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Oral communication is key to students' classroom success and a skill that is highly valued in both academic and professional contexts. This collection gathers TESOL scholars and practitioners in exploring the theories, principles, and pedagogical practices that shape and help innovate the teaching of oral communication in higher education.

A collection on teaching argumentative writing, offering multiple vantage points drawn from the contributors' own experiences. The volume distinguishes between 'learning to argue' and 'arguing to learn' theories and practices.

Traces the history of yellowface, the theatrical convention of non-Asian actors putting on makeup and costume to look East Asian. Using specific case studies from European and US theatre, race science, and early film, Esther Kim Lee traces the development of yellowface in the US context during the Exclusion Era.

Jane Miller loves poetry. In these provocative and deeply insightful essays, she unpacks the work of giants like Adrienne Rich, Paul Celan, Marina Tsevetaeya, Osip Mandelstam, and Garcia Lorca alongside painters such as Caravaggio and Paul Klee, as well as ancient Chinese music and techniques of the contemporary poem.

Examines the complex association of the sense of smell and the supernatural in classical antiquity

Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferences. Steel extends existing theories to create a broader framework for thinking about gender and voting behaviour to provide more analytical purchase in understanding gender and voters' preferences.

Highlights the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and casts a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today.

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori's work has received scant attention in American letters.

Focuses on the queer embodiments that both reveal and animate the gaps between South Africa's self-image and its lived realities. The book argues that performance has become a key location where contradictions inherent to South Africa's post-apartheid identity are negotiated.

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EU

Explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, rebuild strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side.

Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, contributors demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behaviour and fight to change social injustices.

Tells the story of how early US commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research.

Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly defines the term, identifies variations and tensions about its use across disciplines, provides examples, and includes reflection questions. An appendix lists further readings for each entry.

Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.

Argues that global supply chain integration pits firms and industries that are more heavily dependent on foreign supply chains against those that are less dependent on intermediate goods for domestic production.

Offers a scholarly examination of the inscriptional evidence for the Athenian assessment decree of 425 BCE, now located in Athens' Epigraphical Museum. A reading of the inscription is presented, including consideration of difficult readings, drawing in part upon A. Kirchoff's initial publication in IG 1.37.

Complete proofs of both new results and original work on polynomials and Diophantine equations are presented here for the first time in book form. Although the results are technical, they will be of interest to algebraists and those interested in algebraic number theory.

Presents an inquiry into the problem of functions defined by Maclaurin series. Walter Burton Ford introduces his own theorem of asymptotic developments, as well as other mathematical theorems, and applies them to mathematical problems. This book was published with the hope of stimulating further research in the field.