This book is a study of the political rhetoric of major British and American politicians, from Obama to Farage and Churchill to Thatcher. It offers a sophisticated analysis of their rhetorical devices, demonstrating how rhetoric has always shaped the destiny of the world.
This book offers new approaches to Iberian and Ibero-American cultures, with emphasis on Portuguese-Galician, Basque, and Catalan identities after the Spanish Civil War. It discusses issues of memory, social dynamics, and transatlantic exchanges with South America and Africa.
An indispensable guide to modern business analytics. Convert raw data into actionable insights using descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive techniques. With real-world case studies, this book equips you with the knowledge to optimize processes and make strategic decisions.
Reconstructing Female Sexuality and Deconstructing Male Anxiety
Challenging patriarchal narratives, this study explores the symbolism of female genitalia in literature and myth. It celebrates female procreational power, positioning the reproductive body as an enduring gateway between animate and inanimate realms—both alluring and repelling.
This book crosses world cultures to highlight women as creators and as subjects. From the politics of Aztec women’s bodies to female artists in the Global South, chapters offer historical, artistic, and literary perspectives on women in art, literature, and film across the globe.
This guide delves into bacterial classification, from basic principles to cutting-edge genomics and AI. With expert contributions, it is an essential resource for students and researchers to unravel the mysteries of bacterial speciation, evolution, diversity, and taxonomy.
Genre Studies in Focus
This collection of essays revises genre theory, exploring literary genres in transition. Adopting a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach, contributors investigate genre hybridization and evolution, showing that genres are inherently hybrid and flexible.
What is evidence-based practice in human services, and how do you do it? This book addresses these questions through the insights of policy-makers, clinicians, researchers, and a consumer, exploring the definition, history, development, and challenges of this crucial approach.
This is the first English poetry anthology of Du Mu, a distinguished Tang dynasty poet. Translator Zhang Zhizhong’s philosophy of “spirit over form” is embodied in this collection, which will interest those studying Chinese culture and poetry.
Rediscovering Women Writers of Wartime London
This book shows the war-stricken city through the eyes of five women writers whose long-neglected novels vividly portray life in the Blitz. This new appraisal of their work highlights the social changes taking place, especially in the lives of women, in those turbulent times.
This volume’s ten studies analyze Victorian and Neo-Victorian novels. The authors investigate preserved or recycled Victorian themes and discuss how key issues like gender, sexuality, race, and empire are used to update the great tradition for a new age.
Since UNESCO recognized Sutartinės, Lithuania’s ancient dissonant music, studies have flourished. This book presents new findings, revealing analogies with foreign folk music and analyzing hymns of mythical beings through data from ethnology, archaeology, and linguistics.
This book explores the intertwining worlds of social media and educational pedagogy. It critically examines the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations of integrating platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok into the modern educational landscape.
Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English Syntax
This book is a contrastive analysis of Chinese and English syntax based on generative grammar. Moving from simple to complex topics, it requires no prior background knowledge. It can serve as a textbook or reference for scholars of linguistics and Chinese studies.
This book outlines a framework for translation projects in universities moving toward a bilingual environment. Using a case study of university regulations, it helps translators, terminologists, and researchers understand phraseology, language norms, and sentence structure.
Space, Identity and Discourse in Anglophone Studies
This book explores the intersections where cultures, languages, and spaces converge to shape identities. Examining literary works, political narratives, and language use, this collection contributes to scholarly dialogues on identity construction through border crossings.
This book provides textbook publishers, teacher trainees, teachers, and academics with current theoretical and practical directions in developing, designing, and implementing materials to enhance foreign language learning and use.
Econometric Analysis
This book explores basic and advanced econometrics for students and researchers in business and economics. It offers a balanced presentation of fundamental and advanced methods, with practical examples of their effective application in solving real-life problems.
This book explores how early trauma leads to loneliness and vulnerability to indoctrination—stress states at pandemic levels. It details how loneliness causes illness and indoctrination fuels a divided world, offering compassionate empathy as a unique path to repair and healing.
Sociology of Health in a Dalit Community
This book explores how generations of caste prejudice have impacted the health of India’s Hadi Caste. It examines their occupations, customs, and social interactions to reveal the deep link between the community’s socio-cultural life and their well-being.