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Numerous studies indicate that learning is most effective in terms of persistency when it addresses whole person rather than merely intellect. This title investigates whether and how promotive activities may be applied in technology-enhanced learning settings.

Do loanword adaptations apply on a phonological or a phonetic level? This study addresses this issue by investigating the adaptation of German and French loanwords and proper names with front rounded vowels into Japanese.

By examining Ockham's original writings and major contemporary scholarship, the author knits together the seemingly isolated topics to present a unified picture of a medieval mind which had made enormous contribution to the history of human ideas and religious habits.

Educational Inequalities in Europe

Questioning the binary interpretation of incarceration and flight, this study focuses on how, through a transgression of narrated, textual, and metaphorical spaces, the Brontes' feminine protagonists show the ideological divide between male and female spaces to be permeable than acknowledged.

The thesis addresses the question of human consciousness in its oscillation between conditioning and transcendence: the impact of cultural worldviews on the individual's lifeworld and their gradual transcendence as a form of spiritual practice. It discusses the embodiment of belief systems and the individual's power to transcend cultural precepts.

Lands of Desire and Loss develops an interdisciplinary approach connecting the literary and geographical imagination which shape British perception and representation of colonial and postcolonial spaces. Through her readings of literary works belonging to the dawn of colonial enterprises (Walter Raleigh's The Discoverie of Guiana and Shakespeare's The Tempest), the heyday of the British Empire (H. Rider Haggard's She and W.H. Hudson's Green Mansions) and the postcolonial consciousness refashioning old myths and cultural tropes (V.S. Naipaul's A Way in the World), the author highlights the crucial role of ideology in narrative plots and literary metaphors concerning space. The imaginative focus of the book is El Dorado, a geographical and literary construction created and recreated at different times, shaped and reshaped in British colonial and postcolonial writing.

Represents a contribution to endonormative stabilisation of Nigerian English, among the canons of national varieties of English recognised worldwide. This book is suitable for students, researchers, language experts and educators, who are interested in sociolinguistics, phonology, contact linguistics, language corpus planning and standardization.

Private equity investors offer one solution to medium-sized German family businesses facing succession by actively investing in these businesses through the managed process of a buyout or buyin. This study investigates the individual contributions of a range of factors impacting on the realization of a private equity backed succession buyout.

Drawing on a corpus of spoken data, this study focuses on the investigation of the stability of the selected features and hence aims to ascertain which of these are characteristic of Black South African English as a whole.

Offers a case study in foreign policy change. This book examines why the Bush administration suddenly redirected its nuclear nonproliferation policy toward North Korea in the aftermath of North Korea's first nuclear test in October 2006, abandoning its former confrontational approach in favor of a more accommodating line.

As sectarian and political tensions rose after March of 2005, scholars and journalists began to speculate that Lebanon was heading back into civil war. This book offers an answer to the question of why no renewed civil war occurred in Lebanon as well as to the larger question of why civil wars do - or do not - break out.

Analyses women's transnational encounters in the Northern Ireland case. This book connects both the different national contexts of women's movements and different strands of feminism against the setting of a raging local conflict and international frameworks.

Shows the regulation probably yields unintended distributional effects and imposes additional risk on the regulated companies. This study assesses the usefulness of various accounting alternatives and provides evidence that cost and fair value approaches dominate the widely used mixed models.

Brian Moore's Black Robe

Clusters, Networks, and Innovation in Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs)