Enabling the Differently Abled
This book is a critical examination of disability rights and law in India, with a focus on the mentally challenged. It critiques systemic barriers to equality and advocates for progressive legal reforms, calling for a more inclusive and equitable society. A vital read for all.
Samaná English
Samaná English, an isolated variety from the Dominican Republic, informs research on Early African American English (EAAE). Was EAAE a creole or a British dialect? New data suggests it was neither, but a post-creole variety with clear African structural continuities.
This book presents a tool for legal translation that compares concepts across legal cultures. Based on their overlap, it navigates translators toward reasoned solutions. Includes case studies from English common law and Slovak continental law. For practitioners and academics.
Media and COVID-19
This book dives into media dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic, exploring how traditional and social media coped with uncertainty and the surge of misinformation. Through a case study of Israel, it reveals key lessons for journalists, policymakers, and media consumers alike.
Experiences of Migration
This book asks what migrants experience, finding answers not in academic studies, but in literary fiction. It argues that fiction offers ‘sensate knowledge’—an interconnection of senses and intellect—by relating stories to concepts like hospitality, courage, and hope.
This volume addresses how world-class research universities are led and managed internationally and within the post-Soviet Central Asian context. It offers critical insights for universities responding to globalisation while aiming to be world-class and also locally relevant.
This book challenges ELT’s traditional over-focus on Anglophone culture. As most English communication now occurs as a lingua franca between non-native speakers, this book offers an approach which rebalances content for localised and multicultural contexts.
Renegotiating Islam with Post-colonial Pakistan and the West
Beyond simplistic portrayals, this book shows how authors Shamsie, Naqvi, and Haji redefine Muslim identity. Their works navigate the interplay of faith, culture, and migration to forge new ways of belonging in a globalized world, offering a vital, fresh perspective.
Before the Burr Conspiracy
Disparaged as a traitor, Aaron Burr was an influential and popular politician in his own time. Charming and charismatic, he almost became president before killing Hamilton in a duel and facing a treason trial that ended his career. This study recaptures his forgotten image.
A comprehensive guide for teachers, parents, and anyone interested in children’s literature. Combining theory with practice, it offers practical strategies to inspire reading and creative writing. Includes supplementary audio of nursery rhymes, poems, and fables.
Black Hamlet, The Play
A newly discovered stage version of the famous psychobiography Black Hamlet, dramatised by its author, Wulf Sachs, and screenwriter John Bright. This extraordinary play, written in 1949, foresees the collapse of South Africa’s apartheid system before the menace had begun.
Educational Assessment
This book explores how well-designed assessments can reshape education. Grounded in research by practitioners, it emphasizes a practical, learner-centered approach to improve student learning, teacher practices, and parental engagement.
Does glossing actually improve L2 reading comprehension? This definitive reference cuts through academic jargon to explore the effects of glossing on L2 reading and vocabulary learning. It outlines variables, theories, and strategies for improving and measuring L2 reading.
A Historical Quest Through the Japanese Capital
This guide to Japanese history explores how Tokyo developed into a megalopolis and how modernization changed the lives of the Japanese people. It serves as an introduction and travel guide to the historical settings behind the high-tech landscape of modern Tokyo.
The Unlimited Power of Russia
This book explores Russia’s historical pursuit of great power status, from the imperial period to the Putin era. It analyzes key themes—including foreign policy, military power, and energy policies—to provide a framework for understanding Russia’s international role.
Contexts for Teacher Education
Good teaching is more than mastering technique. It is proactive, emotional work, infused with pleasure, passion, creativity, and joy. Continuing professional development is necessary for all educators to keep pace with change and to renew their knowledge, skills, and visions.
In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
This study explores the feature inheritance hypothesis, arguing that only the number feature is inherited in the CP phase, and the person feature in the vP phase. Drawing on English and Spanish, it discusses implications for Agree, Case, A-movement, phases, and Transfer.
D. H. Lawrence Then and Now
In 26 short, alphabetically arranged chapters, this jargon-free book explores the strange, often offensive ideas that accompanied D. H. Lawrence’s genius. It offers a surprising new portrait that will intrigue even those who know his work well.
The definitive study of Newman’s theology of the church. Drawing on his essays and 20,000 lesser-known letters, Miller reveals Newman’s advocacy for involving the laity—a vision that champions Pope Francis’s call for a more inclusive, synod-like church.
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