Large Dams in India
This book reviews large dams in India, analysing the proposed Tipaimukh dam project to reveal the strong connections between risk, technology, politics and environmentalism.
This book covers recent topics, approaches, and methodologies in education and applied linguistics. It serves as a reference for undergraduate, graduate, and PhD students and researchers who want to learn about the latest developments in these fields.
Sensual and Sensory Experiences in the Middle Ages
This volume explores the sensory experiences of medieval people, showing how pleasure, pain, desire, and fear appear in conflicting combinations—from the private monastic cell to the bustling market—as conveyed through documents, literary accounts, and religious practices.
This volume includes ten essays on American, British and Canadian writers’ biographies and family histories, ranging from Woolf’s Orlando (1928) to Zanganeh’s The Enchanter (2011), analysing the connection between biography and fiction in the light of postmodernism.
Mystery and the Culture of Science
Arguing that all knowledge is provisional, this book tackles the polarisation caused by false certainty. It offers shocking but liberating reflections on science and theology to loosen doctrines that trap the Church and impoverish faith.
Conceptual Blending and the Arts
Warchoł analyses how the processes described in Conceptual Blending Theory can be applied in practice, on the basis of Michał Batory’s posters designed for artistic events, highlighting how Batory’s artefacts influence people and convey hidden messages.
Bulut addresses the constitutional journey of religious minorities in modern Turkey, specifically the Lausanne minorities, who have been blacklisted in the official records for decades. He focuses on the non-Muslim citizens who have maintained their lives with confidential codes.
The Theory of War and Peace
Using the results of empirical and theoretical research in the field of geophilosophy, as well as neuroscience, psychology, social philosophy and military history, Bazaluk defines the axiomatics of the theory of war and peace and formulates its consequences.
Modern Woman in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
The first book to situate the Saudi woman in a broader cultural context, this monograph explores a variety of themes, historical developments, and taboos. It also investigates a range of writing by Saudi women, and discusses their social, economic, and religious contributions.
Towards Efficient Photovoltaic Devices
As solar energy is the only renewable resource capable of adequately meeting today’s total global energy demand, Andrei focuses on the possibilities of optimising dye-sensitised solar cells’ efficiency.
To prepare learners for global citizenship, language teaching must be intercultural. This book offers a collection of successful, bottom-up experiences rooted in praxis, sharing activities and methods that can be informative to the realities of all readers.
How can artists create with few resources? How can they be supported? This book explores these questions through the lived experiences of artists in São Paulo, Brazil. A testimonial narrative, it’s an inspiring guide for artists, culture managers, and intellectuals worldwide.
This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
Presenting a series of conversations conducted by the editor with internationally renowned educators, scholars and social critics, the primary focus here is on a set of important social and cultural issues and the global contemporary crises in higher education and economics.
This book describes the biogenic and green synthesis of gold, palladium and platinum nanoparticles. The biological synthesis of metal nanoparticles is a strategy employed to protect against toxic effects, explaining their properties and synthesis mechanisms.
Semantic Traces of Social Interaction from Antiquity to Early Modern Times
Tracing the changes in the meaning of “conversatio” and its modern language derivatives, Plotke illustrates the productivity of historical semantic analysis for cultural studies.
Linguistics and the Parts of the Mind
This book criticizes the neglect of “macrolinguistics”—the rules of sequence in dialogue. Its central thesis concerns the influence of these larger linguistic units on theories of the mind, developing consequences of interest to both philosophers and linguists.
The Internationalisation Maturity of the Firm
The task of determining the impact of business relationships on performance poses a considerable challenge. In this text, business relationships are operationalised by a set of characteristics and determinants which influence a company’s competitive advantage.
The Nigerian Cocoa Industry and the International Economy in the 1930s
This monograph uses the Nigerian cocoa industry’s encounter with the world economy of the 1930s to knit together a gamut of themes ranging from the social formations of production to the forces of demand and supply, as well as the protest movements against monopoly capitalism.
The Construction of Latina/o Literary Imaginaries
This monograph explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. It employs critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity.