This book offers a rare combination of research on language variation, change, and standardisation. It provides a new framework for study that rethinks their relationship, exploring how language varieties are a source of human power and an essential sign of identity.
Climate change poses a significant threat to human security in Kenya. This anthology is a vital guide to the country’s challenges, exploring effective solutions for food security, public health, and gender-sensitive resilience in the face of extreme weather.
Law, Humanities, and Tourism
This book unites experts across law, humanities, and tourism to examine the legal and ethical issues of returning stolen cultural treasures. A practical toolkit for professionals, it features diverse global case studies that underscore the significance of cultural restitution.
Struggle for the Control over the Red Sea
This book unveils the untold power struggle between the Ottoman and British Empires for control of the Red Sea and Sudan. Political intrigue and military strategy shaped the region’s future, forever altering Sudan’s history and defining its modern era.
Libya Unveiled
This book explores Libya’s history of resistance against colonial and authoritarian rule, leading to the 2011 uprising and its aftermath. Emphasizing local agency, it examines the challenges of state-building as Libyans persist in their pursuit of a stable, democratic future.
This collection explores literary portrayals of food and drinks to reveal how they shed light on the complexities of identity and belonging. At the same time, it argues that food and drinks are a unifying force that transcends boundaries, pointing to universal human experiences.
Benedetto Varchi’s L’ Ercolano
The first-ever translation of Benedetto Varchi’s L’Ercolano (1570). In a witty and lively dialogue, this 16th-century treatise tackles timeless questions: Are we the only communicating species? What was the first language? A surprisingly modern and entertaining exploration.
Demystifying Medical Data
“Demystifying Medical Data” equips you with the essential statistical tools for analyzing medical data. From descriptive statistics to hypothesis testing and experimental design, each chapter builds your competence, making this a comprehensive guide for medical data analysis.
This volume offers innovative research on Iberian Studies from a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective. Core themes include memory, historical revisionism, dialogues between Portugal and Spain, and transatlantic crossings that connect Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
This book bridges the gap between theory and creativity in musicianship. It moves beyond the idea of theory as rigid and creativity as wild, providing a discussion of the creative drive in theory and how these ideas shape performance through illuminating examples.
Justice and American Intercollegiate Athletics
This book is about an accomplishment of justice in intercollegiate athletics. Through acts of connection, departure, and reconnection, competitors with directly opposed interests joined to create enduring patterns of centered belonging.
Classics in Hagiography
As new heroes, Christian martyrs and saints shaped a new worldview. But to what extent was the classical heritage decisive in building their profiles? This volume explores how hagiographic texts always benefit from engaging with the rich and enduring classical tradition.
This book investigates how myth and folklore in Indian fiction are paradoxically used to generate new modes of writing. It explores this stylistic innovation, the use of an ‘oral narrative style’, and the relationship between women and folklore in South Asian tradition.
A Critical Examination of Lotteries
Uncover the math behind the jackpot. This guide demystifies probability and odds, revealing how draw methods impact your chances. Explore which lotteries are easiest to win, debunk myths about lucky numbers, and learn to think critically about the game.
Drawing on experiences from practitioners across the globe, this book re-visualizes language assessment. It provides effective, inventive concepts for teachers and developers to create assessment tools that reflect authentic, needs-based language use.
Globalized Injustice
This volume unearths the pervasive injustices shaping our world. It highlights the lived experiences and resistance of marginalized groups while challenging readers to recognize oppression, foster solidarity, and embrace the possibility of transformation.
Empowering Autism Education with AI
This book shows how AI can personalize learning, enhance communication, and support social development for children on the autism spectrum. A guide for educators and parents, it provides a roadmap to AI tools that foster inclusion and independence.
This book reviews art throughout the ages to find the origin of religion in the relationship between art and ritual. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the prototype for the concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief.
For teachers of Japanese, this collection offers practical ways to boost student engagement. It explains how to use cultural products—from anime and manga to the tea ceremony—to increase interest and tackle the problem of low enrollment in foreign language courses.
This book explores how 1990s criticism reshaped the cinematic portrayal of Turkey’s Early Republican Period. It examines how historical films about the Republic’s founding were influenced by a new scrutiny of nationalism and the previously untouchable ideals of the era.
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