A practical guide for academics and practitioners on using corpora in advanced foreign language teaching. Through a detailed case study, this book illustrates how to integrate analysis tools into university education, revealing both potential and pitfalls.
Explore structural and ornamental diatonic harmony in the Common Practice Period. This guide explains the crucial difference between them, providing novel insights into the interplay of harmony and melody. Includes ample musical examples and exercises to develop your skills.
Intercultural Communicative Competence and Individual Differences
This book offers a critical overview of intercultural communicative competence (ICC). As a novel contribution, it frames ICC in relation to learner variables like motivation and communication apprehension, proposing and testing a new, data-driven model for L2 communication.
Culinary Aspects of Ancient Rome
A thrilling gastronomic journey through the Roman Empire. This book explores the cookery of social elites and common households, shedding light on the significance of the banquet and the simple act of sharing food, while offering new findings on ancient recipes and technologies.
This volume explores entrepreneurship education and development in Southern Africa. Using case studies, it discusses how higher education institutions can empower youth with entrepreneurial skills to improve the economy and drive innovation.
In 1478, Leonardo da Vinci opened his own workshop and began painting the Benois Madonna—a work marking a strong change in his style and representation of human emotion. This book analyzes his growth as an artist in this pivotal year, detailing his training and life in Florence.
This volume relates the philosophy of religion to the humanities, including visual art, literature, and pop culture. Essays discuss the nature of art and religious experience, the role of art in religious dialogue, and the function of narrative in religious discourse.
Edward Long’s Libel of Africa
This book examines Edward Long’s 1774 History of Jamaica as a catalyst for British racial supremacy. Long vehemently denigrated Africans in a work of race vilification whose unjust ramifications for black people are still felt in Britain today.
Extraterrestrials in the Catholic Imagination
Scientists, theologians, and sci-fi authors join forces to ask: what does alien life mean for Catholicism? Their answer is a radical welcome for extraterrestrials as fellow creatures of God, not a crisis of faith.
A “Biography” of Lynchburg
Lynchburg, Virginia, is not a typical Southern city. It thrived on manufacture, not agriculture, while retaining its cultural identity. A city with enormous vitality and resiliency, it has a soul. This book covers its infrastructure, legacy, economics, and key defining moments.
Feminist Themes in Sevim Burak and Ursula K. Le Guin’s Worlds
Sevim Burak used unconventional writing for realistic worlds; Ursula K. Le Guin used traditional writing for unusual ones. This study shows how both authors explored similar feminist themes and aimed to destroy phallogocentric language in different ways.
Contemporary Crime Fiction
This book presents nine compelling essays on contemporary crime fiction, bringing fresh perspectives to the vibrant genre. Topics range from domestic noir and historical crime to race and ethnicity, examining authors like Gillian Flynn, Ian Rankin, and Tana French.
This book considers the history of stardom through its connections to three media. The first phase, shaped by cinema, created contemporary stardom. The second, linked to television, made the star more intimate, while the third sees outsiders achieve visibility through the web.
This book addresses sustainable urban development, covering governance, green technology, and the environment. It is a reference for local stakeholders making policy and planning choices to protect the environment and to provide for equitable housing, health, and education.
Child life specialists need research skills, but few resources exist. Combining clinical examples with advice from seasoned researchers, this text guides you from identifying a clinical question to reporting results and improving patient outcomes.
Ambrose was a protean figure whose motives are not always clear. This interdisciplinary volume investigates his efforts to create social cohesion for Nicaean Christianity against heresy and paganism by fusing Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian intellectual traditions.
This book examines the reception of visual arts across cultures and times. It focuses on the migration of images: how they travel from one medium to another, and how they migrate from an artefact into the human body, a process explored through various disciplines.
This book presents 15 papers by specialists on Late Antique Egypt. Articles deal with its history, from monasticism to the Arab conquest. Other contributions provide new writings and readings of texts from inscriptions, papyri and ostraca, offering a close-up look at the period.
As European society segregates along religious and ethnic lines, static multiculturalism has failed, strengthening religious nationalism. This book presents a message to Europe’s elites: embrace the dynamic principle of interculturalism to build one society for all.
What did ‘Rome’ mean in antiquity, and what has it meant since? This volume shows that ancient Rome has been recontextualised and remade by successive historical periods. These studies show how Rome and its texts are recast for each new audience through adaptation and critique.