OAPEN Library: Recent submissions
Now showing items 20141-20160 of 49163
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(2022)Whether forced or deliberate, change is an integral part of any organisation. It necessarily concerns all those involved in associations: managers, professionals or volunteers, but also users of a service. If change is not ...
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(2022)During the military dictatorship of 1968-1974, France sent its top intelligence specialists to Brazil. Coming from a variety of political backgrounds, these men ensured the transfer of the French army's colonial doctrines ...
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(2022)What is special about friendship as it develops in writers' letters from the Romantic period onwards? If writers' friendly correspondence is not just literature, what are the specific features of writers' epistolary ...
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(2023)This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent ...
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(2023)This innovative and comprehensive collection of essays explores the biggest threats facing humanity in the 21st century; threats that cannot be contained or controlled and that have the potential to bring about human ...
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(2023)This volume argues that relational realism can help us to make better educational policy that is more effective in practice. Basem Adi draws on critical realism to thoroughly re-examine fundamental assumptions about how ...
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(2023)One of the main challenges in labour relations in Europe is the ongoing decentralisation of collective bargaining from national and sectoral levels to company levels. Decentralisation might be an answer to business needs ...
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(2023)Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound ...
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(2024)The apricot has a strong economic value in disputed areas along the Kyrgyzstan-Tajikistan border. It is also an important asset for migrant workers investments. This paper argues that tree's life cycle produces power ...
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(2024)This book is the first collection to showcase the flourishing field of environmental humanities in Central Asia. A region larger than Europe, Central Asia possesses an astounding range of environments, from deserts to ...
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(2023)When considering the establishment of overseas viking encampments, some of the most detailed and vivid contemporary descriptions of this activity originate from the Frankish realm, a region which nevertheless remains ...
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(2023)Archaeology, Medieval Iberia, Viking, Viking Camps, Viking history, Viking settlement
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(2024)In the Paradiso, Dante attempts to emphasize the heightened tension between the limits of human language and the need to put into words a content that deals with divine ineffability. It is a content-stuff that is not ...
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(2024)In this study discourse is considered as the act of communication that analyzes its internal dynamic process mediating between the intention of the author embedded in the text, the intention of the text, and various, ...
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(2024)In this chapter the author lays out a theoretical groundwork for a semiotic theory of multimodality in the Divine Comedy. The analysis is not comprehensive of all modes, but limited to key-modal forms that Dante’s text ...
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(2024)semiotics, multimodality, divine comedy, Literary Criticism, Multiliteracy, language-as-writing, signification
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(2023)In pre-Soviet and early Soviet times, the northern areas of East Siberia and the Russian Far East that today are crossed by the Baikal-Amur Mainline were more or less exclusively the domain of semi-nomadic Evenki reindeer ...
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(2023)Known for their progressive environmental policies and nature-loving citizens, Nordic countries also produce what may seem a counterintuitive film genre: ecohorror, where distinctions between humans and nature are blurred ...
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(2023)In 1835 young Chinese scholar Cai Tinglan was caught in a typhoon while sailing across the Taiwan Strait. He and his shipmates spent a harrowing week at sea before drifting to the coast of central Vietnam. With an escort ...
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(2023)Personal accounts help us understand notions of self, interpersonal relations, and historical events. Chinese Autobiographical Writing contains full translations of works by fifty individuals that illuminate the history ...
