Investigating Arthur Upfield
This collection of critical essays by international scholars and novelists like Tony Hillerman celebrates Arthur Upfield, creator of Detective Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte. The essays assess his place in the annals of crime fiction and Australian cultural history.
This volume presents an analysis of English legal genres in academic and professional writing. It offers insights into how writers’ discursive practices shape their membership of the legal community, and is designed for applied linguistic researchers and writing instructors.
Investigating Format
Hughes discusses the transferral of a televised format from its original country to a different cultural and linguistic ambit. Focusing on the formal police interview, she shows that international format transferral is becoming increasingly local to the country of arrival.
Investigating Language as Social (Inter-)Action
This volume presents research on cognitive linguistics, language contact, translation, and lexicography. Chapters explore native language acquisition, the impact and structure of English, and the translatability of language and culture in intercultural communication.
Investigating Lexis
This book shows how lexical research responds to modern challenges, from legal language to video game terminology and pop music. This collection of essays combines cutting-edge research in lexicography and terminology with a user-friendly approach.
Investigating the Role of Language in the Identity Construction of Scholars
This volume explores major hindrances to communication in the way we over-generalise, stereotype and undermine the people with whom we communicate. It investigates the consequent need for greater intercultural awareness on the part of educators and students.
Investing with Art
Beyond a financial asset, art is a source of immediate felicity. This book explores the ‘aesthetic yield’—the emotional pleasure of art—alongside its financial economics, from the challenges of forgery with AI to the difficulties of identifying returns and the world of NFTs.
Investment Portfolio Selection Using Goal Programming
This book provides practitioners with a superior scientific framework for investment decision-making. Using Goal Programming, it offers a realistic approach to portfolio selection that finds feasible solutions for complex, real-world problems.
Invisible Cultures
Some cultural groups are “invisible,” absent from historiographical records or material remains. This volume explores why the memory of these marginalized groups was obliterated and presents new perspectives aimed at returning voice and presence to the “invisibles” of history.
Invisible Fences, Intertwined Lives
The popular image of India’s Northeast as a conflict zone is an incomplete, distorted picture. This book intervenes by bringing together translated narratives of inter-community togetherness and fellow-feeling, revealing a more comprehensive and human idea about the region.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the applications of radioactivity and ionising radiation. It covers topics such as radiation’s use in medicine, food, agriculture, and industry, making it of interest to professionals in these fields.
iPads in Higher Education
This book will be useful to academics in any discipline interested in using iPads in teaching and learning, irrespective of the scale of implementation. The contributions cover a wide range of academic areas, from Urban Planning and Biology to Art and Design.
Iran and the World
In an era of profound global change, Iran has maintained stability in its blend of religion and politics. This book examines recent developments in Iran and its interaction with the world, attracting experts in international relations and political science.
Iran, Turkey and the Levant
The endless wars in the Levant have allowed Iran and Turkey to shift toward militarized nationalism and reshape their authoritarian rule. This book offers new perspectives on the resilience of authoritarianism, highlighting its connection to the region’s protracted conflicts.
Iranian Music Education
Explore over a century of Iranian music education, from 1900 to today. This essential guide features detailed, illustrated techniques for playing classical instruments, providing a comprehensive resource on Iranian pedagogy for musicians and educators.
Iranian Women in the Memoir
This book investigates how Azar Nafisi’s Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis empower Iranian women to reclaim their agency, transgress trauma, and reconstruct womanhood, portraying them not as victims but as active participants rewriting their own stories.
Ireland
In 1916, revolutionaries marched in Dublin. In 2010, IMF technocrats arrived to begin Ireland’s re-colonisation. This book explains why resistance had been destroyed and argues that an opportunity now exists to re-imagine and re-invent the nation.
Ireland and Dysfunction
At the intersection of cultural, literary and film studies, this compilation explores how dysfunction is tackled in Irish studies. It also investigates how mediation, managing, healing and transcending help in understanding the construction process of an Irish identity today.
Spanning the Easter Rising to the Troubles, these essays reveal the nexus of Irish art and politics. Discover how literary giants like Joyce, Yeats, and Beckett and popular icons like Father Ted shaped a nation.
Ireland in Crisis?
These proceedings from the International Congress of Irish Studies explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
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