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This volume consists of articles on imagery in the poetry of various literary canons. The articles present new research based on individual approaches for each particular canon within a wide span from socio-cultural environment to semantic and cognitive properties of specific images.

The volume brings together papers exploring major topics in Discourse Studies in cross-cultural, diachronic and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers both the field's theoretical foundations and empirical studies. The topics include theoretical issues, media discourse, professional discourse, and political discourse.

What is our responsibility as scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences in the face of global issues threatening humanity today? This book provides a platform for an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural dialogue among philosophers and sociologists on the most pressing global issues facing humanity today.

This book intends to render available to a wide range of students of Slavic languages, and particularly of Ukrainian, an outline of Ukrainian dialectology. A basic knowledge of Ukrainian dialects is also useful for a better understanding of diachronic and synchronic language processes.

The book stresses that the perspective of rule-following informs the way people understand others, in the manner of a practical attitude. Rules help us characterising a person's life and the things in it that matter importantly to her. Recognising others' imperfections in normative practices substantiates our non-judgmental attitude towards them.

This book contains chapters on recent developments in studies of planning and design. It addresses several very different subjects of study; landscape management, biodiversity, landscape restoration, landscape design, urban design, urban planning and architectural design related to theory, practice and the results are covered.

The essays address the cultural politics of our global present. They offer a contribution towards keeping the spirit of utopia alive by practicing it, promoting that the struggle for liberation may continue in an era whose landscape is not inhabited by the presence of great utopian constructs.

This book applies the analytical methods of third-wave ecocriticism to selected twenty-first century Italian literary works. The author demonstrates that these works offer an invaluable opportunity to communicate meaningfully and accessibly the discomforting truths of global environmental change.

This book explores the Muslim minority women's perceptions of how computer education can lead them to social participation. Moreover, it discusses the contribution of (administrative) members of the community to this effort. By evaluating interviews, the author shows how women use the potential of information and communications technology.

This volume is a collection of empirical and theoretical research papers in the social sciences regarding the Balkans and the Near East. The studies include a wide range of topics from economic, financial, political, agricultural, sociological, international relations to historical, cultural, and feminist issues.

This book maps the entire development of Comenius's considerations on man, from his earliest writings to his philosophical masterwork. Although this book primarily offers an analysis and description of the conception of man in Comenius's work, it may also serve the reader as a more general introduction to his philosophical conception.

The book provides key insights in experiencing lives and attitudes of the increasing number of people who reside beyond national boundaries and strategically create their life-paths. It draws insights from ethnographic study addressing the participants in the transnational social field of "Eurocracy".

This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal and structural domain.

This study examines the aspects included in history education by way of curricula and teacher-made tasks. It analyses how students combine historical content, methods and orientation. The results show differences between the curricula and tests, and they also provide insight into what strategies students use when working with sources

The book explores cellular pivots as a new means of progression, functional tonality having disappeared in much of contemporary music. Bela Bartok serves as a kind of father figure to Chen Yi and George Crumb - stylistically, technically, and even philosophically. These affinities provide insight into universal principles of the post-tonal era.

Research on Nietzsche's axiology is still in its early stages. Although it is obvious that he did not develop a general theory of values, the author extracts it with sufficient precision from Nietzsche's literary-philosophical discourse, because "value" is the preferred object of the philosophical reflections in all his work.

This book aims to offer a theoretical framework for opera surtitling, based on the semiotics of opera, relevance theory and fundamental rules of audiovisual translation. A more illuminating insight is provided by means of practical research into surtitling in Poland, including a questionnaire study and corpus analysis.

This anthology contains seven texts by Kurt Blaukopf (1914-1999) that exemplify the sociological and epistemological position of this pioneer of Austrian music sociology. Blaukopf's efforts were aimed at a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach and analysis of music as a cultural phenomenon and as social practice.

This book outlines and analyses the legal framework governing the free movement of persons between Switzerland and the European Union, looking at it from an Italian perspective.

This book approaches the question of whether or not the court procedure at the ICC can be regarded as fair from two angles: First, does the ICC provide a fair trial according to the accepted standards of international human rights law? Secondly, is it substantively fair so as to establish the legitimacy of the court on a sound footing?

The author applies international relations theory to frame Kyrgyzstan's identity crisis: The ruling elite has to manage tensions between their strong dependency on Russia as main donor and security provider and domestic challenges in their pursuit of a national identity.

This volume is devoted to the reconstruction of "assessment cultures" and their involved groups of actors. The contributions cover examples of Western European, Euro-Asian, East Asian, Latin, and North American as well as international settings and refer to epochs ranging from the early modern period up to the current context.

This study sheds light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the recent past. The results are based on a corpus of 1958 borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

The book explores two central aspects of shopper behavior at the POP based on an eye-tracking field-experiment: decision-making and how it is affected by in- and out-of-store factors, and post-decision choice satisfaction. Results show that retailers have less influence on in-store decision-making than manufacturers, despite controlling the POP.

This book focuses on video game translation from the perspective of cognitive semantics. It presents how the translators' knowledge of cognitive semantics can affect translation. The work is interdisciplinary and aspires to complete gaps in the research on video games. It analyzes almost 3000 standard pages of texts found in eight different games.

The book investigates relations between the 'East' and 'West' from the Enlightenment until the present times. On the basis of a selection of American, British and Turkish literature, Orientalist painting, and Western opera works, the study proposes an innovative, more nuanced reading of post/colonial phenomena and their socio-cultural implications.

This book is an introduction to the main representatives of presocratic philosophical thought, namely Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, atomists and sophists. The author sketches main issues concerning problems of being, appearance, perception and mind.

This book is an introduction to key issues in philosophical thought of Plato and Aristotle. Therefore it aims to provide prefatory orientation in their complex thought and addresses problems of dialogue, ontological hierarchy, metaphysics, knowledge and practical philosophy.

This auxiliary textbook discusses and systemises several selected topics of philosophical anthropology. The problem of man is grasped through the specific aspects which essentially characterize human beings (such as rationality, formation of culture, freedom, personality and interpersonality). The text is intended for bachelor students.

The text presents boundaries and concepts of the Middle Ages and its philosophical and theological thinking. It follows the selected characters of scholastic tradition from 5th to 13th century: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.