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Considered by many the most talented continuator of the Nashville Agrarians, Melvin E. Bradford occupies a special place in the history of modern Southern conservatism. Bradford challenged established views of the founding, nature, and political tradition of the American Union and, most controversially, the "myth" of Abraham Lincoln. His writings substantially expanded the cultural and intellectual vision of the Agrarians by adding a new political dimension, and provided vitality and intellectual weight to the Southern conservative tradition. Bradford¿s scholarship can significantly contribute to a more multifaceted and nuanced understanding of American history, tradition, and identity. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Bradford¿s political thought.

Since the end of the Second World War, the role of the United States in the international arena has been closely linked to the stability of its security alliance system. For strategic reasons, one of the major goals for the U.S. foreign policy has always been preventing the rise of a hegemonic power in Eurasia. Actually, history and geopolitics tend to show that the global balance of power strictly depends on dynamics, threats and acting players in Eurasia. Despite Chinäs growing global influence, it is in Asia-Pacific that the Chinese quest for power has played out more vividly. In this framework, the partnership between Russia and China represents a source of worries for the West as a whole and, more specifically, the gravest strategic threat to U.S. overseas interests.

Didactique du lexique, terminologie et linguistique de corpus sont les axes autour desquels s¿articule cette étude. Nous nous penchons, en particulier, sur l¿enseignement explicite et structuré du lexique spécialisé pour le français L2, en relation avec le développement non seulement de la compétence strictement terminologique, mais aussi avec la compétence « méta », relevant de la maîtrise du fonctionnement des termes. Après l¿identifi cation d¿un noyau de notions métaterminologiques, notre objectif principal est de proposer des pistes méthodologiques pour leur enseignement basé sur l¿exploitation des corpus spécialisés, dans la conviction qüune synergie effi cace peut s¿instaurer entre la compétence métaterminologique et l¿exploitation d¿une ressource numérique pour des fi ns didactiques. Des applications possibles sont proposées relativement au domaine du commerce.

«Tony Lyons¿s study restores Thomas Wyse to the prominent place where he belongs ¿ as one of the most consequential and far-seeing educational thinkers in nineteenth century Ireland. Long a neglected figure, everybody interested in the history of Irish education will profit from this work.»(Professor James Kelly, St. Patrick¿s College, Dublin City University)This is the first major work on Thomas Wyse, and his plans for education reform. It places him, first and foremost, as an educationist, particularly between the years 1830 to 1845. The book draws upon his firm conviction that a national system of education should have a legislative foundation; a solid legal bedrock creates permanency, and, this coupled with universality, was a true national system. Not for him, narrow nationalism: his understanding had greater scope, including all social classes and all ages from primary education, to intermediate, to university and supplementary education. The book bears testimony to and conveys explicitly the core of these ideas. The book is an academic biography of a man who used his good office to explore the prevailing political atmosphere at the time and to produce a programme which would augment and reform education provision in Ireland and the wider United Kingdom. The book amplifies the key elements of Wyse¿s educational thinking, and the reader should find the analyses throughout the book both beneficial and enlightening.

«Paul Butler¿s monograph is a wonderful illustration of how a visual reading of McGahern can reveal previously undiscovered aspects of the writer¿s aesthetic approach. ¿The Deep Well of Want¿ of the title is an expression that captures the pain and hurt at the core of the life journey of both writer and photographer. Paul¿s exquisite photos allow us a special entry into ¿McGahern Land¿, whose landscape and people nurtured the writer¿s creative inspiration. This indispensable study will deepen McGahern readers¿ understanding of what lies at the core of his artistic quest.»(Eamon Maher, TU Dublin)This book represents a unique visualisation of the world of Irish writer John McGahern through his words and the imagery of artist Paul Butler. Traumatic events in the lives of both McGahern and Butler shaped their paths, creating a want to write in McGahern and a want to create imagery in Butler. Butler explores the difficult and complex childhood that the two shared, and through a series of beautiful images that he himself has created in McGahern¿s own part of Ireland, he draws parallels between them and, as Eamonn Wall says in his Preface, produces a rich and life-affirming appreciation of literature, art and imagery.

