Sport Tourism
This volume provides important theoretical and applied insights into sport tourism. A collective work written by specialists in the field, it provides new insights into this rapidly expanding field, which is in constant change and challenged by globalization.
Ideological Battlegrounds – Constructions of Us and Them Before and After 9/11
Focusing on language and discourse, this volume explores the construction of “Us” and “Them” in texts before and after 9/11. The book shows how language reflects the tragic event, bringing us closer to understanding its roots, consequences, and relevance today.
Aspects of Performance in Faith Settings
What is the role of performance in faith practices? This collection of essays explores the complex nexus between faith and performance. Diverse scholars examine how language shapes belief, identity is negotiated, and material settings are transfigured to create sacred spaces.
American Multiculturalism in Context
This text brings together the reflections of a group of experts who met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in 2015. It reports on Reed’s thoughts from the meeting, and looks at the concept “multiculturalism” in the United States, Europe and elsewhere.
Balkan and South Slavic Enclaves in Italy
This volume deals with several Balkan linguistic varieties spoken in north-eastern, central and southern Italy. It presents new empirical findings and reflects the diversity of current research in the fields of areal linguistics, language variation, and Balkan dialectology.
Birthing the Computer
This volume, the first in a series, charts the progress of computer systems, including the Zuse machines and those by IBM. It details the transition from relays to vacuum tubes, and how this led to the first true computers, resulting in them becoming a commercial enterprise.
Master culture-specific vocabulary for intercultural communication between English and Romanian. This unique dictionary is an easy-to-use tool for translators, students, and professionals, with vocabulary organised thematically to cover cuisine, holidays, sports, and more.
Constructing Modern European Private Law
Sammut examines the governance structure of the Europeanisation of European Private Law (EPL). He proves that more can be achieved here through a new approach involving innovative modes of governance in EPL.
Empirical Approaches to Cognitive Linguistics
This collection takes a cognitive linguistic view on analyzing language and provides innovative contemporary Finnish research to the international audience. The areas covered vary from semantics to grammatical description, from terminological choices to language acquisition.
Language, Media and Economy in Virtual and Real Life
Bringing together contributions concerning the relationship between languages and the economy, this anthology pays particular attention to the topic of “names in the economy”, opening this relationship to further fields of interest for the study of the role of language.
Statistics can be unappealing. This book brings statistical issues closer to the reader using a science-fiction world, heroes, and everyday language to present an easy-to-follow account of formulas, numbers, and symbols.
Birthing the Computer
Birthing the Computer examines the evolution of computer architecture, from magnetic drums to cores and the first transistors. These second-generation machines introduced key concepts in architecture and system software that are found in every computer system today.
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of technological developments that incorporate processing of human language. This compendium promotes work on intelligent natural language processing and related models of information, reasoning, and other cognitive processes.
Putting Sleep Problems to Bed
Authored by recognized experts in pediatric sleep medicine, this guide provides parents with up-to-date, evidence-based behavioral strategies to fix sleep problems. Entertaining stories and quizzes help you identify challenges, while user-friendly charts support implementation.
Ethical Infrastructure
Explore the unique and under-researched area of ethical infrastructures. This book analyzes their impact on the moral behaviour of managers, showing how to institutionalize ethics within organizations and stimulating a deeper understanding of this vital concept.
Practical Cardiology Review
This book covers real and practical issues in cardiology. Each chapter features key point summaries and multiple-choice questions for self-assessment. Complete with comprehensive answers, real pictures, and charts, this guide is perfect for rapid review and easy learning.
Leadership Theories and Case Studies
Effective leadership does not occur by chance; leaders must be trained for the daunting responsibility of leading organizations. McGiboney shows here that this is possible and illustrates why and how, based on research and case studies from an epidemiological perspective.
Shell Shock Doctors
Shell shock was WWI’s signature injury. Military doctors witnessed psychiatric states never seen before, evolving interventions still in use today. This text reconsiders their forgotten writings. Neuropsychiatry was founded in the shell craters of Flanders.
The Nuts and Bolts of Arabic-English Translation
This book contrasts Arabic and English beyond traditional grammar, covering stylistics, cohesion, text-typology, and semantics. It develops professional translation competence in students and trainees by providing a wide range of bidirectional practice materials.
This text brings together papers, on different hidden and implicit aspects of language and the ways of disclosing and explicating them. Language is interpreted in different ways here, as a cognitive ability, a specific semiotic structure interwoven with culture, and a discourse.