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This book offers a critical overview of the effects of space, physical and conceptual, in the works of Irish American author Maeve Brennan. Brennan’s writing is now classed amongst the most important of women’s voices in twentieth-century Irish fiction,...

Designed to support English-teaching faculty across high schools and universities, this practical guide presents novel ideas for integrating pop culture into ELA classroom instruction.By establishing a theoretical framework rooted in critical and digital...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping the future of higher education administration. The Evolution of Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education is a comprehensive guide to the transformative potential of AI in the higher education landscape, focused...

This book examines the overlaps, differences, and complementarities between narratology and stylistics, and shows the consequences of this examination for the practical analysis of prose narrative.Narratology identifies discourse as one of its two main...

Explorando las relaciones intradiscursivas: Un enfoque multidimensional takes a multifaceted approach to provide a complete and integrative analysis of intra-discursive relationships.This edited collection approaches intra-discursive relationships from...

Theories Bridging Ethnography and Evaluation is the first of two volumes examining the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces. These volumes wrestle with pressing justice issues in today’s societies while elucidating three...

Designed to support English-teaching faculty across high schools and universities, this practical guide presents novel ideas for integrating pop culture into ELA classroom instruction.By establishing a theoretical framework rooted in critical and digital...

COVID-19 has challenged the international environ of higher education teaching, leading colleagues and institutions across the globe to think outside the box and develop innovative practices suited for turbulent times. But often, these are confined to...

This is a book in pursuit of translators' philosophies or personal theories of translation. From Vladimir Nabokov and William Carlos Williams to Ursula Le Guin and Langston Hughes, Translators on Translation coaxes each subject's reflections on their...

Posthumanist Collaborations in Performance presents a novel approach for readers to engage with new materialist performance as a method of qualitative inquiry, and as a means of combating the anthropocentric loneliness of modern life.It offers a...

This edited book is a collection of studies on protolanguage phonology, referring to the development of children’s autonomous linguistic systems from their first meaningful forms to complete cognitive and articulatory acquisition of language. The volume...

How to QuantCrit equips researchers and users of quantitative data with practices to alter how they collect and analyze quantitative data. Using Quantitative Critical Race Theory (QuantCrit) as a framework, this book develops the foundation for an...

This book examines the role of affective variables in the process of learning a minority language. It presents a comprehensive account of how adult learners’ attitude, motivation and identity are related to their awareness of, and commitment to,...

This book looks at texts produced before and after 9/11 by novelists with Muslim backgrounds in Britain. It delves into the ways in which the politics of representation have changed in the wake of 9/11 and highlights the conflicts that arise in these...

This book examines the pedagogical and professional experiences of a transnational group of teachers from the African continent and diaspora who made the decision to live and teach English in Japan. Through a layered analytical framework, it explores how...

In these changing times of global flows of media and technologies and reports of declining reading enjoyment, researchers, policymakers and educators need to engage anew with essential issues of what counts as reading, what kinds of reading matter and...

This book explores alternative approaches to foreign language education in a context which is traditionally dominated by English-only approaches, and widely viewed as highly monolingual. It examines the grassroots classroom practices of teachers and...

This creative volume demonstrates the urgent importance of engaging students cognitively and affectively with the climate crisis and environmental education, underpinning the vital role the language arts play in expanding this engagement for a better...

Drawing connections between the findings of a research project following young graduates from the Scottish islands of Orkney and Shetland, current international evidence and theoretical literature, this book argues that understanding rural and island...

Lonely Planet's Middle East Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Ask directions to the Pyramids, chat history at Jerusalem's...

Lonely Planet's Cantonese Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Indian phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Chat with locals along the Great Wall, ask for...

Taking stock of the technological, political, economic, and social trends that exist today, this book extends the discussion to analyze and predict how these trends will affect the public relations and strategic communication industry of the future.The...

Bridging the gap between Instructional Design (ID) theory and practice in today's technology-enhanced learning environments, the book extends the current understanding of instructional science with an up-to-date perspective on emerging technologies and...

Der Wandel von Journalismus und Medien ist eine Konstante im digitalen Zeitalter. Dieser Wandel betrifft die Mikro- und Meso- ebenso wie die Makroebene. Neue Akteure sind hinzugekommen, tradierte Geschäftsmodelle von Medienunternehmen ins Wanken geraten...

The 2025 edition of the best-selling study guide includes the complete testable materials from Life in the United Kingdom: A guide for new residents, the official Home Office materials. Passing the Life in the UK test is a compulsory requirement for...

What do we gain from watching a familiar play for the nth time? This was a crucial question for Romantic-period theatre managers, who, to deliver varied programmes, relied on a repertoire of ‘stock’ entertainments performed in alternation with the latest...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765109861Author Nessa JohnstonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Imagine if you could follow in the footprints of the saints when they were alive?Or walk around the places of the Bible stories? Imagine if you could hear from people who were there at the time?Look out for the golden footprints and maybe you can!In...

It's time for a whole new way of doing school People are born systems-thinkers. Education has the power to encourage our innate connection with the complex world, yet instead our schools focus on creating a workforce educated just enough to feed the...

Corpus Linguistics for Virtual Workplace Discourse provides a thorough and practical step-by-step guide to constructing and analysing a multi-modal corpus of virtual meetings. It draws from original data from video recordings of virtual meetings with a...

"To Remain an Indian" traces the footprints of Indigenous education in what is now the United States. Native Peoples' educational systems are rooted in ways of knowing and being that have endured for millennia, despite the imposition of colonial...

Research Design in Chinese Medicine: Linking Social and Health Sciences is an innovative and comprehensive guide that bridges the ancient wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) with modern research methods in social and health sciences. Authored by...

A tribute to Sir Tim Brighouse and a call to action based on his approaches, commitment and ideas.Book InformationISBN 9781785837296Author David CameronFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Crown House PublishingPublisher Crown House Publishing

The story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its...

Poetry that explores wildness and composes a landscape of complex human emotions. Drawing on a range of stylistic influences, the poetry of Sur takes on the essence of connection and the ways in which we continually develop meaning about others and to...

Vermin—rats, cockroaches, pigeons, mosquitoes, and other pests—are, to most people, objects of disgust. And vermin metaphors, likening human beings to these loathed creatures, appear in the ugliest forms of political rhetoric. Indeed, vermin imagery has...

This book documents an informal system of education that emerged in Ireland between the late 1750s and the end of the century, a system that operated largely without funding or direction by church or state. In a society as divided as eighteenth-century...

Der Band fokussiert empirische und theoretische Forschung zu Organisationsformen, konzeptionellen Perspektivierungen und didaktischen Ansätzen zum herkunfts- bzw. muttersprachlichen Unterricht aus migrationspädagogischer Perspektive. Welchen Beitrag...

Continuing professional development can be an powerful force in any school improvement programme, leading to better student outcomes and making recruitment and staff retention easier. A School Leader’s Guide to Leading Professional Development provides...

The School-Ready Governor is a practical and insightful guide to the fundamentals of school governance for new and aspiring governors, and includes the history, frameworks, theory and practice. Healthy governance is fundamental to effective school...