In fifteen expert essays, this volume delves into the foundations of lexicography and lexicology. Spanning historical manuscripts to digital corpus analysis, these studies offer new critical perspectives on the making and meaning of words across cultures and time.
This book argues for an integrative view of depression, where mood is modulated by both central and peripheral mechanisms. Sensorimotor stimulation—via our senses and movement—can have the diametrically opposite effects of either alleviating or aggravating depression.
This book addresses people displaced by disasters in Brazil’s Northeast, who lack legal protection. It argues for categorising them as IDPs to receive international legal protection and proposes collaborative policy responses among governments, NGOs, and local people.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
Health Inequity
This book analyzes the crucial issue of health inequities between and within countries. It uses a multitude of figures to illustrate huge inequalities in maternal mortality, life expectancy, and more. A vital resource for students, researchers, and health decision makers.
This book highlights the diagnostic power of inspecting the human face. Meticulous observation can provide valuable clues, revealing underlying systemic and genetic diseases. This very illustrative book is an essential guide for medical and nursing students and technicians.
This book helps naturalists, nature stewards, and students comprehend basic statistical concepts as a bridge to more complex themes. Using the Florida scrub as an example, it connects with the needs of field practitioners, focusing on the analytical decision-making process.
Lawrence Durrell’s compelling Alexandria Quartet continues to provoke discussion. This volume of essays by leading scholars addresses its central themes—from memory, Gnosticism, and the uncanny to its famous mixture of “sex and the secret service”—and explores its sequels.
A Brief History of Educational Developments in India
Once a beacon of learning, ancient India’s magnificent educational systems fell into ruin. This book uncovers the story of their rise and fall, from the Vedic era through colonial rule to the modern day.
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.
Modern Messages from Green Gables on Loving, Living and Learning
Many know Anne of Green Gables, but few know its author, L.M. Montgomery—a feminist far ahead of her time. In this book, a revivified Anne and her husband Gilbert explore their creator’s life, revealing how her challenges and triumphs offer messages for our own lives today.
Dementia Caregiving East and West
This book pulls together practical and adaptable communicative approaches to dementia care from global researchers. With contributions from fields like gerontology, linguistics, and nursing, it highlights communication as the most helpful non-pharmacological means of assistance.
This book analyzes electromagnetic surface waves in microwave absorbing layers. Though these coatings have been used since WWII, their properties are not sufficiently studied. Demystifying a complex subject, this work is ideal for researchers, engineers, and students.
Aged Care in Context and Across Disciplines
Addressing challenges in aged care highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic, this collection compares practices in China and the Nordic regions. It uncovers commonalities, disparities, and opportunities for collaboration to develop innovative and effective policies and practices.
In 1478, Leonardo da Vinci opened his own workshop and began painting the Benois Madonna—a work marking a strong change in his style and representation of human emotion. This book analyzes his growth as an artist in this pivotal year, detailing his training and life in Florence.
The Psychology of People, Power and Politics
We view the world in increasingly psychological terms, yet the discipline itself has been largely overlooked. In a series of essays covering issues from mental health to war, this book reflects on psychology, questions its relationship to power, and offers new perspectives.
This captivating study unveils William Faulkner’s narrative prowess. It explores his innovative use of multiple perspectives and unique voices to craft complex worlds, offering an exhilarating glimpse into the storytelling universe of one of literature’s greatest visionaries.
Corpus Linguistics and English Across ‘The Three Circles’
This book surveys applied corpus linguistics across two decades of advancements (2000-2020). It is essential for EFL and ESL students and practitioners, featuring replicable case studies on learners and native speakers of English from around the world.
This volume probes the blurred line between victim and victimizer in trauma and how novelists represent issues of justice. Critical studies range from Cambodia’s genocide to analyses of AIDS literature, contemporary American literature, and Indigenous writing in Canada.
University assessment efforts have failed to enhance educational quality. Plagued by questionable reliability and validity, the prevalent summative approach may not be the best method. This book suggests alternatives that yield more meaningful, quality-driven information.