Social Sciences – Page 50 – Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Gender Studies and Indo-Canadian Literature

Edited By: Mateti Prabhakar

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This book explores the victimization of women in Canadian and Indian fiction. Using feminist literary criticism, it debates issues of gender, feminism, and eco-feminism, showing literature's power to transform contemporary gender relations.

This book explores the victimization of women in Canadian and Indian fiction. Using feminist literary criticism, it debates issues of gender, feminism, and eco-feminism, showing literature’s power to transform contemporary gender relations.

Rethinking Intercultural Education in Times of Migration and Displacement

Edited By: Nektaria Palaiologou

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What are the main issues in intercultural education today? With theoretical foundations, research, and case studies from diverse authors, this book helps readers go beyond stereotypes and effectively face complex diversity issues in multicultural settings.

The Making of the Modern Greeks

1400-1820

By: Petros T. Pizanias

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How did the Modern Greeks re-emerge on the historical stage after centuries of obscurity? This book examines the formation of New Hellenism, showing how various social groups differentiated themselves from the Ottoman system to create a distinct economic and cultural space.

Eight Performance Texts about Disability

By: James MacDonald

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These performance texts explore disability, inclusion, and diversity in our 21st-century culture. Offering challenging, evenly divided roles and exciting historical subjects, they provide ample scope for ensemble acting and group production.

Myth and Fairy Tale in Contemporary Fiction

Edited By: Alexandra Cheira

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This volume examines the use of myth and fairy tales in contemporary fiction. Through innovative critical approaches, its chapters analyze modern retellings in dialogue with tradition, demonstrating their importance and suggesting new questions for future critical inquiry.

Variation in Linguistics

Second Language Acquisition, Discourse Studies, Sociolinguistics, Syntax

Edited By: Vanessa Sheu, Joshua D. Weirick, Alexis Zhou

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Language is rule-based, yet constantly varies. Understanding this variation helps us understand the forces that shape language itself. This book presents interdisciplinary research that sheds empirical light on the variables behind systematic variation in language.

Reading Old English Riddles

The Dark Glass

By: Robert DiNapoli

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The riddles of the Exeter Book are designed to intrigue, baffle, and entertain. Ranging from the learned to the vulgar, the devotional to the existential, they are a powerful part of the Old English poetic tradition. This book presents them in modern English verse translations.

Women as Creators and Subjects Across Disciplines and Cultures

Edited By: Debra D. Andrist

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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.

Taxation of Financial Instruments and Transactions

By: Felix I. Lessambo

£70.99

This book analyzes the federal income tax treatment of financial products, from debt instruments and derivatives to cryptocurrency. Tax treatment benefits and abuses are explained in an understandable manner for students and practitioners.

Africana-Melanated Womanism

In It Together

Edited By: Clenora Hudson (Weems)

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Through the Africana Womanist lens, this book tackles contemporary societal ills, including generational wealth for Blacks. It speaks truth to Africana women and their families, offering solutions for combatting racial dominance by prioritizing race, class, and gender.

Mirrors and Windows in Language Teacher Education

Intercultural Competence and Reform Pedagogy

By: Ildikó Lázár

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This book on language learning and interculturality invites educators to look in the mirror at their own practice and out the window at others’ research. It's for all who want to support every learner in classes where inclusion and cooperation are the norm, not competition.

This book on language learning and interculturality invites educators to look in the mirror at their own practice and out the window at others’ research. It’s for all who want to support every learner in classes where inclusion and cooperation are the norm, not competition.

Cultural and Literary Traditions in India

History, Myth and Orality

Edited By: Prakash Chandra Pradhan, Devender Kumar, Arti Nirmal, Sandip Paul

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Indian myth is a living force. This book traces the interplay of history and orality from The Ramayana to diverse folk traditions, revealing how ancient narratives of power, gender, and identity illuminate contemporary conflicts and crises.

Social Justice, Exclusivity and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

Edited By: Godwin Ehiarekhian Oboh

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This book explains how to eliminate the artificial and psychological boundaries that separate communities in modern societies. It shows how people of different nationalities and backgrounds can live together peacefully in a world divided by race, identity, and religion.

Systemics and the Art of Living in a Complex World

By: Stig C. Holmberg, Anita M. Håkansson

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Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.

Post-Orientalism and Contemporary American Novels

By: Mousa Abu Haserah

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This book explores the complex relationship between the East and the West in American literature. Analyzing four contemporary novels, it accounts for Edward Said’s Orientalism to define Post-Orientalism, a 21st-century literary phenomenon of politics, militarism, and ideology.

An Introduction to Optimal Control

By: Yury Shestopalov, Elena Pronina, Roman Dzerzhinsky

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This concise contemporary guide explores optimization, control theory, and calculus of variations. A valuable source for learning mathematical modeling and scientific prediction, it features a variety of solved exercises, making it useful for university courses.

Middle Class Challenges and Contested Futures in the USA and South Korea

Edited By: Kwang-Yeong Shin, Arne L. Kalleberg

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Despite their different economic models, the middle classes in the US and South Korea face the same crisis: labor market instability and widening inequality. This book examines the causes, the consequences for family and education, and presents policy ideas for revitalization.

Robert Serumaga and the Golden Age of Uganda’s Theatre (1968-1978)

Activism and Innovation

By: George Bwanika Seremba

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This is the first complete examination of playwright Robert Serumaga’s work and the Golden Age of Uganda’s theatre (1968-1978). It is a study of a theatre of commitment, dissidence, and survival, born under the unrelenting glare of severe, scorching censorship.

Contemporary Challenges to Human Rights Law

Edited By: Richard Lang, Jack Clayton Thompson, Claire-Michelle Smyth

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This collection of essays examines the contemporary crisis facing human rights. Bringing together academics and practitioners, it links austerity and the rise of the far-right to a crucial question: are human rights rights at all?

Restoring Our Humanity

Six Essays

By: Sheldon Richmond

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This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.