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This book compares vocational training in Australia, Ireland and the UK and analyses why social partner cooperation in training differs between cases. In-depth case studies show that this divergence is due to different coalitions between political parties, unions and employers in training reform politics.

The volume deals with different aspects of the crisis governance during the floods in 2014 in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia. It highlights the specific crisis responses in each country, influenced by the existing institutions, crisis leadership, social and economic capital, media and the role of international financial aid.

This study has been carried out in institutional and non-institutional settings implementing online tandems and student recordings to analyze discourse patterns. The original studies on corpus data of the L3Task project reflect findings, research paradigms and instruments that consolidate teaching and methodology on online tandem practice.

Through a selection of empirical studies anchored in analyses of authentic and contextualized language data, Taboo in Discourse explores the complex interplay between taboo and language in a range of social contexts, cultural settings and real-world discourse types from a broad and multidisciplinary perspective.

This book discusses values and the exercise of practical rationality. The main feature of the research is the multiplicity of approaches of the exercise of practical rationality and the consideration of different spheres of values, that is the ethical, political and aesthetic ones.

Basque self-determination was long curtailed by political violence. In 2011, ETA announced a permanent cessation of operations. This book describes the contemporary re-imagining of Basque nationhood in both Spain and France. It explores the new debates that emerged since the demise of non-state militancy and analyses local transformations.

This study addresses the concept and forms of dissemination in political communication and news media. It investigates the new age of dissemination of global communication manifested in a new relationship between political communication and media systems.

History of English Literature is a comprehensive, eight-volume survey of English literature from the Middle Ages to the early twenty-first century. Volume 1 covers Anglo-Saxon literature, including Gower, Langland and Chaucer, and ends with Elizabethan theatre and literature, excluding Shakespeare.

This book portrays the kinds of relations through time and social space that people can create by working with their vulnerability as an affect that has power to yield new sensibilities, skills and values. It turns to the primary corporeal relations between mothers and their children in order to find the affective connections between generations.

This is the first book to explore the importance of agriculture in relation to the restoration of the Jerusalem temple in the Book of Haggai during the Achaemenid period. Scholars discussing the rebuilding of the temple have mainly focused on the political and social context. Additionally, the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah have been used as a basis for analysing the economy of postexilic Judah. This has, however, understated the wider socio-economic significance of the temple by disregarding the agricultural capacity of Judah. The Book of Haggai is primarily concerned with agriculture and the temple. This analysis of Haggai includes an examination of the temple's reconstruction from a historical and economic point of view, with agriculture playing a central role. Archaeological records are examined and show that prized commodities such as olives and grapes were produced in and around Jerusalem in large quantities and exported all over the ancient Near East. This book is intended to shed new light on the value of agriculture for the people of Judah and the whole imperial economy. It also presents a new interpretation of the Book of Haggai and a new perspective on the temple economy in Jerusalem.

This collection of essays offers new connections between Austrian writer, Robert Musil (1880-1942), and the ideas and intellectual movements belonging to his past, present, and future.

This book examines the English lingua-franca (ELF) uses in a corpus of online and scripted video-game interactions. While research generally explores the playful and technological aspects of computer-mediated communication, this study focuses on the strategies of cooperation, language simplification and authentication, lexical creativity and meaning negotiation that are generally activated within the community of practice of gamers to facilitate cross-cultural conversations. The scripted exchanges, instead, are examined by means of the ALFA Model (Analysis of Lingua Franca in Audiovisual texts), which is devised to enquire into the extent to which the non-native participants' language variations are part of the multimodal actualisation of the cognitive construct of non-native speakers, to which authors resort in order to prompt specific reactions on the part of the receivers. Finally, since the participants' turns in both online and scripted interactions are visually represented as written messages on screen, this research also contributes to the development of the description of written ELF variations, so far not thoroughly explored in the literature.

This book deals with the world of the psalms, in order to reveal the elements of faith as expressed in the various prayers. It includes an encompassing study of the variety of experiences: How can an individual in distress experience a situation which contrasts his actual reality altogether? What causes an individual to believe that God wants him to live and does not want him to die? What are the individual's sources of confidence in justice as ruling over the universe, and his confidence that the harmony of the universe leaves no room for evil? Virtually all books of the Old Testament express the world view and opinions of their authors, with a didactic purpose on mind. Not so the Book of Psalms: Here we can find an expression of the pious individual's world and his beliefs. The psalms are what the authors sought to place in the mouth of the worshippers, thinking that they would aptly express what was on their mind. Anybody who seeks to understand how faith and thoughtfulness join together with the individual's emotions through a wonderful creative shaping, is invited to read this book.

