Laying the foundation: digital humanities in academic libraries

Laying the Foundation: Digital Humanities in Academic Libraries examines the library’s role in the development, implementation, and instruction of successful digital humanities projects. It pays special attention to the critical role of librarians in building sustainable programs. It also examines how libraries can support the use of digital scholarship tools and techniques in undergraduate e…

The future of dialects: selected papers from methods in dialectology XV

Traditional dialects have been encroached upon by the increasing mobility of their speakers and by the onslaught of national languages in education and mass media. Typically, older dialects are “leveling” to become more like national languages. This is regrettable when the last articulate traces of a culture are lost, but it also promotes a complex dynamics of interaction as speakers shift …

Touring Pacific cultures

edited by Kalissa Alexeyeff and John Taylor.

Literature and sustainability : concept, text and culture

Sustainability has become a key socio-political issue over recent years. However, whilst the literary-critical community has advanced enthusiastically on an exciting range of environmentally-based analyses (most obviously through the work of ecocriticism), its response specifically to sustainability—as an attempt to reconceptualise the way we live, as an idea with a particular history, and as…

Raffles' ideas on the land rent system in Java and the Mackenzie land tenure …

This study was suggested by Dr H. R. C. Wright's artic1e "Muntinghe's Advice to Raffles on the Land Question in Java".1 It does not pretend to be exhaustive. I have not examined the working of the land rent system during the British administration/~ nor, in deed, have I carried the story further than the early months of 1814. I hope that at some future date it may be possible to analyse t…

Collaborative governance : a new era of public policy in Australia?

Collaboration has emerged as a central concept in public policy circles in Australia and a panacea to the complex challenges facing Australia. But is this really the cure-all it seems to be? In this edited collection we present scholarly and practitioner perspectives on the drivers, challenges, prospects and promise of collaboration. The papers, first presented at the 2007 ANZSOG Conference, dr…

Working-Class Literature(s) : Historical and International Perspectives

"The aim of this collection is to make possible the forging of a more robust, politically useful, and theoretically elaborate understanding of working-class literature(s). These essays map a substantial terrain: the history of working-class literature(s) in Russia/The Soviet Union, The USA, Finland, Sweden, The UK, and Mexico. Together they give a complex and comparative – albeit far from com…

Men and the classroom : gender imbalances in teaching

The teaching of young children has long been dominated by women. This global phenomenon is firmly rooted in issues related to economic development, urbanization, the position of women in society, cultural definitions of masculinity and the values of children and childcare. Yet, amongst the media scare stories and moral panics about underachieving boys, there are surprisingly few empirically-sup…

Critical perspectives on educational leadership

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Roots of verbal meaning

Edition

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ISBN/ISSN

9780198855781

Collation

288 p.; 23 cm.

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Call Number

412.09 BEA r