This book presents studies on emerging educational trends, including the use of technology, robotics, and learning motivation. It offers innovative solutions to practical challenges for scientists and teachers who want to implement the newest scientific findings.
The Value of Life
Research on the monetary value of saving life has produced nonsensical results, yet the field thrives. An almost forgotten theory of science explains why researchers persist and how scientific theories can be upheld even when the evidence against them seems massive.
Serve the Power(s), Serve the State
This book examines the organization and the consolidation of various groups, including judicial officers and tax agents, acting to create newly emergent forms of social and political power across a range of different cultures and locations.
English Studies
This volume offers a wide range of research on English literature, including Shakespearean, Victorian, and postcolonial studies. With articles on comparative and translation studies, it serves as a fruitful reference and a guide for young academics in their studies.
The Faith Sector and HIV/AIDS in Botswana
Based on field research by scholars, this book covers the role of various religions in the struggle against HIV/AIDS in Botswana, once the world’s worst-affected country. It is for all who address HIV and AIDS, not just those studying religion.
This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.
McElwee explores the under-representation of the poor rural worker in paintings of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, showing that depictions of the rural landscape rarely reflected the harsh realities of the life of the labourer.
Studies in Philology
This volume offers a holistic view of Philology, showing the thin line that separates Linguistics, Literature and Cultural Studies. It is a miscellanea of studies on Modern Language research, focusing on Spanish, English and French.
The essays here address the issue of the poetics of multilingualism and reflect the diversity of the phenomenon. They demonstrate the fundamental importance of multilingualism for literary and linguistic theory with studies on a number of European countries and regions.
A Federal Perspective on the Abkhaz-Georgian Conflict
Gurashi and Gabelia identify the nature and the origins of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict and the causes of the inefficiency of the official negotiation process, and evaluate the hypothesis of a possible federalist transformation of the institutions of both Georgia and Abkhazia.
Contextualizing the Pedagogy of English as an International Language
This book addresses the complexities of English as an International Language (EIL) in the classroom. It brings together narratives of the realities, struggles, and tensions EIL practitioners face, exploring pedagogical challenges in diverse contexts.
The Subversive Storyteller
The Subversive Storyteller examines how American authors adapted the short story cycle to convey subversive ideas. Authors from Hawthorne to Kingston exploited the genre’s fragmented nature to reflect the changing realities of life and identity in America.
Secularisation
This collection of case studies questions the paradigm of secularisation. With meticulous research, an international outlook, and a rare focus on the Southern Hemisphere, it explores the divide between religious life and the secular world.
This book provides new scholarly thinking on the convergence of Christianity and Igbo Traditional Religion. Written by Igbo scholars, it offers unique case studies on their intersection, serving as a vital manual for students, researchers, and interfaith dialogue.
This book chronicles acupuncture’s remarkable fifty-year evolution in the US from an obscure practice to a pivotal modality in modern healthcare. It details the legislative battles and scientific research that allowed acupuncture to secure its place.
To mark the 50th anniversary of 1956, academics and activists presented new historical research on the Hungarian revolt and Suez. This collection examines their wider significance, the crisis of Stalinism, and the rise of a New Left as a result.
Offering perspectives from under-discussed linguistic contexts, including Spain and Austria, in addition to more prominent countries such as the UK, this title explores tensions between the local and the global in education, investigating its increasing commodification.
The Acquisition of Verbs at the Syntax-Semantics Interface
This book presents an analysis of early verbs. Using data from Italian children, it suggests the syntax-semantics interface is well-established early on. The analysis of production and comprehension delays uncovers general characteristics of language acquisition devices.
This volume explores the fantastic and the fin de siècle’s relationship. It studies how this period reflects the fantastic’s relation to: aesthetic ideas, terror and horror, the sublime, and evil, Gothic and sensation fiction, the Aesthetic Movement and Decadence.
The Demonic Temptations of Medieval Nominalism (Volume 9
These essays explore medieval debates on singular cognition and nominalist epistemology. From Aquinas and Scotus to Ockham and John Buridan, this volume traces how nominalism leads to “Demon Skepticism” and the “weird” implications of Buridan’s metaphysics.