La ricerca ha percorso sentieri tortuosi, a tratti poco lineari, ma che hanno portato ad una conclusione che è quella auspicata: percorrere le tappe del pensiero machiavelliano dall¿alba italiana, nel XV secolo, e polacca, nel XVI secolo, al "tramonto" dei nostri tempi [...]. Gli autori polacchi, che si sono accostati al testo del Principe, hanno interagito con lo stesso attraverso la loro esperienza di vita e la loro conoscenza, insieme racchiuse nei paratesti ¿ prefazioni e postfazioni, alle traduzioni polacche del Principe [...]. Grazie a questi autori il testo di Machiavelli ha iniziato a "girare" anche in Polonia in quanto, come afferma J.P. Sartre, il libro è paragonabile ad una trottola il cui movimento è dato da un atto concreto, la lettura, e girerà sino al perdurare dello stesso.

The book Chinese Women Striving for Status: Sport as Empowerment is original in focus and in evidence. It analyses for the first time, in informed and substantial detail, the extraordinary, successful and impressive efforts of Chinese sportswomen in their collective striving for, and achieving of, national and international recognition, status and supremacy. The performances and achievements of these women have thrust them to the very center of the global spotlight. Among the most dramatic, recent developments in Chinese society has been the international ascendancy of these Chinese sportswomen: an intentional and impressive demonstration of soft power politics.In the late twentieth century, Deng Xiaoping urged the Chinese policymakers to construct a model of "comprehensive national power" ¿ Chinese sportswomen are in the vanguard of this construction! More than this, in the process, they have achieved elevated social status, and in some cases considerable wealth! This book is unique in recording their astounding achievements."Chinese Women Striving for Status: I marvel at the complexities of the summaries. The book is certain to be important."¿ Professor Sheldon Rothblatt, Formerly of the Department of History and Director of the Center for Studies in Higher Education, University of California (Berkeley)

Die Festschrift zu Ehren von Gerd Hentschel vereinigt slawistische und weitere Studienaus der Sprach-, Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft. Dem wissenschaftlichen Elandes Jubilars entsprechend vielfältig ist das Spektrum an systemlinguistischen, sprachhistorischen,soziolinguistischen und kontaktlinguistischen, kultur- und literaturwissenschaftlichenFragestellungen und der behandelten slawischen Sprachen, das seineSchüler, Freunde und Weggefährten zusammengetragen haben. Schwerpunkte liegenauf den besonderen Interessengebieten des Jubilars: bei der Lehnwortforschung, imBereich der funktionalen Grammatik und der Erforschung des Sprachkontakts zwischendem Russischen und dem Weißrussischen bzw. Ukrainischen.

Cet ouvrage fait suite à deux volumes déjà publiés en 2016 et 2020. Ces trois volumes constituent un véritable dictionnaire consacré à une sous-classe de marqueurs discursifs, ceux formés sur le verbe dire. Ces marqueurs discursifs, actuellement objets de nombreuses études linguistiques, sont ces ¿petits mots¿ qui nous servent à articuler notre parole, à l¿organiser, à la structurer, ainsi c¿est vite dit, comme tu dis, je me disais aussi ou dis voir, pour ne citer que quelques cas parmi la liste recensée de 226 marqueurs en dire. D¿un fonctionnement souvent complexe, ils instaurent une véritable mise en scène à l¿intérieur du discours, et tout traducteur sait à quel point il est difficile parfois d¿en fournir une équivalence dans d¿autres langues, même proches. Ce troisième volume en examine dix-huit, ce qui, sur l¿ensemble des trois volumes, porte le nombre des entrées à quatre-vingt-sept. L¿étude propose pour chaque marqueur une présentation des différentes valeurs identifiées et une analyse linguistique abordant ses propriétés syntaxiques, sémantiques, pragmatiques et, dans une moindre mesure, intonatives. La partie descriptive vise surtout les étudiants de langue de niveau supérieur (Écoles d¿interprétariat et/ou de langues), alors que les linguistes confirmés pourront consulter la partie proprement théorique.

