Explore creativity from the perspectives of philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and artists. This unique, interdisciplinary book examines how to cultivate creativity, its healing power in therapy, and its relationship to the brain.
This peer-reviewed volume is a selection of papers from an international symposium. Featuring contributions from the world’s leading researchers, it offers an excellent overview of the current state of research in linguistics and related disciplines.
Constructing Interpersonality
This edited volume focuses on interpersonality in academic discourse. Its eighteen contributions explore this key issue across many genres and from various analytical approaches. A valuable tool for applied linguists, discourse analysts, students, and EAP instructors.
Contemporary Television Series
This volume proposes an interdisciplinary approach to worldwide television series, analyzing the invisible barriers between fiction and reality. Readers can explore unique insights into the impact of television on reality and on their own lives.
This collection of essays on Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) highlights the latest developments in Foreign Language Teaching. Presenting new research from leading practitioners, this is an essential survey for teachers, teachers-in-training, and researchers.
HBO’s Girls
This collection is the first to discuss the cultural, political, and social implications of the innovative series Girls. Contributors examine the show through lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and relationships to explain its profound cultural impact.
Transforming From Christianity to Islam
Why would a Western woman convert to Islam and embrace the hijab? These personal accounts explore the complex reality where devotion collides with the immense influence of peer, social, and male pressure on one of life’s biggest decisions.
The Sublime Today
How is the sublime relevant today? As new media changes aesthetic experience, this volume investigates the sublime in contemporary literature, film, and art, connecting historical theories to pressing questions of gender, politics, and terror.
This collection of essays contributes to Potter Studies, examining Rowling’s work as a literary and cultural phenomenon. International scholars explore the books’ popularity, their effects on readers, film adaptations, and philosophical considerations of good and evil.
New applications of Role & Reference Grammar
This book applies RRG to diachronic syntax, grammaticalization, and Romance languages. Articles analyze topic-focus structure, case assignment, the syntax-semantics interface, and different aspects of verbs and the structures they involve.
The Mission and Message of Music
This book probes the beauty and meaning of music, arguing it is a message in sound—a covenant between musician and listener. One sends the musical message, the other internalizes it. Intended for music connoisseurs and all interested in artistic thought.
The Future of Post-Human Engineering
Is mass media informational and accurate or disinformational and propagandistic? Neither view is correct. Something vital has been missing from the analysis. This book shows a better way to understand mass media, one that will alter our future.
Brazil is more than samba and football. This book journeys through novels, poetry, music, art, and film from 1865 to the present day to uncover the surprising and vital cultural relationship the nation has had with its railways.
The Digital Learning Revolution in Ireland
This book presents case studies from the Irish National Digital Learning Resources (NDLR) service, showing how Open Educational Resources (OERs) are being promoted in Ireland. The NDLR fosters the sharing of resources across the Higher Education sector.
Humorous Garden-Paths
This book investigates short humorous texts like one-liners and witticisms based on the “garden-path mechanism”—the pleasurable surprise of being deceived. It will interest anyone who finds humour research appealing; no background knowledge is necessary.
Innovative Learning Geography in Europe
New technologies have revolutionised geography teaching. This book, supported by EUROGEO, analyses the main challenges facing geographical education and illustrates examples of the use of geoinformation in classrooms in several European countries.
A Hubterranean View of Syntax
Julie Louise Steele explores how patterns in nature are realised in our conversations. The branching of a tree is echoed in a river delta, the spiral of a shell in a tornado—our words dance to the same tune.
“Language is nature and nature is language.”
The Balkans and Caucasus
The Black Sea is a bridge between peoples and a border between powers. This volume brings together scholars to ask: Is this a coherent zone whose past, present, and future suggest a shared destiny?
To See the Wizard
Inspired by The Wizard of Oz, this volume interrogates the politics at work in children’s literature. It analyzes how “wizards”—writers, publishers, and others—use stories to shape young readers’ views on race, class, gender, and power.
Following the advent of the printing press, Italian humanist Latin texts spread across Europe. This study is the first comprehensive account of their dissemination and impact on the Renaissance curriculum and the rising national literary traditions of the period.
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