This book brings together contributions by a number of distinguished scholars that shed new light on current developments in this dynamic area of discourse analysis, especially taking into account recent research and emerging insights on speech communities and communities of practice.

The tenacious belief in a disjunction of genocide and art has risen a persisting polemic in literary cricism. Narrating Itsembabwoko challenges this dichotomous thinking by assuming that a narrative about genocide is both a work and a testimony because the sense-making in work is a shared construction between writing, reading, and meaning to the point that artistic expression seems to be the irreplaceable nature of art to ensure the memory of events. The main assumption is that the aesthetic process brings together the forms, motifs, or themes already available in the vast field of literature and art, which are known to the reader, and integrates them in a particular text; however, the axiological process is an argumentative level, which governs and shapes the enunciated values in the work. This book shows how through their works writers seek forms - language or genre - that allow them to represent the horror of extermination, making the reader think about the moral range of narratives about genocide - fiction or testimony - using words that communicate the values of humanity, in opposition to the macabre deployment of absolute evil.

The Global World is a pivotal formula in present-day Newspeak The book's leitmotif - if it is true that the faces of today's global world are manifold - is that language opens to the other, that the word's boundaries are the multiple boundaries of the relation to others, of encounter among differences. Otherness logic is in language and life. The aim is to evidence how, contrary to implications of the newspeak order, new worlds are possible, critical linguistic consciousness is possible - a word revolution and pathway to social change. The method is linguistic and concerns the language and communication sciences. But to avoid that the limits of the latter influence our perspective on the global world and its manifold faces, this method is located at the intersection of different scientific perspectives. As such it pertains to philosophy of language, but in dialogue with the science of verbal and nonverbal signs, today global semiotics, therefore it is also semiotic And given that how to understand the global world is not just a theoretical issue, but concerns how we relate to others, to differences in all their forms and aspects, the method proposed with this book is also semioethic

This book explores the everyday reading and writing experiences of children from Chinese families living in Britain. Using an ethnographic approach and following the New Literacy Studies theoretical framework, the author presents in-depth case studies of three migrant children, all of whom received some education in China before moving to Britain.

This volume brings together diverse perspectives on the role of education in Ireland in the areas of leadership, social justice and service in the community. Challenging the current vision of education as something that primarily serves the interests of the economy, it explores the social, political and personal value of 'transformative' education.

Beginning with Lillian de Lissa's career as foundation principal of the Adelaide Kindergarten Training College in Australia (1907-1917) and Gipsy Hill Training College in London (1917-1947), and incorporating the lives and work of her Australian and British graduates, this book illuminates the transnational circulation of knowledge about teacher education and early childhood education in the twentieth century. Acutely aware of anxieties regarding the role of modern women and the social positioning of teachers, students who attended college under de Lissa's leadership experienced a progressive institutional culture and comprehensive preparation for work as kindergarten, nursery and infant teachers. Drawing on a broad range of archival material, this study explores graduates' professional and domestic lives, leisure activities and civic participation, from their initial work as novice teachers through diverse life paths to their senior years. Due to the interwar marriage bar, many women teachers married, resigned from paid work and became mothers. The book explores their experiences, along with those of lifelong teachers whose work spread across a range of educational fields and different parts of the world. Although most graduates spent their lives in Australia or England, de Lissa's personal and professional networks traversed the British dominions and colonies, Europe and the USA, fostering fascinating global connections between people, places and educational ideas.

How did understandings of Europe change and evolve after the Second World War? During this time, two Polish exiles, Jerzy Stempowski and Andrzej Bobkowski, discussed and redefined their ideas of Europe in the pages of Kultura, the Polish emigre review. This book explores the tension between the concept of Europe and the experience of exile.

Dante's unfinished work Il Convivio is often overlooked. In this volume, it is reconsidered in a different light, as Dante's first attempt to reassemble and reshape the remains of his Florentine past in order to construct a new way of defining himself as a writer after his exile in 1302.

