This book focuses on designing error correction techniques for compressed video over wireless channels. It presents adaptive solutions that exploit different importance classes in video data to ensure better quality. A reference for researchers and developers.
Local Contextual Influences on Teaching
In this collection of personal narratives and research, ESL/EFL teachers worldwide reflect on how local contextual factors shaped their approach to language teaching, curriculum, and classroom organization, and how they exercised their agency in the classroom.
Facing Challenges
This collection of essays focuses on the realities of conducting feminist work within Christian universities and churches. These honest, heartfelt essays describe the ongoing resistance feminists face while envisioning more liberating ways to integrate feminism with faith.
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.
Becoming Something Else
This edited collection examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies.
Engaging Affects, Thinking Feelings
These thought-provoking essays balance critical thinking with creative opportunities. This international, interdisciplinary collection focuses on the vulnerable subjects often overlooked, challenging readers to think beyond rational limits and engaging both intellect and emotion.
Language, Literature and Style in Africa
This book brings together scholars to study language, literature and style in Africa. It is a timely response to the neglect of stylistic analysis of African prose, offering innovative discussions that illuminate the field and call for its revival.
War and Words
This edited volume examines the methods, conventions and pitfalls of constructing verbal accounts of military conflict in literature and the media, bringing together such diverse material as canonical literature, war veterans’ testimonies, computer games, and propaganda.
Young Scholars’ Developments in Linguistics
This edited volume brings together young researchers in language processes from Russia, Poland, Spain, Iran, India, Pakistan, Thailand and Ukraine, and showcases current research into linguistic tradition and change in a variety of contexts across the globe.
Agency in the British Press
This title examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved and their agency. In doing so, it reveals the ideological burden affecting power relations within society.
The Unlinking of Language and Puerto Rican Identity
This title explores changes in traditional attitudes towards both American English and Puerto Rican Spanish on an island where the population has been subjected to both Spanish and US colonization, showing how identity is affected when a second language is imposed on a populace.
Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings
This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.
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.
Coming to Senses
Archaeology has long neglected the sensory dimension of the material world. The essays in this volume use international case studies and imaginative scenarios to incorporate all the senses, stimulating new ways to conceptualise the past and bring the “self” back to science.
Kassis focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country’s national framework, investigating how nineteenth-century travellers defined their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland.
To the Right of the Verb
This monograph devises a new approach to the study of clitic doubling in Spanish, considering examples from Argentine, Mexican and Spanish regional variants of the language, and discussing contextual factors contributing to such usage.
This book brings together diverse perspectives on the War of 1812, exploring its effects through religion, literature, the press, Native American experiences, and the forging of a new Canadian identity.
Millions are spent on employee training, but often ineffectively. Successful training requires understanding both organizational goals and employee behavior. This book focuses on how to train people to thrive and succeed in the workplace.
Curating Differently
This title offers critical perspectives on, and analyses of, intersections of feminisms, art exhibitions, and curatorial spaces from the 1970s onward, bringing together case studies from Australia, Israel, Europe, and North America.
The Haunted Muse
Magee proposes a link between the fears of usurped procreation elicited by the trials and fears of misdirected or usurped creativity, through an analysis of Gothic stories in which authors imagine their literary creations as children who have been transformed by malignant forces.
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