This fascinating open access study explains and describes the process by which young children can acquire a second language incidentally, via joyful and regular exposure to animated cartoons. This multi-year activity can replicate some aspects of the mother-tongue acquisition process, especially when supported by a co-viewing caregiver.

Rosalia Di Nisio emphasises two important elements in the acquisition process: the mediation of co-viewing adults as a motivating factor, and the multimodal nature of cartoons as a facilitator of extensive comprehension through sounds and images. She gives evidence to this multimodality by first focusing on the 'dual coding' interaction between cartoons' verbal and non-verbal dimensions, then broadening her analysis to a more complex meaning-making discourse. Combining cognitive, relational and language perspectives, Di Nisio also demonstrates the near-native language acquisition phases: singing and acting out, which mark the baby's involvement accompanied by a caregiver; the silent, but fertile phase, during which listening skills reach surprising levels; speech development, which is prompted by opportunities to interact with a native speaker.

Underpinned by foundational theory from cognitive psychology, multimodality and applied linguistics, this is an essential study of a fertile but overlooked mode of language acquisition.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com

This open access book showcases current debates in the field of global education and learning and the importance of the Declaration on Global Education to 2050. It features chapters from academics, researchers, policy-makers and practitioners based in Australia, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden and the UK who are working in the fields of global citizenship, education for sustainable development and peace and human rights education. The chapters cover a range of topics that span formal, non-formal and informal learning spaces including gender justice, democracy, moral education, climate change policy, decolonizing global learning, PISA, the Sustainable Development Goals and the role of UNESCO. The importance of learning about global issues and sustainable development has never been seen as more important than it is today. This book addresses the big global issues of today, be they climate change, war and conflict, human rights, quality of learning and reducing global poverty.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Knowledge Unlatched.

Master the YouTube algorithm and transform your channel into a thriving, revenue-generating business

Even experienced YouTube creators struggle to understand the platform's complex algorithm and grow their audiences profitably. The YouTube Formula, Second Edition by Derral Eves, a video marketing expert who has generated billions of views, provides proven strategies for YouTube success. This comprehensive guide reveals algorithm mechanics and delivers actionable advice for building a sustainable creator business.

The updated edition includes brand new case studies and addresses emerging trends. Readers discover how to leverage AI tools, optimize shortform content and YouTube Shorts, master livestreaming, and build loyal fandoms. The book provides data-driven strategies for launching channels, creating compelling content, driving subscriber growth, and increasing engagement.

The book offers:

• Detailed explanations of how the YouTube algorithm evaluates and recommends content to maximize reach
• Proven techniques for driving rapid view and subscriber growth based on billions of views generated
• Comprehensive guidance on AI tools, shortform content, and livestreaming strategies for modern creators
• Real-world case studies from successful YouTube creators demonstrating strategies in action
• Data-driven approaches to monetization, audience development, and community building that generate revenue

Perfect for YouTube creators, content creators, social media strategists, brand managers, entrepreneurs, and video marketers, The YouTube Formula delivers the insider knowledge and practical strategies you need to achieve commercial success on the world's largest video platform and build a thriving creator business.

In Animated Queerness: LGBTQIA+ Representation in Animated Media, scholars from different fields come together to examine the ways and mechanisms animated films represent, suppress, encode, and celebrate queer narratives.

This edited volume traces LGBTQIA+ animated audiovisual works across multiple decades, genres, and media platforms, while it explores implicit and explicit representation, fan creativity and intervention, corporate and social censorship, and global circulation.

The volume is divided into four parts. Part I includes historical and transnational approaches that highlight the queer legacies of creators such as Tove Jansson and Kunihiko Ikuhara. Part II examines how audiences use fan-made content and interpretative techniques to change canonical narratives. Part III analyzes global politics of representation, including censorship and intersectionality. Finally, Part IV studies the ways contemporary animated audiovisual works experiment with queer futurities, posthumanism, and alternative temporalities.

In bringing these essays together, this book argues that animation provides a fruitful space for creating queer worlds in which characters, storylines, and audiences perform fluid identities and imagine new modes of connection and empathy.

