Contested Spaces in Contemporary North American Novels
Tabur discusses the ways in which the work of Toni Morrison, Dionne Brand, Jhumpa Lahiri and Carolyn See engage with the physical, ideological, and socially constructed “real-and-imagined” spaces of colonialism, justice, diaspora, and risk.
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.
The Unity-Based Family
Danesh and Nasseri discuss creating loving and united marriages, nurturing and happy families, and rearing healthy and successful children. They provide new concepts and practical strategies on how to achieve these noble objectives in our rapidly changing and challenging world.
New Postcolonial Dialectics
This book scrutinizes how Indian and Nigerian plays reframed their cultural terrain in international terms. It offers a comparative guide for studying literatures from Asia and Africa, providing an essential framework for all intercultural literary studies.
A Journey through the Content and Language Integrated Learning Landscape
As interest in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) grows, researchers and teachers need new studies to understand its potential and implementation. This volume covers learning, teaching, and training, providing insight into the latest research in the CLIL field.
Based on the voices of 4,000 young people from 88 countries, this book reveals the values of Generations Y and Z. As the largest, best-educated, and most connected generation ever, today’s youth are creating a more democratic world and changing our future.
Theories of Affect and Concepts in Generic Skills Education
This book revitalizes the concept of generic skills, which have recently become widespread in universities, but also advocates daring pedagogical practices that invigorate the meaning of, and approach to, teaching and learning in present landscapes of higher education.
Proving Jesus’ Authority in Mark and John
Greenberg’s innovative study of the Fourth Gospel introduces important new perspectives on synoptic problems and challenges many theories about the nature of the Gospel of John’s sources and composition practices.
Northern Atlantic Islands and the Sea
This anthology delves into the shared Nordic cultural and linguistic heritage of Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Orkney, Shetland and the Hebrides, showing how the experience of being surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean has been a constant in the islanders’ history and identities.
This volume examines the darker side of the famed American founder, Alexander Hamilton. A Gilded Age revival of his ideas helped inspire an assertive American role in the world, culminating in an overseas empire. The book reveals his elitist and military-commercial convictions.
Celebrating the centenary of Anthony Burgess’s birth, this volume reveals the true relation that the British author had with France. It explores, among other topics, the sizeable French literary and musical heritage that inspired Burgess in his creations and adaptations.
This collection assesses the impacts of climate change on our cultural and natural heritage, focusing on urban planning, disaster management, and sustainability. Far-reaching actions are needed to adapt our historic environment and build resilience to limit further damage.
An Anatomy of an English Radical Newspaper
Curelly investigates the content of The Moderate, a radical newspaper of the British Civil Wars published in the pivotal years 1648-9. He captures the essence of this periodical, seen both as a political publication and a commercial product.
This volume offers insights from emerging and well-established Catholic scholars on Laudato si’, Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment. It focuses on the philosophical, ecological and anthropological aspects of Laudato si’, placing it within a specific history of ideas.
This book discusses the basic tools of mathematical physics for physicists, mathematicians, and engineers. It reveals the indissoluble connection between physical ideas and mathematical concepts, emphasizing the physical origin and flexibility of the equations.
Ivanova considers the persistent tendency to represent the “Middle East” as a region enclosed in less permeable boundaries through an analysis of the works of Rabih Alameddine, Diana Abu-Jaber, Laila Halaby and Elif Shafak.
Fundamental Optics
This book updates our knowledge of light with new data from reproducible experiments. It presents a new theory which interprets verifiable information according to the various speeds of the lights involved, examining light’s general motions in space.
Society and Law
This book investigates a range of hypothetical issues concerning the relationship between law and society and how it plays out, specifically in fields of legitimacy and social strategy. This will allow the reader to comprehend the hidden standards and ideas in socio-legal reviews
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
Chylińska highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections constructed on the basis of the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesilla.
Women Poets and Myth in the 20th and 21st Centuries
This book examines women poets and theorists who engage with myth. From H.D. to Margaret Atwood and Anne Carson, they rewrite old myths and create new ones for the present, interrogating their power to articulate our reality and act as catalysts for new ideas.