This book focuses on the social, economic, political and structural transformations of cities in Europe, the Near East and Asia from the 17th century to today. It explores the coexistence of diverse groups and the evolution of urban public space.
This book links the personal lives and public actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and two ambassadors. Their friendly relations turned to bitter enmity over how to confront a rising Nazi Germany, a fascinating tale of egos, intrigue, and lives ending as Greek tragedies.
This book studies contemporary Portuguese and Brazilian poets influenced by the Greco-Roman tradition. The comparison between poets from the two countries highlights the cultural community that unites them through the common theme of travels, routes, and symbolic adventures.
This guide to cluster development in Central Europe maps and compares conditions in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, and Austria. It analyses good practices, proposes a development framework, and explores trends like inter-cluster cooperation and World-Class clusters.
The Co-Design of an Online Campaign for an Inclusive Community
This volume shows how communication builds our perception of “us” versus “others,” a cultural obstacle that can lead to radicalisation. We can prevent this with participation and counter-narratives, as shown by a European project that pushes the reader beyond prejudice.
This volume shows the preposition over, often regarded as a function word with little semantic content, encodes rich grammatical and semantic information. The study confirms that over encodes a broad range of geometrical and functional relations.
The Coherence of the Inchoate
This book compares children’s in-school and out-of-school internet use. At home, learning is self-motivated and purposeful, often assisted by peers. As home and school practices diverge, school use may become increasingly irrelevant to children’s lives.
An essential dimension of the Cold War took place in the realm of ideas and culture. As such, this volume discusses the impact of the conflict on entertainment television, offering comparative aspect by studying programs from both Eastern and Western blocs.
The Collectio Avellana is an exceptional documentary collection from antiquity. This volume is the first to reconstruct its history, using a new approach to offer fresh hypotheses on the compilation’s origins, its author, and how it took shape.
This faith-based exposition investigates Bible translations, the color lineage of Jesus, and the role of Africa in his ministry. It interrogates racism in Christianity, showing how it stems from versions of the holy book that deliberately present Jesus Christ as Caucasian.
This book explains what makes Shakespeare’s plays funny, concentrating on the seismic shift in his writing after clown Will Kemp was replaced by Robert Armin. Written in jargon-free prose, it challenges age-old distinctions between high and low comedy for all readers.
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.
The Committed Workforce
This research explores the relationship between organizational commitment and job satisfaction, showing how it is influenced by the economic sector. Job satisfaction is a key mediator, linking an employee’s commitment to positive organizational citizenship behaviours.
This volume discusses a variety of environmental and ecological issues from the standpoint of existing legal instruments, with a primary focus on the necessity for ecologically-oriented governance, in order to redress a situation that supports multiple human rights violations.
The Common Touch
Beginning where volume one of The Common Touch leaves off, selections of English popular literature from the Restoration to the mid-years of the eighteenth century are offered in this second and final volume.
The Common Touch
While figures like Shakespeare dominated the literary scene, what was the vast majority of society really reading and singing? This anthology answers that question with a selection of broadside ballads, witch trial reports, and political newsbooks.
The Communicative Mind
This multifaceted investigation into linguistic meaning argues for the indispensability of dialogue in cognition. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, it demonstrates the centrality of subjectivity and turn-taking interaction in natural semantics.
The Compassionate Rebel Revolution
This revised edition of the second volume in the award-winning Compassionate Rebel series features the inspiring stories of ordinary people from around the globe who have carried out extraordinary acts that are positively transforming our politics, culture and way of life.
The Competitive Challenge of Emerging Markets
The rise of emerging economies like China and India has created a disruptive competitive challenge. This book examines their distinctive characteristics, the challenges of doing business, and the threat of emerging market multinationals as they aspire to surpass their rivals.
Explore compound figures of speech like hyperbolic metaphor. This groundbreaking book reveals their complex, context-driven meanings. Drawing on experimental evidence, it reshapes our understanding of how we interpret figurative language and its impact on communication.
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