This book explores international students’ adaptation to academic writing, introducing new concepts of adjustment. It offers a dialogical pedagogic model for mutual adaptation, arguing that adjustment is a shared responsibility between students and academics.
On Intangible Heritage Safeguarding Governance
What is governance for intangible cultural heritage (ICH)? This book explores ICH safeguarding through the 2003 Convention, analyzing major issues and the interaction between global and local governance. Case studies provide tools to enhance safeguarding.
The Impact of Vatican II on Women Religious
This book examines the impact of Vatican II on the Irish Presentation Sisters. It explores their struggle for renewal and transformation, often hampered by local Bishops but supported by Rome, which led to the creation of the Union of Presentation Sisters.
This interdisciplinary volume explores how art, literature, and culture forge “scapes”—from landscapes to mindscapes. It examines how cultural works shape our perception and experience of place, contributing to a deeper understanding of space itself.
Practices of Ethics
For social sciences researchers confronted with ethical dilemmas, this book provides examples of ethical reflection. It deals with complex ethical questions that arise during fieldwork which find no clear guidance from professional codes, showing a new empirical approach.
Business Review
Business Review: Advanced Applications provides insights on essential topics from cloud computing and HRM to finance and market volatility. This book offers well-grounded theory and practice for scholars, educators, and practitioners alike.
The Silk Road of Adaptation
Using the Silk Road as a metaphor for transcultural exchange, this anthology presents adaptation as a continuous process. Essays from diverse disciplines show how adaptation is a transmedial and transnational act with psychological as well as political significance.
Leading international researchers present cutting-edge studies on the public understanding of science and informal education. With global case studies, this book challenges traditional notions, arguing for approaches that recognize a multiplicity of publics.
Minority Languages, Microvariation, Minimalism and Meaning
This volume presents papers on microvariation and the linguistics of the Celtic languages. The essays examine dialect variation, challenge traditional descriptions of Celtic languages, and explore current topics in the formal analysis of syntax and semantics.
New Wests and Post-Wests
This collection offers critical approaches to an American West that never was—a mythic space, not a geographical place. New scholarship explores multiple “New Wests” in film and literature, moving beyond traditional views with unique international perspectives.
Popular Culture
This volume breaks down disciplinary barriers to explore popular culture from an interdisciplinary perspective. It brings together a plethora of methodological and theoretical approaches, fostering dialogue between international scholars on the topic.
Notional Identities
This book examines popular Scottish speculative and crime fiction from the 1970s onward, investigating how these works engaged with national identity, a tumultuous political climate, and their relationship to mainstream literary writing.
Dawn of Discovery
This book focuses on three British travellers—‘lost pioneers’ who researched Bronze Age Crete before Sir Arthur Evans. By following their footsteps and comparing their journals to what is there today, the author uncovers their contributions with intriguing results.
This book contributes to the debate on economic stabilisation in developing countries affected by exchange rate volatility and high inflation. It provides a review of the literature and extends analytical models to test their relevance for policymakers.
Literature, History, Choice
This study offers a new theory of alternative history. Through a key work by Nobel laureate S.Y. Agnon, it reveals this principle is not just a genre, but fundamental to the very act of reading—shaping plot, character, and imagination.
This volume analyses how Feminist Translation Studies challenges patriarchal language worldwide. Scholars bridge the gap between theory and practice to explore the crucial relationship between gender, culture, identity, and translation.
Has Game Studies reached an unproductive stasis, mired in reductive debates? This volume’s contributors move beyond commonplaces like violence and sexism, arguing that digital games must be understood on their own terms as complex cultural forms.
Marked Word Order in the Qurān and its English Translations
The Qurān’s eloquent style uses marked word order for emphasis and meaning. This book examines how this distinctive feature is handled in ten English translations, offering a systematic comparison of the translators’ strategies and stylistic choices.
This book considers the diachronic development of the Chinese and Naxi languages, focusing on contentious linguistic issues. It provides new methods to analyze these issues, using cross-linguistic data from Tibeto-Burman to resolve debates.
Darkening Scandinavia
Darkening Scandinavia is a philosophical meditation on the true nature of the Northern Darkness. It explores the deeply-moving expressions of artists like Burzum, Nicolas Winding Refn, and Per Petterson, revealing the visceral Void in Nordic soulscapes.
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