Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
Museums beyond the Crises
The predominant model of the museum is collapsing. The old paradigm is being replaced by a new one that still needs to be defined. This book investigates what such a new paradigm may entail and its consequences for the preservation of heritage.
Recovery and Transgression
This collection is devoted to the ways in which poetic texts shape, and are shaped by, personal and collective memory. It looks at the techniques through which the past is recovered and repurposed in poetry, using poems by T.S. Eliot and Susan Howe, among others, as examples.
Mobile Participation
This collection of proceedings from the fourth conference on “Mobile Communications for Development” provides empirical evidence and analysis of the opportunities and limitations of mobile technologies’ contributions to development in areas ranging from literacy to governance.
This volume represents investigations by linguistics professionals into the challenges of developing communicative competence in future engineers, economists and other such specialists, offering the views of instructors of English for specific professional purposes from Russia.
Current Issues in Reading, Writing and Visual Literacy
Representing papers presented at the 2014 World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, this collection explores current efforts to tease out the variables involved in the development of literacies.
Management Information Systems for Microfinance
The essays in this book explore the metrics required for success in the field of microfinance, using case studies on open-source and cloud-based software. Contributors include business executives and consultants, in addition to academics.
Realising Critical HRD
Critical Human Resource Development has stalled, focusing on theory over action. This book moves the project from problem recognition to meaningful change, offering practical interventions to challenge power structures through Reflecting, Voicing, and Enacting.
This study focuses on the lyric and narrative verse of a problematic poet who might have served as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, an area which is under-represented in current scholarship on Beddoes.
Minding the Gap
This edited volume discusses writing non–fiction, media and genre, and addresses elements of identity, culture and linguistics in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction as contributors consider the gaps that exist between the self as writer, and as reader.
Gendering the Narrative
This volume of critical essays explores gender discourse in Indian English fiction. Investigating feminism, masculinity, and homosexuality, it is an indispensable companion for any scholar of gender studies interested in these perspectives.
Multi-faced Transformations
This conference proceedings analyses various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany today’s globalized world. It will be of interest to scholars of social sciences, as well as civil society activists and policy makers.
W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought
Dabić investigates the impact of Indian philosophy and religion on Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work, exploring its development from his early impressionistic work to his more mature incorporation of such ideas into his writing.
Using insights from Bulgarian history, Tzaneva views the construction of Bulgarian national identity as a process intimately affected by social circumstances in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, and explores how the concept of ethnosymbolism contributes to identity dynamics.
Views on Eighteenth Century Culture
Using the Portuguese architect and city planner Eugénio dos Santos as a reference point, contributions to this text provide insights into the Enlightenment in Portugal and its relationships with other European cultural movements in fields such as philosophy and literature.
Given that correctly understanding the nature of perception will help to shed light on many other central philosophical issues, this book discusses the idea that our perceptual experiences represent the world as being a certain way, and so have representational content.
Reinventing Sound
It is undeniable that in today’s audiovisual world, music plays a leading role. As such, the essays gathered here investigate the ways in which it is featured on mobile devices, its impact on new narrative forms, and the new ways of creating music on the Internet.
Graham Greene’s Narrative in Spain
This monograph details the literary contact between Graham Greene and Franco’s Spain, providing an overview of the roles played by national literary criticism and the book industry in the reception of his works, and the influence exerted by the regime in the publishing process.
Humans, Other Beings and the Environment
Mawere presents an ethnographic case study of the possibilities for the symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests, and highlights the continuum among humans, insects and environmental conservation outcomes in rural Zimbabwe.
To be or not to be? The Verbum Substantivum from Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
The verbs of the ‘to be’-group, also called verba substantiva, are among the most enigmatic and complex phenomena of the human language. This text offers a description and interpretation of these verbs and constructions within contemporary linguistic research.
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