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This book provides timely insights into the lives of Polish migrants who have been settling in Norway with their partners and children, especially over the last decade. It brings together Polish and Norwegian scholars who shed light on the key areas of migrant family practices in the transnational space.

The volume presents selected papers by young translation scholars who were CETRA 2014 participants. The main focus of the collection is on the heterogeneity of translational norms, diversity of cultures and the challenges of intercultural transfer.

The author sets new music preparation in an historical context, discussing both transformative learning through studying new scores and autonomous learning in the YouTube age. She proposes new ways forward through conscious use of the two, using periodization from sport science as a framework.

The papers collected in this volume explore and discuss the major mechanisms, that is derivations and constraints, claimed to be responsible for various aspects of the linguistic systems, their syntax, phonology and morphology. The analyzed phenomena come from such languages as English, Old English, Polish, Russian, Hungarian and Icelandic.

Introduction to Philosophy presents various disciplines of philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, philosophy of mind etc. The second part maps the understanding of history, or the philosophical reflection of history in the history of philosophy.

This book is about the dangers of religious intolerance, conflict and violence oriented strategies in our contemporary society. It exposes the evangelical strategies of Christian Churches and Denomination in the Nigerian society and critically analyses the elemental causes of conflict and violence in Igboland.

Academic literacy is no longer considered a by-product of academic socialization but a complex set of skills that need to be developed actively. This book addresses the questions of how academic and professional writing skills can be fostered in our multilingual and multicultural societies and how these skills can be measured.

The text presents nine basic types of the classical philosophical perception of the problem of knowledge: the atomistic and causal theory of perception, Platonism, Aristotle's doctrine, scepticism, rationalism, sensualism, Kant's theory of knowledge, phenomenological-existential, pragmatic, and (post)analytical perceptions of knowledge.

The author analyzes the discursive construction of cultural identity by examining the cultural identity development of Oromo-Americans in Minnesota. To this end, three linguistic methods were applied: pronoun analysis, conceptual metaphor theory, and the tactics of intersubjectivity.

The author presents required leadership characteristics - 38 skills, 12 behaviors, and 9 traits - for project managers to run projects successfully. The book offers a qualitative case study explaining the importance of Commitment, Communication, Knowledge, Motivation, Role Model, and Teamwork.

The book presents international and comparative research results on program planning. Scholars from Adult and Continuing Education contribute to this volume. Some authors demonstrate method program analysis and archives.

The book investigates the spectrum of meaning inherent in six orchestral works by Leos Janacek. It codifies his compositional style, demonstrating its development from features of Moravian folk song. The analyses investigate the affective and programmatic association of the works, and employ semiologic code techniques to unveil extramusical meaning.

Trusts, fideikomissum and foundations along with property and their legal potential are vital for cultural heritage management in the future. The economic model of cultural heritage should comply with changes in the legal system. The national perspective plays an important part in cultural heritage management in an international context.

Norman Mailer's works influenced thought and action in the United States of America. This author also contributed to the development of literary tourism in the United States of America. The book reveals Mailer's literary places and points out the areas of social and political contemporary life that were most often critically referred to by Mailer.

The book presents critical editions and structural analyses of three hitherto neglected sermons of Henry Totting of Oyta: De passione Domini, De assumpcione Marie and De nativitate Iohannis Baptiste. A biographical study on the author, who was active in Paris, Prague, Erfurt and Vienna in the 14th century, completes the volume.

The book explores the subject of Ruthenian icons and their changes as well as the discussion on art that unfolded in Ruthenia in the 15th and 16th centuries. It offers an analysis of the icons of the Old Testament and the New Testament Trinity.

Studies collected in this volume investigate selected issues in contemporary philosophy of language and philosophy of literature. Individual authors concentrate on philosophy of fiction and discuss fictional worlds and fictional characters.

The book investigates the interplay of formal and informal institutions of the Russian federalism. It describes the evolution of these institutions in the last two decades and shows their persistence. Using large-N analysis, it concludes that informal autonomy in Russia leads to the consolidation of sub-national autocracies.

The author offers the very first monograph on the widely acclaimed writer Norman Manea, multiple Nobel Prize nominee. It follows two main objectives: an aesthetic interpretation of his literature and a contextualization of his ethical discourse.

Literary analysis of 18th/19th-century Russian women writers. Political, social and feminist theories are applied to study restrictions imposed on them in a culture of feminisation influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Provincial authors Anna Naumova, Mariia Pospelova, and Mariia Bolotnikova claim equality as Romanticism eclipses Sentimentalism.

This book discusses the writings of three 20th-century American painters in the context of the historical discourse about inter-art analogies and rivalries. It presents Thomas Hart Benton, Marsden Hartley and Ad Reinhardt as true men of letters whose texts confirm the existence of a strong link between their painterly and writerly dispositions.

The book reviews critically the state of the art in the field of bilingualism. Including details of empirical studies conducted by scholars from Europe, America and Australia it depicts a spectrum of research topics like educational aspects of bilingualism to reveal various issues of sociolinguistics and even bilingual literature.

The author discusses the subject of self-harm in adolescence, considering the historical context of the development of its classification system. She presents an overview of theoretical fundamentals, diagnostic tools as well as models of behavior.

The book presents the nexus between industrial clustering, firm performance and employee welfare. The author presents the quantitative impacts of industrial clustering and an examination of the short-term impacts of cluster policy in Ethiopia. He evaluates the welfare and gender impacts of female employment in the flower industry cluster of Ethiopia.

This book examines homicide-suicides in post-communist Romania (2002-2013). The author analyzes statistical data from legal records, police registers, and online newspapers discussing the way in which the victims and aggressors of homicide-suicides are represented in cases of homicide-, femicide-, familicide- and filicide-suicides.

The authors of this volume analyze discourses on utopia with a view to adopting a multidisciplinary vision. Belonging to a wide range of disciplines (from political science and economics to computer science and linguistics), they offer interesting extensive studies about how utopian scenarios are realized in different cultural contexts.

The results of the study indicate that early bilingualism or multilingualism usually has linguistic and cognitive benefits for a young child. According to the responses to a questionnaire, obtained from parents and caregivers, children who grow up with two or more mother tongues develop as well as their monolingual peers, and sometimes even better.

This book provides information about opinion polls carried out in communist and post-communist countries. It presents several case studies and addresses the issue of how opinion polling today differs from polling in countries under censorship, which lack pluralist media.

Le plurilinguisme en entreprise fournit des ressources mesurables. Ce volume propose diverses solutions dont des temoignages d'entreprise. Plurilingualism in business companies provides measurable resources. This volume suggests diverse language strategies and best practices.

This book summarises existing, mainly managerial, approaches to communication audits and brings to the forefront a linguistic perspective. The proposed communication audit model, communication audit procedures, and the linguistic form sheet can be applied by scientists and practitioners.