Exploring multilingual discourses on water in Senegal, this book takes ecolinguistics beyond its Eurocentric confinements and illustrates important contemporary developments in the field.Senegal is marked by a linguistic discrepancy: Wolof, spoken by roughly 90% of the population, is used in everyday communication, while French, spoken by roughly 20% of the population, is the only official language since colonisation. Inspired by water's movement, ...

This book analyzes the conditions for the development of e‑services and digital services in the European Union. It covers the technological, legal, ethical, and regulatory perspectives, including the present and anticipated EU regulations and directives, as well as the broader digital environment in which contemporary consumers operate. Special attention is devoted to user security, digital competences, levels of knowledge, and awareness of various cyber threats encountered in everyday use...

This important volume tackles the discourse of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on language and communication, constituting a novel approach in the literature on the topic. By drawing on methods from linguistics, media studies, digital culture, journalism, and literature, it explores new pathways for analysing how narratives are constructed, contested, and disseminated across multiple platforms and contexts. Offering a con...

Sustainable agriculture is at a critical crossroads as global food demand rises alongside challenges such as soil degradation, climate change, and declining resource efficiency. Sustainable Agri-Productivity: A Roadmap to Hunger Alleviation using Beneficial Microbes addresses these pressing concerns by presenting microbes as key drivers of resilient and productive agroecosystems. This book aims to bridge the gap between fundamental microbial science and its practical applications ...

Take to the skies with Amelia Earhart and learn about one of history’s most daring and determined aviators.In Amelia Earhart: One-of-a-Kind Pilot, children follow how she worked hard to become a pilot and how her achievements helped open doors for women in aviation. Along the way, kids see what was happening in the world during her lifetime and how the people, events, and ideas of the era shaped her journey. Her courage and determination continue to inspir...

Take to the skies with Amelia Earhart and learn about one of history’s most daring and determined aviators.In Amelia Earhart: One-of-a-Kind Pilot, children follow how she worked hard to become a pilot and how her achievements helped open doors for women in aviation. Along the way, kids see what was happening in the world during her lifetime and how the people, events, and ideas of the era shaped her journey. Her courage and determination continue to inspir...

This book provides a compact overview of India’s economic reforms in the financial, trade and agricultural sectors, and the impact of these policies on India’s economy since 1991.This book is divided into three parts. Part I deals with financial sector reforms and outlines different financial systems and their workings, with a detailed discussion on the trends and progress in the Indian financial system. Part II deals with trade policy reforms and provides a bird’s-eye view of the ...

Media representations of linguistic diversity matter. In this innovative book, Bednarek uses a case study of Australian television dialogue to introduce novel methods for studying such representations.The volume examines 16 television series holistically, presenting a new approach called corpus-based sociocultural linguistics. This means applying corpus methods such as keyword analysis, lexical profiling and concordancing, while integrating concepts such as indexicality, enregister...

Follow the fantasy story of a young genius sage who ends up teaching the next generation of heroes!Monsters have long threatened humanity’s existence. To fight against these beings, Keith, the youngest person to ever become a sage, joins a knight order and shows immense success on the battlefield. However, that doesn’t last long, as a quarrel with an incompetent higher-up gets him fired from the order. With nowhere to go, Keith is assigned as a teacher, and with hi...

God is near, and he wants you to find rest."God is always near, even when we feel a million miles away."So many Christian women find themselves exhausted. Distracted. Running on caffeine and cortisol, scurrying from task to task, juggling the never-ending demands of motherhood, marriage, work, and life—and somewhere in the middle of all of it, they've drifted.If that's you, you're not alone.We are living in uncertain and often chaotic times,...

Some cases are personal. This one is family.Five days before her wedding, Joanne York is dead—shot in her San Francisco apartmentalongside her fiancé, Marc. The SFPD calls it murder-suicide and closes the case. Her familydisagrees.Lene Becker is a homicide detective from Nuremberg, Germany. She is also Joanne's cousin. Thetrip to San Francisco was supposed to be for the wedding. Instead, she arrives with herdaughter Sophie—who lo...

This book uses a variety of case studies to examine how disability can be used as an analytical lens, and provide new perspectives on historical research.Approximately 15-20% of the world's population is estimated to be disabled. Writing the History of Disabilities examines 13 case studies, ranging from the activism of Italian First World War veterans, to the social history of Tuberculosis in North America, and the history of disability in sport. Each chap...