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This collection of research papers presents new findings in linguistics, methodology, and literature. It explores diverse topics from English as a lingua franca and MOOCs to indigenous storytelling, providing inspiration for a wide spectrum of practitioners.
Given increasing interest in lexical issues in second language acquisition studies in recent years, and the importance of words to every instance of communication, this volume concentrates on vocabulary in written language, with a particular focus on academic settings.
New Approaches to the Temple of Zeus at Olympia
This volume explores the Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the largest in mainland Greece. International experts from many fields offer new perspectives on its architecture, sculptural decoration, and the cult of Zeus, bridging classical studies with new digital technologies.
Maimonides on God and Duns Scotus on Logic and Metaphysics (Volume 12
Moses Maimonides and John Duns Scotus are key figures who bookend a major thirteenth-century philosophical tradition. This volume explores Maimonides’s work on God and creation alongside the revolutionary logic and metaphysics developed by Scotus.
Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing
Using an onomasiological approach, this book analyzes neoclassical formations in English and Russian medical terms. It argues that what is a system of word formation in English represents only individual borrowings in Russian, solving a key problem in morphological theory.
Living Like Nomads
Living Like Nomads illuminates the unknown history of Milanese anarchists in the two decades before fascism. It tells the fascinating stories of their lifestyles, political campaigns, and ideological debates. They were the first to resist the violence of Mussolini’s black shirts.
Laws of Nature, Laws of God?
How should we view scientific laws? In this book, scientists, historians, and philosophers tackle this topic, sparked by Nancy Cartwright’s provocative question: “How could laws make things happen?” Her answer was “They couldn’t!”
History Education is a politically contested subject, and can both promote xenophobia and develop tolerance. Accordingly, these essays address the major challenges that it faces in an era of globalisation, digital revolution, and international and religious conflict.
Beyond the Night
From Beowulf to Buffy, this collection analyzes old and new creatures in popular culture. Beyond the Night offers insights into the monstrous, exploring their significance for society in relation to sexuality, gender, social change, and otherness.
This collection addresses linguistic, historical, and cultural matters pertinent to the Sephardim from the fifteenth century to the present. Essays reveal how Sephardim worldwide position themselves and explore the development, endangerment, and revitalization of Judeo-Spanish.
Medieval Urban Identity
This book adopts a new approach to medieval urban life, using health, the economy, and law as frames of reference. Scholars provide insights into housing, cures for diseases, the work of artisans, and the relationship between the town and its region.
This volume represents the proceedings of the 4th Weber Graduate Philosophy Conference held in 2014. Contributions include research on Wittgenstein’s Proposition, self-directed irony, and an analysis of metaphors.
National Economies
After WWI, the collapse of the global economic system led to racist cleansing and mass murder. This book explores the fault-lines that deepened in European economies, asking: who decided who was to be excluded, and where did the boundaries lie?
Freedom Beyond Conditioning
We are said to be free, but are we bound by our own thoughts and emotions? This book blends Eastern theories of energy with Western science, investigating the link between emotional life and mental freedom to offer a path to balance and true wellbeing.
Looking Beyond Words
This book challenges the view of gesture as marginal in language learning. It shows that communication is multimodal and demonstrates, through research in Italian language classes in Canada, how gesture enables a richer experience for both teachers and learners.
Lolita between Adaptation and Interpretation
Presenting an analysis of three versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, this investigation explores how Nabokov envisioned his creation rendered in a movie, and the divergences between this and said adaptation.
Global Youth
This edited volume explores the challenges that youth experience today, such as poverty and inadequate healthcare, and provides context to better understand the factors related, and contributing, to those issues.
Alexandrian Legacy
These interdisciplinary essays explore the complex and often neglected Alexandrian patristic tradition. Combining historiography, theology, and philosophy, they reveal a vibrant Christian spirit striving for the reformation and transformation of the human being.
These volumes explore significant questions about the use of ICT in fields like management, education, and science. Featuring research from European countries in transition, this is a major contribution to the discussion on the role of ICT in today’s world.
This book summarizes state-of-the-art methods in credit analysis, a vital area of finance. Written by leading experts, it provides insights for estimating default probability, evaluating individual loans and bonds, and managing entire portfolios of such assets.
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