Despite its great historical and cultural importance, the Southern Caucasus has been inadequately researched. This two-volume publication compiles 75 articles from an international symposium exploring the region’s cultures from earliest times to the Middle Ages.
2014 was the centenary of the start of the First World War and saw violent conflict in Ukraine and the rise of the Islamic State in parts of Syria and Iraq. This monograph discusses these and a number of other events alongside a variety of general issues.
From Truth and truth
Francis Etheredge investigates the interrelationship between reason and sense through a philosophical exploration of “being”, noting that “sense” is subtly sensitive through reason.
This monograph provides comprehensive description of the structure of Cameroonian Pidgin, including an overview of its socio-cultural context, writing system, sounds, word formation, word classes and sentence structures, in addition to a corpus of 540 Cameroonian Pidgin proverbs.
A World in Discourse
This collection of essays gathers together work presented at the Uehiro Graduate Philosophy Conference in 2013. The contributions reflect the growing influence of comparative philosophy throughout the world, and demonstrate the ever-enlarging boundaries of comparative analysis.
Current Issues in Second/Foreign Language Teaching and Teacher Development
Representing presentations given at the 17th World Congress of the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the chapters here discuss issues related to second language acquisition, teaching and teacher education in a variety of contexts from around the world.
In Search of Corporate Accountability
Given current debates on corporate social responsibility, Lo uses a theory of interactive (corrective) justice to argue that it is necessary to ensure that responsible persons are accountable under law so as to promote compliance with legal regulations in the corporate context.
Bakhtin and Translation Studies
This book investigates translation using Bakhtin’s dialogical principles, questioning extreme tendencies. It proposes a new model for cultural encounters by uniquely examining Western theory through examples from Indian literatures.
Learning Across Borders
Given the growing numbers of students in cross-border spaces, educators have had to revise their curricula and pedagogical approaches. This edited collection contributes to the body of research in international education by examining globalisation’s impact on higher education.
Understanding Meaning and Knowledge Representation
This title examines and discusses recent work in meaning and knowledge representation within theoretical linguistics and cognitive linguistics given the current need to develop natural language processing (NLP) systems from deeper linguistic approaches.
The First World War
The result of an international conference held in Rome 2014 to mark one hundred years since the beginning of the Great War, this volume uses archival documents from various countries to examine ideological debates and contemporary narratives of the war, and the use of propaganda.
Constraints and Driving Forces in Economic Systems
The various contributions to this volume have as their central point the forces driving development and the constraints hindering progress in a variety of economic systems and subsystems.
Towards a Sustainable Information Society
This volume represents an important voice in the scientific discourse on what constitutes a sustainable information society, and provides a new comprehensive and forward-looking approach to such a development.
This journal brings together current research on emotional intelligence, an important factor in the development of emotional competency and cognition. It represents a useful resource for teachers, researchers and students of adolescent psychology, and for mental health workers.
Triune God
The contributions to this collection discuss the importance of the ideas of St Gregory Palamas and his followers in understanding of God in terms of divine energies, and for contemporary approaches to solving perennial problems in science, metaphysics, aesthetics, and ethics.
Traditional Chinese Rites and Rituals provides an overview of important social practices. While explaining how these rites are performed, it also introduces the reasons why norms are followed, offering a kaleidoscopic perspective on Chinese culture.
In the first single-authored monograph on Roald Dahl since 1994, Valle focuses on the critical context, texts and paratexts that make up the packaging of “Dahl”, and offers the first thorough overview of the criticism and the language employed to discuss Dahl since the 1970s.
Challenging Ideas
This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.
Focusing on the work of three US Cuban writers, this book shows that such writers incorporate Caribbean and Latin American archival sources and interpretive frameworks in order to develop a critical and investigative approach to the politics of Cuban exile historiography.
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