This book is a comprehensive investigation of the morphosyntax of Tarifit Berber. One of its most significant findings is that Tarifit has undergone a grammatical shift from VSO word order to a topic-prominent system. Novel analyses are also proposed for clitics and causatives.
Approaches to Building a Smart Community
This book offers unique ‘glocal’ approaches to ‘smart communities’, drawing on South African experiences to address this global issue. It blends social and technical aspects, presenting insights from a range of community practitioners, academics, architects, and engineers.
This insider account shows how working-class students in a conservative region initiated radical changes in the Sixties. Their vivid story of bringing students around to support social justice illustrates how democratic change can reshape a nation, inspiring today’s activists.
English Writings from Northeast India
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
This book presents writings on Heinz-Uwe Haus’s productions of Brecht and ancient Greek drama in Cyprus and Greece, beginning with his 1975 launch of the Cyprus National Theatre. It includes reviews, academic articles, and reflections by Haus, cast members, and designers.
This collection re-examines the work and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple perspectives. It considers overlooked aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and movements.
This collection explores global issues in business, from wellbeing at work and marketing innovations to sustainability in the food industry. The volume analyzes the organizational behavior of ISIS and offers insights into secrecy by analyzing scenes from John Grisham’s The Firm.
Tackling Online Education
Leading experts from eight countries discuss how national policy responses to COVID-19 shaped higher education. This book offers solutions to common problems like Zoom fatigue and lack of student engagement, and provides techniques for effective online teaching and learning.
Explore the wanderings of Odysseus in books 5-13 of Homer’s Odyssey. This guide provides a readable translation, summaries, and in-depth analysis to enhance your enjoyment of the epic’s most famous segment. It also includes exercises and topics for further investigation.
Book Three of the Corpus Tibullianum
This commentary on [Tibullus] 3 presents a text, translation, and a detailed argument for a single author. It shows how one anonymous poet composed the whole work by impersonating different characters, from Lygdamus and Sulpicia to Tibullus himself.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
This history documents the persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Eastern Europe. It compares their survival under different political systems, from dictatorships to modern Russia, where a renewed ban has returned Soviet-era conditions of repression.
Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed education research. This book maps key challenges and opportunities for a post-COVID world where method and methodology are as vital as findings. It explores issues from STEM research and design to analysis, complexity, and ethics.
This collection offers cutting-edge perspectives on childhood, focusing on the Irish context while exploring universal themes. Balancing theoretical and practical knowledge, it identifies best practices for educators, psychologists, parents, and policymakers.
Understanding Media Propaganda in the 21st Century
Is Manufacturing Consent still fit for purpose? This book argues that the 2016 election created a ‘year zero’ for journalism, requiring an overhaul of Herman and Chomsky’s Propaganda Model. It is a radical intervention, offering a new model to understand media propaganda.
This overview of modern Arabic poetry is seen through its leading exponents: Salim Barakat, Mahmud Darwish, and Adunis. Unsurpassed translations reveal how Barakat’s poetry re-invents Kurdish culture, throwing new light on the output of his friend Mahmud Darwish.
The Commercialization of the Holiday Season in Quebec, 1885-1915
More than a century ago, the consumer spirit of Christmas blossomed in French Canada. Here, Christmas supplanted New Year’s Day as the main winter holiday, and Santa Claus replaced Baby Jesus. This book questions the genesis of seemingly immemorial traditions.
Repeating Words, Retelling Stories
In literature, repetition does more than re-enforce a concept; it creates new meaning. This book explores examples from Homer, Virgil, and Ovid, and draws on neuro-cognitive science to show why repetition is an unavoidable staple of any text.
P. Papinius Statius Volume V
The first-century AD poet Statius wrote epics and the Siluae, a collection of occasional poems. This volume provides a comprehensive conspectus of manuscript readings of the Siluae, with a complete register of conjectures by modern scholars.
The Siluae of Statius are five books of occasional poems written for rich patrons. This volume presents the text with a facing translation, an introduction to the transmission of the text, and a bibliography of relevant secondary literature.