Master project management with a practice-driven approach built on 50 years of experience. As Volume I of a three-volume compendium, this book presents a holistic, cybernetic perspective that enables adaptive focus on critical events, decisions, and feedback loops shaping project success.

Clear frameworks and practical mnemonics support effective oversight, while insights from third-order cybernetics and neuroscience show how human behaviour influences outcomes. Instead of rigid command-and-control logic, the approach emphasises continuous regulation, learning, and adjustment in dynamic environments. Cultural sensitivity is addressed through tailored methods for managing projects across diverse contexts and legal or procurement systems.

A rigorous yet accessible treatment of Earned Value Management (ISO 21508) and Milestone Trend Analysis enables data-driven forecasting. A systems-based view of quality links project management with ISO/IEC 25010. Problem solving integrates analytical and heuristic "satisficing" approaches, supported by AI-assisted methods. Real-world examples, templates, and tools ensure immediate applicability.

Transform your workplace culture by elevating everyday actions that build trust, connection, and lasting productivity

In Leading the Culture Journey: Elevating Everyday Actions to Create Extraordinary Workplaces, workplace culture experts Natalie and Rebecca Johnson deliver an inspiring and practical discussion about how to build a work environment that energizes you and your team. They provide a compelling argument for the proposition that, at work, culture shapes everything - your energy, your wellbeing, the relationships your team members have with one another, and your company's performance. They also explain exactly how to build a culture that transforms your organization into a dynamic, vibrant, and healthy place to work.

This book is a call-to-action for everyone who's experienced a workplace that was more draining than invigorating. It offers human-centered frameworks that guide organizations into that rarified group of companies that succeed in transforming their cultures. You'll find:

• An authentic collaboration between two experienced authors who have led countless root-to-stem culture transformations in the real world
• Case studies and practical strategies with a proven track record of improving business results
• An expert compilation of advice that weaves together the impact of individuals, interpersonal relationships, and the environment

Perfect for managers, executives, entrepreneurs, founders, and other business leaders, Leading the Culture Journey is also a must-read for human resources professionals and the leaders of all kinds of groups - including non-profits, government agencies, and community organizations - interested in bringing out the best in those who follow them.

In Caste War Now and Never scholar S. B. West considers Yucatan's nineteenth-century Caste War, the longest and most violent Indigenous uprising of the Western Hemisphere, to argue that it actually never occurred.

Instead, West writes that the violent events grouped under the "Caste War" label must be understood through alternative frameworks that resist the emergent logics of race war and include related regulatory matrices like gender and land. Through this lens, the Caste War emerges as a discursive construct rooted in an anti-Indigenous archive that served the political interests of a frustrated regional elite during the rise of liberalism and nationhood. West argues that Caste War discourse unfolds as a technology that mobilized and legitimized genocidal actions against racialized rebels and inspired assimilation into hegemonic political and social structures.

In the second half of the book, West looks at the Caste War to engage its contemporary polysemic nature through close readings of Yucatec Maya texts, stories, and other forms of knowledge production. These sources reframe the Caste War as an important part of a framework of resistance that defies colonial time and reclaims narrative control of its events.

Caste War Now and Never captures how Maya communities understand the conflict as ongoing and demonstrates that although the Caste War never occurred as such, it continues to endure presently.

Andre Drainville gives a provocative and necessary intervention into discussions of academic freedom, showing its connection to the evolving social relations of knowledge and power over the last thousand years. Rather than assuming that academic freedom is an established and well-defined, if threatened, right, Drainville historicizes the concept, understanding scholarly struggles for intellectual autonomy as part of the disputed, variously situated, processes of world ordering. Tracing instances of the freedom to think through the longue duree, he sets out a materialist history of the evolving relations between economic and social orders and the conditions of knowledge production from 12th century China to contemporary US campuses.

