Social Sciences

Challenges and Perspectives of Iberia and Beyond

Edited By: Mark Gant, Deirdre Kelly, Siân Edwards, Susana Rocha Relvas

£72.99

This volume offers innovative research on Iberian Studies from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective. Core themes include memory, historical revisionism, dialogues between Portugal and Spain, and transatlantic crossings that connect Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Challenges and Transformation of Education for 21st Century Schools

Edited By: Boris Aberšek, Mara Cotič

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Challenge the educational theories you learned in school. In an era demanding radical transformation, leading experts present a bold roadmap for the future of learning and research in Society 5.0.

Challenges at the Syntax-Semantics-Pragmatics Interface

A Role and Reference Grammar Perspective

Edited By: Robert D. Van Valin Jr.

From £32.99

This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory's ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.

This volume addresses significant issues in linguistic theory and description across a wide range of languages. Using the perspective of Role and Reference Grammar (RRG), these analyses exemplify the theory’s ability to formulate cross-linguistic generalizations.

Challenges in Foreign Language Teaching in Iran

Edited By: Seyed Mohammad Reza Amirian, Gholamreza Zareian

£61.99

This compendium is a clear reflection of the realities and dynamics of language teaching in Iranian classrooms and the new trends within the Iranian EFL community over the last decade. It covers a variety of recent topics within the context of English language teaching in Iran.

Challenges in Global Learning

Dealing with Education Issues from an International Perspective

Edited By: Paul Black, Peter Kell, Ania Lian

£63.99

This volume offers a wide range of approaches for framing and addressing global education issues. It is constructed around four research themes which reflect current strategic research priorities in Australian education, forming a framework for evaluating educational changes.

Challenges in the Construction of an Inclusive Society

Edited By: António Lopes, Merja de Mattos-Parreira

£58.99

Is intercultural exchange truly possible in societies riddled with tensions? This collection of studies addresses the challenges posed by diversity and inequality in the construction of inclusive societies.

Challenges of Anglophone Language(s), Literatures and Cultures

Edited By: Alena Kačmárová

£68.99

This book investigates language contact and the language-culture relationship, as well as stylistic and syntactic perspectives on the English language. It also looks at 20th-century literature and theoretical approaches in cultural studies.

Challenges of Communication in a Context of Crisis

Troubles, Misunderstandings and Discords

Edited By: Marc Breviglieri, Alexandre Cotovio Martins, Alexandre Cotovio Martins

£61.99

This book questions the tools and values of objective communication in our institutions. What is the fate of involuntary drifts—misunderstandings and troubles—in our decision-making protocols? It explores their critical potential and questions how we can revalue these drifts.

Challenges of Discourse Processing

The Case of Technical Documents

Edited By: Patrick Saint-Dizier

£39.99

This book shows how linguistic analysis and natural language processing can automatically recognize the discourse structures of technical documents. It presents concrete solutions which can be deployed in industrial contexts to improve document quality.

Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America

Minutes of the Fourth Conference of Fundamental Rights

Edited By: César Landa

From £35.99

Latin America’s democratic process struggles to protect citizens' rights due to weak institutions. This book presents minutes from the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, exploring the consolidation of democracy, impeachment, freedom of information, and due process.

Latin America’s democratic process struggles to protect citizens’ rights due to weak institutions. This book presents minutes from the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, exploring the consolidation of democracy, impeachment, freedom of information, and due process.

Challenges of Reporting Africa for an International Audience

By: Levi Obijiofor, Richard Murray

From £32.99

This book examines the challenges confronting foreign correspondents in covering Africa for an international audience in the digital era. It explores factors that influence how Africa is reported, addressing international journalism practices and issues rarely considered.

Challenges to Local Governance in the Pandemic Era

Perspectives from South Asia and Beyond

Edited By: John S. Moolakkattu, Jos Chathukulam

From £37.99

This volume is a collection of articles on the experiences of local governments in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. With a focus on South Asia, it also provides perspectives from Europe, Africa and Latin America, offering clues for sustainable policy in the post-COVID era.

Challenges to Urban Democratic Governance in Zimbabwe

The Case of the Appointment of Special Interest Councillors in Urban Local Councils

By: Jephias Mapuva

£39.99

This book investigates urban democratic governance in Zimbabwe, focusing on the Minister's power to appoint special interest councillors. It finds a high level of partisanship in appointments, which often rewards those who lost elections but belong to the Minister's party.

This book investigates urban democratic governance in Zimbabwe, focusing on the Minister’s power to appoint special interest councillors. It finds a high level of partisanship in appointments, which often rewards those who lost elections but belong to the Minister’s party.

Challenging Anthropocentrism in Eco-Science Fiction Novels

By: Fatma Gamze Erkan

From £33.99

This book explores the relationship between humanity and nature in classic eco-science fiction. It challenges the idea that human-centeredness is the sole cause of environmental catastrophe, examining the factors that lead to disaster and the solutions the novels may offer.

Challenging Change

Literary and Linguistic Responses

Edited By: Biljana Mišić Ilić, Vesna Lopičić

£44.99

Challenging Change: Literary and Linguistic Responses is a collection of articles examining change as the need to redefine theories, histories, and language. Authors from around the world respond to this challenge from the perspectives of literary studies and linguistics.

Challenging Ideas

Theory and Empirical Research in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Edited By: Maren Lytje, Torben K. Nielsen

£47.99

This volume focuses on how the relationship between past and present informs theory and empirical research. Divided into two parts, it looks at the memory turn in the field of history and the intersections between social science, political theory and the writing of history.

Challenging Thoreau’s Romanticism and Reimagining Nature

Beyond Walden

By: John Christy Johnson, Peter Anto Johnson

£64.99

In Walden, Thoreau presented nature as a path to spiritual clarity. But is his vision too romanticized? This book reevaluates Thoreau’s ideals, challenging his romanticism and reimagining humanity’s relationship with nature in an era of ecological and societal upheaval.

Chance or Providence

Religious Perspectives on Divine Action

Edited By: Louise Hickman

From £29.99

Originating from the 2013 conference of the Science and Religion Forum, this volume responds to a number of critical questions concerning the possibility of providence, and offers contributions from both scientists and theologians.

Change Agents at Work

Brokering Boundaries

By: Elizabeth A. VanDeusen

From £29.99

This book investigates the change agent role, examining the skills they bring and how they develop over time. It provides crucial insights for agencies responsible for hiring and supporting change agents, helping them craft job postings and design effective support structures.

Change and Confusion in Catholicism

A Historical Perspective on Today’s Liminal Church

By: Nathan R. Kollar

From £39.99

We live in a liminal time of severe disorientation. This book uses the author's personal and professional experiences to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it in the past, providing a historical case study of what to expect and what comes next.

We live in a liminal time of severe disorientation. This book uses the author’s personal and professional experiences to analyse how Catholics experience liminality today and dealt with it in the past, providing a historical case study of what to expect and what comes next.

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