Cet ouvrage est une contribution au droit social européen portant sur la question de la rupture conventionnelle du contrat de travail à durée indéterminée. Si un tel mode de rupture est aujourd¿hui admis dans la majorité des États membres de l¿Union européenne, il est permis de s¿interroger sur les effets des législations nationales dans l¿organisation du marché du travail européen, notamment sur les droits des travailleurs. À l¿issue d¿une étude comparative sur les principes du droit des contrats, les éléments constitutifs de la relation de travail et l¿évolution de la politique sociale européenne, ces travaux proposent l¿élaboration d¿une norme européenne en vue d¿harmoniser un droit à la rupture conventionnelle du contrat de travail à durée indéterminée au sein de l¿Union européenne.

This volume undertakes a comprehensive examination of issues of translation, adaptation, and intertextuality in Hungarian popular music. Focusing on the period of state socialism, the authors provide various examples of how musicians ¿ professionals and amateurs alike ¿ borrowed songs from distant times and places, reinventing them in a new political, technological, and esthetic environment. The case studies deal with a wide range of genresand styles that played an important role in Hungary, such as operetta, protest song, folk, jazz, pop, and rock. Placing the Hungarian experience in a regional context, the collection also gives insight into the music scenes of the neighboring countries through a major comparative study on the Beatles adaptations in the Eastern Bloc.

The publication offers cutting-edge practice and research-based reflections on both the models and tools of development of contemporary managers and relevant future trends. The readers are presented with insights covering topics ranging from philosophical ideas, through physiological markers.

«Stages of Madness¿is an important new study of the representation of madness on the early modern English stage. Rigorously researched yet also highly readable, Andrew J. Power¿s book provides original and compelling close readings of early modern plays such as¿The Spanish Tragedy¿and¿Hamlet¿while establishing a lineage of ideas about madness stemming from classical and medieval drama.» (Dr Rory Loughnane, Reader in Early Modern Studies, University of Kent)¿«Power propels the reader through an enlightened tour of madness. From the Bedlam-laden performance of Edgar in¿King Lear, through the schism-inflected demonic possession of¿The Comedy of Errors, to the furious revenges of¿Titus Andronicus, this book asks the biggest questions imaginable about the evolution of cultural understandings of how mind relates to self and how notions of sanity are constructed through the reflection of madness in religious and medical contexts.»(Dr Timothy Ryan Day, Associate Professor of English, Saint Louis University ¿ Madrid Campus)¿In re-evaluating the contemporary staging of madness in the early modern period this book provides a clearer understanding and interpretation of characters who suffer from mental and emotional extremities in Shakespearean drama. It addresses three factors that contribute to early modern concepts of madness. These are theories of the «self» current and emergent in the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries; contemporary medical writings on madness; and the legacy of portrayals of madness from classical Greek and Roman drama, with a particular focus on the Roman tragedian, Seneca. The more complete understanding that this combined approach provides, facilitates a better-informed reading of Shakespeare¿s plays, plays that so often deal with mental and emotional extremities that were once thought of as «madness».

Das Buch präsentiert ein Modell des Sprachlern- und -lehrprozesses, das auf Kooperation und Autonomie der Beteiligten beruht. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Fremdsprachenverwendung zu beruflichen Zwecken. Im Kontext der digitalen Realität, die die Subjekte des Spracherwerbs umgibt, stützt sich das Modell auf konstruktivistische und konnektivistische Didaktik. Diskutiert werden Lern- und Lehrstrategien, Lehrpläne und Unterrichtsmaterialien, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der digitalen Medien, sowie die subjektiven Theorien von Lernenden und Lehrenden. Die Studie zielt auch darauf ab, Wege zur Optimierung von Lehrstrategien auf der Grundlage digitaler Medien aufzuzeigen. Dies umfasst auch den Einsatz digitaler Medien beim ungesteuerten Spracherwerb, die Erstellung digitaler Unterrichtsmaterialien und die Verifizierung subjektiver Theorien von Lehrenden und Lernenden.

To realize public interest, the administration is granted with superior powers, namely public force. In return, in a state governed by the rule of law, a mechanism is needed to protect the rights of persons before ¿public force¿ and to secure the lawfulness of the ¿powerful¿ administration. Administrative law may be seen as a balance between public interest which is in favor of people as a community and public force which restricts the rights of persons. This book covers the general principles that administration should abide by, while serving for public interest by using public force.

