Spoken English and Spoken Italian
This book investigates the grammar of spoken English and Italian and how to translate them. Using corpus-based evidence from real dialogues, it proposes Italian equivalents of English discourse markers and English versions of Italian clitics. It is the first work of its kind.
With no scan or blood test for migraine, diagnosis relies entirely on language. This book explores the vital relation between words and pain, considering how persons with migraine make their experience ‘readable’ and how fictional texts ‘perform’ migraine.
Rural Ireland in the Early Twentieth Century
This volume fills many gaps in Irish rural history, marking the ‘decade of commemorations’. It assesses the political aspirations of rural communities, changes in agricultural education, and the social and cultural positioning of Ireland pre and post revolution.
In one of the world’s least-visited nations, get to know the people, their families, and traditions. This book introduces North Korea through rarely seen photographs from the author’s travels, revealing Pyongyang’s skyscrapers, the Koryo Museum, and a royal eleven-course meal.
This book explores the challenges of managing software projects, from changing requirements to uncertain technologies. It presents a holistic, adaptive framework with practical strategies and expert perspectives to manage teams, communicate effectively, and deal with uncertainty.
This book offers insight into Australian Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on the built environment. Enriched with Indigenous voices, it discusses the value of their Knowledge Systems and their wish to journey into a shared, sustainable future, respectfully.
This collection of essays on Ngugi wa Thiong’o, one of the most important postcolonial writers, offers fresh insights into his artistic oeuvre. The volume animates Ngugi’s politics, poetics, and commitment to decolonisation, covering his novels, plays, and scholarly works.
The Scholar’s Thomas Jefferson
While most compilations focus on Jefferson the politician, this unique book remedies that shortcoming. It is a collection of Jefferson’s writings for those interested in the breadth and depth of his amazing mind, with sections on politics, morality, religion, and education.
Through art, mythology, literature, and archaeology, this volume uncovers how power was displayed in the Ancient world, from Egypt’s 18th Dynasty to the Sassanian Empire.
Contributions to Communicational, Cultural, Media, and Digital Studies
How does communication shape our world? This book explores the powerful dialectic between society and media in the digital age. A key text for cultural and media studies, it offers tools to understand a social force as inevitable as it is influential.
From the unique perspective of a solar space scientist turned oilfield engineer, this book takes an honest look at the energy transition. How are oil giants pivoting on climate change? Is the urgency as dire as we’re told? A must-read to understand the reality of climate change.
Edward Burne-Jones on Nature
This study of Edward Burne-Jones’s paintings explores his vision of nature. It reveals how he fused scientific observation with symbolic interpretation to create the fantastical landscapes and magical imagery of his allegorical, fantasy, and dream cycles.
This book compiles technical publications on the nonlinear analysis of icosahedrons. It covers static and dynamic characteristics, with topics ranging from large displacements and rotations to chaotic behaviour, and includes extensive experimentation.
This book offers a critical look at the evolution and future of Mind, Brain, and Education science. Drawing from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, it is an essential text for graduate students, policymakers, and neuroscientists in the Learning Sciences.
Police records from 18th-century Paris lay bare the intimate tragedies behind hundreds of suicides. Through suicide notes and witness accounts, these dossiers reveal not only private despair but a society’s shifting view of self-destruction—from a crime to a sign of insanity.
International Advances in Art Therapy Research and Practice
Art therapists worldwide are advancing socially just and culturally relevant practice. This book highlights innovative research and diverse practices transforming art therapy with new insights for therapists, counsellors, and professionals who use art.
The Contribution of Cornelio Fabro to Fundamental Theology
Explore faith’s metaphysical and existential roots through the dynamic Thomism of Cornelio Fabro. This dialogue with Kierkegaard and modern thought affirms the human being’s essential openness to the Absolute.
Historical Trends in Georgian Traditional and Sacred Music
This review of Georgian ethnomusicology is a tribute to Anzor Erkomaishvili, a pivotal figure in traditional music. Amid the growing popularity of Georgian choral singing, this volume is essential for both ethnomusicologists and enthusiasts.
The Life and Work of Isidore Snapper (1889-1973)
Professor of Medicine on three continents, POW of the Japanese, US war consultant, and lover of a CIA agent. Isidore Snapper was a medical celebrity and one of the last great generalists—a brilliant physician from an era now extinct.
This book analyses the complex problems shaping our modern world. It explores the impact of digital technologies, social crises, and environmental threats on our communities, personal lives, and global consciousness in the age of globalization.