Humour and Identity in Jewish American Fiction
This book explores the connection between humour and identity in contemporary Jewish American literature. It is a serious investigation into the strategic use of humour in identity formation, revealing the serious undertones in works that may first appear merely humorous.
A practical guide to characterizing and overcoming drawbacks in electro-optical devices. It explores noise and fading phenomena in optical communication links, both wireless (LIDAR) and fiber-optic, for students and professionals in optical communication and device design.
Models of Social Intervention
This book analyzes the challenges and opportunities in the practical training of social workers. Contrasting the perspectives of students, supervisors, and lecturers, it identifies key gaps and proposes foundations for improving the quality of these training processes.
Caribbean Men in the Arts
This collection explores the emotional and artistic landscape of Caribbean men who carve out a place for themselves in the visual and performance arts. The pieces demonstrate them forging more varied and wholesome masculinities, thriving in spaces without violence or exclusion.
Amidst fundamental social change, our relationship to ourselves and others is being transformed. This anthology discusses this transformation through the perspectives of Norbert Elias and Michel Foucault, analyzing structures of control within society and the individual.
Where Agnon and Jung Meet
This book uses Carl Jung’s theory to analyze the Jewish archetypes in Nobel laureate S. Y. Agnon’s novel, The Bridal Canopy. It serves as a practical guide to applying psychological theory to a novel, offering a new perspective on the depths of the universal human soul.
This book examines the politics and culture of the Lebanese Diaspora. Essays explore identity formation, political activism, and cultural representation among migrants and their descendants, challenging fixed notions of homeland and identity.
Coaching and Teaching Soccer
This book introduces an innovative, evidence-based model to coach soccer. It provides practical examples and useful resources for physical education teachers and coaches to systematically develop players’ technical ability, tactical knowledge, and overall game competence.
This book provides a deeper understanding of the autobiography as a genre and a data collection method. It presents various forms of autobiographies, with a unique focus on foreign language education, and applies a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analytical tools.
Dramatic Interactions
A collection of essays on teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With innovative approaches and rich examples, this book affirms the effectiveness of using drama to improve communication, intercultural competence, and self-expression.
Mothers of Innovation
What sparks innovation? This book reveals why property rights and resources were not enough to ignite the Industrial Revolution. The surprising key was expanding social networks, which fostered cooperation and integrated unrelated concepts to create something new.
Traumatic Affect examines the intersection of trauma and affect theory. This collection of essays offers timely critiques of film, art, and politics, venturing into bold new territories to illuminate pressing realities that demand our engagement.
Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram
This volume explores the impact of Hellenistic Greek epigram on Latin erotic elegy in light of new papyrus discoveries. Chapters examine the reception of epigrams in Propertius and Ovid and the appropriation of their thematic and structural motifs.
This cross-cultural study of shamanism investigates the shamanic trance as a mystical experience. It compares Buryat shamanism in Siberia with Buddhist and Hindu Yogic techniques, exploring the inner psychic states of the shaman and the systems of chakras and subtle channels.
This title tackles the need for a deeper understanding of rural tourism, focusing on the tourist experience. It contains both conceptual and empirical chapters, with diverse and new perspectives, methodological approaches and cases from several countries.
Virgo to Virago
Virgo to Virago offers a study of the formidable Medea in the Silver Age. Examining her portrayal in Ovid, Seneca, and Valerius Flaccus, it explores whether this mighty female character has any claim to sympathy or admiration in these texts.
Negritude
Is Negritude a relic of the colonial era? This collection shows its continued vitality. African & Caribbean writers demonstrate how, beyond race, Negritude remains a relevant poetic, philosophical, and cultural force in its modern forms.
An Alternative Medical Perspective on Ancient History
Based on Sumerian tablets and ancient DNA, this book reveals the world’s first pandemic. Historians have many theories for the demise of the Sumer and Indus Valley civilisations, but none ever proposed an infectious disease. This book rewrites ancient history.
Prominent scholars explore (im)politeness in human communication. This volume reviews the state of the art, analysing politeness in media, the effects of speech acts, and implications for language teaching, offering new perspectives on social interaction.
This volume offers a comparative perspective on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in the classroom. Through reflections from international educators, it explores the frustrations, triumphs, and successes of connecting with students across differences.
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