Ożańska-Ponikwia addresses a prominent area of second language acquisition research, specifically the factors that mediate learning outcomes in learning a second or foreign language. She provides a comprehensive overview of the field from the point of view emotional intelligence.
What kinds of worlds will exist in our future? How will technology shape our cities, homes, and ourselves? This collection of essays explores science fiction’s new spaces—from utopias and dystopias to alien cityscapes—and discusses capitalism, equality, and feminist critique.
Fundamental Constants
Devoting itself to the calculation of the accuracy of measurements of fundamental physical constants, this book formulates an a priori interaction between the level of a detailed description of a material object and the lowest uncertainty in measuring a physical constant.
Having trouble sleeping after you retired? As we change with age, sleep also changes. Why not encourage it to change for the better? This book provides information and advice, explaining how to recognize telling symptoms and organize a different schedule.
Between Regulation and Freedom
These studies re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and early modern European cities. They focus on the ways in which we can understand the interfaces between regulatory frameworks, represented by guild and civic regulations, and the wider world of labour and production.
Parables and Riddles in Ancient and Modern Teaching
This book explores the difference between parables and riddles. Biblical parables transmit useful life-messages, while Greek riddles are largely unintelligible, leaving one helpless. What do these forms reveal about ancient views of wisdom?
Megatrends and How to Survive Them
Behind the headlines, remorseless changes are creating a very different world. This book explores the twelve key megatrends that will shape 2032 and what you, your family, and your organisation can do to survive and thrive. Are you prepared?
TOMS shoes disrupted business with its one-for-one model: for every pair sold, another was given to a child in need. The TOMS Effect explores this phenomenon’s influence on corporations and start-ups, and asks if its newest, riskier social campaigns can be sustained.
This book outlines international business transactions and their associated risks. It details financing mechanisms for the international sale of goods and overseas construction projects, covering documentary credit, project finance, syndicated loans, and export credit insurance.
Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa traded colonial oppression for corrupt, authoritarian rule. This book contrasts their betrayed revolutions with Tunisia, where a determined civil society forged a path to open democracy against all odds.
How can a translator recreate the hybrid identity of characters who perform masculinity and ethnicity through non-standard language? Using Gautam Malkani’s novel Londonstani and its Italian translation, this book tackles the challenges of translating vernacular literature.
Bringing together a number of experts in their respective fields and representing an important contribution to the topic of science and mathematics education, the contributions here deal with various aspects of education, including theoretical modelling and reasoning skills.
Defining the Fringe of Contemporary Australian Archaeology
This collection draws on the wealth of work currently being undertaken by contemporary archaeologists in Australia, contextualising the fringe dwellers that operate on the periphery of accepted academia.
The relationship of mind to matter still eludes understanding. This volume shows how process philosophy can help. Twelve chapters by prominent specialists discuss the link between process thinking and scientific research on the problems of mind and experience.
Practical Action
This book presents a dynamic model of practical action that challenges the one imposed by the cognitive sciences. Integrating Wittgenstein, pragmatism, and interactionist sociology, it reveals a radically contextual conception of human individual and collective behaviour.
Religion in Early Assam
This volume offers a fresh approach to religion in Early Assam, bringing together archaeology, history, and heritage. It reconstructs the sacred landscape of the Prāgjyotiṣa and Kāmarūpa kingdoms, illustrating implications for Assam’s history and identity.
Art as Adventure
This title gathers insights from artists and art historians about journeys to places and methods of practice that challenge perceived taxonomies. It offers various perspectives on how artist-travelers have embraced and contextualized the experiences encountered on their travels.
Ismail engages with problematic issues arising when translating and interpreting classical Arabic texts, which represent a challenging business for many scholars, especially with regards to religious works.
This publication explores phenomenological structural sociology, specifically the use of phenomenological structuralism in an effort to resolve the structure/agency problematic of the social sciences within structurationist sociological theory.
The Wor(l)ds of Neapolitan Arts and Crafts
The terminologies of the numerous trades examined in this bilingual volume—including pizza and pastry making, and the art of presepio (crib), lute-making and coral dealing, among others—represent an important component of the cultural heritage of Naples and the Campania region.
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