Training Foreign and Second Language Teachers
This book provides a comparative perspective on foreign language teacher training in France, Germany, Russia, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. It highlights elements of good practice found across nations and sheds light on why certain nations manage multilingualism better than others.
Understanding Meaning and World
Chakraborty explores the internalism/externalism debate inherent in ontology and semantics from the viewpoint of phenomenology. His approach is distinctive in the sense that it formulates a reconciliation between both sides by inventing an internalistic-externalism view.
Anthony looks at the concept of Christianity in flux, with each chapter recounting a separate moment of crisis and opportunity in the history of the religion; from the selection of the biblical canon to the religious conversions of Scandinavian Norsemen and Native Americans.
Experimental Legal Education in a Globalized World
Addressing the lack of literature on legal education in the Middle East, this title offers comparative studies on practical legal education throughout the world, and will benefit legal educators and justice practitioners.
Northrop Frye’s Lectures
This collection provides a transcription of fifteen sets of notes taken by Northrop Frye’s students in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and is the only available extended record of the courses taught by the great Canadian literary critic and humanist.
Byron’s Temperament
This edited volume is the first to draw together dominant strains in critical thinking about Byron’s temperament and behaviour, using discourses and paradigms drawn from various disciplines, including literary studies, history of medicine, behaviourism, and cultural studies.
Pink Ink
Calder traces the evolution of Australia’s gay and lesbian publications from smudgy porn sold in brown paper bags to glossy coffee-table magazines proudly on display, and discusses the impact of the Internet on the industry.
A Pacifist’s Life and Death
Using written and oral sources, Gkotzaridis’s study weaves a narrative of the life and death of Grigorios Lambrakis, Greece’s most committed defender of democracy and peace of the post-Civil War period, highlighting political divisions and obstacles to peace in Cold War Greece.
Reading the novels of George Eliot, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Barry Unsworth, and others, as a Methodist, David Dickinson offers a colourful picture of Methodists in British fiction since the close of the nineteenth century.
This monograph highlights that school climate is a science of education and psychology that must be studied in detail in order to understand the dynamic nature of learning environments, and to learn how to improve the conditions for learning in all schools.
Fight and Flight
Bassano examines the campaigns of three US NGOs to challenge the Reagan Administration’s policy of supporting right-ring terror and oligarchy in Central America during the 1980s.
Bringing together 17 papers, this edited volume addresses recent thinking and research on Classroom-based Language Assessment within the fields of language testing, assessment and general education.
Exploring Creative Writing
This volume offers a collection of articles based on presentations given in recent years at the annual Great Writing International Creative Writing conference. Creative writers included here are drawn from around the world, including the USA, Australia, Korea, and Finland.
Challenges and Channels
This collection deals with the challenges of teaching the English language and literature in the Middle East and North Africa region, bringing together educators and scholars with first-hand experience in teaching the English language and its literatures in this region.
Mathew presents six essays, each of which is an invitation to the reader to form an opinion on what care happens to be. Each chapter looks at care in a different setting, and a variety of psychoanalytic frameworks are employed on which to hang arguments.
Pragmatic Perspectives on Postcolonial Discourse
Offering integrative investigations, the contributions here show how postcolonial Englishes, such as those spoken in India and Nigeria, have produced different pragmatic conventions in a complex interplay of culture-specific and global linguistic practices.
Showcasing a major breakthrough in interpreting studies from work on community interpreting and participant interaction, this book argues that those engaged in interpreting research should be viewed as particularly influential, reframing interpreting approaches in the process.
A Trip to Africa
Using sources from all over the world, Dario and Hannah Salvi piece together, for the first time, a complete libretto, in English, German and Italian, with the original stage directions, as well as images of some of the productions.
Astrology in Time and Place
These contributions explore astrology across cultures, from China and the ancient Near East to early modern Europe and Mesoamerica. Topics include ritual, magic, science, and time. An essential read on humanity’s long relationship with the cosmos.
Make Me Yours
Offering a subjective approach, González discusses the relational and psychodynamic aspects of the encounter between the work of the art and the viewer; one that, when seduction operates, is characterised by interplay, flow and conflict.
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