This linguistic study is for anyone interested in cognitive semantics and pragmatics. It establishes a relationship between illocutionary and discursive features of speech acts, emphasizing the shift from arbitrariness to iconicity of linguistic expressions.
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Giacomo Meyerbeer’s cantatas were written for royal and civic commissions to celebrate dynastic events and praise famous men. His powers of lyric beauty and dramatic pomp are amply in evidence, revealing a forgotten side to the great operatic composer.
This book explores the relationship between learner variables and English attainment in a CLIL setting. Based on empirical research, it addresses unresolved issues, dispels myths, and offers recommendations for researchers, educators, and CLIL teachers.
Agroforestry as a Nature-Based Solution
This groundbreaking book offers a practical roadmap to sustainable development through agroforestry—an innovative system that integrates trees, crops, and livestock. It shows how to enhance productivity, restore lands, sequester carbon, and build resilience to climate change.
The Carer’s Role in Recovery
After a disabling stroke left Karin Cox dependent on full-time care, she and her husband investigated the world of social care. This book combines their experiences with wider research to highlight their belief that person-centred care is fundamental to recovery.
Banned in China for its truthfulness, this book reveals why “most Chinese are learning English like one learning swimming ashore”—a damning critique of a broken system.
This volume contains a variety of essays about Florida literature and history by scholars from across the state representing every kind of institution of higher learning, from community colleges to small liberal arts institutions to large universities.
Hungarian Perspectives on the Western Canon
In this collection, Hungarian literature is read together with canonical works of the Western literary tradition. The text scrutinises the distinction between “major” and “minor” literatures, showing that this can highlight previously unknown components of the literary tradition.
Jean Liébault (1535–1596) contributed to the emergence of modern gynaecology by rescuing the Hippocratic medical tradition that recognized the specificity of the female body. Bernal presents the semi-diplomatic edition of the only known English version of Liébault’s work.
Enabling Techniques for the Internet of Things
Unlock the potential of the Internet of Things. This guide explores the networks, devices, and algorithms driving IoT. Discover practical applications from smart cities to farming, and navigate critical challenges like security, privacy, and sustainability.
Fixing Healthcare Delivery
With up to one in four hospitalized patients experiencing an adverse event, our healthcare system needs a fix. This field manual, illustrated with real patient stories, equips readers to apply the Toyota Production System to create efficient, error-minimizing healthcare systems.
This volume explores the emergence of physics in ancient philosophy, the concept of physical laws from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, and the mathematization of Natural Philosophy that led to the emergence of the classical sciences.
Driver distraction results in 340,000 roadway deaths annually. While most research covers personal vehicles, this book focuses specifically on transit bus driver distractions. It is an essential guide for transit agencies and professionals involved in transportation safety.
This ambitious work reclassifies the history of ideas by proposing a new organon for the cultural sciences. To comprehend our vast knowledge, the organon extracts key principles and shapes them into symbolic forms, providing a new foundation for philosophy.
This book shows how Greek thought and Judaism rendered Christ’s work different from that of Socrates. Arguing that Christianity is not Greek at its source, it provides a useful, objective, and all-encompassing overview of the main currents of scholarship.
This monograph provides a step-by-step review of semiempirical methods, invaluable tools due to their affordability and accuracy. It tracks their progress from the 1930s to modern tools for modeling compounds, depicting their development as a sequence of breakthroughs.
This book explores the under-researched topic of Social, Emotional and Behaviour Difficulties (SEBD) in the Cypriot education system. Based on original research, it documents educators’ views on good practice to help professionals accommodate pupils’ needs.
This work is a brilliant analysis of German thought that played an important role in the formation of British idealism. It scrutinises the fundamental metaphysical positions of Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel, appealing even to readers of today.
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
19th-century French composer Auber and librettist Scribe formed one of musical history’s most successful partnerships. Their opera *Manon Lescaut* features a unique final scene: a powerfully expressive dramatic symphony of simple grandeur and real emotion.
Language, Culture and Business explores their essential intersection from an international perspective. It provides practical insights into topics like management, marketing, and intercultural communication, making it vital for educators, researchers, and business professionals.