This book offers better ways of teaching and learning Hindi as a foreign language. With customised teaching methods for learners and valuable information for researchers, it is a must-read for learners, researchers and teachers of Hindi as a foreign language.
This book explains how scientific discoveries happen through the exciting story of the RANKL protein. This breakthrough led to a drug therapy used worldwide to treat osteoporosis, cancer, and other diseases, a story of interest to laypersons and students alike.
Uncover Sri Lanka’s complex, two-century relationship with English. This book examines attitudes across Tamil and Sinhala communities, analyzing colonial and postcolonial writings from both elite and everyday perspectives.
This volume explores the reliability of time-dependent models using a variety of concepts and techniques. It is for research-level courses in statistics, applied mathematics, and operations research, and for researchers requiring knowledge of applied probability.
This book focuses on applying Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) methodology within English for Specific Purposes (ESP) classes. CLIL combines language learning with professional subjects, building bridges between higher education and the professional world.
In reporting violence, the media often construct a negative image of Islam, which reproduces unfounded hostility known as Islamophobia. This book provides a systematic analysis of how non-western online newspapers reproduce Islamophobia in news reporting.
American Wind Music
The transitions that occurred in everyday life after the new “America” was created after the Revolutionary War are reflected in the type of wind music local groups were performing. Kolman traces the development of these new compositions found in available Instrumental Tutors.
Once marketed, brands belong to consumers, who give them meaning. This book explains what brands mean to consumers, how they use them to communicate, and how advertising has become an integral component of the cultural communication system that is consumption.
The Possibility of the Sublime
After Professor Jane Forsey argued that a theory of the sublime is impossible, this volume gathers international scholars to challenge her claim. In a tightly focused debate, they defend the sublime as an aesthetic category, concluding with a final response from Forsey herself.
Culture and Psyche
This introduction to psychological anthropology offers a critical overview of key topics. It argues that behaviour is not infinitely malleable; while culture impacts psychological processes, these processes are constrained by genetic, biological, and evolutionary factors.
This work explores the philosophical basis for phenomenological structuralism, giving a hermeneutical approach to understanding and resolving the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences.
Jerusalem in Muhammad’s Strategy
This book is the first to study the political relationship between the Prophet Muhammad and Jerusalem. It reveals that Muhammad was the true planner of the Muslim conquest of Jerusalem, showing how he shaped the city’s image and built its status in the Muslim mind.
AfroMecca in History
This book discusses anti-Black racism in the Arab world, centered on the term “ʿabd” (slave). It explores the ancient Black diaspora in Mecca and its contributions, as well as the religious and political role of the al-Haram Mosque’s teaching system throughout history.
Honors education celebrates excellence, but sorting students by attainment raises questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion. How can honors programs be fair and inclusive? This book, born from a National Society for Minorities in Honors conference, explores solutions.
Transcending Eurocentric models of understanding the female body, this volume addresses historical questions that explore the multiple aspects associated with the uterus through both learned and popular sources, material evidence, daily practices, iconography and representation.
Equine Fictions
This innovative volume explores the powerful human-horse bond in 21st-century fiction and autobiography from the perspectives of affect and politics. It analyzes how narratives of healing, mourning, and identity are shaped by gender and nation in contemporary writing.
An extensive study of the work of Femi Osofisan, one of Nigeria’s pivotal dramatists and postcolonial playwrights, this text details a variety of his plays to gather insights into the role of art in social change, and discusses the relationship between literature and politics.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
This book investigates how stress causes life-threatening diseases, particularly Alzheimer’s, and what you can do to save yourself. A neurologist reveals that cutting the nerve supply to the adrenal glands can prevent Alzheimer’s disease.
Philosophy and Human Revolution
This book offers a philosophical study of Daisaku Ikeda. Not a religious analysis, it examines his intercultural work, which interfaces Japanese tradition with Western rationality. The author adopts an agnostic suspension to leave a place for philosophy and its arguments.
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