Pavlou offers a significant and original contribution to studies on D. W. Griffith and film, through a systematic analysis of the director’s chase scenes, which create suspense and resolution in his films.
This volume explores language acquisition research in Latvia and Lithuania. Detailing a range of views on its problems and perspectives, it stimulates the reader to ask questions, argue, and join the debate. The driving force in this field is dialogue, not simple advice.
The Balance between Worker Protection and Employer Powers
This book analyses the challenges of the current labour market, focusing on the balance of power in employment contracts. International contributors discuss the future of work, worker protection, the limits of employers’ power, and workers’ rights with new technologies.
Happiness is fleeting, but meaning endures. This book outlines a disciplined technique to uncover meaning in your life, which becomes a north star for navigation.
Data-Rich Linguistics
In recognition of Professor Yiwola Awoyale’s contributions to African linguistics, this collection presents current research on the syntax, semantics, phonology, and sociolinguistics of African languages—a state-of-the-art account of contemporary issues in the field today.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
Radio Relations
This book explores how radio builds affective relations and reinforces a sense of community. It features erudite essays from world-famous figures like Seán Street and Enrico Menduni, alongside perspectives from brilliant young researchers and practitioners from around the world.
The essays here discuss Latin American perspectives against the mainstream view of development, and look at historical context, cultural diversity and the complex philosophy of life from a Latin American perspective to address the subcontinent’s deep cultural heritage.
Homage to Political Philosophy
Flynn offers a model introduction to political philosophy, addressing philosophers from Plato to Rawls and Nozick, with each thinker treated as exploring perennial problems.
McParland probes the relationship of modernist authors with the thought of their time. He considers how such writers participated in the intellectual spirit of their time and with the thought of philosophers like Henri Bergson, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
The thirteen highly personal essays in this volume anatomize the elements of our lives—the habits that make us what we are. Readers will emerge refreshed from this excursion into the hidden mysteries of that most obvious of conditions: daily life.
This text serves to help a potentially uninformed retail trader understand more about financial markets, and assist them in gaining the technical skills required to profit from trading. It represents a beginner’s guide to trading, with a core focus on stocks and currencies.
Customer-Centricity
Empowered customers have high expectations. This book presents a framework to understand the digital trends reshaping consumption, and analyzes the new skills and business models needed to succeed in the age of digital disruption.
The Language of the Arts and Literature
This dictionary brings into contact two cultures, namely English and Romanian, by facilitating communication in the fields of visual and performing arts and literature. It will help translators, interpreters and students to communicate better in both English and Romanian.
In this monograph, two historians investigate some of the most important events in American history which have shaped the American experience and impacted the drive for democracy and freedom.
Economic Gaps and Crises in South-East Europe
This collection includes presentations made at the 2016 conference of the South-Eastern European Monetary History Network, and will appeal to central bankers, members of academia and researchers interested in European economic history with a focus on South-Eastern Europe.
Looser explores the differences between extrinsic and intrinsic Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), reflecting on the impact these discrepancies have on CSR stakeholders.
This collection of essays explores educational issues from various disciplines, including Business Economics, Linguistics, Education, and History. Topics range from urban theory and bilingualism to Socratic teaching techniques. Essential for educators, researchers, and students.
Translation Revisited
This book critiques how knowledge of Africa has been produced. It argues that “translation” based on Western universalism—a claim used to justify imperial expansion—became an attempt to change local norms, institutions, and spiritual values.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
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