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Perfect for instructors seeking a practical and balanced resource for undergraduate and postgraduate courses, this comprehensive and accessible textbook brings together the major approaches to discourse analysis in a coherent and streamlined format. Discourse Analysis is an engaging, inclusive and incredibly rich pedagogical guide to understanding language and communication in the contemporary world, with chapters tracing the field's historical development and core concepts. Analytical tools and practical exercises ensure learners can easily navigate various traditions, such as Conversation Analysis and Ethnography of Communication to Interactional Sociolinguistics. A dedicated section on Core Tenets and Concepts ensures learners can familiarise themselves with abstract concepts including cohesion/coherence, power and ideology. Positioned within the intersection of linguistics and computer science, this book draws on global examples from diverse linguistic and cultural contexts to strengthen understandings of how discourse shapes identity, authority and meaning across a variety of settings.
The 2010–2011 Arab uprisings constituted a wake-up call to authoritarian regimes. In this book, Engy Moussa demonstrates how the multifaceted changes affecting the market for security, particularly the booming privatization of security, were central to authoritarian survival across the region. By investigating the privatization of security since 2011, Moussa argues that this phenomenon is deeply influenced by regime security and interests, with serious political ramifications. At times, it fails to support democratization efforts. In other cases, it endorses authoritarian consolidation through advanced co-optation and repression, and expansive patrimonial networks. Recognizing the global growth of private security, this innovative work pushes beyond the Arab region and generates an analytical framework to study the manifestations and impact of security market reconfigurations across cases. By comparing Tunisia and Egypt, Moussa shows how post-uprisings outcomes depend on key generalized factors interacting with unique local dynamics amidst an evolving, unpredictable and hardly controlled process.
This Companion examines the relationship between philosophy and literature. It shows how philosophy, like literature, aims to transform its reader. It maps four shared terrains—Truth, Value, Form, and Being-to show how philosophical argument and literary imagination illuminate one another. Written by leading scholars, this Companion ranges from ethics, politics, and law to fiction, film, question, metaphor, and literature's power to shape a life. Historically informed and forward-looking, it offers an accessible guide to a vibrant interdisciplinary field, demonstrating how philosophy and literature together make real, existential claims on how we think, read, and live.
The Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography offers a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practice of mythic analysis. From antiquity to the present day, and from the Americas to Africa, Eurasia, and Oceania, it demonstrates how mythic traditions have played a seminal role in a variety of cultures and civilizations. It also traces the origins and earliest expression of various mythic traditions, their similarities and differences, mutual influences, and their evolution. In addition, this History explores the key roles that literary figures, oral traditionalists, ethnologists, and cinematographers have played in collecting, cataloguing, interpreting, and reinterpreting the mythic traditions. It demonstrates how their work has influenced the transmission and perception of those traditions and enables an appreciation of the similarities and differences between mythological traditions. This comprehensive reference volume also brings an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective to the topic, revealing how the interaction of various approaches contributes to the study of mythology across the world.
Highland communities have seldom attracted the attention of archaeologists working on South-Western Asia, as they are usually considered as passive tribes living on the margin of brilliant civilizations. Refuting this view, Catherine Marro argues that mountain societies were actively involved in the dynamics that shaped the Caucasus and Mesopotamia from the 5th millennium BCE onwards. Drawing on the research of anthropologist James Scott, she deconstructs the paradigms generally used in Near-Eastern archaeology, and emphasizes notions such as interaction, co-dependence, and mobility to analyse the relationships between Mesopotamia and its hilly periphery. She interprets the rift that formed between Bronze Age highland societies and their Mesopotamian neighbours as an expression of highland resistance to the threats from lowland city-states that were engaged in a quest for slaves and precious metals. Marshaling the latest data pertaining to Caucasian archaeology, this book unveils the long-lasting ties linking the Caucasus to Mesopotamia that are illustrated in the Biblical story of the Flood.
Focusing on mixed-effects models, this book offers a comprehensive guide to analysing experiments across diverse fields, including behavioural, agricultural, and medical sciences. The text opens with a traditional analysis of variance and then ranges from linear fixed-effects models to generalised linear mixed-effects models. It covers the most common experimental designs, such as factorial, hierarchical, between-subject, within-subject, cross-over, two-factor mixed, and split-plot designs, before studying analysis of covariance, models with group-specific error variances and models for repeated-measures analysis. Frequently drawing on real-life experiments, the book offers 69 examples and 134 exercises. Readers are supported with digital supplements, comprising the solutions to exercises, the datasets and R code and SAS code for all examples requiring software computation. This is an essential resource for students, practitioners conducting experiments and applied statisticians wishing to use mixed-effects models for the analysis of experiments.
