Developmental Dyslexia and Anaphora Resolution in English L1/L2
This book investigates how people with dyslexia resolve ambiguous sentences. Using innovative methods like eye-tracking, it hypothesizes that their known working memory impairment hinders procedural memory, disrupting semantic and syntactic competence in demanding reading tasks.
Using Literature for Language Learning
This book offers language teachers an innovative approach to engage and motivate students through guided readings of literary texts. It provides practical tools, like sample lesson plans, to help students develop linguistic, cultural, and motivational competences.
This collection offers fresh perspectives on Gissing’s place in fin-de-siècle literature. Interdisciplinary readings place him in dialogue with figures from Dickens to Foucault, challenging his status as a simple realist and revealing his complex modernity.
Voices on the Loss of National Independence in Korea and Vietnam, 1890-1920
This comparative study of anti-colonial movements in Korea and Vietnam examines two protagonists. Molded by shared pasts, they dealt with their countries’ condition and envisioned an alternative world order that has pertinence today.
Teaching Business, Technical and Academic Writing Online and Onsite
A must-have handbook for undergraduate and graduate teachers. Drawing on three decades of experience, this guide offers best practices for instructing students in writing proposals, reports, and academic papers, with specific strategies for remote teaching in a post-COVID world.
Regulating Decision-Making in Multiple Pregnancy
This book examines fetal reduction in multiple pregnancies, finding legal, ethical, and professional norms offer little explicit guidance for this difficult decision. Using new evidence, it shows doctors are weakly guided and advances recommendations for shared decision-making.
The Social and Solidarity Economy in Latin America
This book explores the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE) in Latin America, highlighting its challenges and possibilities. It analyzes solidarity alternatives in the capital market and the emergencies that occur in order to humanize the capitalist system.
This collection of essays highlights the enduring significance of provenance for historians, authentication, and law. It remains vital to ownership and topical due to ongoing debates over looted art and the illicit trade in antiquities conducted by terrorist groups.
Local Traditional Knowledge in Its Urban Context
From the perspective of Bai minorities, this book studies the role of Local Traditional Knowledge (LTK) in the cultural preservation of Dali. It captures the dynamics of integrating LTK during rapid urbanization and explores potential solutions for an inclusive urban governance.
This book offers strategies for developing the online classroom into a deep learning community. Anchored in educational theory, it shows how a strong sense of community ownership enhances students’ ability to master content through shared authority, voice, and peer connection.
Essays in Narrative and Fictionality
By one of postclassical narrative theory’s preeminent figures, this book reexamines foundational topics from the role of the author to the nature of fiction. It argues for a more expansive conception of narrative theory, making crucial interventions in ongoing critical debates.
Reclaimative Post-Conflict Justice
In response to the 2003 Iraq War, citizens formed the World Tribunal on Iraq to investigate war responsibilities. This book explores their experimental tribunal as a new form of post-conflict justice—a guide for reclaiming democracy for a peaceful and just world order.
Luxury and American Consumer Culture
This book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture, with case studies on how it affects our choices of automobiles, homes, and hotels. Adopting a global perspective, it also features analyses of luxury in China, Germany, Russia, and other countries.
The digital age promised connection but delivered chaos, fake news, and manipulation. How must the Church respond? Drawing on timeless wisdom, these vital essays forge a path through the digital wilderness.
Controversies over Islamic Origins
How can we reconstruct the origins of Islam? This book addresses this question by exploring conflicting modern theories through case studies on the Qur’an, the Prophet, and conquest narratives, examining a spectrum of traditionalist and revisionist scholarship.
This volume presents collaborative research on key issues in medical science and public health. Topics include manufacturing vaccines in Africa, preventing HIV/AIDS and cancer, decreasing global childhood cancer disparities, and improving sanitation and health practices.
These wide-ranging essays are based on new research and linked by a vigorous methodology. Some re-visit well-known historians and subjects. Others make a convincing case for resurrecting the neglected or forgotten. All are problem solving and reach outwards, as well as inwards.
This book offers insight into Australian Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on the built environment. Enriched with Indigenous voices, it discusses the value of their Knowledge Systems and their wish to journey into a shared, sustainable future, respectfully.
This book demythologises the Hitlerjugend Division. Using an innovative social psychology approach, it provides insights into the psychological mechanisms that facilitated their moral disengagement, culminating in the division’s unparalleled combat motivation and war crimes.
This book investigates the linguistic phenomenon of blending in Arabic. Adopting a systematic and quantitative approach, it analyses how new words are formed, presenting practical findings and paving the way for further investigation in this field.