Social Media in Asia
Written by Asian academics and practitioners, this book explores social media in Southeast Asia. Discover how it has changed the paradigm of communication: as an avenue for free expression, a tool for news distribution, an aid in crime prevention, and a means to find a partner.
This book represents the first systematic, cross-linguistic analysis of how toddlers learn adjectives. It provides valuable insights into universal and language-specific aspects of language acquisition in a field that has received relatively little attention.
The Legacy of William Carlos Williams
These essays examine William Carlos Williams’s continued importance to American poetry. The book highlights his impact on diverse poets and sheds light on contemporary trends by re-examining his work from the perspective of those he influenced.
Islam and the West
Challenging common depictions of hostility, this collection locates threads of connection and ‘love’ between Islam and the West. Through media, literature, and cinema, it seeks to prompt meaningful dialogue and construct a healthier relationship.
This collection considers the human relationship with the natural environment from the perspective of religions and the social sciences. It makes it clear that religions can play a helpful role in raising ecological consciousness and supporting environmental preservation.
Experiments in Freedom
Experiments in Freedom examines identity in recent South African plays. It explores how drama can represent and transform identity through gender, nationalism, ethnicity, and race in a society grappling with the politics of its past.
This collection of essays is dedicated to reviewing, exploring and reporting state-of-the-art virtual world and marketing issues in the broadest sense. It provides a comprehensive presentation of marketing issues, trends, data and likely future developments in the virtual world.
Death Becomes Her
From where does our investment in feminine death emerge? These essays analyze women’s deathbed scenes, suicides, murders, and autopsies in American writing, offering fresh insight into the unsettling and highly relevant role of death in feminism.
Classroom Practice and Teacher Cognition
This collection bridges the gap between abstract research and classroom practice. Written by full-time language educators, it presents accessible findings from their own teaching that will resonate with both practicing teachers and academics.
Cultural Studies Approaches in the Study of Eastern European Cinema
The “spatial”, the “bodily” and the “memory turn” define this collection’s structure, made of an overview study and 12 case-studies of post-1989 Eastern European film and cinema. Concepts like space representation and construction are explored through national cinemas and films.
The essays gathered here presents Icelandic research on the challenges and opportunities of diversity in education at several levels, including preschool, primary, secondary, vocational and higher education in Iceland.
This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.
Literary Secularism
Literary Secularism shows how writers like Joyce, Rushdie, and Eliot struggled with religious orthodoxy. Their novels are not anti-religious manifestos, but reflect the continued power of religion, a force that is, in Eliot’s words, “still throbbing” in modern life.
The Decay of Truth in Education
Krahenbuhl compellingly documents how educational institutions and political institutions alike have abandoned truth as a primary virtue. The targets of this critique range across political, religious, and social groups as an outcome of the educational malaise towards truth.
Art and Book
The place of illustration and innovation is explored in this collection, regarding the relation of image to text in books of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics range from the work of Marcel Duchamp and Kazimir Malevich to the design of multimodal works and 3D printing.
Samuel Beckett and Europe
This conference proceedings presents an international response to the question of what ‘Europe’ might mean for understandings of Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre. It examines this issue to reflect the ways in which Beckett’s work challenges and enlivens his status as a ‘European writer’.
CDA and PDA Made Simple
CDA and PDA Made Simple explores power, control, and ideology in discourse. It provides the theoretical background and analytical tools to see how these forces are linguistically realized in English and Arabic through transitivity, modality, and metadiscourse.
Dealing with the interconnections between music and the written word, this book brings into focus an updated range of analytical and interpretative approaches which transcend the domain of formalist paradigms and the purist assumption of music’s non-referentiality.
Neohelice granulata, a Model Species for Studies on Crustaceans, Volume II
This book condenses 30+ years of research on the crab *Neohelice granulata*, a key model species. An essential reference for students and researchers in crustacean biology, it covers neuroanatomy, reproduction, metabolism, the visual system, and endocrine disruption.
This book details the application of peptides and dendrimers in dentistry. Modern chemistry techniques are being used to identify, prevent, and treat oral disorders. This promising research opens numerous doors for new developments in the field of preventive dentistry.
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