In order to resituate debates about academic freedom within broader discussions of global forms of power and counter-power, the book draws on black existentialism, English labor history, critical political economy; French structuralist state theory; theories of global patriarchy; structural anthropology; postcolonial theory. Focussing on the little tradition of scholarly action, the book discusses two dozen moments in the development of the social relations of knowledge production that are not typically rendered as part of the (apparently) coherent and continuous dominant discourse of academic freedom. These span historical contexts from the pre-capitalist world economies, the formation of modern capitalism, the post-World War 2 world ordering, to the contemporary 'new knowledge economy'. In each case, Drainville highlights how distinct structures of world order opened up, or narrowed, possibilities for scholars to institute self-regulated relations of knowledge production and how, above and beyond circumstantial considerations, scholars have time and again struggled for autonomy and indeterminacy.

Rich in detail yet theoretically sophisticated, this book is an indispensable resource for those concerned with academic freedom and intellectual autonomy, historically and in the new knowledge economy.

This is a creative work of psychogeography, theory and autoethnography, which offers a unique insight into the personal world of music-meaning-making, working-class heritage, and the transformation of identity through a life-long obsession with aeroplanes and flight. Combined, these aspects articulate a progressive journey of transformation through informal learning and higher education, exploring personal progression through the narrative techniques of life-writing and innovative theory work.

The book provides readers with a sequence of intimate and informative provocations through memory and imagination. Shaped around the experience of a car journey (as part of a commute to work), the book invites readers to explore a chaos of memories - provoked by a range of songs encountered as part of a playlist, which emerge as part of a compelling analysis of music, the symbolism of flight, and educative hope.

Through a combination of storytelling and scholarly analysis, the book utilises cultural theory, process philosophy, and biography and invites readers to adapt and incorporate the concepts and psychogeographic techniques for creative student engagements as part of curricular and assessment practices.

Introduces readers to the rationale and risks of using AI and big data in higher education and shares novel applications for improving educational practice.

Colleges and universities collect-and own-more data than ever before. These data can be analyzed with powerful new tools to support student learning and faculty research. Yet, big data and artificial intelligence (AI) also represent unprecedented encroachments on student privacy rights and potential for unparalleled monitoring of employee and faculty work. The Digitized Campus takes a comprehensive view of the origins and ramifications of embracing AI and big data in higher education. It addresses a timely and globally relevant topic and is accessible for readers without data science training. Chapter authors use historical, legal, philosophical, methodological, and practitioner lenses to offer insights for higher education leaders and faculty who will influence the use of artificial intelligence and big data for years to come.

This book investigates the relationship that exists between migration, language and emotion in the personal correspondence exchanged between Irish emigrants, who travelled overseas during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and their loved ones back in Ireland. Based on data from the Corpus of Irish English Correspondence (CORIECOR) and involving innovative analytic techniques in the field of corpus pragmatics and discourse analysis, the book will shed new light on three main thematic strands: identity nouns, emotion adjectives and the conceptualisation of emotions through mental verbs. The findings will be of interest to students and scholars of corpus pragmatics, historical sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, emotion studies, Irish migration and postcolonial studies.

'My view is that the future belongs to the minority of businesses that follow this advice.' Rory Sutherland, Vice Chairman, Ogilvy Group

As fears of agentic obsolescence abound, organizations are struggling to implement AI in ways that enhance rather than replace human work. This unique book introduces a full-stack approach that balances technological capability with human values, ethics and practical applications.

AI at Work provides a framework that moves beyond scattered AI experiments toward a coherent strategy that will run throughout your entire company. Rather than focusing on technical capabilities or dystopian warnings, it utilizes a full-stack approach to harness AI's benefits while preserving what matters most - a firm's people, its values and its unique organizational identity.

The global AI market is projected to reach $1.8 trillion by 2030, with organizations across sectors racing to implement AI solutions. However, whilst 83% of executives report that AI is a top priority for their organization, only 23% have a comprehensive implementation strategy.

This book fills a critical gap between theoretical AI books and technical implementation guides by offering:
? A practical framework applicable across industries;
? Equal emphasis on technological capability, ethical considerations and real-world applications;
? A human-centred approach that addresses concerns about AI replacing workers; and
? Case studies and examples from diverse sectors.