These twelve essays explore the fundamental role played by punctuation in the two semiotic fields of text and image. By bringing together authors from various fields, they offer new insights into the possibility and nature of the encounter between visual and textual creation.
Global Justice and Consecutive Constructivism
Chung suggests a new approach to the problem of global justice, providing a way of coping with procedural justice at the global level, while also alleviating the problem of structural injustice insofar as it exacerbates procedural injustice.
Scale, Governance and Change in Zambezi Teak Forests
This monograph provides an in-depth examination of the Zambezi Teak forests of western Zambia which have been exploited for their timber for over 80 years, providing unique insights into problems around land use and governance in south-central Africa.
This volume brings together internationally renowned academics, arts practitioners and thinkers to examine the nature of the creative process and its possibilities for social and individual change, challenging common misconceptions about creativity.
The Bible and Art
Letellier and Mellor explore how the revelation of God’s love in the mystery of the covenant has inspired artists to reflect on the nature of divine interaction with mankind, showing that the Christian world has always sought to use art to aid understanding of biblical texts.
Cliché and Organization
Peters adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through his use of film. Juxtaposing philosophers like Deleuze and Heidegger and filmmakers like the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, he shows why managers in organizations are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
The Italian Emigration of Modern Times
Patrizia Famà Stahle investigates diplomatic issues that arose between Italy and the United States over a series of lynchings of Italian immigrant labourers before World War I. The work explores a significant epoch in Italian economic and diplomatic history.
This publication discusses the main dynamics of political and social change in Muslim societies using specific examples from each country, offering the reader a practical understanding of the historical turning points in the Muslim world in recent years.
Discourse In and Through the Media
This conference proceedings examines various aspects related to the representation of specialised discourse in and through the media, including argumentative practices and knowledge construction, providing extensive examples of the type of research conducted on these issues.
Macedonia
This volume traces Macedonia’s turbulent history from Ottoman rule, through the Balkan Wars, Communism, and the collapse of Yugoslavia. It explains how this legacy fuels the modern Republic’s conflicts, especially with Greece over its identity and very existence.
Macedonia
This history of Macedonia moves from the kingdom of Philip II and Alexander, through Roman, Byzantine, and Serbian rule, to the Ottoman conquest. This voyage through time not only documents the Macedonian past but also discovers its rich cultural heritage of art and faith.
Polyudova presents a unique study of Russian war songs created during and after World War II, showing how such songs provide illuminating insights into the musical culture of the former Soviet Union and modern Russia.
Jawless Fishes of the World
The first book to focus exclusively on various aspects of jawless fish species throughout the world, this volume provides an overview of a variety of related topics, including their taxonomy, zoogeography, phylogeny, molecular biology, evolution, and role in the ecosystem.
Using 12 years of research on the US textile industry and the apparel industry in the Latin American and Caribbean regions, Jackson argues that regulated trade agreements allow certain less globally competitive industries to become highly competitive in specific markets.
Emancipating the Many
Eschewing the flawed promise of acting for the ‘common good’, this book discusses the process of individuation in order to elucidate contemporary experience as relational phenomena of networked human and non-human actors.
Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
Offering 18 essays which critically examine the expanding canon of American children’s books against the backdrop of a social history comprised of a deep layering of struggle, this title charts new ground in how children’s literature is telling stories of historical trauma.
Language in Use
This collection explores applications of metaphor in a variety of contexts and types of discourse, against a multitude of cultural backgrounds.
A Different Kind of Black and White
Why should we continue to draw by hand when computers and photography can do it for us? This path-breaking study explores drawing as a way to foster epistemic development and wise thinking skills, dissolving boundaries through the development of visual intelligence.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
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