Based on the voices of 4,000 young people from 88 countries, this book reveals the values of Generations Y and Z. As the largest, best-educated, and most connected generation ever, today’s youth are creating a more democratic world and changing our future.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.
Proving Jesus’ Authority in Mark and John
Greenberg’s innovative study of the Fourth Gospel introduces important new perspectives on synoptic problems and challenges many theories about the nature of the Gospel of John’s sources and composition practices.
Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea
This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.
This volume examines the darker side of the famed American founder, Alexander Hamilton. A Gilded Age revival of his ideas helped inspire an assertive American role in the world, culminating in an overseas empire. The book reveals his elitist and military-commercial convictions.
Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this volume reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It explores, among other topics, the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations.
This collection assesses the impacts of climate change on our cultural and natural heritage, focusing on urban planning, disaster management, and sustainability. Far-reaching actions are needed to adapt our historic environment and build resilience to limit further damage.
An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper
Curelly investigates the content of The Moderate, a radical newspaper of the British Civil Wars published in the pivotal years 1648-9. He captures the essence of this periodical, seen both as a political publication and a commercial product.
This volume offers insights from emerging and well-established Catholic scholars on Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. It focuses on the philosophical, ecological and anthropological aspects of Laudato si’, placing it within a specific history of ideas.
Ivanova considers the persistent tendency to represent the “Middle East” as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries through an analysis of the works of Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak.
Society and Law
This book investigates a range of hypothetical issues concerning the relationship between law and society and how it plays out, specifically in fields of legitimacy and social strategy. This will allow the reader to comprehend the hidden standards and ideas in socio-legal reviews
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
Chylińska highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections constructed on the basis of the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesilla.
Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.
Italian Architects and Builders in the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey
This collection covers a complex cultural and political geography spanning from the Danubian principalities to Anatolia and the Aegean region. It explores a rich transcultural field of encounters and interactions, analysed on the basis of hitherto uncovered archival materials.
Auden, master of metre, remains a mystery. This book uses a revolutionary theory of poetic rhythm—placing rhythm before meaning—to unlock his formal art. It revives interest in Auden’s poetry and his urgent questions: What is poetry? What is its use?
Stricto Sensu Investor Protection under MiFID II
This book analyses Articles 24-30 of MiFID II, the cornerstone investor protection rules for EU capital markets shaped by the 2007-2009 financial crisis. It identifies changes from MiFID I while presenting the detailed delegated acts and ESMA Guidelines.
Taking Stance in English as a Lingua Franca
This volume focuses on English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) in an Italian university. Through analysis of lectures, it reveals the complex linguistic strategies lecturers use to manage interpersonal relations and build rapport with students in the foreign language classroom.
In Pakistan, Board Examinations encourage students to memorize essays, damaging learners’ creative talents. This book investigates the negative impact on classroom practice and argues that changes to the examination system and textbooks will improve teaching and assessment.
This monograph draws on structural issues underlying the on-going dispute between China and Japan concerning the Diaoyu/Diaoyutai Islands, along with the concomitant, multifaceted challenges that need to be investigated, in order to provide insights into Sino-Japanese relations.
Barnard restores the juvenile journal of Anna Seward, eighteenth-century poet, biographer, and letter-writer, to its original format, making the case for Seward’s importance as a social and cultural commentator.
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