Spirituality and Desire in Leonard Cohen’s Songs and Poems
One of the first works on Leonard Cohen to be produced, this Festschrift discusses a range of his songs and poems. The essays range from unique insights offered by Cohen’s official biographer Sylvie Simmons through to considerations of major themes in his output.
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the interplay between ethics and spirituality. How can love, compassion, and tolerance encounter mistrust, enmity, and violence? And how can spirituality contribute to the newly emerging global ethics?
Spirituality for Youth-Work
This title addresses the lack of studies discussing spirituality in human services and youth work. It offers a coherent vocabulary and narrative from which to construct a more deliberate practice of spiritual care, education and professional identity for youth workers.
Spirituality in Late Byzantium
This collection of essays on late Byzantine spirituality presents new research on an important but under-documented period. Through new evidence and re-appraisals of scholarly views, it is a valuable contribution for academics and students alike.
This volume offers a description of current research on Spoken communication. It gives updated insights on cognitive and pragmatic perspectives, language pathologies, multimodal dialog, voice expressiveness, and sign languages.
Spoken English and Spoken Italian
This book investigates the grammar of spoken English and Italian and how to translate them. Using corpus-based evidence from real dialogues, it proposes Italian equivalents of English discourse markers and English versions of Italian clitics. It is the first work of its kind.
Spooked
Britain’s leading intelligence historians present a fresh study of British secrecy since 1945. Drawing on recently declassified archives, these essays explore the use and misuse of intelligence, from the era of decolonisation to the ‘War on Terror’.
Sport and the Christian Religion
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. It offers an important response to the ‘win-at-all-costs’ philosophy of modern sport for students, academics, and coaches.
This book provides a systematic structure for sport psychological interventions to give athletes a competitive edge. For psychologists, athletes, and coaches, it offers scientifically-proven measures for skills training, stress monitoring, and handling crises.
Sport Tourism
This volume provides important theoretical and applied insights into sport tourism. A collective work written by specialists in the field, it provides new insights into this rapidly expanding field, which is in constant change and challenged by globalization.
Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.
Sport tourism is a tool for sustainable local development. This book’s 24 authors offer analyses from case studies to theory. An essential read for academics, students, policymakers, and professionals looking to promote their territory.
Sport Tourism Development
This book brings together international authors to explore sport tourism from theory to practice, examining E-sport events, territorial development, and sustainability. Essential for academic researchers, students, policymakers, and professionals in sports tourism and management.
Given that the links between sports, media and regional identity are often neglected in favour of national identity, this edited volume considers the cultural significance of particular sports and clubs to regional and sub-national identities across Europe and beyond.
Sports and Violence
The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.
Sports Journalism in the Age of Paterno
For decades, sports journalists made Joe Paterno an American hero. When a devastating scandal revealed the villain beneath, they had to confront their profession. This book examines an industry that built a monster and asks: Is sports journalism journalism at all?
Uncover Sri Lanka’s complex, two-century relationship with English. This book examines attitudes across Tamil and Sinhala communities, analyzing colonial and postcolonial writings from both elite and everyday perspectives.
Before St. John’s, the first fever hospital, patients suffered and died in their homes. The spread of fever was controlled by isolating them. This Irish study covers the cholera epidemic of 1832 and the Great Famine of the 1840s.
St. Lucian Kwéyòl on St. Croix
This work reviews theories of creolization and provides a new case study of St. Lucian Creole (Kwéyòl) speakers on St. Croix. It examines questions of language choice, language attitudes, and ethnolinguistic identity in a multilingual minority community.
This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.
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