Quality Issues in ICT Integration
This publication discusses the quality of integrating technology into teaching and learning. Drawing on the experiences of researchers and tutors, it offers students and teachers an insight into various applications of technology and their critical evaluation.
The Home Entrepreneur Systems Model
This book chronicles a PhD student’s research into home-based businesses. Using Grounded Theory, it develops the Home Entrepreneur Systems model, a new way to understand how home business meets our needs for security, autonomy, balance, meaning and community.
This book presents a qualitative analysis of how Irish entrepreneurs use technology, such as LinkedIn, to form, develop and maintain professional business networks and manage social capital.
Just Images
This collection of essays explores the role ethics plays in the study of moving images. Scholars discuss how film engages with history, politics, trauma, and representations of the Other to reshape our thoughts on subjects like terrorism and conflict.
ELT
This volume brings together diverse researchers and educators to optimize English Language Teaching worldwide. As both practitioners and investigators, the authors present research that reflects back on teaching, connecting theory with practice.
Speech Act Theory and Communication
This study investigates the pragmatic value and meaning-creation strategies of second-language students at the University of Venda. The analyses demonstrate the multi-dimensional thought processes involved and the nature of linguistic interaction.
Arthur Danto
This original monograph presents Arthur Danto’s aesthetic theory as part of his larger philosophical system. For the first time, his themes are viewed as a whole, placed in the context of his broader commitments to action, knowledge, and metaphysics.
Mixed Metaphors
This collection of essays reveals the lasting influence of the Danse Macabre, a European motif where Death summons us all—rich or poor. Mixing dance and violence, it inspired artists and dramatists like Shakespeare, and shaped culture from the Middle Ages to today.
In 1756, celebrated novelist Charlotte Lennox translated a novel by the controversial French intellectual Madame de Tencin. Knowing it was penned by a woman, Lennox serialized it in her feminist magazine. This is the first reprint in two centuries.
Edward Scribner Ames was a philosopher who adapted Christianity to pragmatism and modern science. This volume contains his unpublished manuscripts, with lectures explaining Christianity in terms of pragmatism and the philosophy of John Dewey.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
In Auber’s comic opera Le Philtre, the young farmhand Guillaume loves the beautiful but aloof Thérèsine. Desperate, he buys a love potion from a charlatan, enlisting in the army to pay for it, unaware that fortune is about to smile on him.
Though known as a master of opéra-comique, Daniel-François-Esprit Auber was crucial to the development of Romantic ballet. His grand operas featured long danced interludes, and his music later inspired ballets by choreographers like Frederick Ashton.
Chronology of Portuguese Literature
The first Chronology of Portuguese Literature published in any language, this book presents a year-by-year list of significant works from 1128 to 2000. It documents the development of Portuguese letters and includes the birth and death dates of each author.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
By one of the 19th century’s most successful opera composers, Le Domino noir is a masterpiece of wit and melodic grace. A noblewoman, destined for the convent, falls for a stranger at a masked ball in a tale of love, duty, and feminine independence.
This anthology explores hybridity in Spanish culture from Imperial Spain to the twenty-first century. The literary and visual texts studied blur fixed boundaries between genres, cultures, and languages. A hybrid itself, this collection points to the future.
Dramatic Interactions
A collection of essays on teaching foreign languages, literatures, and cultures through theater. With innovative approaches and rich examples, this book affirms the effectiveness of using drama to improve communication, intercultural competence, and self-expression.
Specialised Languages in the Global Village
This book examines the impact of globalisation on intercultural communication within specialised communities. It provides discussion on professional communication and identity, and offers useful pedagogical proposals for researchers, specialists, and language teachers.
Formal Linguistics and the Teaching of Latin
This collection of papers explores comparative linguistics applied to the teaching of Latin. Comparing Latin with other languages, it represents grammar as the product of mental processes for linguists, teachers, and students seeking to update their approach.
This volume explores Francophone cinema’s place between Bollywood and Hollywood and examines the promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity in Francophone countries. The book brings together contributions by outstanding authors on 21st century Francophonie.
The relation between logic and knowledge is an underdeveloped theme. This book’s ambition is to stimulate renewed reflection upon it by collecting essays from leading figures, each followed by a discussant’s comments to create an ongoing dialogue.
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