Devotions for Life
Wrestling with the trials of life? This collection of devotions will help you build your faith and strengthen your trust in God. Based on scripture and the author’s own experiences, you will discover new ways to overcome your daily struggles.
This volume presents recent linguistic research from Poland, using comparison and juxtaposition to explore all levels of language. Contributions range from phonology to discourse, juxtaposing generative theory with recent developments in cognitive linguistics.
Leading international experts share multidisciplinary perspectives on evaluation, illustrating its potential to demonstrate the impact of social interventions. This guide offers practical examples of contrasting methods and helpful advice with a human-centred focus.
This book uses cognitive semantics to analyze the concept of “The Christian Life” in John Henry Newman’s sermons. It identifies metaphorical models, such as “A Journey” and “A Race,” that blend everyday concepts with the domain of Christianity.
Wicked Ladies
This book shifts the focus from London to explore female crime in 18th-century provincial England. It examines why women offended and their treatment by the justice system, comparing their experiences to those of men and their counterparts in the capital.
This book assembles essays that explore sex and sexuality in historical and contemporary times. Using feminist lenses, these articles reevaluate familiar topics from early religious practices and medieval literature to current films and advertising.
Focus on English Phonetics is a collection of papers that brings together international researchers to exchange ideas. The 18 contributors from nine countries reflect the volume’s diversity through a variety of theoretical, applied and experimental topics.
Political Violence in Latin America
Political Violence in Latin America offers an exceptional analysis of social revolutionary conflicts. In a comparison of three case studies—the Argentinean Montoneros, Colombian M-19, and Nicaraguan FSLN—the book brings new details of the conflicts to light.
Aesopic Voices
When circumstances are hostile to truth, critical thinkers may use Aesopic language—veiling opinions in fables and myths. This collection breaks new academic ground, offering thought-provoking insights into this subversive art across five continents.
The Three Waves of Globalization
This volume investigates how globalization changes communication genres. Combining a historical perspective with analysis of contemporary discourses, it asks: does this lead to homogenization into ‘global genres’ or the fragmentation and proliferation of new ones?
Creative Interventions
Who are “intellectuals”? Are they an endangered species? This collection of essays examines the changing role, function, and self-perception of Italian intellectuals since World War II, with comparative essays on their place in other Western cultures.
Explaining Financial Scandals
Recent financial crises are rooted in two main problems: a lack of effective corporate governance and the excesses of financial innovation. Drawing on scandals from Enron to Lehman Brothers, this book proposes a new paradigm, “enlightened sovereign control”.
In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.
The Future of Post-Human War and Peace
The fickle conventional wisdom on war and peace has blinded us to the dark sides of both. This book offers a new theory to transcend existing approaches, fundamentally changing the way we think about war, peace, and the future of humanity.
This collection of essays combines Indo-European and Classical Studies to explore poetic language and religion in Greece and Rome. It tracks the remnants of Indo-European tradition and delves into ritual poetry, hymns, oracles, and magic.
Corporate Governance and Board Performance
In Pacific Island Countries, board appointments are often based on politics and ethnicity, not merit. This book uses empirical evidence from the region to show how these factors influence board structure and ultimately damage their ability to perform.
This collection of essays offers interdisciplinary perspectives on social sciences from researchers across three continents. It explores Human Resources Management, International Relations, and Sociology, appealing to educators, researchers, and students.
Teaching Foreign Languages
Teaching Foreign Languages: Languages for Special Purposes is a collection of essays for teachers of modern languages. The essays cover three main approaches: theoretical, descriptive, and applied linguistics, with examples from Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Under Occupation
Probing the militarisation of East Asia and the Pacific, this volume explores how communities navigate occupation, how identities are shaped and erased, and the struggle for self-determination against centralised power.
Nonsense and Other Senses
This collection of essays offers a gallery of “nonsense practices” in literature across periods and countries. It reveals literary nonsense not as chaos, but as a deliberate, “regulated” attempt to snatch order from the jaws of chaos.
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