This book analyzes how the use of English loanwords in German-language rap changed from 1990 to 2020. Based on the discographies of rappers from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, it compares linguistic trends across the German-speaking world.
Composers and Musicologists on the Present and Future of Art Music
A collection of essays by composers, musicologists, and performers on contemporary art music. This book explores aesthetic, practical, and psychological aspects of new music—from how it is heard and created to its cultural expression. Includes two complete scores.
Teaching is improvisation. This book shows how applying improv principles in the classroom can deepen student engagement and build a dynamic learning environment. It equips teachers to turn improvisation from a survival skill into a transformative teaching practice.
Since the dawn of time, humanity has found understanding through Myth, Folktale, and Religion. This work explores these social guides with a selection of stories from six continents, plus chapters on Amerind Flood narratives, Gaelic Folklore, and Hebraic tales.
The Theopoetics of Space
Martyr, war hero, mystic. This book traces John Randal Bradburne’s pilgrimage to a leper colony in war-torn Zimbabwe, where his poetry sought to sanctify the land and defend the dignity of its patients—a mission that ultimately cost him his life.
This book presents a new framework of foraminiferal descendence based on ancestor–descendant relationships. This methodology reveals key features evolved on multiple occasions, proving that classical classification should be abandoned for a new, descendence-based grouping.
Hong Kong’s community college policy was designed to promote social mobility, but did it work? This ethnography reveals how the policy led to distorted outcomes, with some students succeeding in getting a university transfer without really learning.
This insightful work traces the genealogy of Triple Consciousness through the lens of black feminist thought. Highlighting the resistance and resilience of black women, it is an essential companion for students and scholars in women’s, ethnic, and African American studies.
A major foraminifer diversification began in the Late Ordovician with multilocular tests. Their evolution saw walls change from agglutinated particles to microcrystalline calcite, leading to the major diversifications of the Mesozoic and Cenozoic Eras.
This book explores how law, policy, and commerce shape humanity’s ventures beyond Earth, from state-led exploration to a dynamic commercial arena. It reveals how legal frameworks will determine whether space remains a cooperative frontier or a contested marketplace.
Language Acquisition and Development
This collection provides impressive insights into state-of-the-art research in first and second language acquisition and developmental impairments. The studies cover a wide variety of languages, focusing on phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
This book describes the different forms of aid over the last 65 years and analyses why they changed. As old concepts reappear with new donors, professionals and students will benefit from studying this history. Is the pendulum swinging back?
‘Intimately Associated for Many Years’
The letters of Bishop George Bell and Willem Visser’t Hooft mirror efforts by the World Council of Churches to unite Christianity and confront an age of crisis. To mitigate political tensions, they raised their voices to presidents and prime ministers.
Trends in Language Assessment Research and Practice
The contributions brought together here offer a fresh look at language assessment in the Middle East and the Pacific Rim and provides a unique overview of contemporary language assessment research.
In the Iberian Peninsula and Beyond
Beginning with the forced conversion of Iberian Jews and Muslims, these volumes examine the effects on their diasporas, focusing on approaches from language and culture to identity discourses and interchanges between those communities.
The Selected Letters of Katharine Tynan
Poet, novelist, and fighter for justice, Katharine Tynan (1859–1931) wrote through the turbulent times of Irish politics, the Great War, and civil war. An early friend of W. B. Yeats, her autobiographies and letters provide valuable insight into her extraordinary life.
Time’s Fool
A memorial to the life work of A. Clare Brandabur, this collection presents essays on a wide range of notable writers from James Joyce to Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, Yaşar Kemal, Cormac McCarthy, Abdulrahman Munif, and many others.
The Age of Asian Migration
These publications revisit different forms and histories of migration in Asia and the varied diasporas formed by Asian migrants, and provide both updated data on Asian migration and suggest new ways of looking at global migration overall.
This book presents methods to help children, adolescents, and families deal with adversity. It focuses on strengthening social, emotional, and learning skills and promoting child, family, and school resilience for professionals, teachers, and parents.
This three-volume manual provides information on 262 species of southern African decapods, providing updates to their taxonomy, and ecological and fisheries information. It is arranged systematically, progressing from the earliest forms to the most derived and advanced forms.
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