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Text and Tune
On the Association of Music and Lyrics in Sung Verse
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
This book offers an overview of issues related to the regulated, formal organization of sound and speech in verse intended for singing. Particularly, it is concerned with the structural properties and underlying mechanisms involved in the association of lyrics and music. While in spoken verse the...
Film and Politics in India
Cinematic Charisma as a Gateway to Political Power
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
In the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, all five of the Chief Ministers since 1967 have been former actors. This provocative book debunks the notion of Bollywood as the synecdoche of Indian cinema to explore the hitherto less studied, yet highly influential cinema in South Asia. Developing the concept...
CIUTI-Forum 2013
Facing the Worlds New Challenges. The Role of T & I in Providing Integrated Efficient and Sustainable Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
The proceedings of the CIUTI FORUM 2013 outline in five chapters the different perspectives of sustainable language policies, role of translators and interpreters and the challenges they face on the globalized market. Such as new global partnerships between Universities and Organizations and transcultural...
The History of the European Monetary Union
Comparing Strategies amidst Prospects for Integration and National Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
The financial and economic crisis that hit Europe in 2009 brought out the precariousness of the monetary union, accentuating the economic disequilibrium among European nations and strengthening Euro-skepticism.
The crisis served as a catalyst for long-standing and unresolved problems: the creation...
Austerity and the Implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy in Spain
Re-shaping the European Productive and Social Model: a Reflexion from the South
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This book adopts a critical perspective to analyze the Europe-2020 Strategy and its effects on the transformation of the European productive and social model, particularly in Spain. The evidence provided in this book suggests that the Europe-2020 strategy cannot be dissociated from the policies of...
Communication Ethics in a Connected World
Research in Public Relations and Organisational Communication
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015
What are the main ethical challenges for strategic communication and public relations professionals today? How can researchers help in understanding and dealing with these challenges in a complex and interconnected world? This book offers some answers to these questions, based on contributions by...
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Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Este trabajo persigue profundizar en el estudio de la conexión discursiva en dos grandes niveles. Por un lado, se quieren proporcionar claves conceptuales que permitan arrojar alguna nueva luz a la cuestión desde enfoques que entendemos novedosos; a esta cuestión se dedica la primera parte de esta...
Co-Charismatic Leadership
Critical Perspectives on Spirituality, Ethics and Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Current theories of leadership, spirituality and ethics are inadequate for the global, rapidly changing and complex environment in which leaders work today. Emerging from this book’s critical analysis comes a new theory of leadership: co-charismatic leadership. This does not mean leadership focused...
by José María Buzón García, José Ramón Gómez Molina
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Este libro ofrece un análisis variacionista de la expresión verbal de lo futuro en el español de la comunidad de habla bilingüe castellano-catalán de Valencia. Se investigan tres variantes: futuro morfológico, futuro perifrástico y presente prospectivo, y los resultados se comparan con los...
Post Offices of Europe 18th 21st Century
A Comparative History
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The cursus publicus, established by the Roman Empire to connect all its conquered territories, may be considered to be the ancestor of all modern post offices. Therefore, mail service networks are part of an organization, dating from Antiquity, which is common to the entire European community.
From...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
The Italian Yearbook of Human Rights 2014, the fourth in the series, provides a dynamic and up-to-date overview of the measures Italy has taken to adapt its legislation and policies to international human rights law and to comply with commitments voluntarily assumed by the Italian Government at the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2015
The book analyses the attitudes of non-EU countries towards European integration in historical and contemporary perspectives. The authors study a range of actors in Europe and beyond to explain the impact of the creation of the European Communities on the international system and how the EU is perceived...
A Different Place in the Making
The Everyday Life Practices of Chinese Rural Migrants in Urban Villages
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
The last three decades have seen dramatic changes in Chinese cities. While many tend to read these changes as the result of institutional reforms, macro planning, and top-down development, the author of this study focuses on the undercurrent at the bottom, from the margin, and without voice. Based...
Organizing after Crisis
The Challenge of Learning
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
How do actors organize after crisis? Do they «simply» return to normal? The post-crisis phase is anything but a linear process. Actors and their practices may be transformed by learning from crises and by implementing the lessons.
In this volume, 19 contributors from 7 countries analyse how learning...