What is evidence-based practice in human services, and how do you do it? This book addresses these questions through the insights of policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and a consumer, exploring the definition, history, development, and challenges of this crucial approach.
This volume explores the dynamic process of interaction. Authors examine how participants understand each other through various semiotic codes in translation, education, arts, and literature, offering inspiring topics for researchers and students.
This volume presents collaborative research on key issues in medical science and public health. Topics include manufacturing vaccines in Africa, preventing HIV/AIDS and cancer, decreasing global childhood cancer disparities, and improving sanitation and health practices.
This volume is a collection of studies from the World Kurdish Congress, focusing on improving the quality of life, science, and culture for progress in Kurdistan. Topics cover health, education, politics, and industry, concluding with recommendations to the government.
This volume brings together language research from theorists and practitioners. Drawing on authentic data, the articles analyze language structure and the construction of text and identity in teaching, writing, and translation. A valuable resource for students and specialists.
This volume offers an overview of state-of-the-art lexicographical research in Europe, with contributions on historical and synchronic dictionaries for major European languages and the profound effects of information technology on designing and using them.
This volume offers diverse international perspectives on Medical English as a lingua franca—a growing phenomenon with impacts on quality healthcare and patient safety. This interdisciplinary book is vital for researchers, educators, practitioners, and healthcare institutions.
Perspectives on Power
In this interdisciplinary collection, postgraduate researchers boldly explore power relations. Twenty-one articles spanning the arts and social sciences—from human rights to literature—reveal the many similarities that exist between these distinct disciplines.
This book explores the human psyche (‘soul’) and its usefulness in a techno-scientific revolution that is often blind to its subject: the human being. It makes a strong intellectual case for the soul by examining consciousness, synchronicity, suffering, and death.
While many believe Earth is 10,000 years old, science confirms it is 4.56 billion. This book examines the perceived conflict between religion and science, arguing that nature and scripture derive from a single source. Their harmony is essential for the progress of humanity.
This study explores African/Caribbean boys’ educational experiences in the UK. It contrasts narratives of racial exclusion in mainstream schools with the positive support of supplementary education, highlighting what the former can learn from the latter.
Though much has been written on the Grenada Revolution and its untimely demise, the majority of authors have been non-Grenadian. All the contributors here, except one, are Grenadian, giving voice to persons who were active participants, children, teenagers, and young adults.
The presidency of George W. Bush was one of extremes, from the highest approval ratings to the lowest. This collection of essays addresses the contentious questions of his time in office, offering initial assessments of this controversial president’s legacy.
This volume analyzes the popularization of specialized discourse in the natural sciences, focusing on botany and gardening. A key feature is the diachronic approach, with chapters spanning from the 17th century to the present day.
The rise of the sharing economy is disrupting industries and challenging institutions. This volume brings together research from a wide variety of disciplines, providing a coherent and comprehensive overview of this major global phenomenon.
Authors from eight countries offer research across eight languages on current issues in Translation Studies. The volume covers four key areas: lexicological issues and corpora, quality and translator training, audiovisual translation, and literary translation.
Perspectives on Waste from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Our growing waste problem is typically viewed through a technocratic lens. This book offers vital new perspectives from social scientists and humanists, showing how waste is constituted through relationships, politics, and culture—a necessary step to building a circular economy.
This book investigates work from diverse worldviews—cultural, religious, humanist, and Indigenous. Our work lives can be more deeply understood and appreciated when exposed to perspectives different from our own, yielding new insights about relationships and crisis at work.
Persuasion in Tourism Discourse
Manca proposes an original approach to the study of tourism discourse by combining several methodologies and models, including Halliday’s systemic functional grammar. The result is a detailed linguistic and socio-cultural overview of the most common strategies of persuasion.
Peter Pan and the Mind of J. M. Barrie
Ridley considers the work of Barrie from the perspective of the science of his time and the insights of modern cognitive psychology, arguing that Barrie describes the limited mental abilities of infants and animals in order to illuminate the structure of human adult cognition.
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