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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684264629Author Elisabeth LefebvreFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Abilene Christian University PressPublisher Abilene Christian University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685970758Author Daniel CibaFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint University of Iowa PressPublisher University of Iowa PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814216156Author Paul Allen MillerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Digitalization has profoundly transformed our communicative and linguistic environment, and the language used most in digital media around the globe is English. The articles in this book present new research focusing on the ways in which the English...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798894142739Author Mara GoldFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Running Press AdultPublisher Running Press AdultWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Trees abound in Shakespeare's plays, and in Tree-Becoming Shannon Kelley explores how he uses his characters' identification with cypress, balsam, bay-laurel, myrrh, and pine trees as metaphors to express emotional distress. Opening new avenues for...

An “invaluable guide” (Forbes) to understanding and winning the fight for our public schoolsOur public schools are on the front lines of a fierce battle. In communities across the nation, heated culture wars have erupted—threatening to undermine the very...

This volume explores how the contemporary European novel reflects the tensions between local and global conceptualizations of Metamodernism. Each chapter explicitly addresses metamodern novels' "glocality" in relation to international Metamodernism...

A Protestant Air focuses on the Protestant connection linking three intellectual giants of twentieth-century French thought: André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Roland Barthes. All three came from a Protestant background and thus shared a common...

“Illuminating” (Publishers Weekly) real-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting from around the worldA new generation of Americans has declared that another world is...

The Challenge of Tradition emphasizes the tension between Theodor Adorno's critique of tradition as being incompatible with capitalist modernity and his understanding of the need for maintaining aesthetic and cultural connections with the past. Placing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738612980Author Dr Ken SpringerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Research & Education AssociationPublisher Research & Education...

'If you're worried about wasting your life, read this book.' Rutger Bregman, author of HumankindA ridiculously in-depth guide to finding a fulfilling and impactful career in an age of AI.You have about 80,000 hours in your career: 40 hours a week, 50...

Introduces readers to the rationale and risks of using AI and big data in higher education and shares novel applications for improving educational practice.Colleges and universities collect-and own-more data than ever before. These data can be analyzed...

Counters universalist narratives of mainstream feminism by examining the power exerted by four white women writer-activists to shape American society from the 1860s to 1930s.White Woman's Burden focuses on four American writer-activists who were...

Changes the conversation about risk by exposing the field's historical complicity with extractive industries and building new methodologies for future risk communication research.Technical and professional communication has a problem with how the concept...

Examines how Sicilian writers explored themes of displacement, identity, and transnational cultural memory as they engaged with the Great Emigration to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.This groundbreaking study is...

The concept of teacher leadership has gained attention from educational scholars and practitioners across the globe due to its success in improving outcomes for teachers and students. The Challenges and Possibilities of Teacher Leadership explores the...

This new theory of reader response describes "perverse attachment," or the powerful desire to intervene in a story, even when it is impossible to do so.Fiction has long inspired resistance in its readers: making them, for example, wish for a different...

An experiment in criticism that explores Henry James's late works through the lens of minimalism. Henry James's last completed novels-The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl-are among the greatest and most demanding achievements of...

This book delves into how migration is depicted through multilingual discourses, blending corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis. Emerging from a colloquium at Jaume I University in Castellon (Spain), it links translation studies, migration,...

How Romans built their past-and made it speak.During the turbulent transition from Republic to Empire, Romans became intensely preoccupied with their own past. In Evoking the Dead, W. Martin Bloomer examines how memory was constructed, organized, and put...

How do you integrate AI into the library in an accessible and equitable way? This book shows you how! The AI Toolkit for Librarians offers a clear and encouraging way to make sense of today's fast-moving world of artificial intelligence. Written for...

Robert Wedgeworth offers an insightful look at a career that helped shape modern librarianship.In this compelling first-hand account, Robert Wedgeworth traces his remarkable journey-from growing up in racially intolerant times to becoming executive...

This resourceful teaching guide provides practical guidance on how to incorporate the principles of Open Science into teaching and learning across a diverse range of contexts. Educators will assess the challenges, lessons learned and best practice...

The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history. For the first time, eight pioneering Black...

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, air, and aviation technologies have long held out the...

This anthology brings together the unpublished poetry of Jacob Bronowski (1908-74). One of the last great polymaths, Bronowski was prominent in the fields of philosophy, mathematics, history and literary criticism, and is perhaps best remembered today as...

Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration to...

The use of intelligent technologies to enhance instruction and learning is introduced in pedagogy-based learning-teaching perspective. It covers digital library resources, AI-based tools, data analysis techniques, and NLP and NLU-powered smart assistants...

Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812–1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution and an inspiration to...

Some people appear to build and grow wealth with ease, while many others find it far easier to spend than to save or invest. This can make financial success seem like a matter of luck or privilege. In reality, it is often the result of consistent habits,...

Across a range of literary texts, Black writers depict taking flight to escape systems of subordination from the Middle Passage and the plantation to the present-day racialized order. While flight, air, and aviation technologies have long held out the...

The HBCU Sisterhood: Testimonies of Triumph and Transformation is a powerful, first-of-its-kind anthology that pulls back the curtain on one of the most extraordinary leadership legacies in American history.

Introduces Skelton and his work to readers unfamiliar with the poet, gathers together the vibrant strands of existing research, and opens up new avenues for future studies. John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the...

The first comprehensive study of Calderon in English Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681) is one of the most important dramatists - many would say the single most important dramatist - of the Spanish Golden Age. Spain's dominant and most...

Newest research into drama and performance from the Middle Ages and the Tudor period. Medieval English Theatre is the premier journal in early theatre studies. Its name belies its wide range of interest: it publishes articles on theatre and pageantry...

Murray contends that a crucial but underappreciated difference between Homer and Apollonius is their relationship to scholarly controversy. Whereas both poets provoked scholarly controversies, Apollonius did so deliberately as part of an innovative...

This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of pseudo-anglicisms in Japanese which demonstrate dynamic processes of semantic, morphological, and lexical remodeling. These multifaceted phenomena are explored through corpus-based analyses,...

Bestselling Irish novelist Sally Rooney has emerged as the defining voice of a generation, a cultural phenomenon whose spare, intelligent prose and sharp social insight have reshaped contemporary fiction and sparked a global conversation about intimacy,...