This conference proceedings sheds new light on the debate surrounding the periodization of Late Antiquity. It recalls key moments of the discovery of the world of Late Antiquity, and shows how it is possible to reach a definition of an age.
This anthology focuses on a variety of aspects of foreign language learning and teaching. It explores the multidimensional character of language classes and delineates ways of developing students’ knowledge and skills, according to current educational conceptions and postulates.
New Literature in Chinese
Shoutong discusses the connotations of the concept of “Modern Chinese Literature”, as well as its basic categories. He argues that such fields as “World Chinese Literature” should unite in the area of “New Literature in Chinese”, as they share a language, culture and tradition.
Addressing the question “what’s in a balcony scene?”, this book discusses its representation in a number of adaptions of Romeo and Juliet. It shows that there are several fresh angles from which to look at the topic, which, in turn, provide unique insights into the balcony scene.
Mr Justice McCardie (1869-1933)
In this work, Lentin explores the life of Mr Justice McCardie, a highly controversial 20th-century High Court Judge. He describes McCardie’s impact on his peers, both his critics, who called him a ‘rogue judge’, and his admirers, who labelled him ‘a Crusader on the Bench’.
Reflective Development through the Care Model
Christodoulou proposes a new model for engaging teachers in transformational learning through an ‘emotionalized’ version of reflection. She presents the Collaborative, Appreciative, Reflective Enquiry (CARE) model, a guide for teachers to engage in reflective practice.
Bell methodically assesses fear as an emergent property and explores the main principles which lie behind the manifestation of fear. He shows how fear can be contained, how new social forms can arise and how new behaviours and social qualities can mitigate Formations of Terror.
Jews in an Illusion of Paradise
Simms looks into a small group of 19th and 20th century European Jewish intellectuals and artists in the light of their dreams, writings, and moments of crisis. His focus is on essential themes, images and generic patterns, beginning with a Talmudic legend about four scholars.
Caring Architecture
This volume illuminates how people and spaces negotiate regularities and patterns embedded in the meeting between architecture and institutions. It reveals the relational and transformative conditions of care architecture and how institutions transform into caring architecture.
Fossati assesses contemporary world politics, beginning by defining concepts such as “world order”, before going on to classify foreign policies into four models of political cultures. He shows how multipolar and bipolar systems have remained relatively stable.
Essays on Moses from Buenos Aires
Deriving from a meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature, this collection is concerned with Moses, helping to understand traditions concerning him. It provides information on the development of learned opinions on the biblical character.
Autism, Humanity and Personhood
Cox takes a conservative evangelical approach to severe autism and its challenges to theological anthropology. She considers major aspects of salvation history—creation, incarnation, atonement and resurrection—to build a foundation for an inclusive theological anthropology.
Conceptualizing Evolution Education
Barczewska studies the benefits of grounding corpus-assisted discourse analysis within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics. This is accomplished here against the highly emotive controversy over the teaching of evolution in the US classroom.
This tome summarises contemporary issues in education and society, including narrative explorations, various models of education and learning, study techniques, and leadership. It considers how these issues affect society, reflecting on the causes of the functioning of the world.
A Statistical Biography of George Udny Yule
Mills responds to the limited work on Udny Yule by embarking on the first major study of his statistical research and legacy. He explains how Yule was more than an expositor, in that he published important research, such as providing mathematical models of evolutionary behaviour.
Metanarrative Functions of Film Genre in Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Films
Maerz demonstrates Kenneth Branagh’s appeal to classical film genres in order to meta-narrate for a popular audience the unfamiliar terrain of the Shakespearean original. She examines the debts Branagh owes, stylistically and structurally, to classically-defined generic modes.
Miyoshi deals with monolingual English dictionaries from 1604 to 1702, and his unique approach allows various facts, which have been unnoticed for centuries, to be revealed, including an array of historically significant methods for the lexical treatment of words and phrases.
Sports and Violence
The essays collected here reflect on the confluence of violence within organized sports. They detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offers ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence.
This volume explores Roberto Gerhard’s work from the early Wind Quintet through to the late period Metamorphoses. It suggests evidence that situates his idiosyncratic experiments alongside, rather than after, the total serialist works of his European counterparts.
The Letters of the Apostle Paul
For centuries, Paul’s letters have been read in a theological context, forming as they do part of the foundation of the Christian faith. Vergeer, however, maintains that it is important to learn to analyse these letters in their original, contemporary context.
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