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Korea, the Iron Silk Road and the Belt and Road Initiative

Ralph Michael Wrobel

Korea as a “middle power” in the last decades saw a growing importance, partly through greater economic clout, partly through greater cultural and soft power (“K-pop”), and partly through collective action in institutions like G 20. However, recent instability in...

Contested Legacies of 1989

Eva Abramuszkinová Pavlíková , Elzbieta Halas

Current Research into Young Foreign Language Learners‘ Literacy Skills

Jutta Rymarczyk

Performing the Gendered Self in Intercultural Communication

Ozan Can Yilmaz

While there is a multiplicity of identity markers that affect the dynamics ofintercultural communication, the intersectionality of gender and religiondeserves more scholarly attention. The book takes the dissimilar culturalconcepts and identity performance as a starting...

Current Research into Young Foreign Language Learners‘ Literacy Skills

Jutta Rymarczyk

Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal:

Bülent Sezgin , Azure Tuna Tetik , Ömer Vatanarttiran

Transformation of the Industry in a Brand New Normal: Media, Music, and Performing Arts is a collection of contemporary research and interpretation that aims to discover the industrialtransformation in media, music, and performing arts. Featuring coverage of a broad...

Representations of Otherness in Romanian Philological Studies

Silvia Florea , Diana Florea , Eric Gilder , Roxana Grunwald

Representations of Otherness in Romanian Philological Studies

Silvia Florea , Diana Florea , Eric Gilder , Roxana Grunwald

Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 87/2021

Ilja Kukuj

Der Band enthält zwei thematische Blöcke zu Osip Mandel’štam und Andrej Platonov sowie Aufsätze über die russischsprachige Literatur des 19. und des 20. Jhd. (Nikolaj Gogol’, Vladimir Nabokov, Dichter der OBERIU). Des Weiteren sind Beiträge zur Pragmatik der...

Wanda Jakubowska Revisited

Monika Talarczyk

The book by Monika Talarczyk is devoted to the life and work of Wanda Jakubowska (1907–1998), author ofThe Last Stage (1948), an icon of women’s cinema, said to be the Mother of All Holocaust Films.The author discovers previously unknown facts in Jakubowska’s biography...

The Presidential Campaign in the Republic of Korea in 2017

Julia Trzcinska

The main purpose of the book is to create a model of the presidential election campaign in South Korea.The research questions included both those regarding the content of the campaign itself and, more broadly, its organization.The collected materials, posted on Facebook...

Staging America, Staging the Self

Anna Warso

This study focuses on theatricality and melancholia in John Berryman's The Dream Songs, and proposes to view them as inherent in the American cultural experience. It discusses Berryman's work in the context of a larger debate on the significance of loss in the process...

A New History of Latvian Literature

Ryszard Nycz

This volume is the outcome of a co-ordinated effort of a group of scholars who set themselves the task of reconsidering nineteenth-century Latvian literary history. We are seeking to pluralize literary history studies by looking for novel insights into Latvian...

Critique of Rationality

Meric Bilgic

This book draws the limits of our thoughts and consciousness between the mind andmind-independent reality by using mathematical logic with the support of neurology.Diagnosing the limits between immanence and transcendence of the consciousnessdepends on dening some...

New Political Parties in the Party Systems of the Czech Republic

Stanislaw Sulowski

The book introduces readers to the basic knowledge about changes in the political party system, which started to take place after the parliamentary elections in 2010.The introductory part introduces the basic development of the political party system in the Czech...

Global Risks And Crises Management In Tourism

Ali Avan , Elbeyi Pelit , Hasan Hüseyin Soybali

Tourism is one of the most sensitive industries across risks and crises based on economic,social, and political developments. In recent years, the challenges such asterrorism, epidemics, and economic blockades based on political tension betweencountries not only cause...

Arithmetic in the Thought of Gerbert of Aurillac

Marek Otisk

The book deals with Gerbert of Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II) and his investigations in the field of theoretical (philosophy of numbers) and practical (counting) arithmetic.The book represents the comprehensive inquiry of both these aspects of arithmetic in his thought....

Beyond the Iron Curtain

?Tefan Baghiu , Ovio Olaru , Andrei Terian

Drawing on methodologies pertaining to Digital Humanities, World Literature, and Comparative Literature, the volume aims to challenge some of the enduring clichés regarding the literary production of Romanian communism. The first section focuses on socialist realism,...

Gamification and Artificial Intelligence during COVID-19: Case Studies in Health and Education

Carmen Bueno Muñoz , José Ángel López Sánchez , Luis R. Murillo Zamorano

The health emergency caused by COVID-19 has been a global challenge. During this period, it was necessary to quickly develop solutions that were able to cope with the pandemic and help mitigate the effects that the new coronavirus was causing in many sectors. This book...

The Labyrinths of Leibniz’s Philosophy

Boguslaw Paz

This volume explores the various ‘labyrinths’ of Leibniz’s philosophy, that is, hard-to-solve problems in which the human mind becomes entangled. Although the Hanoverian explicitly distinguished two such labyrinths (freedom and continuum), one may notice that in his...