The first history of British chess from 1774 to 2000. The book focuses on the professionals and amateurs who shaped the game, its struggle against moral disapproval, and its rise to a popular recreation. It covers major events, providing game scores and tables of results.
While educational systems are culture-bound, our globalized world needs a shared understanding of teaching a language. This book offers a framework for a non-culture-bound theory of language education, providing a common core that goes beyond national standards and guidelines.
Aimed at students, this clear and concise practical handbook is prepared in accordance with the latest syllabi. It explores the instruments and glassware handled during experiments and the calculations required to prepare chemical reagents and media.
Calcium Study to Alzheimer’s Therapeutics
This book explains recent scientific discoveries on calcium storage in cells and their link to Alzheimer’s. It presents unprecedented information on the disease process and introduces a new therapeutic ready for clinical trials, benefiting patients, families, and researchers.
Applied Social Sciences
This collection of essays on social work explores topics from burnout and migration to child attachment and rehabilitation. It is an essential resource for students, social workers, and researchers who wish to improve personally and professionally.
A World of Popular Entertainments
The first of its kind, this groundbreaking collection examines popular entertainments from a global and multi-disciplinary perspective, considering their social, cultural, and political significance across five continents.
Legacies of the U.S. Occupation of Japan
The consequences of the US occupation of Japan transcended its formal duration. Rich with fresh analyses on mutual influence, memory, and international perspectives, this book provides a greater understanding of the lasting legacies of this crucial 20th-century event.
Lexicography and Terminology
This book explores current trends in lexicography and terminology. It analyzes the presentation of complex items like idioms and non-equivalent lexics in various dictionaries and examines terminology for Languages for Special Purposes from a cognitive angle.
What is the link between creativity and madness? This collection of essays from psychiatrists, artists, and critics explores the question, discussing the work of artists from Robert Schumann and Virginia Woolf to David Foster Wallace.
Women at the Polls
Since 1980, U.S. elections have been marked by a “gender gap” in which women are more supportive of Democrats. Women at the Polls finds this gap is extensive across demographic groups, based on differing political attitudes on key issues.
Relevant Worlds
This volume examines Relevance Theory, an influential pragmatic approach to communication. It tests the theory’s internal coherence and its applicability to translation, literature, and conversational humour, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students.
Transmission Image
A challenging survey of the debate about visual culture from a global perspective. This volume proposes a truly global outlook, with scholarly perspectives from around the world, highlighting the complex cultural codification of images and their impact.
Information Visualisation
This volume reviews information visualisation, the art of transforming complex data into clear visuals. It explores techniques from medieval origins to modern 2D/3D rendering and evaluation methods, with examples from history, art, and science.
A History of the Bildungsroman
Golban establishes a vector of methodology in approaching the English Bildungsroman (the novel of identity formation). His wide-ranging critical perspectives will be useful to anyone concerned with perspectives of modern fiction studies and European and English novelistic genres.
Ogbonnaya examines varieties of the intercultural process in world Christianity. He shows that the centrality of culture for world Christianity showcases the important position the scale of values occupies in world Christianity.
This book analyzes how postcolonial writers used autobiography to express themselves. By using the ‘I’ and ‘me’ as subjects, not objects, they affirmed their identity and established autobiographical writing as a true art form.
Truths Breathed Through Silver
The Oxford Inklings believed old myths held truth to fortify humanity. This collection explores how Lewis, Tolkien, and Williams wove theology and literary craft to connect the mortal with the divine.
A Philosopher’s Perspective on the UK’s Higher Education
How can teachers pursue the creative goals of an ideal university within real bureaucracies? Larvor reflects on teaching undergraduates, experts, and prisoners, insisting on the importance of the affective dimension of learning and the unpredictability of the student encounter.
This collection of essays discusses how formal, non-formal and informal education contributed to the creation and perpetuation of the Cyprus conflict, as well as to prejudices, inter-ethnic stereotypes, and misperceptions.
As popular culture has now become closely intertwined with current debates within cultural studies, this volume focuses on a variety of issues ranging from the ideological construction of identities in print media to narratives of the postmodern condition in film and fiction.
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