What does an artist express when creating artwork? What does a perceiver contemplate during an aesthetic experience? This book explores the object of reflection for both creator and viewer, relying on Malgorzata Cazarnocka’s conception of symbolic truth to provide answers.
A Conceptual Metaphor Account of Word Composition
This book describes the emergence of new meanings in English and Chinese. Using a corpus methodology, it presents metaphors as a key instrument of cognition and explains how word composition develops through metaphorization, highlighting socio-cultural influences.
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) helps patients reclaim their quality of life. This portable book summarises the practical application of CBT, helping dental practitioners use it to treat patient issues like dental fears, orofacial pain, and other psychosomatic disorders.
A Concise History of Japan
Although modern Japan is well known, its long history of governance, rituals, and conflict is not. This book summarizes the history of Japan, including the incidents and monuments of historical significance, from the Jomon period to the end of the Heisei period.
This book is a collection of nineteen critical essays on James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist. The author goes beyond established critical material, providing analyses from twenty-first century lenses. It serves as a reference for all readers–students, scholars, and teachers.
Mohammed presents an appraisal of George Bernard Shaw’s position on women in his plays, exploring the ways in which the playwright addresses gender inequality and his attempts to project a “new woman” who is the pursuer rather than the pursued.
Khalifa examines Cairenes’ interlingual errors in English main word stress following a metrical model and parameter resetting. The findings show the difficulty of stressing items with stress different from Cairene Colloquial Arabic (CCA) and with stress similar to CCA.
A Correspondence with Peter Geach (1981 – 2009)
This book presents the correspondence between the author and Professor P.T. Geach over a thirty-year period. The letters, with the author’s commentary, lead to a discussion of the Anscombe-C.S. Lewis controversy, revealing Geach’s surprising support for Lewis’s thesis.
A Creative Passion
Anarchism—the idea that people can live free from rulers—remains a misunderstood philosophy. This book offers insights into anarchist cultural practices, exploring how, as Bakunin proclaimed, the passion for destruction is also a creative passion.
A Critical Examination of Lotteries
Uncover the math behind the jackpot. This guide demystifies probability and odds, revealing how draw methods impact your chances. Explore which lotteries are easiest to win, debunk myths about lucky numbers, and learn to think critically about the game.
A concise, practical introduction to learning and teaching in higher education. It covers key issues from how students learn and assessment to curriculum design and technology, while keeping a critical eye on the pressures faced by teachers and students today.
A Critical Investigation into Precognitive Dreams
The precognitive dream is a compelling phenomenon ignored by orthodox science. This book explores their history, neuroscience, and what they reveal about consciousness, free will, and the very nature of time itself.
A Critical Review of Contemporary Romanian Literature
This book offers insight into Romanian culture through literary criticism of its post-1989 writers. In reading these interpretations, audiences gain access to the heart of the people and understand what this enduring nation can offer the world.
This book critically examines the historical views of Japanese right-wing scholars, focusing on the post-Cold War intellectual right. Using in-depth case studies, it analyzes representative figures and criticizes their viewpoints on the Japanese cultural invasion of China.
Khan presents a critical analysis of anti-dumping laws enforced by the World Trade Organisation. Anti-dumping laws are the most debatable provisions of the WTO, which, though legally permitted, have a significant distorting effect on trade.
A Critique of British Marxism
This book argues that the British Marxist focus on human agency is misconceived. It recommends recovering classical concepts like ‘modes of production’ and focusing on the ideological unconscious, resulting in a radically new take on the history of ideological production.
This book challenges assumptions about cultural differences between China and the West, questioning ideas like China being collectivist and the West individualist. It explores how technology and culture intersect to shape how consumers think, choose, and behave online.
A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
This book explores categorization and approximation—two often opposed, yet indissociable, operations. By comparing their expression in different languages, it clarifies the links between them and the cognitive foundations of interpretation for scholars and students.
A Crosslinguistic Study of the Language of Space
This book examines spatial language in sign and spoken languages, presenting a novel Crossmodal Spatial Language model. The model shows that features from spatial input are not necessarily mapped to spatial descriptions regardless of modality or language.