How did the ancient Greeks understand their many gods, and how were those understandings shaped through material acts of worship? Tulsi Parikh explores Archaic Greek religion through the practice of votive offering, treating objects not as passive reflections of belief but as active instruments of religious thought. Through votive gifts, ranging from everyday objects to carefully crafted dedications, worshippers negotiated the uncertain boundary between human and divine, defining divine power, presence, and otherness through material choice. Drawing on archaeological evidence from over twenty sanctuaries across Greece, the book reveals how local, regional, and interregional patterns of dedication expressed diverse yet interconnected theologies. Moving beyond long-standing models of chaos versus order in Greek polytheism, it foregrounds lived religious experience and shows how belief, cognition, and divine relationships were materially produced. The result is a fresh, material-based religious history of Archaic Greece-one written through things. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Despite its fundamental importance to thermal physics, fluctuation theory is only covered briefly in most undergraduate texts. This Student's Guide bridges the gap by offering a detailed look at thermal fluctuations at a level accessible to undergraduate students in physics, engineering, and applied mathematics, and to all self-directed learners approaching the subject for the first time. It places unique emphasis on principles and methods and explicitly references the contributions of Maxwell, Boltzmann, Planck, Einstein, Langevin, and other foundational thinkers. The text is divided into three parts: Part I allows readers to grasp the basics of thermodynamic fluctuations; Part II describes the fluctuations of simple, non-thermodynamic systems; and Part III links the physics of the earlier parts. Key terms are defined in a comprehensive glossary and supporting material is provided in structured appendices. Detailed problems are included at the end of each chapter, with solutions freely available online.
What is martyrdom-the concept of dying voluntarily for religious convictions-and how has it evolved within and between the Abrahamic faiths from antiquity to the present? Shmuel Shepkaru's study focuses on the phraseology, practice, and purposes of martyrdom as described by martyrs and in martyrologies. He demonstrates that, following their formative periods, these three aspects continued to develop, taking on new meanings, behaviors, and functions. Major catalysts for these changes across the three faiths include both local and 'global' events, ranging from the conflicts between Christendom and the rise of Islam in the Middle Ages, to the emergence of nationalism and colonialism in the modern era. Shepkaru illustrates how each faith relates the new to the old, and examines the complex positive and negative interactions-and counterreactions-that continue to shape their concepts of self-sacrifice. Balancing social and theological history, he considers spiritual, cultural, political, local, regional, and global factors, along with convergence and divergence in ideology, narration, and practice.
Infrastructures, such as the roads that connect our cities and the water mains that deliver to our homes, serve as the backbone of society. This book investigates how policymakers can improve infrastructure procurement in the face of strategic behavior and incomplete information. Focusing on Public-Private Partnership (PPP), the book develops a theoretical framework for modeling contracts that avoid corruption and unnecessary renegotiation. The book employs tools from mechanism design, principal agent theory, and restless bandits to address possible challenges in PPPs, offering comprehensive examples of how to design models to leverage insights in real-world scenarios. The book also examines the limits of incentive design and scenarios where its power is limited. Readers will be able to directly apply these models to their research and practice and use the theories and techniques presented in the book to build their own models and inventive solutions for complex PPP problems.
The Cambridge History of Mythology and Mythography offers a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practice of mythic analysis. From antiquity to the present day, and from the Americas to Africa, Eurasia, and Oceania, it demonstrates how mythic traditions have played a seminal role in a variety of cultures and civilizations. It also traces the origins and earliest expression of various mythic traditions, their similarities and differences, mutual influences, and their evolution. In addition, this History explores the key roles that literary figures, oral traditionalists, ethnologists, and cinematographers have played in collecting, cataloguing, interpreting, and reinterpreting the mythic traditions. It demonstrates how their work has influenced the transmission and perception of those traditions and enables an appreciation of the similarities and differences between mythological traditions. This comprehensive reference volume also brings an inter- and multi-disciplinary perspective to the topic, revealing how the interaction of various approaches contributes to the study of mythology across the world.
This is an important new study of Chinese discourses on war and peace from the end of the First World War to the death of Mao Zedong. Exploring these discourses and how they changed over this period, Elisabeth Forster focusses, in particular, on jus ad bellum and the question of whether it was just to start a war. She proceeds from the observation that, while many of China's successive and competing governments claimed that China was inherently peaceful, the peacefulness claim contrasts with the many wars China has waged or threatened. She examines the logic of China's peacefulness claim, whether China developed a unique discourse on war and peace or was part of broader global conversations, and what we can learn from China about the global project to create world peace in the twentieth century and, especially, about that project's failure.