The book aims to answer the question Did Hilary of Poitiers compromise the Nicene faith when he tried to bring together the homouseans and the homoeouseans? It argues that he merely affirmed the orthodoxy of the homoeousean confession by highlighting its affinity with the Nicene faith through the theological concept of the nativitas of the Son from God the Father.

The signing of the Convention on the protection of the Alps (Alpine Convention) by the Alpine States in 1991 heralded new practices and perspectives. This transnational project is intended to solve important challenges faced by the Alpine population. Convinced that the Alpine Convention should fulfil its potential, some non-governmental organizations and some active persons created networks of local political actors to connect local representatives, researchers, managers of protected areas and ecological associations. These were designed to realize a sustainable pan-Alpine region. This book endeavours to understand how and why local political actors, organized in pan-Alpine networks, chose to take mountain regions in general, and the Alps in particular, as the shared frame of reference for their involvement. It explores if and how a pan-Alpine identity detached from and/or combined with the more traditional national identities is developing among and enacted by local political actors engaged for the Alpine Convention. It also analyzes the socio-political significance of local political actors' involvement in the newly constituted pan-Alpine networks.

This book is a great contribution to the field of violence and security studies. It presents six comparative, cross-regional analyses of violence and security, with both theoretical contribution and empirical researches conducted in Mexico, Morocco, Colombia, South Africa and Brazil.

This book tells the story of our study of beliefs about early childhood education of im/migrant parents and of the practitioners who teach and care for their young children. It is simultaneously a study of im/migration seen from the perspective of early childhood education and of early childhood education seen from the perspective of im/migration.

The book investigates a number of connected issues related to Canada and its environment, in order to examine the ongoing processes of preservation and distruction of the green landscapes of an immense country, through an interdisciplinary approach, encompassing different theoritical and methodological tools.

Electrification is a process which began almost 150 years ago but which more than one billion men and women still don't have access to. This book displays the social diversity of the electric worlds and of the approaches to their history. It updates the historical knowledge and shows the renewal of the historiography related to the electrical age.

In the late 1960s, the European Community was a loose association of countries focusing on economic matters. By the late 1970s, it had become a real international actor: member states had started to coordinate their foreign policies, the EC had joined the United Nations and the G7, and it had established direct relations with almost all of the world's countries. What happened in those years? This book provides the first comprehensive historical account of the early phase of the EC member states' cooperation in international affairs. Community activities, the European Political Cooperation and the European Council are all considered, relying on a wide range of archival sources. Why did the EC member states decide to cooperate in international affairs? How did they do it, and in which domains? What idea of Europe as an actor on the global stage did they put forward? As the author shows, the EC stressed its own profile as a force for good in international affairs - especially with regard to development cooperation, the reform of the international system, and human rights promotion. In the early phase of the EC's international activity one can find the origins of many traits - and flaws - of the EU's foreign policy nowadays.

Against a backdrop of liturgical change in the Orthodox Slavic world, this book addresses the performance practices of particular numbers as described in a selection of medieval Slavic service books. The feasts of the Holy Cross as observed during the week of September 14, during the Lenten fast and Good Friday serve as case studies

Los procesos de intercambio cultural han marcado durante siglos el devenir de las numerosas culturas que entraron en contacto por diversas razones. El intenso proceso de globalización de hoy es el final de un largo camino que comenzó con los desplazamientos de larga distancia. Rutas que permitieron la transferencia de objetos, personas e ideas, iniciando una transculturación que hoy en día puede ser estudiada. Entrados ya en el siglo XXI, las miradas al pasado fijan su atención en los acontecimientos que se desarrollaron en los primeros años del siglo XVI en América, de los que se cumplen quinientos años desde que acontecieron. Esto nos permite reflexionar sobre las verdaderas dimensiones de los acontecimientos que tuvieron lugar en aquellos territorios. Este libro reúne las reflexiones de un grupo de profesores de las Universidades de Granada y Barcelona sobre la verdadera dimensión del proceso de descubrimiento americano. Son un conjunto multidisciplinario de trabajos alrededor del mismo objeto, la presencia de lo hispano en el contexto americano y asiático, como reflejo de una huella cultural que habla de un acontecimiento histórico que duró más de trescientos años.