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Understanding the entanglement of language education with ethnicity and racializationWho has the "right" to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin, author David Shuang Song examines how matters of race and privilege shape US Mandarin language...

An invaluable guide for every step of the college experience, from deciding if and where to go to maximizing academic, social, personal, and professional opportunitiesThe College Handbook shows how college is a journey rather than simply a destination,...

An unmissable collection of eight unconventional and captivating short stories for young and adult learners of Esperanto. "Olly's top-notch language-learning insights are right in line with the best of what we know from neuroscience and...

Indonesian Languages and Linguistics provides both an overview and in-depth studies of the multifaceted linguistic landscape of Indonesia as it informs the study of complex multilingual societies. Indonesia is home to about 700 languages, roughly ten...

The Poetics of Incivility explores impolite modes of expression - satire, crude humor, and rudeness - as a critical lens for both aesthetic innovation and sociopolitical critique. In the Arab world - from Cairo's Tahrir Square and the thoroughfares of...

An Open Access edition will be available on publication on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Humanities Forward brings together scholars and practitioners who have developed...

Now what I need to explain to you, my friend, what your countrymen need to understand, is that when that day comes, and it will come, when my countrymen wake up, I'm not at all sure that it'll be your side that they choose . . .June, 1939. A weekend at a...

With over 2500 separate entries – from allt to zonked – captured in conversations from Whalsay to Annalong via Castletown, this Thesaurus takes a stroll through the fitpads, ginnels, pendies and vennels of Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man...

Interiority in German Women's Writing for the first time systematically gathers and engages with contributions of German women authors to the discourse on interiority (Innerlichkeit) from 1750 to 1850. This volume shifts the recent focus on abstract...

Touching Literature, or The Experience of the Limit shows how radical engagements with touch allow literature to transcend boundaries of temporality, mortality and finitude, subjectivity, territorial differences, and the material limits of the artwork...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring This Very Short Introduction brings together a wide range of narratives of slavery across a broad historical period to understand how Black people--enslaved and not-enslaved--have experienced and...

In The Lies That Bind Us, Ahsan I. Butt explores how history textbooks become battlegrounds of national belonging, borders, and memory. History education has always sparked fierce debate. Disagreements erupt not just over what to include but whose...

This book explores how authors can produce and communicate interesting, compelling and impactful qualitative research, providing practical guidance on how to develop novel and theoretically interesting insights sought after by academic journals. It...

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)...

'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...

Mastering modern Ukrainian pronunciation made easy and fun! Say it in Ukrainian is a pioneering language course that offers an easy, engaging, and effective way to master Ukrainian pronunciation. The book is carefully-paced and user-friendly, with...

What Love's Labor's Lost, Hamlet, and The Tempest can teach us about discovery, growth, and changeShakespeare was a keen and discerning reader who was mocked by writers who, unlike him, had been to university-so it's not surprising that his portrait of...

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 *...

The twentieth-century literary critic Edmund Wilson chided Agatha Christie for her "mawkishness and banality" and declared her work "literally impossible to read." Even if this were so, that Agatha Christie's books were mere trash of no intellectual...

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...

Affect shapes every act of translation and interpreting.Affect in Translation and Interpreting explores how emotions, relationships, and human connection guide the work of translators and interpreters around the world. Through rich case studies and...

If you're a mainstream teacher with a neurodivergent child in your class, it's understandable to feel overwhelmed when trying to meet their individual needs while supporting the rest of your pupils. This book offers straightforward, workable approaches...

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...

In praise of spiders in all their inspirational glorySpiders are often found lurking in dusty corners, where we can observe them with interest or brush them away with disgust-or make a run for it, as the agitated Miss Muffet does. They are just as...

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 proceedings compilation celebrates the power of education, culture, and communication in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Quality Education (SDG 4). Through interdisciplinary dialogue, it explores how innovation, inclusion,...

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...