Doctors misdiagnose up to 80% of patients. Take control of your health. Use this book’s method and online tool—96% correlated with Johns Hopkins diagnoses—to create an accurate history, select the right tests, and find effective treatments.
This book investigates language alternation in Italian CLIL and EMI contexts across primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. The results reveal its key lexical function, a surprisingly similar use across all levels, and its role in preserving multilingualism.
Beyond entertainment, Bollywood films are a platform for India’s soft power. They offer a cultural identity that challenges Western hegemony, resonating with global audiences through universal themes, vibrant visuals, and music, creating a bridge between nations.
This unique study shows that the history of TEFLers is different from the history of TEFL. Instead of theories, it explores the experience of being a TEFLer through the ages, using novels, plays, and memoirs to meet Victorian governesses, Berlitz teachers, and iconic figures.
This book explores new research in English Studies, rethinking its relationship with other disciplines. The collection covers topics like memory, trauma, migration, identity, and posthumanism with a critical approach to biases related to race, gender, and sexual orientation.
Counterterrorism and Public Diplomacy
This book presents an innovative approach to counterterrorism. It shows how to prevent recruitment by engaging vulnerable groups and changing how they think and act, offering a new strategic and tactical perspective for state and non-state actors.
This concise history of education in Greece focuses on the Byzantine and Modern periods (330 AD to the present). Reference is made to the key individuals and events that marked this lesser-known history. The book contains tables and diagrams showing the structure of education.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps patients reclaim their quality of life. This portable book summarises the practical application of CBT, helping dental practitioners use it to treat patient issues like dental fears, orofacial pain, and other psychosomatic disorders.
The Art and Science of Psychotherapy
This book offers therapists and counsellors fifty crucial themes for renewing their work. From a Psychosynthesis perspective, it provides practical directions to tackle trauma, explore the inner world, and help clients find their own centre, even in the roughest times.
Migration in Eastern Africa
This collection of essays honors Professor John Oyaro Oucho, exploring the nexus between migration and national development in Africa. The book covers challenges and opportunities in urbanization, human security, health care, and governance for scholars and policy-makers.
Digitalisation, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Higher Education
Moving beyond access, this collection examines how the digital divide perpetuates inequality in higher education. Through a social justice lens, it analyzes the issue from theory to practice with global case studies and showcases innovative policies to bridge the divide.
Firms need a risk scorecard. While banks invest significantly in risk management, it is questionable if these programs work. This book responds to this gap by proposing the Banking Risk Balanced Scorecard (BRBS) to enhance competitive advantage and stakeholder value.
The definitive study of Newman’s theology of the church. Drawing on his essays and 20,000 lesser-known letters, Miller reveals Newman’s advocacy for involving the laity—a vision that champions Pope Francis’s call for a more inclusive, synod-like church.
Studies and Essays on Romance Literatures
This collection of essays is a journey into 20th-century masterpieces. From Pessoa to García Márquez, these studies re-read famous works of Romance literature to highlight their deep and hidden truths, metaphorically bridging the two sides of the Atlantic.
This book links the personal lives and public actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and two ambassadors. Their friendly relations turned to bitter enmity over how to confront a rising Nazi Germany, a fascinating tale of egos, intrigue, and lives ending as Greek tragedies.
Early English Tragedy, Ibsen, and Drama’s Mirroring Rhythm
This book explores the constraints of language, the healing rhythms of drama, and the vigor of the Greek tradition. Its conviction is that the imagination has the power to establish new worlds in language—a perennial home for constructive thought.
How Uruguay Became a Religious Ghetto
Why is Uruguay an intensely secular society in a highly religious continent? This deviant case study argues that secularization is not an inevitable process, but is carried out by people and groups who manifestly want to laicize society and its sub-structures.
The Politics of Civil Society in Africa
This book chronicles how civil society confronts challenges facing Africa, from democracy and human rights to climate change. As state power fails the world’s youngest population, this book makes a clarion call for a more activist civil society to shape the continent’s future.
One Republic, Multiple Fiefdoms
This book argues that public administration reform is not a purely technical process. It highlights the socio-political and cultural barriers that must be surmounted to sustain gains. It reveals a ‘hard’ environment of informal fiefdoms gripping the formal, ‘soft’ state.
This book presents a tool for legal translation that compares concepts across legal cultures. Based on their overlap, it navigates translators toward reasoned solutions. Includes case studies from English common law and Slovak continental law. For practitioners and academics.