This work presents a glossary that allows the reader to appreciate positive diversity and interculturalism through multilingualism. It also contains key facts about the languages at hand, as well as useful phrases, weekdays, numbers, and elements of grammar.
This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.
Wright assesses the relevance of aural in a university music degree and as a preparation for a classical musician’s career. The main areas investigated are the relationship between aural ability and success in a music degree, and views about aural and its career relevance.
Framing Violence
This collection analyses many of the questions surrounding challenges in framing the rising violence across the globe and in its new forms. It provides case studies and debates, with violence discussed in its political form and its domestic, financial, and artistic forms.
This volume explores a multiplicity of “ways of being”, including the adoption of an ethnic position, the enactment of gender, the conception of childhood and artistic visions of urban life. It features discourses of identity and “ways of performing” identity in literature.
The Art of Noticing Deeply
In this work, authors study the spaces where we teach and learn, where we explore and interact, and where we pause and wonder. They give insights into ways the arts intersect teachers’ creative beings, and suggest rethinking our knowledge about teaching and learning.
Intellectual Property Rights for Geographical Indications
Insights are given here into the potential impacts future Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership agreements could have at national, European and international levels. Policy setting, implications for trade and consumer perception and food safety are also covered.
Twins and Deviance
Cusack draws on nearly one thousand cases and anecdotes about twins bending and breaking rules in order to fulfill or flout tenets of twinhood. She challenges and improves previous research by collecting new topics to retool twins and deviance discussions.
Jackson offers historical data regarding the convent complexes, as well as extensive photographs of the surviving buildings, murals, and design elements, and documents the Franciscan doctrinas. He also reproduces ancient descriptions of the Franciscan missions.
The Generative and the Structuralist Approach to the Syllable
This book offers analyses of English and Slovak from structuralist and generative viewpoints. Focusing on the syllable, it contrasts phonological theories where syllabification is not always exhaustive with those where it is, bridging the gap between these linguistic traditions.
Gáldy presents the history, art, and architecture of 25 of the main Florentine churches. She also provides plans and photos of the façades, and introduces important vocabulary and the main textual sources of the 13th to the 17th centuries.
Women Rewriting Boundaries
Inspired by a panel at the 2013 Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Convention, this compilation offers fresh insights on how to read travel writing by women. It analyzes the connections between class, gender, physicality, and sexuality as found in 19th-century literature.
A reflection is made here on the relationship between language and music, two unique, innate human capacities. The text provides a clear explanation of the centrality of melodies and rhythm to foreign language learning acquisition.
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.
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.
International Marketing
With an emphasis on developing countries, this text explains international marketing theory and practice within a constantly-changing and increasingly-complex global environment. It describes global environmental forces and basic marketing strategies for international marketing.
Orthodoxy Versus Post-Communism?
In post-communist Ukraine, Belarus, and Serbia, the Orthodox faith has become a vital element of political culture. This book analyses Orthodoxy’s influence on attitudes towards the West, the EU, and democracy, and its role in shaping modern cultural and national identity.
Tracing the Path of Tolerance
This work traces the history of tolerance from the wars of religion to the modern age, analysing tolerance in different epochs and places. It considers how words as tolerance and intolerance have developed over time and debates whether they are still relevant today.
Review Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 12
Containing articles from a Joseph Fishkin symposium on Bottlenecks, this journal brings together essays and discussions in moral and political philosophy, broadly-construed. This edition includes R.D. Emerick’s “‘Torture’ and Metaphor,” published for the first time.
The Contemporary Art Gallery
Carrier and Jones enliven readers’ latent knowledge of galleries, like architectural motifs, the intended impression conveyed to the visitor, and their human interactions. Much has been written about the art, but the secretive culture of the galleries themselves is now uncovered.
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