This compendium is a clear reflection of the realities and dynamics of language teaching in Iranian classrooms and the new trends within the Iranian EFL community over the last decade. It covers a variety of recent topics within the context of English language teaching in Iran.
Learning Spaces for Inclusion and Social Justice
Stemming from a Nordic research project conducted in Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, this anthology draws lessons from success stories of individual immigrant students and whole school communities in developing learning contexts that are equitable and socially just.
Raimondi presents a linguistic analysis of a group of modern narratives written by Piedmontese authors. The novels and short stories examined are notable for the way they move between various idioms—Standard Italian, regional vernaculars, English and pastiches.
40 Years After In Vitro Fertilisation
Marking the 40th anniversary of IVF, this collection gathers its principal actors to summarize the technique’s achievements, current state, and future. It provides a passionate story of IVF’s evolution, understandable to health professionals and the lay public alike.
Glucose transporters are vital for metabolism, and disturbances in their function can be fatal. This book discusses the link between these proteins and disease, including their potential as an anticancer and antidiabetic therapeutic target.
CARICOM nations are among the first affected by climate change, despite low emissions. This book explores policy actions they can implement to build resilience in the post-Paris Agreement era, covering climate finance, coastal adaptation, and loss and damage.
Autobiographical Poetry in England and Spain, 1950-1980
Lerro traces the founding critical theories of the influential autobiographical genre, from the Enlightenment period to the most recent developments. He offers an increased effectiveness of the poem to express the narrative purposes of autobiography.
This book introduces “AfroSymbiocity,” a paradigm for conflict resolution based on original African strategies. It provides the missing cultural pieces in the puzzle of conflict, using the historical example of King Moshoeshoe to demonstrate an approach with universal relevance.
Spiritual and Ecological Civilization
Analyzing the global crises of our ‘technogenic and consumer’ civilization, this book shows the necessity of transitioning to a new ‘spiritually-ecological’ one. It demonstrates the real indicators of such a transformation and the main problems of the transition.
Metonymy and Word-Formation
This book explores the interplay between word-formation and metonymy, arguing they are distinct linguistic components that complement and mutually constrain each other. Using data from a variety of languages, it is essential reading for scholars and advanced students of grammar.
Spalding sets out a challenging re-interpretation of the politics of Labour’s left-wing, highlighting how the Left developed a range of simplistic, self-sustaining narratives, rather than supported analyses, to guide its actions in the aftermath of the political crisis of 1931.
This book explores how immigrants in Caribbean Colombia shaped the city of Barranquilla. It examines customs and cultural beliefs reflected in the region’s housing, art, and culture, aiming to reconcile diverse groups and create bonds of shared responsibility.
This book chronicles over one hundred years of international film making in Jamaica from 1910, and provides many previously unpublished details of locations, actors and directors.
The Disaster of European Refugee Policy
This volume addresses the 2015-2016 arrival of migrants and refugees in Europe and the resulting crisis of response. It explores why people fled and critiques state reactions, linking the crisis to the rise of hate speech, racism, and authoritarianism.
Short Stories by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Novelist, short-story writer, and journalist Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868-1947) was one of the most prolific writers of her day. This collection of short stories brings her most popular and culturally significant works of short fiction to modern audiences for the first time.
Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny
This book discusses the divergent approaches to African independence of two great leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Félix Houphouët-Boigny. It identifies the impact their differences had on Africa and explores why, despite vast resources, it remains the world’s poorest continent.
This collection addresses the status quo of legal translators and interpreters and proposes ways to raise the standards of the profession. It covers many topics, including legal translation, translation of multilingual EU legislation and document translation.
Economic Gaps and Crises in South-East Europe
This collection includes presentations made at the 2016 conference of the South-Eastern European Monetary History Network, and will appeal to central bankers, members of academia and researchers interested in European economic history with a focus on South-Eastern Europe.
Comparative Literature in Europe
Researchers from across Europe explain how comparative literature works in their countries. This unique book offers an expansive panorama with emphasis on usually “invisible” countries. A handbook for the present and a laboratory for the future of the discipline.
Managing Enterprise Resource Planning Adoption and Business Processes
Recent decades have witnessed many avoidable ERP failures and malpractices concerning its adoption. The author presents an adoption methodology, called the Full Lifecycle ERP Adoption Reference (FLEAR) model, which will prevent the reoccurrence of such downfalls.
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