Current Issues in English Language Teaching and Learning
This unique volume offers an international perspective on English language teaching. It provides solutions to current ELT problems from global experts on topics like teacher training, classroom practice, new technologies, and learner language research.
This book challenges the foundations of US and UK trademark systems, arguing for the “co-authorship” of trademarks by the public and owners. It shows how current laws threaten freedom of expression and proposes a new model to foster a just culture.
Webs of Words
Webs of Words brings together ten studies on the history of words and vocabulary, covering languages from Chinese and Czech to Māori and Russian. These essays focus on empirical evidence, placing words in the social and cultural lives of their users.
New essays examine Lord Byron’s bisexuality and its effect on his poetry and drama. This volume covers neglected aspects of his life, including his boyfriends and gender in *Don Juan*, and includes new editions of notorious poems with startling theories.
An assistant for students of Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. This volume places Whitehead in historical context, presents an exposition of his philosophy, and explores his influential doctrine of God in comparison with traditional Christian thought.
For William Morris, beauty in daily life was revolutionary. These essays explore how the everyday—from domestic interiors to utopian socialism—informed his art, politics, and radical call for social transformation, a vision that remains powerfully relevant.
New Trends in Lexicography
This book develops new trends in theoretical and practical lexicography. It presents analysis of cultural issues, phraseology, idioms, and non-equivalent lexis, with a focus on innovations in specialized, bilingual, and monolingual dictionaries.
Corporate criminal liability is laced with contradictions. This book shows how these may be avoided with an adequate mechanism of imputation, proposing how to aggregate the acts and intents of agents to hold corporations liable for their crimes.
Managing Innovation in SMEs
For small tech firms, new product development (NPD) is critical. This study of Irish electronics firms reveals how NPD at small firms differs from large ones, offering unique insights with implications for managers, policy makers, and researchers.
In the Jaws of the Leviathan
How do we witness the unspeakable? This book analyzes portrayals of genocide in film and fiction from Africa, Asia, and South America. It contrasts the indirect metaphors of commercial media with the direct, personal gazes found in experimental works.
This interdisciplinary book explores how mountains are represented in art and literature. It reveals the link between the world’s shapes and human imagination, showing how art is a path to awareness and a vital tool for protecting the natural world.
Grace Crowley was a leading innovator of geometric abstraction in Australia. After studying in Paris, she returned to become a crucial influence on Australian abstraction. Though undervalued in her time, she is now one of the most important women artists of her generation.
This anthology explores how theatre functions at the interstices of local and global networks. It offers diverse critical viewpoints to argue that the local and global should not be regarded in opposition but as entangled, a potent force of expression and resistance.
A new approach to culture relates personality to the genesis of myths and religions. Cultures, like man, pass through phases from childhood to old age. From sacred tales to modern myths like Superman, these stories provide meaning and motivation for human behavior.
Women in the Arts
This pioneering collection of essays is a multi-disciplined celebration of women creators. It presents an interdisciplinary emphasis on the long-neglected contributions of women to music, visual arts, and literature, and the obstacles they overcame.
Metamorphoses of Travel Writing
This book adds to the fast-growing field of travel writing studies. Its papers use varied theoretical approaches to explore a diverse body of texts—fictional, non-fictional, and poetry—from the last 300 years and from multiple literary traditions.
Dickens and Italy
Dickens’s relationship with America has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so. His stay there represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book focuses on his major Italian writings, Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit.
Global Student Mobility in the Asia Pacific
Millions of students study abroad, facing hostility, poverty, and alienation. This book explores the dilemmas of transnational education, proposing pragmatic approaches and positive responses to the challenges of global student mobility.
Learning Accountancy
This book takes a different approach to accountancy. It starts with cash flow statements, profit and loss, and balance sheets before introducing the rules of double entry, helping the layman and student to gain a valuable insight into the subject.
Between Jihad and McWorld
Inspired by Benjamin Barber’s bestseller *Jihad vs. McWorld*, contributors grapple with inequality, democracy, and power in our times. Barber joins them with an insightful essay on democracy and terrorism in a world shaped by globalization and conflict.
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