This book offers a transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s hitherto unedited Early Modern English remedy-book, Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Accompanied by linguistic and codicological analysis, it is a primary source for historical linguistics and the history of medicine.
Communication as a Life Process, Volume Two
International linguistic scholars respond to 21st century holism in language studies. This volume discusses topics from interpersonal communication to religious discourse, drawing on a theoretical base in quantum theory to depart from traditional materialistic perspectives.
Integral Ecology
Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’ ecological encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home”, this conference proceedings engages both secular and religious perspectives on crucial issues that threaten the ecology of our planet.
Italy’s 1978 Psychiatric Reform closed all psychiatric hospitals, a move praised worldwide. But this transition had notable setbacks. This book provides a much-needed appraisal, highlighting the reform’s often-overlooked shortcomings with a multi-faceted, independent viewpoint.
This collection of essays discusses works of art whose formal qualities, content and spatial interactions expand our idea of creation and commemoration, and brings to light new aspects concerning twentieth and twenty-first century monuments and site-specific sculpture.
The fifteen chapters here look at a variety of popular and folk music from around the world, with examples of British, Slovene, Chinese and American songs, poems and musicals, demonstrating how lyrics set to music can reflect, express and construct collective identities.
To challenge Europe’s dominant aesthetics, 18th-century Britain forged a new ‘Northern’ identity. This book explores the roots of British Romanticism in a celebrated past of Celtic heroes, King Arthur, and the fantasy world of myth.
The Ground from Which We Speak
Joint speech includes chanting, singing in unison, swearing public oaths and hollering at political rallies. Cummins provides a broad framing of how we might study this concept, exploring topics in linguistics, movement science, neuroscience, and beyond.
This volume studies complexity theory and offers elements that support the continued and ever-growing need for its use. It probes technology, culture, and science to navigate systems within organisations, to divulge the broad spectrum in which complexity theory may be utilised.
Ngefac offers a detailed sociolinguistic and structural description of Cameroon Creole English, situating the language’s aspects within the context of current creolistic debate and covering such matters as whether the language is a pidgin or creole.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
Critical Cartography of Art and Visuality in the Global Age II
This volume addresses questions that are crucial to approaching art, visuality, and cultural policies from the perspective of global transformations and the rise of new social, political and cultural paradigms.
While ancient objects from Northern Europe are usually seen as historical documents, many should be regarded as works of fine art. This book encourages readers to appreciate Bronze Age and early Medieval artefacts as they do works by well-known contemporary artists.
Exiting the European Union
This book provides a detailed discussion of the legal process for a Member State’s exit from the EU. It covers voluntary withdrawal like Brexit, forced expulsion, and secession. A relevant read for anyone interested in what the future holds for European integration.
Our skin changes throughout our lives, responding to health, lifestyle, and our surroundings. As it often deteriorates in cold weather, this book explores why this happens and what we can do about it, connecting skin with our lifestyle, wellbeing, and environment.
Milieus of ReMemory
Milieus of ReMemory concentrates on how people in Lebanon situate and work on memories of violence and trauma, as well as exchange of voices, detailing how memory activism and memory projects constitute emergent milieus of social exchange and ethical responsibility.
The Americas and the New World Order
Written by leading experts and new scholars, this collection of essays portrays the Americas’ place in the world. Spanning the Colonial Era to the present, it explores vital issues like migration, crime, economics, and relations between Asia and the Americas.
The Ages of the Earth
Considering cosmogonies, theological dogmas, natural philosophy, Deism and the inevitable secularism of the Age of Enlightenment, Álvaro recounts the struggle that the human mind has undertaken, over two millennia, against creationist myths.
This text compiles conceptual research in cognitive linguistics and empirical studies on language, showing the current state of five areas of cognitive explorations of language, namely conceptual blending, narratology, multimodality, linguistic creativity and construction grammar
Multivariate Techniques
This book covers both theoretical and applied aspects of multivariate analyses. It provides an overview of key terminology and distributions before discussing methods of drawing inferences, multivariate analysis of variance, and multivariate regression.
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