In the first book to offer a comprehensive synthesis of the known Pleistocene palaeoart of six continents, Bednarik contemplates the origins of art in a balanced manner, based on reality rather than fantasies about cultural primacy.
Semiotics and Visual Communication II
This book explores the Culture of Seduction, defining it not as sexual enticement, but as a mechanism of attraction and appeal. In an increasingly hyper-real world, this force has powerful agency in communication, advertising, fashion, and packaging design.
Computer-Mediated Communication for Business
A guide to communication efficiency for professionals. Learn how communicating through technology alters perceptions and get practical guidelines from studies in communication, psychology, and engineering to make your professional world easier and more efficient.
This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities.
Servant Leadership
Develop a servant leadership style that builds effective organizations and achieves outstanding results. This book details a holistic leadership approach that builds community through a common mission. It features examples, tips, practices, and questions for self-reflection.
This book provides an overview of the politics of urbanism for Syrian immigrants in Turkey. Based on a field survey, it analyses the cultural meaning of individual life, belonging, and nostalgic identity, providing a sociological and ontological reading of the image.
A Social and Solidarity Economy
This volume explores the social and solidarity economy in America, Europe, and Australia, with a focus on its development in Ukraine. The collection will be of interest to academic scholars, as well as political and public decision-makers.
Underwater Worlds
This anthology throws open a new area in the emerging field of “blue” environmental humanities by exploring how subaqueous environments have been imagined and represented across cultures and media.
This volume provides an in-depth consideration of Africa and how it fares in today’s globalised world. Its varied, but interrelated, perspectives touch on contemporary issues in international relations, especially as they relate to Africa’s development and global impacts.
Translation and Language Teaching
This volume creates a dialogue between translation studies and language teaching, showing how integrating insights from both can solve contemporary challenges. It presents empirical studies for developing translator competences, with suggestions for redefining curricula.
Hashas introduces White’s geopoetics as a radical, postmodern and intercultural project that reclaims the return to communication with the earth, nature, and the self as part of a cosmic unity approach. He traces geopoetics’ beginnings, key concepts, territories and trajectories.
Alpine Refugees
This collection of essays highlights how Alpine territories are facing challenges from migration, and how these can trigger policy innovations with beneficial impacts for both migrants and local inhabitants. It will appeal to practitioners, social scientists, and policy makers.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
African Pentecostalism and Eschatological Expectations
This book investigates the eschatology of African Pentecostalism concerning the second coming of Christ. It critiques literalistic Bible readings and presents a new Pentecostal hermeneutics, offering new ways of thinking to enrich and enlighten the movement’s hope.
Current Topics in Language and Literature
Through varied research methods this volume synthesizes various contemporary practical topics in post-secondary education written by active researchers and practitioners in their respective areas. In doing so it offers insights into the ever-evolving nature of higher education.
The Changing Landscape of Global Businesses
Cross-border business has fundamentally changed. This book addresses today’s new dimensions alongside time-honoured principles. Integrating all managerial functions, it provides a comprehensive picture of global business through a rich blend of principles and case studies.
The Quest for a Liberal-Socialist Democracy and Development
This book explains why democratic ideologies like liberalism and socialism develop an affinity for authoritarianism. Their self-contained nature eroded their democratic potential. It also provides a set of liberal socialist policies for democratic and sustainable development.
Planning Behavior
This book extends decision theory to explain planning phenomena. It answers why urban containment policies fail, how land development decisions are analyzed, and why cities need plans, providing a fresh look at how planners should behave in the face of urban complexity.
This volume explores language acquisition research in Latvia and Lithuania. Detailing a range of views on its problems and perspectives, it stimulates the reader to ask questions, argue, and join the debate. The driving force in this field is dialogue, not simple advice.
This volume brings together research on the poetry of less-explored modern Indian poets. The book explores the social, cultural and spiritual dimensions of these emerging poets, and will prove useful to students, teachers and all those interested in Indian English poetry.
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