University Students’ Wellbeing
This case study explores wellbeing issues like stress and anxiety among university students. It offers a roadmap to resilience through coping strategies like meditation and mindfulness. For students, educators, and policymakers seeking to enhance wellbeing, this book is for you.
While favorable to the New Deal’s motives, this book is critical of its implementation. It argues the Great Depression was caused by a technological shock that gapped productivity and income. The New Deal sought to close this gap, but its policies were doomed from the start.
The Life and Novels of Isabella St John
In the generation after Jane Austen, Isabella St John went further with her sharply satirical picture of the English upper class. Born an aristocrat, her novels use authentic inside knowledge to boldly tackle women’s rights and social injustice with humour and acute observation.
Everyday Echoes Among African Scholars and Raconteurs
A distinctive blend of scholarly essays, short stories, and poems illuminates the experiences of African peoples. Scholars and artists merge research with creative insight, exploring the quest for a just society and the pursuit of a fulfilling, authentic life.
This book presents social protection trajectories on four continents, examining the genesis and modern challenges in Uganda, Mexico, Thailand, and Norway. It offers key lessons for academics, researchers, and policy makers seeking to improve the welfare of their citizens.
Global Learning at Small Institutions
This volume of essays offers models for effective global learning at small institutions. It provides guidelines and practical steps for educators and administrators, showing how challenges like limited resources can inspire creative, thriving programs.
Voices from the Algerian Theatre
This book translates two 20th-century Algerian Arabic plays into English. Bridging vast cultural and linguistic divides, these translations capture the essence of Algerian theatre by focusing on shared human experiences, offering insights into the concept of the Other.
Advancing Disaster Management Through Federated Learning
Discover how Federated Learning (FL) revolutionizes disaster management. This guide explores how FL enhances response and predictive modeling by building powerful AI while maintaining data privacy. It provides a roadmap to protect communities, infrastructure, and lives.
This monograph on tort law in Ukraine analyzes current legislation and develops a new classification of torts. The author argues for introducing a system of extraordinary torts and examines the mechanism of compensation for damage in private international law.
Pathways to Professionalism in English Language Teaching
This seventh volume on English Language Teaching (ELT) and Applied Linguistics shifts its focus to data-driven, empirical research. The assembled papers emphasize an empirically grounded approach to teaching and acquiring English, offering new Pathways to Professionalism.
Drawn from 30 years of research, these essays by Tim Murray range across archaeological theory and history, focusing on Australia. Murray explores the critical intersection of archaeology, philosophy, and cultural context, applying key concepts to Australia’s deep past.
Edmund Roberts of New Hampshire
Edmund Roberts negotiated America’s first treaties with Asian powers. Appointed by President Jackson, he secured deals with Siam and Oman. Yet he was also a secret slave trader and illegal merchant who nearly sabotaged his own historic mission through his reckless greed.
This collection explores the Gospel of John regarding Jews and the origins of Christian anti-Judaism. It examines how Johannine Christianity was tied to ancient Judaism while distancing itself from Jewish culture, providing vital context for modern Jewish-Christian dialogue.
This book questions the relevance of travel writing in a flagrantly unequal world. It examines how acclaimed writers like V.S. Naipaul and Amitav Ghosh engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India, revealing the interplay of travel, politics, and history.
A guide to two Additional Basic Qualification (ABQ) courses for Ontario teachers: Senior English and Special Education. This book covers curriculum, strategies for behavioural exceptionalities, Individual Education Plans (IEPs), lesson plans, case studies, and helpful rubrics.
This linguistic study is for anyone interested in cognitive semantics and pragmatics. It establishes a relationship between illocutionary and discursive features of speech acts, emphasizing the shift from arbitrariness to iconicity of linguistic expressions.
Lying Beyond Scruples
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults
A critical exploration of time and memory in children’s media. Spanning three centuries, these essays analyze traumatic memory, post-memory, and the reimagining of the past in picturebooks, YA novels, films, and adaptations of classic fairy tales.
The untold story of the contentious wartime relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Charles de Gaulle. Despite mutual dislike, they manipulated each other to defeat Hitler. Their four years of distrust and animosity played a critical role in the Allies’ path to victory.
Ensuring Sustainable Development Goals do not Become Rhetoric
Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals has stalled, with only 12% of targets on track. To ensure the SDGs are not reduced to mere rhetoric, a new strategy is needed. This book argues for a shift to a common household database, with real examples of progress.
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