Rhetoric in the Twenty-First Century
The result of a symposium held in Oxford to consider the most fruitful trajectories of rhetoric in the 21st century, this collection assesses the various possible futures of the ancient discipline of rhetoric as it responds vitally to the evolving contexts of the new millennium.
Slivers of Life
Singapore Radio
Freeman and Ramakrishnan track the journey of Singapore radio from its humble beginnings to its advanced modern-day incarnations, detailing economic, political, cultural, and technological aspects of this medium in Singapore along the way.
Dualism, Platonism and Voluntarism
This conference proceedings brings together a host of contemporary thinkers, from Stuart Kauffmann and Ed Vul, on the cognitive side, to Stuart Kauffmann and Henry Stapp. The papers presented here make for a wide-ranging and incisive debate.
This collection outlines practical approaches to theology’s most intriguing subjects: The Bible, Cultural Identity, and Mission. Contributors blend academic exactness with cultural analogies to explore the core of Christian belief and its missionary imperative.
Teaching Literacy across Content Areas
This book answers teachers’ questions about implementing the Common Core State Standards. It contains practical teaching strategies, examples, and illustrations to prepare diverse students for college and career by helping them analyze complex texts and solve real-life problems.
Equestrian Rebels
This collection of essays commemorates the first centenary of Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo, and traces its impact on twentieth-century autobiographies, memoirs and, more specifically, on the Novel of the Mexican Revolution.
‘I, Me, Mine?’
Skrimsjö reconsiders perceptions of record collecting and collectors, through a discussion of existing stereotypes surrounding such practices, and explores how such collectors view themselves and their practices.
Doris Lessing
Majoul investigates various facets of Doris Lessing’s writing, viewing her as a historiographer and a transnational mediator between the East and the West. She also establishes an analogy between Lessing’s texts and various other works, including Salman Rushdie’s Shame.
Julian Among the Books
This book explores the European background of Julian of Norwich’s manuscripts, arguing for ‘Holy Conversations’ where readers participate in her visions. It discusses her Benedictine context, links to other mystics, and preservation by exiled nuns who treasured her text.
Kermer links Cognitive Grammar explanations to the area of second-language learning, providing both theoretical and practical perspectives on the process of teaching and learning about English language structures.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
In a time of stagnating markets, resolving economic crises requires new solutions. This volume shows how stability is related to clustering, exploring the formation of modern economic clusters, their advantages and negative aspects, and the contradictions of the phenomenon.
Our Sacred Dimension
This monograph represents an important contribution to the anthropological, philosophical and psychological consideration of mankind in our era, exploring the role of the Sacred in our lives today.
Restoring the Balance
Morrow presents a penetrating reflection upon the reality of Islam in the modern world, addressing a myriad of pressing issues that impact Muslims in the East, West, North, and South, topics that are both difficult and troubling.
The Importance of Place
How do we value historic urban landscape in order to intervene within it as designers? This is the central question of this volume, and is tackled by its 16 essays investigating different facets of value as bases of building and design practices on a range of spatial scales.
The Representations of Elderly People in the Scenes of Jesus’ Childhood in Tuscan Paintings, 14th-16th Centuries
Adopting an innovative approach, this book leads the reader through early modern Tuscan paintings to discover a new vision of intergenerational relationships. It reveals how old age was perceived at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance in Tuscany.
Competition Policy and Resource Utilization
This book examines how competition law can promote efficient resource allocation in resource-dependent developing economies. It offers insights into problems like the ‘resource curse,’ corruption, and abusive business practices, and their implications for competition.
Establishing a Culture of Intercultural Education
This edited volume brings together experienced educators and researchers who focus on problematic aspects of intercultural education, as well as crucial issues related to different regional contexts.
The Internet of Things creates immense challenges in digital systems. This book tackles the exponential complexity of Boolean problems, presenting powerful new solutions using GPUs, exploring security applications, and discussing the scientific basis of future quantum computers.
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