Multi-faced Transformations
This conference proceedings analyses various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany today’s globalized world. It will be of interest to scholars of social sciences, as well as civil society activists and policy makers.
Romanowski introduces intercultural communication, giving examples of classroom activities, as well as presenting empirical research. He offers a novel model of intercultural sensitivity assessment and outlines the results of intercultural communicative competence research.
Beyond the World of Titans, and the Remaking of World Order
Contrary to conventional wisdom, U.S. dominance is ending. The world is evolving towards a ‘post-post-Cold War era’—a world of titans and new empires remaking world order. This shift reveals the future emergence of a ‘union of the unions’ on earth and in space.
Ertin looks into the terms “camp” and “the closet” in Alan Hollinghurst’s fiction, since all four of his novels investigate the gay male experience throughout the late-twentieth century, to see whether the author writes from the margin or from the centre to recreate the origin.
The Church and the Slums
In Victorian Liverpool’s notorious slums, the Anglican Church faced a seemingly impossible task. How could its clergy overcome local hostility to reach the working classes? This book reveals their surprising success, judged not just by worshippers, but by community engagement.
This book recounts true stories of rebellion in 18th-century English India, culminating in the public furore over the arrest, imprisonment, and death of a governor. It also tells the tale of a powerful Nawab and the scandal of his massive debts.
Infinity in Language
This book explores one of the most fascinating problems of the human mind: how the experience of infinity is expressed in language. Using cognitive semantics and poetics, it develops a model of the rhetoric of the sublime to answer how we present the unpresentable.
Patina on Historic Glass
A world-first study of patina on glass from Cossack, Western Australia. It reveals how its internal structures can date glass for archaeology, determine geochemical processes, and unravel local climate patterns, while also pointing to problems in recycling glass.
Can scientific principles be a priori yet still change? This book argues they can be, proposing a novel concept: a priori revisability. Using case studies from physics and geometry, it reveals a new dynamic of science driven by non-empirical moves.
Soldiers, Bombs and Rifles
Military History is not just for experts. It is an essential, interdisciplinary tool for interpreting historical processes. This book analyzes the main wars of the 20th century, with contributions on WWI, WWII, the Spanish Civil War, and asymmetric conflicts.
While quantum mechanics is probabilistic, classical physics makes definite predictions. This book argues these predictions can be explained by the mathematics of special relativity, and explores the profound philosophical consequences. No advanced math or physics is required.
This book argues that a religious worldview is only one of many identities immigrants use to assimilate. It finds that generational stage, gender, and religious tradition are more significant than religious orthodoxy in shaping immigrant stances on social and economic issues.
Learning Accountancy
This book takes a unique approach to accountancy. It starts by simply demonstrating the function of cash flow, profit and loss, and balance sheets before introducing double entry, helping the layman gain valuable insight into the theory and practice of bookkeeping.
This book explains why some alien species shift from being minor components in their native ecosystems to devastating invaders. It assesses the genetic factors of invasion success and highlights molecular tools that help managers identify future threats.
Forty Years of Science and Religion
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the UK’s Science and Religion Forum, this collection together leading scientific and theological thinkers to reflect on the last four decades of the science-theology conversation and to chart new directions for its future.
Training Foreign and Second Language Teachers
This book provides a comparative perspective on foreign language teacher training in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. It highlights elements of good practice found across nations and sheds light on why certain nations manage multilingualism better than others.
Jamoussi explores two distinctive aspects of the allegorical stories of Theodore Francis Powys which are generally overlooked by his critics, namely supernatural visitors and animal symbolism, showing that they deserve close attention when discussing the writer’s work.
The Paramilitary Hero on Turkish Television
This book explores nationalism and masculinity in Turkey through the popular television serial, Valley of the Wolves. Drawing on in-depth viewer interviews, it examines the central paramilitary hero and how audiences construct meaning and pleasure from the text.
Our world became engineered, yet remains human. Through the philosophy of engineering, this book explores debates on the future of humankind in an era of robotics, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology, in an attempt to redefine our engineered future.
An anaesthesia textbook for medical students in Africa, written by specialist anaesthesiologists from across the continent. It provides helpful mnemonics and practice exam questions. The book is also useful for postgraduate students and anaesthesia practitioners.