This book explores the experience of contemporary Australian intellectuals in Italy, analysing works by Jeffrey Smart, Shirley Hazzard, Robert Dessaix, and Peter Robb. It uncovers an image of the country starkly different from any before.
Commitment to Musical Excellence
For 75 years, the internationally recognized Gustavus Choir has built a heritage of choral music rooted in the a cappella tradition. This book chronicles the ensemble’s history, the legacy of its six conductors, and its unwavering commitment to musical excellence.
An accessible guide to organic coatings, this book explains the chemical reactions and mechanisms of film formation. Examples and exercises provide technical insights and a deep understanding of the principles, while demonstrating how to use rheology to solve technical problems.
Stage Migrants
This volume investigates how recent migration is reflected in Irish culture, focusing on the representation of outsiders in theatre. It explores debates on national identity, multiculturalism, and racism in plays whose topics are central to any global community.
The Emotionally Intelligent College
This text synopsises the research that has been conducted pertaining to emotional and social skills development in third level learning environments, and will help students and educators reach their maximum potential.
Foreign Accent Perception
Coinciding with the increased attention given to foreign accents and their perception, Bryła-Cruz’s study represents the largest qualitative and quantitative investigation into the acceptability, intelligibility and comprehensibility of Polish English by various native speakers.
Re-Constructing Place and Space
This book explores the influence of embodied, discursive, and mediated communication on the construction and maintenance of Caribbean diasporic communities, presenting a more complex picture of peoples from the region and their diasporic identities.
This is the first comprehensive book on the neurological manifestations of COVID-19. It provides up-to-date guidance for healthcare providers managing the neurological aspects of SARS-CoV-2 infection, summarizing existing evidence and formulating practical implications.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Focusing on exemplary Jewish poets, artists, and critics once celebrated but now forgotten—not due to taste, but to social and political issues. This book examines their repressed anxieties and the clash with a culture that rejected their “otherness.”
Violent Depictions
In a world that accepts violence as a just enterprise, what is violence? Is it justifiable? Violent Depictions addresses these questions, exploring the relationship between violence and representation in films, literature, and history.
These essays examine the interaction between translation, language and culture. Scholars from countries including Austria, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia offer fascinating insights into the complex phenomenon of cross-cultural communication.
Higher Education in the Asia Pacific
The Asia Pacific is the fastest growing region on the globe, and its universities are experiencing a dramatic surge. This insightful collection explores the key dilemmas for higher education, from international markets to the university’s role in nation-building.
Here, and Here
These essays explore using logos without its negative, restricting aspects through affirmation and tragic awareness. It is all about arrangements that say yes, since they do not raise absolute boundaries. The arrangement is a logos without logos: a cosmos.
TRIPS Agreement of the WTO
This book examines how the WTO’s TRIPS agreement impacts agriculture and public health in LDCs like Bangladesh. It argues that its one-size-fits-all approach harms development and shows how LDCs can use TRIPS flexibilities to protect their interests.
Formalising Natural Languages with NooJ 2013
This volume contains 17 articles from the 2013 International NooJ Conference. NooJ is an open source linguistic development environment and corpus processor used by researchers and companies to build Natural Language Processing applications and analyze large corpora.
Beyond the Skin
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
Working-Class Nationalism and Internationalism until 1945
This volume is a part of the great upsurge in interest in working-class nationalism and internationalism. It brings together the work of scholars who have approached these themes in their research, and represents an important contribution to labour and social and global history.
Care and Culture
This book gives voice to mental health carers, placing personal experiences centre stage. It explores how cultural notions of family shape carers’ motivations and presents a new model for understanding their relations to patients, professionals, and the state.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
These essays on Canadian, Australian and New Zealand literatures consider texts and authors within the post-colonial paradigm, focusing on diasporic writing, national consciousness, and prominent authors like Margaret Atwood.