Doctoral Education in Architecture
Doctoral Education in Architecture: Challenges and Opportunities deals with a topic on which there is currently little literature available. Containing data from a pilot study and contributions on European schools, this volume provides insight for future challenges.
This book argues that innovation is influenced by learning, which is driven by knowledge. Articles by renowned experts show how to manage knowledge and learning to drive innovation, and alert management to the risks of a poorly managed process.
Languaging Diversity
This volume explores the relationship between Language and Diversity, assuming identities are dynamically negotiated as discourse unfolds. It examines how people use linguistic resources to achieve, maintain, or challenge their cultural, social, and gender identities.
Cryptohistories is a collection of essays analysing cryptic discourses in history. The focus is on history as a subjective narrative, a conscious construct, and manipulation, exploring the mechanics of the rise and popularity of such narrative strategies.
The acquisition of conversational English depends on the materials available to learners. This book explores the grammar and lexis of everyday informal discourse and analyzes twenty ESL textbooks to determine how well they prepare learners for real conversation.
Language in Uniform
Around the globe, police and military personnel face language challenges. Language in Uniform brings together papers on language analysis, teaching, and assessment for defence, security, and law enforcement, extending our understanding of this vital field.
From 1959 to 1973, writers B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose exchanged letters containing detailed analyses of their work. This correspondence offers personal revelations and provides insight into their lives, conjuring a picture of the London literary world of the 1960s.
The Magic of Innovation
This volume focuses on innovative approaches to teaching foreign languages to non-language students. It offers best practices and theoretical insights valuable to teachers, course designers, and researchers interested in current trends in language teaching.
Diversities and Interculturality in Textbooks
Textbooks can create biased ideas about the ‘Other’. Using Finland’s top education system as an example, this volume reveals hidden ideologies and stereotyping, and offers concrete tools to develop teachers’ and students’ critical abilities.
This book covers essential Author Cocitation Analysis (ACA) topics for graduate students and researchers. Learn techniques to delineate the intellectual structure of academic disciplines, compare research traditions, and trace paradigm shifts over time.
Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
Theory and Praxis
This anthology of research papers critically explores contemporary literary theory. It provides a wide spectrum of theories—from postcolonialism to eco-criticism—and applies them to global texts, offering an interdisciplinary inquiry into human existence.
Telling Tales
This volume explores how stories in Spanish fiction and film shape the nation’s identity. Examining the impact of events like the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship, it reveals the close bond between real-world events and fictional stories.
Global Climate Change, Environment and Energy
This book covers both sides of the debate on climate change, environment and energy. Articles discuss these issues from a multidimensional perspective, elaborating upon their interdependence and the global challenges and opportunities for sustainability.
Resilient Territories
As recent crises challenge territories, what makes them resilient? This book advances the scientific agenda on regional resilience, innovation, and creativity, informing policy-makers about new modes of development for adapting to external shocks.
Many thought riots were an outdated form of protest. They were wrong. This book probes various historical riots—from 18th-century Scotland to a 1930s US police riot—to understand the issues that motivate them and why they still take place today.
Those Distant Shores
“Distant shores” represent the human yearning for fulfillment that makes us restless. This story follows the life-journeys of three Filipino friends and a young Spaniard whose very different paths intersect, exploring our fundamental restlessness and desire for transcendence.
Tracing their Tracks
Artefacts from Medieval Scandinavia show principles of visual perception used by artists a thousand years earlier than was recognised. This book considers Old Norse culture to understand the development of visual communication, an aspect lacking in literature—until now!
How is sexuality socially constructed, confined, and defined? This multidisciplinary collection tackles the major theoretical and methodological problems confronting sexuality studies, exploring masculinities and femininities in relation to power, race, and class.
Global Perspectives on Research, Theory, and Practice
This volume brings together rich thinking on gestalt therapy from Gestalt!, the pioneering electronic journal of the 1990s. Although the journal no longer exists, this book reclaims its great historical value and still-significant ideas.
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