This volume explores social constructionism, focusing on reality as a communicative action and a strategy for exercising power. It also proposes a new semiotic strategy, “fractal constructionism,” which analyses the interpretative drift of key social constructs.
YOCOCU 2014
Representing papers presented at the 4th YOCOCU Youth in Conservation of Cultural Heritage Conference, the contributions here reflect on the present politics, strategies and methods of cultural heritage conservation, and demonstrate new approaches to conservation needs.
Rediscovering French Science-Fiction in Literature, Film and Comics
French science-fiction is as old as Cyrano de Bergerac’s trip to the moon and Jules Verne’s scientific adventures. This collection introduces its unique contributions to an English-speaking audience, exploring the genre’s deep roots in literature, film, and graphic novels.
The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East
Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, Seu explores the changes in the Italian leftist perception of Israel from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight.
Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.
The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
Serge Bokobza focuses on the distinguishing elements of Jewish characterisation in post-Shoah French films. Rejecting the practice of labelling a film “Jewish” due to the ethnicity of a director or writer, he explores the essential question of “Jewish identity” in French cinema.
Organisational Anatomy
Organisational Anatomy views organisations as live creatures. This biological perspective allows you to intuitively understand your workplace, classify different organisational archetypes, and recognise pathologies to achieve superior business performance.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000
George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience
This book fills a void in the history of African American education by addressing the vibrant education ethos within Black America. It is essential reading for all interested in ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to quality education.
A Serious Genre
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
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.
From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean
This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.
Language at Work
This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.
The Land of Fertility I
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
Modernizing Educational Practice
This book represents presentations given at the Ustroń CLIL 2013 conference, which brought together academicians, researchers, teachers and educational authorities to exchange research on Content and Language Integrated Learning methodologies.
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