Digital Storytelling and Digital Gaming in the 21st Century EFL Classroom
Explore Digital Storytelling (DST) and Digital Game-based Learning (DGBL) in the EFL classroom. This is the first comprehensive text on these approaches, offering teachers a resource to embed them into the curriculum, improving students’ language and 21st Century Skills.
Alice Munro’s Bestiary
Inspired by medieval bestiaries, this alphabet book juxtaposes medieval illuminations with Alice Munro excerpts featuring animals. It explores how Munro troubles the boundary between human and non-human, solving some enigmas of her stories while suggesting new riddles.
A Cross-linguistic and Cross-cultural Analysis of English and Slovene Onomastic Phraseological Units
Of particular interest to scholars of Slavonic languages, this title provides cross-linguistic and cross-cultural research into an understudied segment of phraseology by utilising two databases composed from monolingual English and Slovene phraseological dictionaries.
Innovation beyond Fiction
This book shows how recent advances in mathematics help us manage innovation as a collective act of imagination. Told as the fictional story of an inventor hampered by bureaucracy, it will make you rethink both innovation and mathematics in practical organizational settings.
This book investigates what songwriters read before they start singing. It explores the complex intertextual connections between popular songs and literary works, showing how lyrics adapt material from sources like poems, novels, plays, films, the Bible, and Shakespeare.
Scholars offer perspectives on fostering an inclusive campus. Essays explore lessons from the COVID crisis, promoting diversity through literature and language, and advocating for underrepresented students to prepare them for global leadership with cultural intelligence.
Edward Dorn, Charles Olson, and the American West
This book examines Edward Dorn’s poetics of the 20th-century American West and the influence of his mentor Charles Olson, considering the most important poetic representations of the West to come out of the Beat Movement and avant-garde literary scene.
This book presents 13 biographies of women in the Transcendentalist movement. While names like Emerson and Thoreau are familiar, figures like Elizabeth Peabody, Sarah Freeman Clark, and others in this volume deserve to be known for their vital contributions to the movement.
Seeing in Spanish
Seeing in Spanish explores visual cultures of the Spanish-speaking world. From Don Quixote to Daddy Yankee, these essays traverse centuries and continents, addressing film, photography, art, graffiti, and digital media from Europe, the Americas, and cyberspace.
Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition
This volume presents original research in language acquisition, connecting linguistic theory with experimental work. It covers diverse learners and languages, offering novel insights to psycholinguists and theoretical linguists on how language is acquired and processed.
The Truly Infinite Universe
By bringing speculative philosophy into conversation with quantum cosmology, this book develops Hegel’s metaphysics and Hawking’s theory on the origins of spacetime, revealing the universe as a self-generating, self-organizing, self-enclosed whole.
In a world of facts without why, our culture swings between extremes. This book analyzes the shift from seeking Truth to asserting subjective meanings, lighting a path out of the chaos so we can live wisely and peacefully once more.
Thinking Styles
Are thinking styles distinct from personality? Can they be changed? Are some styles better than others? This book answers these controversial questions, providing solid research evidence and intriguing insights into the nature of thinking styles for academics and students alike.
Modal Verbs in Marlowe and Shakespeare
The findings offered here shed light on the history of modal verbs and constitute a valuable contribution to contemporary Early Modern English studies. The study investigates the usage and meaning of modal verbs in the tragedies and history plays of both Marlowe and Shakespeare.
This book focuses on consumer financing in China, introducing the financing situation, constraints, representative tools, and the Credit Reference System. It is an indispensable guide for financial companies and academic institutions wishing to make more sense of this topic.
This book fuses journalism with psychology to show how primal literacy is the key to covering high-risk environments. In high-stress situations where reality can be manipulated, learn how to avoid propaganda and report the truth safely. These methods apply in war and peace.
Globally, young people’s access to the labour market is a complex issue. In advanced economies, the educated face unemployment, while in developing countries, young workers are exploited. This book offers a comparative approach to understanding these challenges.
This book is a hands-on guide for practitioners and researchers on how to measure workplace diversity using the Index of Qualitative Variation (IQV). With real data examples, it illustrates the use of regression methods to assess how organizational factors influence diversity.
The Future of Teaching English for Academic Purposes
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is in its most dynamic period. This book disentangles conflicting views on EAP standards and practices, exploring how research and teaching interact and inform each other from vital perspectives for all stakeholders.
This book exposes the hidden history of Central-Eastern Europe: a tiny minority dominating a vast majority through a culture of intolerance. It dismantles long-held myths, presenting a truth now irrefutably confirmed by modern genetic science.
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