Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
This book analyzes the leading role of civil protest movements in South Korea’s democracy. It covers the major protests of 1960, 1980, and 1987, where diverse classes fought for human rights and democratization, resulting in lasting achievements like new laws and a constitution.
Mapping Primary School Leadership in a Post-Conflict Context
This book focuses on primary school leadership in the post-conflict country of Timor-Leste. It conveys the ‘lived experience’ of school leaders, describing the realities of their work and the strategies they adopt to overcome daily challenges.
Self-Esteem and Foreign Language Learning addresses a surprisingly neglected topic. This volume explores self-esteem in the language classroom through theory, research, and practical activities, making it an essential resource for researchers and practitioners.
Metaphysics in the Age of Scientific Hegemony
These essays argue for the persisting relevance of metaphysical speculation. Delving into thinkers from Hegel to Wittgenstein, the focus is on the autonomous agency of the human being—a concept at odds with the mechanistic doxa under which modern science is compelled to operate.
Mythology offers cultural codes essential to the construction of culture and identity. This volume compares mythological elements in contemporary narratives with the motifs of classical narratives, and investigates their functions through semiotics and narratology.
Explore nonlinear physics using the asymptotic perturbation method. This textbook systematically develops the theory, from nonlinear oscillators to fractal and chaotic solutions in NPDEs. With an emphasis on applications and examples, it is ideal for a senior or graduate course.
This book explores the ‘mother ideas’ that form scientific knowledge, highlighting stability as a driving force in nature. This analysis leads to the introduction of consciousness and redefines elementary notions such as the “me”, beauty, and art.
Combining “light” verses with theoretical issues, this book studies the children’s poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Reeves through Reader-Oriented Theories. It offers a new perspective to scholars, teachers, critics, and readers of these beloved poets.
This book rejects the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith. It explores the constantly evolving term’s literary, artistic, and cultural representations, offering critical approaches to its treatment with all its complexities in art and literature.
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.
Transdisciplinarity and Translationality in High Dilution Research
Evidence for the biological effects of high dilutions is often ignored by the scientific community. This book provides direct access to the latest research, offering a sound, evidence-based “no” to the question: “Is homeopathy really that implausible?” An essential contribution.
English Writings from Northeast India
This volume explores English writings from Northeast India, analysing issues of ethnicity, identity, migration, and insurgency born from ongoing conflicts. These are voices from the periphery answering the mainstream and re-examining their own history.
This book celebrates the unsung heroes of Indian cinema and their unacknowledged contribution to nation building. This collection of essays examines the role played by cinema in narrating, inspiring, and challenging our comprehension of India as a nation.
Collision
Interdisciplinary art has been largely ignored. This collection charts the radical explosion of interarts practices, exploring collisions of body, technology, space, and aesthetics, alongside perspectives from law, political activism, and spirituality.
Binary Oppositions in American Society and Culture
Drawing on semiotics, psychoanalysis, and sociology, this book unpacks the power of binarism, revealing how binary oppositions shape the social, cultural, and political landscape of American society.
Entransy
This book introduces entransy theory, an alternative perspective on thermal phenomena. It covers the concept’s principles, its application in process optimization, and the controversies surrounding it. This is an essential introduction for students, engineers, and researchers.
This book examines pressing intellectual property issues, using in-depth case studies to show how companies can profit from patent licensing and integrated IP rights. It is essential for legal and business professionals seeking smart competitive strategies.
This hands-on guide shows HR practitioners and researchers how to measure organizational diversity. It details the application of diversity indices and regression methods to assess how workplace factors influence age, gender, and ethnic diversity, with examples throughout.
This work highlights the Haitian Lakou, a form of libertarian communism. To free people from the exploitation and climate change of neoliberal capitalism, it must be vertically integrated at the nation-state level.
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