This publication brings together original scientific studies on current economic and developmental issues in the Balkan region, analysing the area from a variety of perspectives, including tourism, regional trade, European integration policies, and import-export policies.
Despite efforts by ethnographic museums to acknowledge contemporary cultural practices and aesthetic expressions, this book reveals how the institution of the museum as such continues to be haunted by its previous, restrictive ideas of the other while talking about the self.
Education and Teacher Education in the Modern World
This book discusses current problems, policies, and trends in modern teacher education. It explores the challenges facing teachers from various geographical, cultural, socio-political, demographic, and economic points of view.
A New Theory of Mind
This book presents a unique way of understanding how humans think. It argues that narratives are the natural mode of thinking, that the “urge” to think narratively reflects known neurological processes and enables us to transcend our evolutionary limits and shape our own futures.
That Was Then, This Is Now
This title represents a compendium of innovative research into the ideas, experiences, and iconographies embodied in materialities of the recent past. Drawing upon a variety of disciplines, the contributors examine themes of relevance to the contemporary world.
This volume explores the interplay of genre and the interpersonal component of language. It reveals connections between genre conventions and interpersonal meanings in professional discourse, including media, academic, institutional, and promotional genres.
Highlights in Anglo-American Drama
The collection of essays represents perspectives on various aspects of modern Anglo-American drama and dramatists from scholars from ex-Yugoslav republics. It will appeal to both the academic and general reader, given the lack of worldwide scholarship on American drama.
Ex-sistere
These essays address literary discourses on the mobility of women writers in Europe. The literary systems of Ireland, Galicia, and Wales experienced a rebirth in the late twentieth century, and the present century has seen new research exploring emergent literatures in Europe.
Alphonse de Lamartine’s prose-poem The Stonemason of Saint Point is the story of a peasant’s life, love and faith in the hills of Burgundy. In reality, it describes Lamartine’s own search for God through threatening and godless times in his country.
Recent decades in Spain and Latin America have seen transnational voices, typically stereotyped or alienated in the West, gain increasing presence in cultural texts. These essays explore new ways of seeing and interpreting the Middle East and the East in contemporary films.
Sounds of Life
The papers brought together here examine the various roles of music in Zimbabwe, showing how Zimbabwean music has addressed the socio-economic, political and spiritual crisis that the country has endured in recent years.
Literature and Geography
Space has now replaced time as the main category of literary analysis, and is considered to be a central metaphor and topos. As such, this book examines the cross-fertilization of geography and literature as disciplines, languages and methodologies.
Input a Word, Analyze the World
Comprising contributions by scholars from across the globe, this collection represents current perspectives on Corpus Linguistics from a variety of linguistic subdisciplines. It will be of particular interest to language specialists.
Karachi in the Twenty-First Century
Globalisation has had a major impact on Karachi, geographically and culturally situated within modern Pakistan, but a global city affected by global forces. This title shows how the process has exacerbated local and regional problems, pushing the city to the brink of chaos.
The Theory of Evolution
This book analyzes ‘evolution’ across cosmology, biology, neurobiology, and philosophy. Unifying these fields, it proposes the ‘Evolving Matter’ model, which views the universe as a complex organisation in continuous, non-linear development.
The Chinese Continuum of Self-Cultivation
Christine Hale offers a cross-cultural educational template for the 21st century based on the Neo-Confucian concept of the universal nature of self, which enhances the educational theories of John Dewey, and will interest philosophers, educationalists, and curricula designers.
A Name To Exist
The use of a name allows objects to be included within the human paradigm, meaning nomination and pseudonyms on the internet raise certain problems. This monograph investigates this through a study of nomination and two surveys of Internet users and pseudonyms collected online.
Questions about the roles teachers’ religious beliefs play in their professional activities have been largely excluded from academic conversations in TESOL. However, Baurain shows here that faith and professional practices can, and do, interact and interrelate in various ways.
This edited collection examines the various ways combinatory processes influence the work of the Italian author Italo Calvino. Comprising chapters by six literary scholars, it asserts that the Ligurian writer’s creativity often stems from his contemplation of literature.
Made in Oceania
This volume brings together papers from a symposium on the social meanings, conservation and presentation of Oceanic tapa, or barkcloth, in 2014, and offers insights into current museum practice, connecting historical research with recent cultural developments in the Pacific.
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