Putting Theory into Practice in the Contemporary Classroom
This work emerges from interest in how postmodern theory illuminates the products and ideas of high culture, as well as the ins and outs of everyday life. It helps us to understand troublesome classroom dynamics and specifies pedagogical strategies for dealing with them.
The Future of Post-Human Waste
Waste is neither useless trash nor a hidden treasure. This book offers a radical theory that redefines waste, revealing its profound implications for society, culture, and our collective future.
Discourse Interpretation
This volume provides new insights into discourse interpretation across many genres. Combining theoretical insights with empirical investigations, it explores how meaning is a dynamic construct, constantly reinterpreted in light of social and situational contexts.
Public Opinion towards the EU
Durach investigates the public opinion of the EU in the context of the present economic crisis and other significant challenges, such as the refugee crisis, providing insights into attitudes towards the organisation in Central and Eastern Europe.
Italian Women and Autobiography
These essays examine identity and ideology in Italian female autobiography from the Fascist era to our time. The collection explores how women writers challenge gender roles and traditional boundaries, experimenting with new forms of self-representation.
Science, Mysticism and Psychical Research
Science, mysticism, and psychical research are thought to be irreconcilable. This book reveals the revolutionary synthesis of mathematician Michael Whiteman, who fused modern physics with ancient mystical texts, informed by a lifetime of psychic experience.
A Wounded Deer
What made Emily Dickinson a recluse and dynamic poet? This book argues her enigmatic poetry originated from a personal exposure to incest, and examines how she used her craft to transition from victim to survivor.
Medieval or Early Modern
The historical terms ‘medieval’ and ‘early modern’ are imprecise and carry ideological baggage. This collection of essays assembles concerned scholars to debate this problem, suggesting different solutions for different kinds of history-writing.
This book introduces the critical issues in Shakespeare’s plays. What is the secret of a character like Falstaff? What philosophical arguments do the problem plays introduce? What is the value of Shakespeare’s perspective for thinking effectively in our world now?
This book covers new deep neural networks that synthesize their optimal structure in online mode. Based on the principle of self-organization, this approach solves a wide class of Data Stream Mining problems, including pattern recognition, forecasting, and classification.
Modern Fantasies on Love versus Classical Romances
Viewed through quantum physics, love conquers nothing. This book introduces the Token Valence Method, which treats a word as a quantum state to reveal three models of love patterns in fiction: adaptation, alienation, and imagination.
Language Teaching and Language Use in Non-Native Settings
From Cameroon to Turkey, this volume illuminates the gap between teaching norms and real-life language use. It underscores the limitations of current methods and provides well-matched answers to classroom problems for teachers, researchers, and educational policy makers.
Bridging linguistics and psycholinguistics, this monograph explores long-distance dependencies—phenomena that are unbounded yet constrained by grammar. It leverages the concept of similarity to unravel the interplay between formal linguistic properties and memory operations.
Girlhood in British Coming-of-Age Novels
Šnircová discusses a selection of coming-of-age narratives that offer a revisiting of the classic Bildungsroman heroine and present her developments in postwar and postmillennial British literature, drawing on the work of various feminist critics.
This study explores the intersection of masculinity and domesticity in contemporary film and literature. It argues that texts since the 1990s address “new fatherhood,” problematizing the legitimacy of “new fathers” and “alternative families.”
This book explores liminal bodies and their delicate transactions: the body dying, opened in surgery, or living on through organ replacement. It also analyzes the contemporary body commissioned by mass-media, as seen through film, literature, and art.
This book provides a clear understanding of the fundamentals of materials science and engineering, written in simple language with practical examples. It is immensely useful for students of various engineering and science fields, as well as for technical professionals.
Concussion Competencies from a British Perspective
This book presents essential information for people working with concussion recovery and for those currently experiencing one, especially if it is sports-related. It fills a critical knowledge gap by focusing on behavioural treatment and “active rehabilitation” strategies.
Peeping Through the Holes
These essays on Psycho, the novel and the film, invite you to that peculiar house on the hill. Leave all hope behind and enter at your own risk. The Bates’ terrifying rollercoaster welcomes you. Nothing is over here… at least not until it overcomes you.
The emotive nature of myth lays the foundation of the research proposed for this trilingual volume, which encompasses a thorough and multifaceted study that offers guidelines and models capable of interpreting mythical-emotional phenomena.
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