democracy. This book shows how meritocracies have become contaminated by the propaganda of cultural wars. Why are media and teachers still following old instructions to control damage?
This book expands universal design beyond physical spaces to focus on teaching and learning practice in higher education. Drawing on international expertise, it offers practical solutions for practitioners keen to enhance their practice and, as a consequence, student outcomes.
This volume on Munda linguistics makes a major contribution after a long gap in research. Combining diverse scholarship, it is an essential reference for scholars interested in Munda languages, typological studies, and the cultural and linguistic dynamics of South Asia.
This book offers an updated perspective on international media and culture, exploring how the digital environment transforms phenomena from battle rap to citizen journalism. It spotlights pressing issues like information control and the politics that hinder democratization.
The Value of Work and Its Rules between Innovation and Tradition
Amid global challenges, this book examines the principle “labour is not a commodity” and its practical implications. It helps academics and practitioners understand today’s socio-economic changes, globalization, and the role of public and private institutions.
Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination
Scientists, theologians, and sci-fi authors join forces to ask: what does alien life mean for Catholicism? Their answer is a radical welcome for extraterrestrials as fellow creatures of God, not a crisis of faith.
This book addresses the changing nature of research methodologies in mathematics, science, health and environmental education. It has a singular focus on methodology as something worth considering in itself, bringing methodology to the forefront of educational research.
‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. They encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
Organ Transplantation and Society
Transplant medicine has progressed massively, but due to insufficient donations, patient waiting lists grow. This book analyzes the medical, ethical-legal, psychosocial, and religious problems of transplantation to provide a clear understanding of this serious health crisis.
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