This study investigates Louise Erdrich’s unique literary style. In an interconnected series of novels, protagonists return and events re-surface. Her writing resists closure, focusing on shared human experiences that make her an internationally acclaimed author.
Labour in the 21st Century
This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.
By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited anthology breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of perspectives, the authors probe ‘colonial modernity’ as being introduced into such contexts by European encroachment.
The Common Touch
Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume.
Gohar’s study focuses on convergence to pure strategy Nash equilibria in plurality voting games and other scoring rules. It investigates restrictions on the number of iterations that can be made for different voting rules, considering weighted and equi-weighted voting settings.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
News Discourse and Digital Currents
This book investigates the under-researched genre of news tickers. Based on a year-long collection from BBC World News, it uses corpus-based analysis to define tickers as a mixed genre that combines headlines and leads to achieve specific marketization strategies.
This book re-evaluates William Morris by exploring the territories between his art and politics. This “in-between-ness” is his most remarkable quality, securing his unique position and inspiring new insights into a universe that could have no boundaries.
This book helps educators transform classrooms into inclusive, socially engaging environments. It explores innovative pedagogical designs to lower learner anxiety, increase participation, improve learning experiences, and develop intercultural competence across disciplines.
Khalifa examines Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following a metrical model and parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty of stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA.
This collection offers fresh perspectives on the syntax and semantics of South Asian languages. Drawing on novel data, it covers key grammatical aspects like clausal/nominal structure, case/phi-agreement, and primitive categories, with analyses couched in the generative paradigm.
An exhaustive guide to translating tenses between Arabic and English. Using hundreds of examples, this volume presents a text-oriented model for translating verb forms, making it a useful reference for translators, linguistics researchers, teachers, and students.
Representations of Female Identity in Italy
This volume examines iconic female characters in Italian literature, art and film who depict distinct representatives of female identity within this national culture. It characterizes the evolution of women’s identity and their representation in such expressive modalities.
This book provides a rigorous examination of sustainable tourism, with particular attention paid to Slovenia. It offers a unique and balanced view of both theoretical issues and practical cases, making it valuable for students, researchers and professionals.
Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient
Håland’s two-volume book represents a cross-period product of fieldwork conducted in contemporary Greece in combination with ancient sources. It investigates the importance of cults connected with the Greek female sphere and its relation to the official male-dominated ideology.
Taking Stance in English as a Lingua Franca
This volume focuses on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in an Italian university. Through analysis of lectures, it reveals the complex linguistic strategies lecturers use to manage interpersonal relations and build rapport with students in the foreign language classroom.
This collection provides a comprehensive overview of issues in the humanities at the turn of the 21st century, which create a veritable platform for the global redefinition and understanding of Africa’s rich cultures and traditions.
The Opportunity to Live Well
Traditional success—money, fame, career—won’t provide a good life. So, how can we truly live well? Learn from the lives of Nelson Mandela and others who show that the joyous rewards of living well come from cultivating awareness, passion, empathy, and resilience.
Letellier delves into the relationship between the Bible and the world of music, an association that is recorded from ancient times in the Old Testament, and one that has continued to characterize the cultural self-expression of Western Civilization ever since.
Mapping the History of Folklore Studies
The articles here provide rich insights into the historical dynamics of folkloristic thought with its shifting geographies, shared spaces, centres and borderlands. By focusing on intellectual collaboration, they reveal the limitations inherent in current scholarship.
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