Elements of Statistics
This book is a crucial resource for students intimidated by statistical symbols and equations. It prepares you for statistics courses without anxiety and serves as an excellent desk reference for new researchers. Its hands-on style helps you easily achieve statistical literacy.
This book presents a potential hierarchy between the three basic psychological needs central to Self-Determination Theory. It argues that a student’s motivation for autonomy is built upon the quality of the teacher-student relationship and the student’s perceived competence.
Urban Monstrosities
The contributors here show how artists and writers across the past two hundred years figure the monster as a barometer of changing urban patterns. Here, monstrosity becomes the herald of embryonic social forms and marginalized populations in portrayals of cities across media.
Language processing is considered as an important part of cognition, with an ever-increasing amount of studies conducted on this field. This book gathers together research on language processing and disorders presented at the Experimental Psycholinguistics Conference in Madrid.
This volume combines the fields of intellectual studies, religion, literature, and visual culture to explore the complexities of conceptual paradigms that represent various manifestations of the idea of light.
Linguistics and the Parts of the Mind
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
Studies in Language Variation and Change 2
This collection of essays traces the history of the English language, from its Indo-European origins to the present day. English has a history marked by strong upheavals, particularly the influence of Scandinavian, French, and Latin, which are all considered here.
European fascination with Oriental cultures has found multifaceted manifestations. Music, as an important element of cultural communication, is well suited for such transitions. This collection of essays explores the fascinating influences between Orient and Western music.
This book explores the internal structure of personal pronouns in Brazilian Portuguese. It shows that traditional features (person, number, gender, case) are categories made of more elemental components which define the content, shape, and syntactic consequences of a pronoun.
This volume explores Socratic rationalism, the major alternatives to it within political philosophy, and the potential impact of its return in contemporary times. It takes a multifaceted approach with contributions from scholars in the fields of philosophy and political science.
This journal provides a space for marketers, researchers, and scholars across the world to exchange perspectives on China in its dynamic market. It will appeal to those interested in the ever-evolving marketing practices and theories in China.
An Exploration of Educational Trends (V2)
This textbook of articles and essays encourages and assists educational professionals in cultural awareness, diversity, and international studies. It can be used as a main textbook or supplemental reading for educators, administrators, and students from diverse disciplines.
Leading philosophers bring new methods and aims to the practice of philosophy, showing how they can serve their communities and civilization. This anthology is valuable for philosophers, professionals in education and helping disciplines, and the general public.
Semantic Traces of Social Interaction from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Tracing the changes in the meaning of “conversatio” and its modern language derivatives, Plotke illustrates the productivity of historical semantic analysis for cultural studies.
This pioneering work explores the intersection of Islamic and international criminal law. It argues for creating an Islamic international criminal court to prevent impunity for atrocities committed in the name of Islam, examining its jurisdiction, procedures, and sanctions.
Explore the incredible and neglected history of Mogadishu, a prosperous medieval trading city and cultural crossroad. Rich and rare photographic evidence reveals its mosques, ruins, and residences—medieval treasures threatened by destruction and decline.
Dumitrașcu explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power and the “resistance” and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of the British social-democratic consensus, up to the new ideology of “Globalism.”
The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis
The roots of the ecological crisis are traced to the thought of René Descartes, father of modern philosophy. His worldview established a dangerous legacy: a human-centered, mechanistic conception of nature and a sharp dualism between humanity and the physical world.
Is intercultural exchange truly possible in societies riddled with tensions? This collection of studies addresses the challenges posed by diversity and inequality in the construction of inclusive societies.
This book explores the cultural and psychological resonances in John B. Keane’s masterpiece, The Field. Applying psychological and post-colonial filters, it analyzes representations of gender and history to encourage a re-appraisal of this often overlooked Irish playwright.
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