Palamakula discusses the role and performance of Scheduled Tribe Sarpanches in Panchayat Raj local bodies in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh, India. He sheds light on the development of, and welfare activities undertaken by, the Sarpanches.
How do we comprehend language? This book provides a comprehensive overview of experimental and theoretical studies on language processing, emphasizing the fruitful interaction among theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics and neuroscience.
On Ibsen and Strindberg
This unique study views Ibsen and Strindberg through a reversed telescope. From this distant perspective, their intense rivalry and the legendary actors who first performed their work are revealed in a paradoxical, illuminating new light.
This book sheds critical light on collective representations of the end of the world. It explores humanity’s reaction to disasters, the anxiety of collective destruction, and the convergence of irrational beliefs, religious conceptions, and scientific theories.
This book presents research on the diffraction, radiation, and propagation of elastic waves, focusing on interactions between bodies and media interfaces. It details solutions to three-dimensional wave problems for isotropic and anisotropic bodies using Debye potentials.
Communication as a Life Process
This volume presents the ecolinguistic paradigm, a dynamic, multilayer approach to human communication. Founded on a holistic paradigm, these contributions complement the mainstream focus on cognitive systems by pointing to non-cognitive modalities in the communication process.
The Faustus myth explores the human instinct to trespass the limits of knowledge for power and self-definition. This book offers perspectives on its literary versions: Marlowe’s tragedy, Goethe’s salvation, and the ambiguous collapse in John Fowles’ The Magus.
This book reduces the stress of research and scientific writing for undergraduate students. Written in simple language, it simplifies key concepts and procedures with examples, assuming no prior knowledge. A friendly companion for students aiming for academic excellence.
Weizfeld focuses on the political philosophy and the constitutional transformation of the contradiction between two major nations in one land, namely Palestine-Israel.
Transcribing the Graves of All Saints Church, Fenagh, County Carlow, Ireland
Drawn from a journey of transcribing gravestones as a hobby, this monograph illustrates how information on headstones allows a glimpse at long-forgotten social conditions, politics, religion and grave robbing.
Eurasian Politics and Society
The authors of this compilation probe the outcomes of regional transformation, the ideology of Turkish Eurasianism, and the Eurasian Economic Union. Issues they look at include the South Caucasus power struggle, Kazakhstan-Russia relations and Russia’s sense of Eurasianism.
This collection presents perspectives from the social sciences and humanities on the journey to build and redefine identity. It explores the human needs required to foster respect and allow individuals to develop the potential they contain.
Ciambella provides an absolutely original analysis of the relatively The Statue of John Brute by Swinburne, acknowledging its paramount importance as Oscar Wilde’s source for his well-known The Picture of Dorian Gray.
On Shakespeare in Sonnets
This text discusses the history and practice of Reader Response criticism and comprises a collection of thirty-eight sonnets responding both critically and creatively to Shakespeare’s works, showing that the creative and the critical need not be separate, exclusive acts.
While educational systems are culture-bound, our globalized world needs a shared understanding of teaching a language. This book offers a framework for a non-culture-bound theory of language education, providing a common core that goes beyond national standards and guidelines.
The Rhetoric of Emperor Hirohito
This book investigates the wartime role of Emperor Hirohito and the transition of the Emperor System. It explores three episodes of the wartime experience: the initiation of the conflict, accomplishing an end to the war, and the transition to post-war society.
This book builds upon recent analysis of Shakespeare’s Othello, in order to show how the discourse of religion might affect our understanding of this play. It specifically looks at how Catholicism, a contested topic in Shakespeare’s world, affects our understanding of Desdemona.
21st Century Philippines Piracy
In the second decade of the 21st century, the Philippine terrorist organisation the Abu Sayyaf added a new dimension to their kidnap-for ransom enterprise – piracy. East focuses on the explosion of Abu Sayyaf piracy in the greater Sulu and Celebes Seas region in 2016 and 2017.
This academic study analyzes suspense in Stephen King’s novels The Shining and Carrie and their film adaptations. It compares techniques for achieving suspense in literature versus cinema and provides a model that can be used for analyzing other literary or cinematic works.