This volume examines the relationship between medieval cults of saints and regional and national identity formation in Europe. It studies how saints were used for religious and political agendas, revealing changing cultural and social values over time.
Explore the Symbolist movement’s profound, interdisciplinary impact on 20th-century culture. These essays trace its evolution across Europe, highlighting the foundational role of French art and literature.
Symbols and Models in the Mediterranean
This anthology spans a vast chronology and territory, ranging from Old Kingdom Egypt to modern-day Slovenia. Each essay serves as a micro-study that demonstrates the many ways in which Mediterranean communities have co-opted, appropriated, and adapted symbols from one another.
Symbols in Arts, Religion and Culture
Abbaszadeh discusses how we learn about our human nature and how we fit into the larger scheme of life and spirit. She argues that we do this by understanding how our ancestors, through art, symbol and myth, expressed their relationship with the natural world.
A leading clergy member and prolific author, Symon Patrick influenced a major change in the character of the Established Church. This volume assesses the significance and quality of Patrick’s contribution to the Church of England in its volatile historical and political context.
Symphony and Song
This volume explores the relation between words and music from a variety of critical and practical perspectives. Topics investigated here include opera and pop music from around the world, Australian Aboriginal oral poetry, and censorship of song lyrics.
Synergies Created by a Strategic Fit between Business and Human Resource Strategies
How can HR demonstrate its value in unstable sectors like agriculture? This book uses empirical evidence to show how integrating business and HR strategies achieves sustainable competitive advantage, making it a useful tool for managers, consultants, and scholars.
Language learning is part of the current global revolution, meaning that associated technologies play a vital role in learning English for Specific Purposes. This volume addresses various aspects of learning, technology adoption and pedagogy in such contexts.
The publication offers a unique starting point when dealing with linguistic complexity, under the assumption that what is simpler is acquired earlier than what is complex, and allows deeper insight into the factors determining complexity in different populations of acquirers.
This book constructs and critiques syntacticism, a school of thought in the philosophy of logic congenial to analytical philosophy. It examines technical and philosophic issues, addressing anomalies in symbolic expressivity to provide a deeper understanding of this approach.
This book covers research on native and second language processing, bilingualism, and syntax. It explores key linguistic phenomena and details the most representative experimental methods used in the field, from eye tracking and reaction times to event-related potentials.
This book explores the connection between information structure and syntax, examining phenomena like topic and focus fronting in English and Spanish. It argues that differences in word order across languages are the consequence of feature inheritance in the sentence periphery.
Systematised Logic from Aristotle to Aquinas, Hegel and Beyond
This book identifies absolute idealism as “the true realism,” a truth expressible only in apparent contradiction. It tackles the elusive theme of divine grace in human destiny and considers faith’s credentials as our link to the infinite, likening it to absolute knowledge.
How can we understand and manage our epoch’s complex economic, social, and technological changes? This book brings together essays from sociology, economics, and law to show how a systemic approach provides a powerful toolkit for decision makers.
Systemics helps us navigate our increasingly complex world. This book provides an easy-to-read introduction to this new science for students and professionals, covering everything from basic concepts and systems thinking to modeling and organizational transformation.
This book presents a rigorous, comprehensible mathematical analysis of linear, nonlinear, automatic, and optimal control systems. Offering applicative solutions illustrated with engineering examples, it will appeal to scientists and engineers in research, design, and industry.
T. S. Eliot greatly enhanced Dante’s profound influence on European literature. The essays in this volume explore what Eliot made of Dante, assessing modernism’s legacy by engaging its roots and covering topics from Eliot’s poetics to European unity.
T. S. Eliot’s year in Paris was a decisive turning point. This volume reconsiders the deep impact of French and European art and thought on his development, moving beyond accepted narratives to open up new and unexpected veins of inquiry.
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land as a Place of Intercultural Exchanges
This study tackles T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from the perspective of translation as intercultural contact. It centres on a comparative study of the poem and its Romanian translations to sketch the most comprehensive contextualisation of Eliot in Romanian culture.
This book explores English phonetics from a wide spectrum of perspectives. As a global language, the very notions of native/non-native and standard/non-standard have changed. This collection covers varieties, L2 teaching, language contact, and change.
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