Wallace Stevens and Francis Parkman: The American West and Beyond discovers a previously unacknowledged connection between the poet and the historian. Parkman in his historical narratives served as a source for a variety of poems by Stevens, including some of his more major efforts. Early on, Stevens responds in a playful way to Parkman; later on, Stevens becomes more serious and thoughtful, admitting to the more troubling aspects of Parkman¿s narratives. With an understanding of how Parkman relates to these poems, the reader will more easily engage with the poet, and see how Stevens, in conjunction with Parkman, becomes a guiding light for acknowledging the cognitive dissonance that shadows the American experience.Stevens was not always distant, not always a solipsistic poet. At least at times, he was deeply in touch with his world and deeply affected by it, as he aspired to grow beyond the historical burdens so deeply embedded in it. All readers of Stevens will benefit from reading this book, and, in particular, anyone with an interest in what makes Stevens a distinctly American poet.

The importance of play for healthy development is undeniable. Aspects of play have been linked to the development of social skills, health and fitness, motivation, curiosity, innovation, imagination, and problem solving. Both theory and research suggest that play of various types is critical for healthy development and that playfulness is an important quality across the life span. However, opportunities to play and quality of play facilities in schools, after-school programs, childcare centers, community parks, and museums are not equitable by race, socio-economic status, and ability. And racial profiling, immigrant status, illness, and incarceration interfere with child¿s play. The first section of the book defines play and social justice and describes disparities in play opportunities in childcare, schools, and communities as well as inequities in how play is interpreted. The next section describes pre-school, elementary, high school, and university programs that use play to liberate, teach, and build community as well as after-school, hospital, and community programs that help to level the playing field of opportunity. The final part of the book discusses ways to ameliorate inequities through research and advocacy. Four research methods are described that are useful for conducting studies on the amount of play children experience, attitudes toward play, and the effect of play on other variables. Finally, a child, a parent, and a teacher describe ways they tried to obtain more recess, using various methods of advocacy. The appendix provides resources indispensable for those convinced that play for all is indeed a social justice issue worthy of advocacy.

Parkinson¿s Disease affects not only gross motor but also speech motor control. Standard treatment options are drug treatment with levodopa and surgical treatment with deep brain stimulation. While both treatments are effective for gross motor symptoms, it is yet to be fully understood how speech responds to levodopa and deep brain stimulation. This thesis investigates the effect of both treatment options on the kinematic, acoustic and perceptual level in the same group of speakers with Parkinson¿s disease for a first time

This book includes both well-known scholars and young researchers from prestigious European universities and their case studies express an international appeal by investigating subjects of great interest even today. The volume Communicators, Audiences, and Strategies: Past Experiences and Contemporary Perspectives represents a helpful instrument for both students and scholars across disciplines, such as political science, history, sociology and communication sciences. The seven case studies offer relevant examples on how communicators used different forms of political communication and propaganda throughout the late 19th and the 20th century in different societies and periods of time as various political, social and economic crisis emerged and produced significant outcomes in the long term.

The sound of a city is a cultural phenomenon based on the characteristic relationship between music and the cultural specificity of a given urban area. It occurs when artists from a region create music, which is so unique, it becomes indisputably linked with its place of origin in the public discourse. The link becomes so strong, the phenomenon¿s name derives from the name of the city. There were numerous examples of such sounds in popular music history, including the Nashville Sound with its specific country music, the psychedelic rock of the San Francisco Sound, Prince¿s the Minneapolis Sound, or the Seattle Sound is also known as grunge. This publication explains the terms in which we should research, analyze, interpret, and define the sound of a city.

What happens in our brain when we create a story? Based on neuro-cognitivism, the study of narratives ¿ ranging from novels to ¿life-stories¿, which relate to interstitial topics ¿ has become more rigorous. In fact, an unparalleled panorama of constants, cemented since the Upper Palaeolithic, has been added to an unprecedented awareness of how each cultural habitat shapes the narratives of its inhabitants. This occured according to a particular neuro-cognitive style, thus limiting the so-called ¿authorial¿ freedom. Narratives ¿ whether they originate from the Muses or from the voice of a completely illiterate individual ¿ are like compressors that can zip together all the most crucial elements in our existence: time, space, intentions, purposes, agents and instrumental actions. For this reason, they represent an inexhaustible object of research.

