ESP has accumulated substantial tradition in practice, research and theory, and is a common approach in English Language Teaching among adults today. This text explores research conducted in this field in order to assist its recognition as an autonomous academic discipline.
Mazaheri’s essays explore the relationship between religion and literature in George Eliot’s early fiction, with a particular focus on Scenes of Clerical Life, Adam Bede, and The Mill on the Floss.
Confining Spaces, Resistant Subjectivities
This book offers a contemporary re-reading of postcolonial women’s narratives, focusing on female oppression, voice, and agency. An analysis of unconventional spaces of female resistance, such as prison and madness, yields surprising results.
Managing the Environmental Crisis in Ghana
Neither Western science nor Indigenous knowledge alone can solve today’s environmental problems. This book is a valuable guide to blending both, showing how Indigenous African religion and culture can help create holistic solutions for conservation.
This volume is centred around the idea that the aim of literature is to build bridges, and, as such, focuses on the moral purpose of literature and its tendency to overcome divisive forces, using examples from texts across various geographical and cultural borders.
Public Health, Mental Health and Human Rights
This book analyzes a project to build culture-sensitive mental health services in Northern Iraq, a region impacted by war and genocide. Focusing on the Yazidi minority, it reviews the challenges encountered and solutions developed, providing guidelines for similar projects.
Being Doll
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, studying how the mind integrates opposing ideas like “youngness” and “oldness” to expand its understanding of Self through the experience of a “doll” as memory, metaphor, and art.
This book is a comprehensive guide to colloidal and supramolecular drug delivery systems, designed to conquer pharmacokinetic impediments. It covers their classification, preparation, characterization, and the regulatory strategies required to launch them in the market.
Wandering through Guilt
This study examines the relationship between guilt and wandering in 20th-century literature. Using the biblical figure of Cain as an archetype, it analyzes novels where the issue is a desperate movement toward self-consciousness or self-destruction.
Talk in Institutions
This volume brings together papers from the LANSI conferences, providing a broad sampling of current research on language and social interaction in contexts such as jury deliberations, educational settings, medical interaction, and service encounters.
Vendetta
This volume provides a riveting account of revenge as a muse in modern literature. It analyzes Hispanic, Italian, and French texts, exploring chivalric avenges, codes of honor, and the patient craftiness of women in a unique collection of topics.
History of Science as a Facilitator for the Study of Physics
Angeloni’s text serves to enhance scientific and technological literacy, by promoting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education with particular reference to contemporary physics.
Gujaratis in the West
This compilation of scholarly works investigates how Gujaratis, a successful and integrated community, construct and express their complex religious, linguistic, and ethnic identities in the West, offering a unique insight into a community often overlooked.
Teaching Irish Independence
This book assesses how history teaching in Irish schools (1922-72) was used by church and state. It argues history was exploited to justify the state’s existence, serve as religious education, and legitimize the restoration of the Irish language.
A Divided Hungary in Europe
Despite fragmentation and Ottoman pressure, early modern Hungary flourished culturally through intense exchange with Europe. These volumes draw an alternative map of the era, replacing centre-periphery conceptions with new narratives from historical actors.
The Body of the Postmodernist Narrator
This book reads postmodern fiction through the bodies of its narrators. Using Lacanian psychoanalysis and feminist theory, it explores trauma, murder, and desire, exposing the body as the site of repressed knowledge, resistance, and artistic resolution.
Parallel Discourses
To make public health programs in Botswana more effective, we must understand local religious and cultural beliefs. This book explores the parallel discourses on HIV between faith and public health, suggesting common ground for collaborative and effective prevention.
The Mental Life of the Architectural Historian
This book re-reads the historiography of early modern architecture through post-war theory. It examines architectural history’s autonomy from art history, offering a critical understanding of the canon established by Pevsner, Hitchcock, and Giedion.
Labour Law in Russia
Russia’s transition to a market economy required new employment laws, but many issues remain unaddressed. The papers in this volume consider recent developments from a historical and comparative perspective to provide insights and examine current challenges.
Portable Roots
This book challenges the traditional understanding of human development by focusing on identity formation in bicultural children. Drawing on a three-decade study, it explores themes of “rootlessness” and asks how transplanted roots can thrive.