Human Rights and Diverse Societies
In a world of increasing diversity, how can universal human rights be practically realized? This book explores the tensions between group identities and individual freedoms, identifying new frameworks to empower marginalized groups in diverse societies.
This book argues that a religious worldview is only one of many identities immigrants use to assimilate. It finds that generational stage, gender, and religious tradition are more significant than religious orthodoxy in shaping immigrant stances on social and economic issues.
This workbook introduces language’s basic systems—sound, meaning, and grammar—and how to describe them. Using actual language data, you get involved in linguistic analysis with a focus on real human usage, not correctness.
Does interactivity enhance e-Learning? While often claimed, little scientific evidence exists. This book provides proof, presenting three empirical studies on the impact of interactive feedback on learners, teachers, and the environment.
The 2007 financial crisis revealed the fallibility of our global economic system. This book offers a critical view, examining the relations between State sovereignty and markets while investigating gaps in major international organizations like the IMF and WTO.
This book is a comprehensive introduction to Proto-Indo-European, Balto-Slavic and Proto-Slavic accentology. It summarizes the major approaches of the last thirty years and traces how accentual patterns developed from the proto-language to modern languages.
This book addresses learning styles in second language development. It explores various models of style and their significance for educators, concluding with a discussion of the practical exploitation of learning style awareness in second language education.
10th Conference on British and American Studies – Crossing Boundaries
This collection of papers explores language, literature, and culture through the overarching notion of Englishness. It provides a snapshot of the multiple vantage points from which these phenomena can be studied, focusing on English-speaking communities.
Cinema, Television and History
Rethinking the relationship between cinema, television and history, this collection of essays explores how historical events are interpreted and adapted for the screen, as well as the work of the historian exploring the archive.
What are the characteristics of media in small nations? This collection brings together perspectives and case-studies from across Europe to explore the challenges and advantages, providing insights into media policy, representation, and national identity.
Rivals and Conspirators
This history exposes the rivalry and conflict behind Paris’s rise as the “modern art centre.” It reveals how the most powerful Salons were not the avant-garde, and how a welcoming internationalism gave way to nationalist xenophobia.
Facing the Crises
This collection of essays explores “crisis” in Anglo-American literature and culture. It analyzes our relationship to technology and the virtual, rethinks literary genres, and shows why humanist research is crucial for understanding the human condition.
The Willow and the Spiral
This book of essays commemorates Nobel laureate Octavio Paz. Top scholars offer studies of his poetry and essays in relation to art, politics, translation, and world cultures, celebrating his legacy of criticism and open viewpoints.
Shifting Viewpoints
To understand a turbulent century, German writers turned to Cervantes. Don Quixote, recast as either fool or hero, became a powerful lens for grappling with fascism, war, and a divided world.
An original exploration of the radical English student movement of the 1960s. Based on new research and oral histories, this book tells the untold stories of England’s biggest student rebellion and its lessons for today.
This book analyzes madness in masterpieces of 19th and 20th-century Spanish literature. It explores how conceptions of madness intersect with love, religion, and politics in works by writers like Galdós, Unamuno, Pardo Bazán, and others.
Taming Risk
This work investigates late modernity through the interplay of risk and trust. It offers an integrative perspective aiming to reconcile the dimensions of individual agency and social structure in contemporary post-industrial societies.
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?
Language Skills
This volume offers an international perspective on language skills. It explores the development of spoken, reading, and writing skills, incorporating technology and original empirical studies. A vital resource for researchers, classroom teachers, and students.
Most writing on art is about creation. This volume addresses its relationship with destruction. It brings together distinct areas for enquiry, from artists whose making is driven by breaking down matter to unique approaches to representing mass destruction.