Literary Allusions in Esther: A Study on the Convergence of Intertexts and Narrative examines the robust intertextual nature of MT Esther. Its textual landscape is filled with a plethora of allusions to other texts scattered throughout the Old Testament canon. While these intertexts have often been identified individually, they have not always been considered a collective whole. By employing a new, eclectic method of exegetical analysis (¿Analogical Convergence¿), the author demonstrates one means by which these intertexts complement one another and converge with the authorial intention embedded into MT Esther.In Literary Allusions in Esther, Ron Lindo offers a nuanced and sophisticated engagement with the book of Esther. His survey of proposed ¿intertexts¿ in secondary literature is comprehensive yet accessible¿a significant resource for Esther scholarship. Lindös discussion of method helpfully recognizes the place of authorial intention in many treatments of ¿intertextuality¿ in biblical studies, and the links he proposes between Esther and Jeremiah providethe basis for a compelling new account of Esther¿s thrust as a story. Literary Allusions in Esther makes important contributions to the field, and should feature in further discussions of the story¿s shape and the extent to which it interacts with other texts from antiquity.¿¿John Screnock, Tutor in Old Testament, Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford That Esther is a work which is composed with allusion to other texts is now increasingly recognized. This work makes an important contribution by establishing a disciplined method for understanding this and how both the surface text and its interaction with other texts in the Old Testament contribute to its meaning. Scholars working on Esther will need to engage with this disciplined and careful work.¿¿David G. Firth, Old Testament Tutor, Trinity College Bristol

Profiles of Power: Philosopher-Kings, Princes, and Supermen examines the concept of ¿power¿ in the form of three iconic personifications: Platös Philosopher-king, Machiavelli¿s Prince, and Nietzsche¿s Superman. It demonstrates how these thinkers¿ response to power was determined by their investigation of the fundamental nature of humankind, the limits of human understanding, and the question of whether the universe is a rationally ordered domain or an unscripted chaos. Given the widely variant settings in which these men lived, their responses are understandably diverse. But author M.A. Soupios suggests that at least one concern unites their thoughts and purposes: that dangerous times necessitate the services of rarefied human types, and that charismatic leadership is a necessary countermeasure against the dissolute tendencies of culture and community. As Soupios argues, it is specifically in these salvational terms that the celebrated power archetypes advanced by Plato, Machiavelli, and Nietzsche must be understood.

Focusing on the integration of the Chinese civilization over the last four millennia, this book outlines the history of clashes, interactions, and fusion between the Huaxia civilization and the Grassland civilization, the two major powers shaping the history of China, from multiple perspectives. It particularly emphasizes how the two regional civilizations adapted themselves in response to each other throughout their evolution, and how they eventually combined to reach the pinnacle of a unified shining Chinese civilization. This book is a macroscopic delineation of the Chinese civilization aiming at helping readers better understand the origin of the Chinese identity, the Chinese nation, and its future.

Accessibility, understood as social integration, has been studied from many perspectives yet, due to our constantly changing environment, the concept is still in flux and needs to be reexamined.Within Translation Studies, audiovisual translation (AVT) has expanded the concept of translation activity and its growth has been exponential. In recent decades, AVT and accessibility studies have developed side by side, and the intersection of both fields has been at the heart of academic research as well as of professional practice.This collective volume showcases nine chapters written by specialists who approach the topic from different, yet complementary perspectives. All of them analyse the production of accessible translated material that requires adaptation to meet the needs and expectations of a multifarious audience, including older people, persons with sensory and cognitive disabilities, and those with limited digital knowledge.

The book explores the hitherto rarely discussed connection of magic with politics in the writings of Tacitus, Suetonius and Ammianus Marcellinus, offering insight into the way language of magic and ritual pollution is used as means of characterization and historiosophical commentary on the nature of power and political struggle. Religious deviation and innovation, theurgy, necromancy, black and erotic magic, the topoi of an emperor-magician, a semi-divine emperor-healer/saviour and a witch/poisoner, all play an important role in the analyzed texts. Magic is depicted as a way of abusing the official state religion; every such abuse disturbs pax deorum and brings misery on both the perpetrator and the whole state.