The studies included here stem from the assumption that broadly-understood borderlands, as well as peripheries, are abodes of significant culture-generating forces, and focus on various aspects of borderland art and literature.
Organisational Anatomy
Organisational Anatomy views organisations as live creatures. This biological perspective allows you to intuitively understand your workplace, classify different organisational archetypes, and recognise pathologies to achieve superior business performance.
Roaming, Wandering, Deviation and Error
This title presents a comparative reading of John Milton’s epic Paradise Lost in relation to four novels by Salman Rushdie, namely The Satanic Verses, The Moor’s Last Sigh, Fury and The Ground Beneath Her Feet, confronting terms such as influence and inheritance.
The Relationship between the Italian Leftist Parties and the Conflict in the Middle East
Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, Seu explores the changes in the Italian leftist perception of Israel from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight.
This book explores new developments in science and technology education. It examines the impact of updated pedagogical practices, elaborates on future challenges, and points to new research directions, bridging the gap between research and practice.
The thirteen contributions here bring together insights into transnational migration and family issues, offering a renewed theoretical approach to the differing conditions in migration access in origin societies and the scope of social inclusion in the receiving countries.
Education in St. Maarten from 1954 to 2000
George narrates the development of education in St. Maarten over a period of nearly 50 years, tapping into the experience of the protagonists, giving postcolonial subjects, often bypassed or forgotten by most traditional historians, a voice in the recording of their own history.
Seeing Whole
This anthology explores the ways in which seeing as an embodied process is always a multivalent, ambiguous, and holistic undertaking, and represents an innovative addition to the field of visual culture studies.
A Serious Genre
This anthology assembles an international team of by scholars and academics to investigate the value and impact of what, since the 19th century, has been called children’s literature from a number of perspectives, including classical Victorian children’s books.
Renewable Energy
The chapters collected here summarise ten years of work on the challenges that renewable energy faces, and represent a selection of the best papers presented at the International Conferences on Renewable Energy and Power Quality (ICREPQ) from 2003 to 2012.
A Community of Voices on Education and the African American Experience
This book fills a void in the history of African American education by addressing the vibrant education ethos within Black America. It is essential reading for all interested in ensuring the posterity of a society via equal access to quality education.
Given the lack of resources that provide examples as to what English modals could be used when referring to successive clauses, Chartrand develops and discusses a method to extract modal auxiliaries in two consecutive clauses from the British National Corpus 2007 XML edition.
From Colonies to Countries in the North Caribbean
This publication explores how military engineers in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico reshaped the physical landscape for imperial reasons, laying the foundations for colonial development, and highlights the role of military engineers in articulating new American countries.
Language at Work
This title outlines recent linguistic research in a cross-section of institutions, including museums, schools, and universities, to investigate the language of the workplace and public institutions.
The Land of Fertility I
The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.
Modernizing Educational Practice
This book represents presentations given at the Ustroń CLIL 2013 conference, which brought together academicians, researchers, teachers and educational authorities to exchange research on Content and Language Integrated Learning methodologies.
Empires, Nations and Private Lives
Bringing together papers presented at a conference devoted to little-known facets of the First World War’s cultural and social history, this collection examines the causes and consequences of the conflict from a perspective extending beyond the traditional focus on Europe.
This volume analyzes research that oversteps disciplinary boundaries, exploring new fields and methodologies emerging in a globalized academic environment. It assesses theories on inter- and transdisciplinarity and measures their impact on literature and the humanities.
This publication brings together work presented at the 4th International Conference on Corpus Use and Learning to Translate, and includes contributions on the use of multilingual corpora in teaching scientific translation and trans-collocations in parallel corpora, among others.
The House, the World, and the Theatre
Cáffaro departs from three ideologically resonant spatial metaphors to discuss key aspects of nineteenth-century literature and culture, namely the way authors used their prefaces to fashion themselves to cater to ever-expanding audiences and to the new conditions of publishing.
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