Pragmatic Linguistics and Sociolinguistics
This book analyzes and compares the language styles, politeness, and directness used by English and Slovak presenters on live television. Because the shows are unscripted, their language is more natural, and the results contribute to sociolinguistic research worldwide.
No other book links epidemiological concepts to leadership. This book identifies leadership determinants and matches research-based antidotes to them. Using over 60 case studies and leadership style assessments, you will learn to improve your leadership and the workplace climate.
Holistic Teacher Education
This collection explores holistic, reconstructionist, and reconceptualist approaches to teacher education that seek to shift the trajectory of society. It serves as an introductory text for the field of holistic curriculum studies, opening it to a wider audience.
Technological progress has advanced the forgery of monuments, threatening their historical value. This book presents scientific methods for detecting fakes to help preserve our heritage.
Psychoanalytic and Anthropological Considerations of Gilgamesh
A 5000-year-old quest for immortality, the Gilgamesh Epic reflects our timeless struggle with mortality. This psychoanalytic exploration reveals the myth’s enduring relevance, dissecting its themes of power, sexuality, and the human condition for a modern audience.
The Graveyard in Literature
This volume explores how cultural texts use the graveyard as a liminal space to challenge social values and articulate new perspectives. Immersed between life and death, where traditional certainties are suspended, new models for human interaction can be formulated.
In essays, reviews, and interviews, an acclaimed film critic lays out a Christian approach to film. He shows how blockbusters, documentaries, and indies can speak to Christians and how Christian voices can enrich conversations around their meaning and relevance.
Teaching across the Curriculum
As many young people in Africa now perceive education as not useful, teachers must adjust their methods. This book will help teachers and lecturers be dynamic, efficient, and effective. Written by experienced scholars, it has been peer-reviewed by eminent academics.
This book helps students and practitioners understand marketing and design. It provides an overview of experiential marketing, innovation, branding, and human-centred design, while considering future avenues for creativity in the field.
This is the first work comparing Margaret Drabble with key Iraqi novelists, including Ahmed Saadawi. It analyses physical and soft violence in their novels, arguing they are interwoven and that soft violence can cause as much psychological and literal damage as hard violence.
Using ordinary language and facts of experience, Bishop Butler’s philosophy is a guidebook to happiness. This book presents his work as a bridge joining ancient wisdom with modern experience, offering ways to live without the error and distraction that lead to misery.
Plants experience stress from environmental changes. This book is a comprehensive reference on plant responses to both biotic and abiotic stress, consolidating topics that other books cover only in isolation. It details this essential aspect of plant life and adaptation.
Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
This book explores neo-slave narratives by black American women, showing how authors write through the transgenerational trauma of slavery. It demonstrates how traumatic memory is inscribed on the female body and how storytelling enables black women’s voices to be heard.
The Univac Corporation
This volume tells the story of the Univac 1100 series. It pioneered the concept of a computer family, a multidimensional OS supporting interactive and batch processing, and evolutionary designs with upward compatibility that protected its customers’ investment.
Teaching effectively online requires different instructional strategies than face-to-face teaching. The chapters in this volume identify the best communication practices for teaching in the varied environments of online learning.
Now more than ever, we must reconsider what borders and frontiers mean. This collection analyzes their representation in literature, philosophy, and cinema, drawing on global examples to find what unites us in our shared humanity, rather than what divides us.
Imperial Japan’s Allied Prisoners of War in the South Pacific
On the South Pacific island of New Britain, Imperial Japan imprisoned over 10,000 Allied soldiers and civilians. More than half died. What motivated such inhumane treatment? This book traces the genesis of Bushido and surveys prisoners’ recollections to find the answer.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
Tomorrow’s Media
This collection of essays from an impressive group of media and broadcasting experts sheds light on where we have come from and where we are going. A unique work of interdisciplinary research, this book exists at an intersection between technology and the arts.
Based on large-scale research, this book challenges standard views to help create affirming spaces for trans*+ individuals in healthcare and education. It dives into controversies in media, medicine, and mental health, offering provocative questions and illuminating answers.