This publication focuses on the efficacy of ‘financial education’ as a tool in attaining client protection in Varanasi, India. It also utilizes the Microfinance Clients Awareness Index to evaluate the factors that impact the level of financial awareness for microfinance clients.
13th Conference on British and American Studies
Deriving from a conference on language diversity, this book includes studies for the examination of language-related phenomena. Topics covered include the external and internal catalysts for language change and language as an instrument of power and (self-)communication.
This two-volume book provides a multifaceted view of major approaches to the study of political discourse. It builds on previous political discourse perspectives and provides new insights into this research area, while combining theoretical and methodological considerations.
East vs. West
This book explores international development, contrasting Eastern and Western experiences. It examines China’s economic rise and India’s architectural journey to show how innovation influences our lives, offering clarity on the directions still to be taken.
This collection offers an interesting overview of good practices in the tourism industry, providing several snapshots of the way various economic activities have been properly managed in order to make the Canary Islands a successful symbol of integrated tourist supply.
Golda Meir’s Foreign Decision-Making Process
Kremer Asaf focuses on Meir’s foreign decision making processes during her tenure as Israeli Prime Minister. She exposes the political-diplomatic aspects of foreign policy, using interviews and analysis of hundreds of formerly secret documents from various national archives.
The Urgency of Climate Change
The Urgency of Climate Change addresses a pivotal challenge for our planet. This collection of essays aligns Science, Sustainability, Ethics, and Religion to consider policy possibilities and laws that can effectively engage the climate crisis and ensure a flourishing Earth.
Languages in Action
This anthology includes a selection of papers on linguistics presented at the 14th Conference on British and American Studies. It discusses syntactic, morphological and lexico-semantic aspects of English and Romanian, issues of language contact, and the construction of meaning.
Applications of Relevance Theory
This anthology discusses various applications of Relevance Theory within several areas of pragmatics and discourse analysis. It covers an array of topics, including the treatment of figurative language, pragmatic markers and lexical pragmatics within Relevance Theory.
Rejuvenating Medical Education
Returning to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey for inspiration, this monograph uses these epics as a medium through which we might think imaginatively about key issues in contemporary medicine and medical education.
The essays here address the issue of the poetics of multilingualism and reflect the diversity of the phenomenon. They demonstrate the fundamental importance of multilingualism for literary and linguistic theory with studies on a number of European countries and regions.
Deriving from a medicine history conference, this set of proceedings comprises topics from areas such as medical classics, physicianship, and military medicine. In addition, it includes papers given by the conference’s internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr Guel Russel.
Williams explores the potential for task-based language learning and teaching (TBLT) within a Hungarian context, by investigating beliefs among university students about English (and other foreign) language teaching.
A 250-year economic history of the Amazon. This pioneering analysis examines the colonial era and the formation of the caboclo-peasantry, the pivotal rubber economy, and the rural and urban dynamics of the post-rubber boom era until the 1960s.
A Syntactic Study of Idioms
Dąbrowska studies idioms referring to psychological states in English from the perspective of syntax, focusing particularly on the syntactic structure of this specific set of verbal psych-idioms, and on the constraints on the way they are built.
The Archaeology of Anatolia, Volume III
This third volume in the Archaeology of Anatolia series delivers timely updates from ongoing excavations across the peninsula. Covering the Epipalaeolithic to the Medieval, it features a new section presenting the latest critical findings and research in the field.
The Future of Post-Human Waste
Waste is neither useless trash nor a hidden treasure. This book offers a radical theory that redefines waste, revealing its profound implications for society, culture, and our collective future.
The Communicative Mind
This multifaceted investigation into linguistic meaning argues for the indispensability of dialogue in cognition. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, and literary studies, it demonstrates the centrality of subjectivity and turn-taking interaction in natural semantics.
The Future of Post-Human Culinary Art
Is cooking an exact art or just a means to a meal? This book challenges such opposing views, offering a new theory to understand the future of culinary art and fundamentally change how we think about it in relation to the mind, nature, society, and culture.
Less than Nations
After WWI, the geo-political map of Central-Eastern Europe was redefined. As states and nations rarely coincided, the minority question emerged as one of the most troublesome issues of the interwar period, affecting international relations and many states.
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