This study investigates the effectiveness of audio versus text feedback for non-native English-speaking students in online courses. It shows how feedback impacts learning and perception, and how results differ if the instructor is a native or non-native speaker.
This book explores the dangers emerging economies face from the digital divide, highlighting the present insecurities in e-business and e-commerce. It details how vital assets may be secured as these economies expand into our technological world.
For students of medicine and biosciences, this book explains biomolecule-related organic chemistry. It explores fundamental theories not covered in basic textbooks and describes the chemistry of important biomolecules like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids.
Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.
Ireland in Crisis?
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
Essays in Honour of Boris Berić’s Sixty-Fifth Birthday
This collection of essays offers contemporary approaches to literature and linguistics. Exploring genres from fantasy to film, it addresses issues like posthumanism, gender, and identity, making it a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers.
This book investigates Anna Banti’s contribution to a female literary canon and the renewal of the Italian historical novel. Focusing on her novel La camicia bruciata, it shows how Banti’s personal experience of marriage and motherhood influenced her narrative.
A unique, ignored episode in Irish history: In the 1930s, two university academics hijacked Fine Gael. They sought to create a radical political order based on Catholic social teachings, causing deep division and accusations of fascism before their ultimate failure.
Becoming Something Else
This edited collection examines the trends, perspectives and changes witnessed in the previously undocumented communities of India’s northeast, emphasising the continuity and transformations of these societies.
For students and professionals in medicine, pharmacy, and dentistry, this book describes organic compounds essential to medicine. It covers the pivotal role of organic chemistry in designing drugs and includes short biographies of key scientists.
This casebook addresses the intersection of business strategy with biotechnology and pharmaceuticals. It highlights recent trends and opportunities in the life sciences, featuring advancements in fields like AI and showcasing novel applications of strategic management theory.
Shifting Paradigms in Culture
This book frees Jean Genet’s plays from the overpowering Sartrean perspective, revealing the hidden spaces of the prison and brothel. It traverses challenging issues—the ghettoized existence of social discards and others rotting on the margins.
Investigating the human side of the UK’s temporary work industry, this study exposes the psychological toll of reduced protection and the fraught power dynamics between workers, agencies, and employers.
Episodes in Early Modern and Modern Christian-Jewish Relations
Bernardini documents the long history of friendship and diffidence, mutual understanding and dramatic disagreements in the encounters between Christianity and Judaism, which, even today, largely conditions the Western intellectual world.
Daskalova investigates works by prominent poets and writers of the 19th and 20th centuries, with a particular focus on (post)Romantics and modernists. She provides an original reading of the literary text as a means of representing and shaping the dialogism of different cultures.
Grammar Formalism for Medical Data Analysis
This book assists in medical diagnosis in cardiology by extending grammar to applications such as the ECG signal and tomographic image. Compared to statistical methods, this approach offers more flexibility and makes medical diagnosis easier.
This volume presents original contributions on women’s migration from an interdisciplinary context. The papers examine diverse destinations—including the Italian city of Palermo, Italy and Europe—through a variety of theoretical and geographical perspectives.
Though the Indian Constitution provides for local self-government, state politics often undermine it. This book, a study of Karnataka, examines the gap between policy and practice in decentralised planning, with lessons for other states and developing countries.
Movie Time studies temporal mythmaking in American movies. It explores how films make sense of our world by reconstructing pasts like the 1950s, defining the present through the rise of conservatism, and foreseeing alternative futures.
Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.