Intonational Meaning in Cameroon English Discourse
This phonetic description of intonation in Cameroon English reveals how speakers make new information prominent and extensively use the falling tone. These findings challenge sociolinguistic theories from native English, which do not always apply in postcolonial settings.
Beyond Nature And Nurture
Why are some individuals and countries more successful than others? The nature-nurture debate is misleading. Dr. Baofu shows how the two are intertwined and reveals a tremendous future: a “post-human” world where human genes will no longer exist.
The Politics of Poetics
This book analyzes Italian poetry that aims not to represent the world, but to enact a change upon it. Using the metaphor of the rhizome—a subversive, unpredictable growth—it explores poetics as an agent of social transformation, a revolt from within.
Uniting traditional and technological sustainability, this book explores the India-Japan partnership’s potential. It delves into new tech, international relations, and climate change, offering a forward-looking perspective on sustainable development for policymakers and industry.
Freud
Written as an intellectual defense against psychosis, this book embeds a model of behavior based on psychoanalytic theory within the chaos to conceptualize the explosion of data from the neurosciences. This is a reflection on how psychoanalysis can take over your mind.
Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults
A critical exploration of time and memory in children’s media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.
NP-Anaphora in Modern Greek
This study offers a new perspective on NP-anaphora in modern Greek, proposing a pragmatic analysis based on neo-Gricean principles. It argues that preference, regulated by principles of communication, governs how anaphoric expressions are chosen and interpreted.
Discrimination in Northern Ireland, 1920-1939
This book examines allegations of discrimination by Northern Ireland’s Unionist government against the Catholic minority. Focusing on 1920-39, it assesses whether the charges of overt discrimination levelled against the government were warranted.
Associations and Other Groups in Science
This collection explores the historical and contemporary role of scientific associations in science and society. It combines historical approaches with contemporary analyses that highlight public engagement, using the Portuguese scientific system as its focus.
Managerial Compensation and Financial Performance
This book explores the link between managerial compensation and financial performance in India’s manufacturing sector. It breaks down complex ideas to show how pay structures impact executive decisions and company success, offering strategic insights for leaders and policymakers.
While favorable to the New Deal’s motives, this book is critical of its implementation. It argues the Great Depression was caused by a technological shock that gapped productivity and income. The New Deal sought to close this gap, but its policies were doomed from the start.
Anthropology and Development in a Globalized India
This book offers an anthropological and sociological view of sericulture in India, analyzing its emergence as a vital enterprise for rural development and employment. This interdisciplinary study is useful to scholars of Anthropology, Sociology, and Development Studies.
Auber’s overtures, once as popular as Rossini’s, were a staple of the light Classical repertoire. While the operas are forgotten, their overtures live on. Their freshness of melody, orchestral colours, and rhythmic vitality still generate visceral excitement.
Jehovah’s Witnesses in Europe
The religious association of Jehovah’s Witnesses has existed for about 150 years in Europe. This volume investigates the effect of the differing circumstances in these various national societies on these religious societies, and the challenges they had to overcome.
This book provides up-to-date information on the treatment of acute and chronic viral hepatitis A-E. It summarizes treatment to guide clinical practice, details the pharmacology of all drugs, and is a resource for students, physicians, gastroenterologists, and pharmacists.
This organizational study of science in India focuses on the determinants of scientists’ productivity. It considers how factors like communication technology can reinforce social inequality and provides policy-oriented suggestions aimed at ensuring equality.
Social Sector in India
This volume explores India’s education and health sectors. Despite considerable progress, glaring failures and wide disparities persist. Eminent Indian scholars examine key social issues, from healthcare disparity to universal education and child labour.
This is a first-time edition of an autograph letter-writing manual by William Gilpin, a theoretician of the picturesque. Devised for boys and men, it provides models of letters and fictional short stories about soldiers, reformed rakes, and fathers.
This book explores staff and student perceptions of English as the medium of instruction (EMI) in Pakistani universities. It examines attitudes towards Pakistani English and exposes the gap between EMI policy and practice, revealing multi-layered issues.
Dispersion of Meaning
In a fractured world, how do we find shared meaning? This book breaks disciplinary barriers to connect art, technology, and economics, showing how a collective learning process becomes the heart of productivity in a new era of cognitive capitalism.