This book celebrates the diversity of universities but recognises the challenges faced by new students. It offers research, case studies, and practical advice from international experts on student transition, retention, and the first-year experience.
ELT
This volume gathers international scholars to explore ELT, applied linguistics, and cultural studies. It covers diverse topics from cognitive grammar and teaching culture to technology in the classroom, reflecting both global trends and local research.
European identity is both a problem and an opportunity. This interdisciplinary volume examines its complex facets—from cultural politics to digital media—to clarify and even create a new sense of what it means to be European.
Challenges of Discourse Processing
This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.
This book explores diverse approaches to collaborative writing as critical arts-based inquiry. Not a handbook, but a scrapbook of methods, fragments, and excursions into practices like poetic writing—a gesture against the market-driven academy.
Literature and translation are creative acts of interpretation. This volume explores their shared identity, looking at how an expanded idea of translation illuminates intercultural communication and resists the systematizing imperatives of globalization.
Explore 20 interdisciplinary essays on the social factors shaping education from youth to adulthood. A vital tool for professionals and anyone passionate about lifelong learning, this collection offers fresh insights into continuous education.
Society in its Challenges
To what extent can philosophical thinking address the challenges of living in society? This book answers this question, offering an analysis of fundamental issues and providing a philosophical vision for the creative advance of society.
Social Informatics
This state-of-the-art review of 21st century social informatics explores its past, present, and future. Emphasizing the core relationship among people, ICT, and social life, it demonstrates that this research is more necessary now than ever.
This multi-faceted account reveals the complex foundations of conflicts between north and south, and recently within South Sudan itself. Hopes for a new democratic society have devolved to dysfunction as both nations face grave problems in security and stability.
This volume explores the ethics of National Socialism, from its ideology of racial warfare and “euthanasia” killings to the moral convictions of perpetrators who acted with a “good conscience.” It connects Nazi ideology to current ethical challenges.
This book argues that UK government policy on “better parenting” promoted a middle-class model which misunderstood and devalued other approaches, reproducing social inequality and failing to support mothers who diverged from this ideal.
Displaced Women
These interdisciplinary essays explore women’s narratives of displacement, transcending the idea of ‘national identity’. The contributors compel us to rethink ‘mother tongue’ and linguistic ownership, and ask how women express their ‘permanent strangeness’.
The Fire Within
Hailed as the core of human identity, desire shapes our actions and dreams. This collection of essays explores how desire is portrayed in modern Italian literature, showing it to be the secret motor of the narrative in works of the last two centuries.
Ninety Years of the Abruzzo National Park 1922-2012
The Abruzzo National Park is one of the oldest protected areas in Europe. This volume reconstructs the highlights of the Park’s troubled but influential history and its connections with environmentalism and Italian society at large.
The European Debt Crisis
The global financial crisis led to a European sovereign debt crisis that threatens the future of the EU. This book provides answers from theoretical and empirical perspectives, exploring the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the ongoing crisis.
Europe as a Multiple Modernity
Challenging predominant modernity theory, this book argues Europe is a multiple modernity. Essays explore the plurality of religious identities and belonging in the everyday lives of individuals, focusing on their multiple senses of identification.
Eat History
Eat History offers fascinating new insights into gastronomic studies and cultural history. Nine leading historians explore topics from vodka to patty cakes across the globe, engaging academics and general readers keen to discover how food opens up new areas of history.
Tabish Khair
This volume approaches Tabish Khair’s writings from numerous perspectives, analyzing his social and political concerns. It is highly enriched by Khair’s unpublished play, a satirical commentary on tourism and the ability of common Indians to adapt and thrive.
African Film
This interdisciplinary book interrogates Africa’s filmic past, analyses current productions, and projects into the future. Traversing politics, economics, and history, it explores production, marketing, gender, race, and legal issues.