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This volume presents a comparison of adult education and lifelong learning regarding educational policies, professionalization in adult education, participation in adult learning and education, quality in adult education, and educational guidance and counselling. The comparisons are based on the international Winter School in Wurzburg in 2015.

This book explores some of the projects on which robotic engineers are presently working and the possible futures generated by the development of artificial intelligence. Its main focus is on the social dimensions of robotics. It examines sociological, economic, ethical, and political problems related to the developments of industrial, domestic, entertainment, and military robotics.

Reading is multi-faceted and shaped by contexts, participants, and technologies. Because of its multi-faceted nature, many theories of reading which tackle different perspectives to texts have been proposed. The purpose of this book is to grapple with issues on linguistic and literary theories in reading.

This book provides a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and possible developments in EU education law and policy.

This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. It concludes that, for the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences, John Paul II, and the Vietnamese Episcopal Conference, lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor.

The book is a collection of research papers on a wide range of communication issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

Current Approaches in Social Sciences is a collection of research papers on a wide range of social issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

Contextual Approaches in Sociology is a collection of research papers on a wide range of sociological issues written by educators and researchers from several different institutions.

This book investigates adult L2 acquisition, the role of Universal Grammar, and possible cross-linguistic transfer in L2 acquisition. It investigates all the domains vulnerable to cross-linguistic interference in L2 Greek by L1 Russian adult speakers who all reside in the Republic of Cyprus.

The book illuminates how socio-cultural learning tasks are developed and implemented in EFL classrooms. Their learning potential in terms of students' foreign grammatical language awareness is evaluated against the backdrop of the PPP teaching and learning approach. SCLTs prove to be a promising concept for future EFL teaching and learning.

This book examines the political and developmental thought of the democratic socialist opposition party of India during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. It contributes to a modern global history of political ideas and examines the role of Marxism, Gandhi and modernisation theory for the political development of India during the Cold War.

This volume examines the role of New York City in and for: globalization, modernist painting, flaneurism, the postmodern city novel, the poetry of Mina Loy, Klaus Nomi's music performances, Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, post-9/11 American cinema, the experimental films of Jem Cohen, the Magnum Photos portfolio, and daily city photo blogs.

Discusses methodological issues relating to the philosophy of science and the natural and social sciences. This title reconstructs the methods of measurement and scientific explanation, the relation of data, phenomena and mechanisms, the problem of theory-ladenness of explanation and the problem of historic explanation.

Inter-individual variation in speech is a topic of increasing interest in the humanities. It can yield important insights into biological, linguistic, cognitive, and social features of language. The big challenge is to find out which speaker- and listener-specific details are crucial. This book introduces such details from various perspectives.

The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to various aspects of British culture and literature from 1700 to the present. Topics discussed include Queen Anne, literary translation and criticism, ethnographical writings, Byron, Englishness, foreignness, World War I, fashion and politics, subcultural studies, and Jack the Ripper.

The book critically explores values in the State of the Union addresses delivered by George W. Bush. It examines pragmalinguistic tools applied in political legitimization, such as proximization, metaphor or assertion. The analysis reveals that prevalent are three values, invoked in the context of foreign policy: security, terrorism and freedom.

In this book, the author examines Modern Hebrew literature and culture from complementary perspectives, addressing issues of Eastern European and Central European Jewish culture and literary styles, the rebirth narrative, Hebrew as a phantom language, literary occupied territory, and South America on the map of the imagination of Israeli fiction.

The increasing tendency to use English as dominant language of academic instruction and research in Europe is described and discussed. In reports on the situation in various European countries, the development is seen as detrimental to all languages other than English. This concern is also expressed in a resolution offered in 26 European languages.

This study analyzes the impact of introducing IFRS 8 on segment reporting practice and its economic consequences. The results show that segment information based on the management approach is a useful decision, it mitigates information asymmetries, reduces the cost of capital and also affects the work of financial analysts.

During the Cold War, jazz became a cultural weapon that was employed by both sides. In the Eastern Bloc countries, new jazz scenes emerged. This volume explores the history and roles of jazz in Poland, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and the Baltic States by means of several case studies.

With its unprecedented wealth of images and videos, the digital world poses a completely new challenge to the entire educational system, in particular to higher education. In what sense can we speak of a visual liberation, a visual homecoming? To what extent are images autonomous carriers of meaning, what does a logic of images amount to?

The monograph discusses the relation between language and visual culture from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. It accounts for the role of language and visual culture in cultural transmission, indicating the significance of linguistic and visual resources for sustaining the symbolic tradition of Chaucer's late medieval community.

This study analyzes 229 M&A and 120 in-licensing deals in the pharmaceutical industry. The author shows from a capital market perspective that M&A experiences significant, negative cumulative average abnormal returns whereas in-licensings are able to create value. Significant determinants of success for both strategies are derived.

Using a systematic approach, the book discusses the Christian tradition in light of the existence of other religions and worldviews. Religious education must encourage pupils to develop their own religious identities and respond to plurality to become members of a multicultural and multi-religious society.

The book contains feminist, narratological and intercultural interpretations of Hungarian and American literary texts by modernist and postmodernist women writers. It argues that in literary narrative it is possible to represent female political interest that presupposes a united concept of subjectivity, in a decentered narrative subjectivity.

This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization of loan translations (calques). It includes a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria, and a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from English.

The law of renewable energies has always been subject to change. In an inspiring workshop, European energy experts exchanged their ideas on the limits of national support schemes recently defined by the ECJ and by the European Commission.

This volume looks at different ways in which research and educational practice can be linked. The chapters, contributed by academics and teachers of English, explore areas of such bridge building in the area of computer assisted language learning: teacher training, material writing and sharing, course design.

This book focuses on morality and trust in the modern life and their impacts on the relations between society and economy in a period of turbulent social change. Combining historical sociological methods with core themes from economic sociology, the authors explore Russia's transformation into a market economy and the role of trust in social practices.