Critical Interculturality
Dervin offers new critical insights into intercultural communication and education, assembling previously unpublished lectures delivered in different countries (namely, Canada, China, Finland, Russia and the USA), as well as notes on intercultural events and encounters.
This volume discusses pressing issues in contemporary artistic education and culture. It explores how artistic education preserves national traditions, contributes to international integration, and navigates the challenges of the 21st century.
The Solidarity Economics in Ecuador
Solidarity economics introduces an outlook that emphasises the human being, ethics, and the environment. This collection of papers illustrates the pragmatic approach of researchers in Ecuador, providing answers to local problems like corruption, poverty, and income distribution.
Pābūjī: Rajput warrior, celibate ascetic, and hero of a medieval epic still performed in India. This accessible book explores the history and myths behind his exciting, humorous, and miraculous adventures, analysing the legendary tale.
Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India
After a constitutional amendment reserved political seats for women in rural Haryana, who are the women who ran for office? What barriers do they face? Ten elected women Sarpanches share their own life stories, reflecting on their journeys and the difference they are making.
Voices of Identities
The contributions here represent the proceedings of the Annual Congress of the Austrian Society for Musicology in 2014, and open multiple perspectives on the identity-relevant implications of every kind of vocal music from the last days of the Habsburg Empire to the present day.
A Linguistic Analysis of Diplomatic Discourse
D’Acquisto explores the language used by the United Nations Resolutions on the Question of Palestine. She reviews the English verbal system’s role in relation to modality in the institutional language of the UN and the different pragmatic purposes of its normative text types.
“The two most powerful films of Shakespeare plays were made not in Great Britain but in the Soviet Union.” This book reveals director Grigori Kozintsev’s vision as he takes a text from stage to film, offering new ways to view Shakespeare and understand the challenging King Lear.
Making a case for existentialist design ethics, this book reveals an unsettling reality: there is no exit for designers but to accept their freedom and responsibility. It lays the ground for a radical transformation of how we conceive design, ethics, and the role of designers.
The mysterious petroglyphs of Northumberland are more than ancient art. They are a prehistoric star atlas, depicting the night sky 4,500 years ago with stunning accuracy. This book decodes their messages and provides a field guide to interpreting the rocks for yourself.
Jennings traces the theory of Radical Dependence through its various forms in Berkeley’s philosophical works, showing how this idea unifies Berkeley’s various phases of philosophical development.
Essays on Shakespeare
Dahiya highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies. She also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education.
Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology
This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.
Bringing together a number of experts in their respective fields and representing an important contribution to the topic of science and mathematics education, the contributions here deal with various aspects of education, including theoretical modelling and reasoning skills.
Megatrends and How to Survive Them
Behind the headlines, remorseless changes are creating a very different world. This book explores the twelve key megatrends that will shape 2032 and what you, your family, and your organisation can do to survive and thrive. Are you prepared?
Between Regulation and Freedom
These studies re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and early modern European cities. They focus on the ways in which we can understand the interfaces between regulatory frameworks, represented by guild and civic regulations, and the wider world of labour and production.
Ożańska-Ponikwia addresses a prominent area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. She provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the point of view emotional intelligence.
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