This collection explores the vital role of modern university language centres. Covering technology, creativity, methodologies and plurilingualism, its chapters show how to integrate theory with the best practices from real contexts for effective and successful language teaching.
Brazilian History
Machado presents a critical introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, he discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments that took place in the Latin American country from 1500 to 2010.
Medical Education in Western India
“Medical knowledge is not communicable to the natives.” Despite this 1832 declaration, Governor Sir Robert Grant, Dr Charles Morehead, and philanthropist Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy created a medical college in Bombay that went on to rival those in Europe and America.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
Ecology and Literatures in English
Writers hold out a mirror, arguing that hope lies in our connection to the real world. This book explores how literature, from Shakespeare to detective novels, reveals the fundamental idea that everything is connected, and that this awareness is the key to protecting the planet.
Christian Mind in the Emerging World
In this collection, Christian scholars from around the world explore how faith underpins academic disciplines. Offering a global perspective focused on Asia, these essays illustrate a faith-integrated approach to diverse fields from science to social services and business.
Mapping Leopardi
Explore the private laboratory of Giacomo Leopardi, Italy’s great poet and materialist thinker. This collection of essays investigates his Zibaldone, revealing early reflections against anthropocentrism and questioning humanity’s purpose in the world.
Scientific Programming
Calvo offers an introduction to computer programming, numerical analysis, and other mathematical ideas that extend the basic topics learned in calculus. He illustrates how mathematicians and scientists write computer programs.
A unique hybrid of historical Gothic, this novel is set amid the sanguinary events of post-revolutionary France. It follows Countess Adelaide de Narbonne’s rebellion against male authority, connecting her story with that of Charlotte Corday, Marat’s murderer.
Complex oil and gas extraction is accompanied by grave failures like drill string buckling, resonant vibrations, and bit whirling. To analyze these phenomena, this book elaborates new mathematical models and numerical methods, offering new results for designers and specialists.
Challenges of Human Rights in Latin America
Latin America’s democratic process struggles to protect citizens’ rights due to weak institutions. This book presents minutes from the Inter-American Fundamental Rights Conference, exploring the consolidation of democracy, impeachment, freedom of information, and due process.
Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
Emblems and Impact Volume II
The study of emblems allows this two-volume work to look back at the collaborative endeavours of creative minds of earlier times. It argues that while the world seeks to come to terms with globalization, emblems allow reflection on strongly shared cultural values and connections.
Bringing together papers from recent conferences of the Canadian Peace Research Association, this volume examines world peace in its foundational, descriptive, conceptual, and prescriptive aspects, and as a social and human concept in positive and negative contexts.
Toward a Philosophical Approach to Psychiatry
Psychiatrist Kenneth S. Kendler presents a collection of papers applying the philosophy of mind and science to psychiatric research and practice. This work looks behind common assumptions without abandoning a commitment to scientific progress in the long run.
Fashion through History
This collection analyses fashion as a key indicator of social change. It offers a comprehensive analysis of clothes across history, cultures, and disciplines, from ancient costumes and craft traditions to modern media and the styles of marginalized groups.
Over the course of eighteen chapters, this title engages with a range of social justice and legal education themes, including clinical legal education, innocence projects, access to justice, cause lawyering, LGBTQ identities, and sustainability in law schools.
A Statistical Biography of George Udny Yule
Mills responds to the limited work on Udny Yule by embarking on the first major study of his statistical research and legacy. He explains how Yule was more than an expositor, in that he published important research, such as providing mathematical models of evolutionary behaviour.
Shakespeare’s Ghosts Live
This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.
With the growing complexity of digital systems, solving Boolean problems is a major challenge. This volume explores powerful techniques to solve them, from hardware acceleration to the synthesis of digital and reversible circuits, extending the basis for future quantum computers.