This title addresses several issues on contrasts between English and other languages. It gives valuable insights into cross-linguistic differences between English and other languages, which might otherwise go unnoticed, and will be useful to experts on language studies.
Acquiring Lingua Franca of the Modern Time
Explore modern ESL/EFL teaching strategies for a globalized, digital world. International scholars apply linguistic theory and multi-cultural communication to today’s classrooms.
People’s Diplomacy of Vietnam
The first book on “People’s Diplomacy.” During the Vietnam War, ordinary Vietnamese citizens connected with global anti-war movements, pressuring U.S. presidents to end the conflict. This informal diplomacy proved more effective than formal channels in winning Western support.
Healthcare Facilities in Developing Countries
This book is an in-depth investigation of healthcare facilities in Mau district, India. Based on a survey of 680 households, it analyzes variations in their availability, accessibility, and affordability, and the link between socio-economic status and utilization patterns.
Women suffer from headaches far more than men. This text explores the dramatic new understanding of migraine, leading to more targeted treatments. It addresses key issues for women: hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, genetics, and comorbidities like stroke.
Thomas brings together the oral histories of those who have lived in the Mexican State of Sonora and the corresponding territory in the US, using these voices to paint the revolution in economics, culture, and drug trade that the area has witnessed in gripping, personal terms.
The studies gathered here engage in different ways with the ideas of André Jolles (1874–1946), whose Einfache Formen (“Simple Forms”) was first published in 1930. This anthology will be of interest to scholars of medieval and early modern Spanish, Catalan and Latin literature.
Modern Cities
This book explores ten types of city born from modernization. Some, like national capitals and resorts, are modern takes on old forms. Others, like megacities and boom towns, are unique to our time. Discover over 50 cities, from Singapore to Shenzhen, through analysis and photos.
Rimbaud’s provocative dictum that “I is an other” is reflected in this anthology, which discusses a wide-ranging array of twentieth-century and contemporary minority American modes of life writing with regards to identity, relationality, agency, and ethno-racial issues.
Fragile and Resilient Cities on Water
Venice and Tokyo exemplify the challenges confronting cities on water. This volume explores the “rediscovery of water,” highlighting the socio-economic, environmental, and cultural process of re-evaluating heritage in these fragile, liminal spaces.
The Great War and Scottish Nurses’ Diaries
Nurses who worked in Scottish Women’s Hospitals in Romania during the Great War detailed their experiences, thoughts and opinions into journals; this research work analyses the representations of war within them from a perspective of autobiographical writing and war testimony.
Seyadi provides insights that will go some way toward dissipating the concerns that are routinely raised about the procedural and practical soundness of arbitration in the Arab Gulf states. In addition, he places arbitration in the Arab Gulf states in its present legal systems.
Vision of Change in African Drama
This book focuses on Fémi Òsófisan, a major Nigerian dramatist and postcolonial writer. It explores how he questions colonial and postcolonial identity by exploiting his Yorùbá heritage, re-writing mythology and history to comment on contemporary social and political issues.
This title addresses the challenges that arise at the interface of science and religion in the 21st century. Drawing from many disciplines, including psychology and history, it considers the crucial questions of how science and religion can help shape our worldviews today.
Ágnes Heller and Hannah Arendt
This book reconstructs a timely conversation between Hannah Arendt and Ágnes Heller on the malaises of modernity. Two great thinkers enlighten the great moral and political problems of our time, from the demise of totalitarianism to the perennial problems of this century.
The contributions on Lee’s work here include new interpretations from diverse critical angles, including US literary and cultural history, Southern studies, sociological theory, gender studies, stylistic analysis, translation, and pedagogy.
The Familiar Essay, Romantic Affect and Metropolitan Culture
Through close readings of texts by Lamb, De Quincey and Poe, among others, Hull argues that the familiar essay in the Romantic period embodies a quintessentially metropolitan mode of affect, and that its generic traits predispose it to the expression of a detached state of mind.
The Influence of Translation on the Arabic Language
Siddig Abdalla explores the influence of the translation of English idioms by journalists working at Arabic satellite TV stations, using a mixed-method approach. His results will serve to guide media translators and lexicographers’ choice in the usage of idioms.
This thought-provoking collection presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives and activism of LGBT*IQ artists. It travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance for readers of queer culture.
Aspects of Entrepreneurship
Gathering unique perspectives on developments in the field of entrepreneurship, the essays here present insights that unravel the mysteries of what lies behind the term ‘entrepreneurship’ that propels societies forward.
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