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Learner Corpus Research
New Perspectives and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This volume showcases original, agenda-setting studies in the field of learner corpus research of both spoken and written production. The studies have important applications for classroom pedagogy.
The volume brings readers up-to-date with new written and spoken learner corpora, often looking...
Romania since the Second World War
A Political, Social and Economic History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
Romania since the Second World War is the first book about Romania designed to chart the progress of the nation under the communist regime as well as the transition period that followed, providing detailed analysis of the aspects of continuity and change...
by Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen tackles all the major questions concerning luck egalitarianism, providing deep, penetrating and original discussion of recent academic discourses on distributive justice as well as responses to some of the main objections in the literature. It offers a new answer to the "Why...
MasterClass in Geography Education
Transforming Teaching and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
MasterClass in Geography Education provides a comprehensive exploration of the major themes in geography education research and pedagogy, drawing on international research. The editor draws together a variety of professional, academic and practitioner perspectives to support professional development...
by Dr Charlotte Wildman
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of political extremism during Britain's last great economic crash, politicians and planners in Liverpool and Manchester responded by investing in dramatic and ambitious programmes of urban regeneration. Urban Redevelopment...
Academics’ International Teaching Journeys
Personal Narratives of Transitions in Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2018
Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching. The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar...
The Winnowing Fan
Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary...
Gothic Fiction and the Invention of Terrorism
The Politics and Aesthetics of Fear in the Age of the Reign of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2014
This book examines the connections between the growth of'terror fiction' - the genre now known as 'Gothic' - in the late eighteenthcentury, and the simultaneous appearance of the conceptual origins of'terrorism' as a category of political action. In the...
The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing
The Perils of Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart argues that there is a close relation between content and form in philosophical writing. While this might seem obvious at first glance, it is overlooked in the current climate of Anglophone academic philosophy, which, Stewart contends,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
A Dictionary of Philosophy of Religion is an indispensable resource for students and scholars. Covering historical and contemporary figures, arguments, and terms, it offers an overview of the vital themes that make philosophy of religion the growing, vigorous field that it is today. It covers world...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This is the endorsed publication from OCR and Bloomsbury for the Latin A-Level (Group 4) prescription of Ovid's Amores, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary for Amores 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.10, 2.12. A detailed introduction covers the prescribed text to be read in English, placing the poems...
Making Poetry Happen
Transforming the Poetry Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
UKLA Academic Book Award 2016: Highly Commended
Making Poetry Happen provides a valuable resource for trainee and practicing teachers, enabling them to become more confident and creative in teaching what is recognized as a very challenging aspect of the English curriculum. The volume editors...
by Aden Evens
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Building a foundational understanding of the digital, Logic of the Digital reveals a unique digital ontology. Beginning from formal and technical characteristics, especially the binary code at the core of all digital technologies, Aden Evens traces the pathways along which the digital domain of abstract...
Seduction and Power
Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality, eroticism and power in reception. Such universal themes dictated plots and characters of myth and drama,...