Using a modern approach, this book builds a validity argument for an IELTS listening test. It presents the first treatment of validity argument and analytical tools in one volume, mapping psychometric analysis onto the framework to improve language assessments.
Earthly Honest Things
This collection of twenty-five shorter writings is from a leading authority on William Langland. Including four new pieces, these revised essays are an indispensable companion for specialists and an exciting introduction for students.
The Future of Post-Human Organization
This book challenges the obsessive craze for organizational performance, exploring its dark sides. It provides an alternative way to understand organizations—in relation to communication, decision-making, and leadership—to radically change how we think.
Auber’s overtures, once as popular as Rossini’s, were a staple of the light Classical repertoire. While the operas are forgotten, their overtures live on. Their freshness of melody, orchestral colours, and rhythmic vitality still generate visceral excitement.
Imagining the Mexican Revolution
In this original collection of essays, leading Mexicanists evaluate the cultural legacy of Mexico’s 1910 Revolution. These cutting-edge essays examine the literary and visual representations of this landmark event and the complexity of its aftermath.
Still Waiting for Tomorrow
This book is a critical examination of protracted refugee situations. Leading scholars analyze the root causes of these extended crises, from war to statelessness, addressing the political and legal tensions that undermine potential solutions.
Ways Ahead
This book documents the first international Csound conference, featuring papers, interviews with developers and musicians, and exclusive new articles. Organized into five parts—History, Development, Music, Usage, and Education—it reflects the project’s diversity.
Pagan Mysticism
How do the world’s religions understand the mystical, and how does paganism offer something different? This volume explores the re-emergence of pagan thought, a nature-based spirituality that challenges the obsolete and unlocks new forms of transpersonal emancipation.
Should a person’s values, disclosed in a living will, guide medical decisions after they lose capacity? This book examines this question under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, showing why the law might fail and suggesting how it can work better.
The Marlowe-Shakespeare Continuum
Donna N. Murphy demonstrates how Christopher Marlowe, sometimes with Thomas Nashe, appears to have become Shakespeare on a linguistic basis. Documenting a sharp learning curve, she presents a case that open-minded readers are likely to find surprisingly convincing.
A collection of essays by scholars and artists exploring theatre’s role in political awareness through the voice of the marginalized. It shows how the theatre of differences denounces prejudice and regains its role as the brain and lungs of the community.
Human Characteristics
What special behaviours, social practices, and psychological structures make us human? Uniting evolution, psychology, and cognitive science, these studies explore cognition, sociality, and sexuality to provoke debate and stimulate new research.
This volume presents two ballets by Ludwig Minkus, composed at the peak of his powers with choreographer Marius Petipa. It includes the beloved Grand Pas from Paquita, a jewel of the classical repertoire, and the allegorical work, Nuit et Jour.
Reflections on the Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis
The 2007 financial crisis became a sovereign debt crisis, calling European integration into question. Focusing on Greece, where the crisis began, experts analyze flawed policies, contagion effects, the shadow economy, and the very future of the euro.
Applied Social Sciences
Applied Social Sciences focuses on interdisciplinary research in psychology, physical education, and social medicine. This volume offers theoretical and empirical support for professionals, providing profound diagnoses of post-communist Romanian realities.
Language Contact
When speakers of different languages interact, their languages influence each other. This can range from exchanging words to altering grammar, sometimes leading to language death. This volume unites distinguished scholars to offer a multidimensional exploration of the field.
Le biographique n’est pas épuisé : il déborde la biographie. Cet ouvrage propose un état de la réflexion sur le sujet, au croisement des sciences sociales et de la littérature, au point de rencontre entre science et fiction.
Theory That Matters
Theory That Matters offers an up-to-date assessment of literary and cultural theory. The volume launches a defence of theory, demonstrating this is not achieved at the expense of praxis, but by showing its currency through a variety of contexts.
Language Teaching and Learning
This collection addresses language teaching and learning dilemmas, especially with the advent of the digital revolution. It provides new perspectives, pedagogies, and approaches to shape sustainable policies and empower critical and successful language users.
This volume explores the bond between man and nature through literary and visual works by Native and non-Native artists. It re-imagines our outlook on indigenous production, revealing how the non-human provides a key to understanding our world.