A Scholiast’s Quill
The Latin American poet, essayist, and literary theorist Alfonso Reyes (1889-1959) wrote about every important topic and intellectual current that defined his beleaguered times. The original readings of his work contained here reassess his legacy from a 21st century perspective.
Labour in the 21st Century
This compendium investigates and discusses the different aspects of the major transformations that have characterized the world of work in recent years. It claims that in order to propose solutions to cope with such changes, it is necessary to analyze their ongoing dynamics.
Communicating Specialized Knowledge
This book explores knowledge communication strategies for peers and lay audiences. Chapters examine dissemination in medicine, health, corporate communication, cultural heritage, and tourism, using corpus linguistics, genre studies, and multimodal analysis.
Exploring Intervention
Drawing on nine case studies and innovative empirical material from various regions of Uganda, this edited volume focuses on the interplay between humanitarian, economic and academic intervention on the one hand and mobility, permanent transit and (re-)settlement on the other.
Hereditary Effects of Parental Lifestyle on the Health of Offspring
Parental and grandparental lifestyle choices can affect the health of their children and grandchildren. Eating habits, smoking, or drinking can “program” their offspring to be more susceptible to diseases, even if the children themselves adopt a healthy lifestyle.
Honour killing is considered the worst form of domestic violence against human beings, particularly against women. This book allows the reader to understand precisely the menace of honour killing and to consider how it can be addressed to save innocent lives.
Raymond Queneau’s Dubliners
An exploration of two comic, erotic, and feminist novels by Raymond Queneau set in Ireland. This book examines Joycean influences and a surreal version of the Dublin Uprising, solving puzzles to reveal *Les Œuvres completes de Sally Mara* as a subtly integrated literary work.
Picart gives a critical legal analysis of how American self-radicalizing terrorists become what they are. She illustrates, through cutting-edge studies on terrorism, how the internet allows a self-activating terrorist to first self-radicalize with an organized terrorist network.
Remembering Home in a Time of Mobility
In an age of displacement, this volume explores how we use memory, nostalgia, and melancholy to cope with the loss of home. It examines the politics of these strategies and their intersection with identity positions such as gender, class, and sexuality.
This book explores the dangers emerging economies face from the digital divide, highlighting the present insecurities in e-business and e-commerce. It details how vital assets may be secured as these economies expand into our technological world.
This edited text, gathering established scholars and newer academic voices, offers fresh perspectives on what Romanticism thought itself to be by suggesting spaces in Romanticism studies needing negotiation and elaboration.
Malewska-Szałygin argues that common-sense convictions of rural Polish citizens are “post-peasant” or “post-agrarian”, rather than post-socialist or post-communist, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in the early 2000s in the highland region in the south of Poland.
This collection of essays offers a comparative perspective on social hybridity in contemporary novels. It explores the challenge of center and periphery, examining the dynamics of power, marginality, and space to shed new light on the contemporary novel as a whole.
Disrespected Neighbo(u)rs
Media, fictional and non-fictional texts, feature prominently in producing and propagating cultural difference and stereotypes in ideologically effective ways. This text analyses media representations from various angles, dealing with ethnic groups from three world areas.
Didactics of Translation
Bnini gathers empirical evidence for the didactic value of translating texts in context through an experiment involving students who study translation as part of their curriculum. A number of theoretical frameworks are invoked in the study.
This volume contains proceedings from the BML Munjal University International Innovation Conference 2016. Featuring discussions between global academicians and industry executives, it will appeal to academics in management, business and economics, and to managers in innovation.
Modern Legal Interpretation
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
This book features 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology, covering mathematics, physics, and engineering. Topics range from Plato’s mathematical concepts and Aristotle’s Physics to the Trojan Horse reconstruction and telecommunications in ancient Greece.
The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
Forensic Communication in Theory and Practice
This collection brings together, for the first time, contributions on forensic communication. It combines theoretical and methodological studies with professional capabilities, investigating forensic discourse analysis, voice, and transcription methods.
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