This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
Social Informatics
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.
Society in its Challenges
To what extent can philosophical thinking address the challenges of living in society? This book answers this question, offering an analysis of fundamental issues and providing a philosophical vision for the creative advance of society.
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
ELT
This volume gathers international scholars to explore ELT, applied linguistics, and cultural studies. It covers diverse topics from cognitive grammar and teaching culture to technology in the classroom, reflecting both global trends and local research.
This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
The African Human Rights Judicial System
This book examines two forgotten realities of African constitutionalism: the state power to create international courts and the role they play, focusing on the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights and its landmark merger.
This collection explores the intersections of feminisms and rhetorics. The chapters speak to the challenges and diversities of feminist discourse in public life, the academy, and the media, spanning international, racial, and religious contexts.
Doubling the Duality
This book explores the aesthetic and cultural integration of live action and animation. It argues that even in an era of seamless digital effects, their differences and dialogues remain a significant source for the evolution of cinematic language.
Electric Sheep Slouching Towards Bethlehem
On August 6, 1945, the world changed forever. A bomb shattered Hiroshima, and the easy truths of centuries no longer applied. Speculative Fiction projects real possibilities beyond these now shattered assumptions, moving through marginalized fictional landscapes.
With increasing demand for Asian languages, this book addresses key issues in teaching Chinese, Russian, Farsi, Japanese, and Malaysian. Contributors from several countries explore future directions in language teaching for the 21st century.
Language and Law in Professional Discourse
This book critically focuses on how language is used and exploited in everyday legal discourse. Bringing together scholars from around the globe, it explores legal language as a tool for social action where authority, power, and ideology are involved.
Thy Truth Then Be Thy Dowry
This collection of essays offers new insights into inheritance in American women’s writing. Contributors examine women’s problematic relationship to their legacy, revealing strategies of resistance and empowerment used to cope with the burden or lack of inheritance.
These essays use social psychology theories to explore new research on vulnerable groups and mental health. This book is a useful tool for professionals in psychology, education, and social work, and accessible to a wider audience.
The Jewish Experience in Classical Music
Shostakovich, a 20th-century Russian composer under Soviet rule, and Daniel Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American, are two highly dissimilar composers connected by the common thread of Jewish music. This book explores their use of it to express Jewish suffering and faith.
Yesterday’s Tomorrows
In 2012, a year of crises and forebodings, the world became a stage for new beginnings and utopian movements. The essays in this book discuss utopia and dystopia in literature and film, using science fiction, gender politics and social sciences to understand the present.
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