This book analyzes the EU’s challenges as a global actor amid recent political and economic crises. It covers foreign policy, sanctions, and trade, offering timely analysis of EU responses to events like the Ukrainian conflict, and proposes a unique macroeconomic model.
CLIL in Action
This volume explores CLIL implementation, research, and teacher training. It presents practical and research-based proposals from researchers, trainers, and practitioners, offering insights into how CLIL works in action to push the agenda forward.
Work-Life Balance and the Economic Crisis
Contemporary society and international organisations are giving increasing consideration to the issue of reconciling work and private life. Following on from this, these volumes provide a detailed analysis of work-life balance and its regulation in a number of EU countries.
This collection demonstrates the novel’s power to represent the mind. Contributors investigate representations of consciousness and the self, analyzing narrative techniques to show how the contemporary novel reflects the mind’s urge to understand itself.
The Bible and Art
Letellier and Mellor explore how the revelation of God’s love in the mystery of the covenant has inspired artists to reflect on the nature of divine interaction with mankind, showing that the Christian world has always sought to use art to aid understanding of biblical texts.
This book provides a theoretical and practical framework for researchers and practitioners focusing on the construction, interpretation and retextualisation of audiovisual texts, using a selection of humorous, English-language media.
Mood Spectrum in Graham Greene
Edwards examines the pathology of bipolar disorder through symptoms uniquely expressed in Greene’s novels, an area often ignored by critics, despite Greene often projecting his illness into character-constructs that share his condition, offering a case study of manic depression.
Cliché and Organization
Peters adopts a unique viewpoint on organizations, through his use of film. Juxtaposing philosophers like Deleuze and Heidegger and filmmakers like the Coen Brothers and Cronenberg, he shows why managers in organizations are manipulative and impotent at the same time.
Being “On the Margins”
This conference proceedings explores the realities of people who live on the margins of society, positioned as out-of-place and unable to access aspects of mainstream culture, be they education and schooling, welfare, or care services.
Jamaican Speech Forms in Ethiopia
This first systematic survey of Jamaican English in Ethiopia explores its spread through Rastafarianism and Reggae. It shows how a Creole born from the slavery route has hybridized and is now making its way back to Africa with new, creative speech-forms.
Using Information and Communication Technology tools in the teaching and learning of history has become a common practice worldwide. This book gathers the experiences and reflections of researchers from three continents, based on their own activities and empirical studies.
His reign of tyranny shattered an empire. On his deathbed, Emperor Aurangzeb could only repent his “stupendous caravan of sins.” A stark, timeless warning against the devastating consequences of hatred and intolerance.
Moving beyond prescriptive guidelines, this book proposes a new theory of terminology. Based on extensive field research and literature review, it argues that fundamental principles underlie all terminological activities, manifested in context-bound variations.
This book examines pressing intellectual property issues, using in-depth case studies to show how companies can profit from patent licensing and integrated IP rights. It is essential for legal and business professionals seeking smart competitive strategies.
Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces
The contributions to this title discuss the syntax of nominal expressions in various European languages, arguing that articles do not directly and biunivocally realise semantic definiteness.
A Clinical Guide to Organisational Health
Is your organisation healthy enough to survive? This book treats it like a living organism, using a holistic diagnostic model to explore its core functions—Survival, Protection, Operations, Information, Language and Strategy (SPOILS)—and build fitness.
Communication Shock
As we become more networked, we must confront the social impact of new technologies. Communication Shock explores these changes and challenges readers to find a balance, maintain individual autonomy, and make informed choices for the life one wishes to live.
Going Forward
This collection focuses on the need to address emerging and diverse issues in education. It offers insights into the ways in which higher education continuously evolves and how it has risen to face constant challenges.
International Conference on Political Economy of Water
Access to water is a fundamental human right affecting quality of life and dignity. The social work profession must address the challenges of water scarcity. This book examines the issue and develops viable social work intervention strategies based on successful models.
Social Sector in India
This volume explores India’s education and health sectors. Despite considerable progress, glaring failures and wide disparities persist. Eminent Indian scholars examine key social issues, from healthcare disparity to universal education and child labour.
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