This book explores the Hebrew writings of Arab authors in Israel who use the language to transmit authentic Arab culture. They see themselves as messengers building a bridge between Arabic and Hebrew cultures, and as potential contributors to resolving the Jewish-Arab conflict.
This book explores how to read and teach Nabokov’s Lolita with Jacques Derrida. Using deconstruction to analyze literary issues, it offers teaching guidelines for Nabokov specialists, students, and anyone interested in literary theory.
Language Learning in the Digital Age
How do learners perceive the use of YouTube for English learning? This book reports on a case study of university students in Hong Kong, examining their perceptions and practices. The findings shed light on student needs, offering insights for improved language teaching.
The beauty of game theory is its application to real world problems. This book commemorates the marriage of the theory and practice, not in heaven, but in the real world.
This book illustrates the objectives and construction of reduced English forms like Basic English and Globish. All share a common goal: to build a language tool for effective international communication, a lingua franca for a globalized world. For students and scholars.
This book examines representations of Partition violence in narratives from Bengal. It explores how these stories of suffering, trauma, and betrayal offer a critique of historical and political engagements with one of the most traumatic periods in Indian history.
Global Arts Leadership in the Digital Age
Leading voices in the arts discuss how technology—from AI and crypto to the metaverse—is creating today’s most iconic cultural products. Through case studies and expert commentaries, this book offers a manual with tangible tools for all cultural practitioners.
As Los Angeles became multi-national, its novels changed greatly. This volume highlights brilliant fiction from Latino/a, African-American, women, and LGBTQ writers who transformed genres, alongside rediscovered novels that explored 20th century class conflicts.
Traumatic Experience and Repressed Memory in Magical Realist Novels
This book explores how magical realism gives literary representation to the historical trauma of the Holocaust, slavery, and apartheid. It analyses how unspoken memories, particularly those of female victims, become narratives that highlight a universal experience of trauma.
Space, Life, Science and Stories
Surges of public interest in life from the cosmos often leave people confused and exploited. This book explores the causes of these surges, the stories they generate, and the relevant science, allowing you to become aware of the facts and judge them for yourself.
Real-time State of Energy (SOE) estimation is crucial for lithium-ion battery safety and predicting the driving range of electric vehicles. This book details an optimized algorithm combining a fuzzy controller and a Kalman filter for fast, accurate, and robust SOE estimation.
Becoming Wales
This text explores Welsh identity and culture through an institution that has evolved over twenty-five years. The Assembly/Senedd has incrementally eroded a “democratic deficit,” providing levels of self-determination for a nation in a perpetual state of becoming.
This book provides critical research on the representation of ideologies in electronic media for children and young adults, including TV cartoons, animation, videos, and computer games. It will appeal to anyone interested in cultural studies, sociology, and ideology.
Human Communication through a Social Psychology Lens
This book dives into the complexities of human interaction, exploring communication from face-to-face to digital contexts. It dissects persuasive techniques, group dynamics, and nonverbal cues, providing invaluable guidance for navigating our evolving social landscape.
Menotti Lerro is one of the most interesting poets of modern-day Europe. His poetry is concerned with powerful imagery, the vulnerability of the body, memory, and identity. For the first time, Lerro’s verse is available in English.
Planar Trusses
This book contains 73 schemes of trusses, with solutions for many not widely published. It identifies trusses with hidden dangerous properties and provides compact formulas for engineers and theorists to supplement numerical calculations, especially for complex structures.
The Space Economy
This volume offers a new interpretation of the space economy from an economic perspective. It focuses on the tangible returns of investments made in the space industry since the Space Race, including the development of knowledge and technologies with high industrial impacts.
The Duel between Sir Alexander Boswell and James Stuart
Tory poet Sir Alexander Boswell’s savage lampoons of his Whig cousin, James Stuart, led to a fatal duel. This book tells the compelling story of their quarrel—a turning point in Scottish politics—and for the first time includes many of Boswell’s witty poems.
This book presents multidisciplinary research from Turkey on urban studies, sustainability, environment, and migration. Using specific examples, it offers innovative approaches to current problems, arguing that local policy is key to achieving sustainability on a wider scale.
Written by global scholars and practitioners, this volume explores the changing landscape of 21st century business. Covering issues from consumer trends to management styles, it explains the theories behind the changes taking place in the global business environment.