Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
This volume highlights the growing fusion and blurring of boundaries between traditional genres. Topics explored range from intercultural opera and the Rocky Horror Show to trans-genre adaptation in Strauss and Glass, and how the physical body dictates movement.
Yakupov summarises the communicative processes encompassing the creation, interpretation, perception, and evaluation of the various phenomena of musical art. He considers the numerous communicative links in the spheres of the composer, performer, listener and musicologist-critic.
This text contains research on various aspects of environmental migration in the context of international law. It focuses on the emergence and development of regulation in the field of environmental migration at the global and regional levels.
In this book, central issues in the history of philosophical investigations about the concept of language are introduced. Topics are structured with reference to the world’s foremost philosophers of language, raising an awareness of language as a distinctive human capacity.
Transforming Learning
Aimed at educators who want to impact the lives of the students who attend their classrooms, this volume presents indigenous frameworks applied to subjects in education, the humanities and sciences that inform critical praxis in teacher education.
This volume explores the ways traditional polarized images of women have been used and challenged in the Hispanic world by both writers and the media, discussing the usage of such images in specific political periods.
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.
Transnational Worlds of Power Journal
The Virtuoso as Subject
Cvejić provides a novel interpretation of the sudden and steep decline of instrumental virtuosity in its critical reception during the nineteenth century, documenting it with a large number of examples from Europe’s leading music periodicals at the time.
This book provides an interdisciplinary analysis of technology’s influence on contemporary international relations. Exploring the complex challenges of these changes, it is essential reading for scholars, students, and anyone interested in this dynamic interplay.
Gender and Sexual Dissidence on Catalan and Spanish Television Series
This book examines how gender roles and non-heteronormative sexualities are constructed in Spanish and Catalan television series. It challenges the rhetoric of “normalisation” and represents a major contribution to these fields in the Spanish and Catalan contexts.
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.
ELT Revisited
Comprising papers from a conference for Czech teachers of English, this collection discusses a variety of English as a Foreign Language-related topics, including insights on classroom practice. It is relevant to any context where English is taught as a foreign or second language.
Kissinger and the Invasion of Cyprus
Using the story of Kissinger’s behaviour regarding Cyprus, backed up by recently revealed government documents, Mallinson provides an incisive analysis of Kissinger’s approach, revealing a man who appears to have considered political strategy more important than law and ethics.
The Art of the Caveman
The first monograph dedicated to the poetry of Paul Durcan, this book deals thematically with the dominant concerns evident throughout his work, arguing that the poet has captured the complexities inherent in Ireland’s emergence from the early, difficult decades of independence.
Knots like Stars
This encyclopaedia of essays and aphorisms offers an ecological perspective on Latin American literature and arts. It is a response to the recent increase in the Hispanic population and influence, offering an understanding of the complexity of this diverse culture.
A critical analysis of the impact of the Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe is offered here, looking at how politicisation led to the violation of human rights. The book also looks at the enduring impact this has left on the victims, mostly children.
Enacting the Roles of Boss and Employee in German Business Meetings
This book investigates how participants in German business meetings collaborate to “talk” social roles into existence. It describes how “doing-being-boss” and “doing-being-employee” depend on a collaboration of talk and embodied actions.
Disquiet on the Western Front
Using close readings of iconic literary texts, this groundbreaking study looks at the evolution of the war novel, tracing the movement from the modernist novel that followed World War I to the postmodernist novel that followed World War II.
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