Communication Studies

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Critical theory has a long history, but a relatively recent intersection with public relations. This ground-breaking collection engages with commonalities and differences in the traditions, whilst encouraging plural perspectives in the contemporary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781780671819Author Roger HorberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Laurence King PublishingPublisher Laurence King PublishingWeight(grams) 10g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874779301Author Jack MaguireFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,USWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Marshall McLuhan's posthumous The Global Village, co-authored by Bruce Powers, explores the new "laws" of media, "laws" fostering a dramatic collision of viewpoints. The first based on Visual Space - the linear, quantitative mode of perception...

Moral Authoritarianism offers a new perspective on the three modern Korean states-the Japanese colonial state, South Korea, and North Korea-by studying neighborhood associations during the four war decades (1930s-1960s). The existing historiography...

CRESTFALLEN at CHICANERY and CIRCUMLOCUTION? Have no TRUCK with TOMFOOLERY and TRUMPERY? Or OMNISCIENT about OBLOQUIES and OPSIMATHS?Whether you've answered yes, no or 'sorry, I didn't catch that', 500 Beautiful Words You Should now is for you. It offers...

Since its acquisition and rebranding in 2018, TikTok has become one of the fastest growing platforms in the world. Moreover, it's the first Chinese-developed platform to find mainstream international success, carving its own niche in the global short...

Why are geese in a gaggle? Are lions actually proud? And do crows deserve their murderous moniker? Collective nouns are one of the most bizarre and baffling aspects of the English language, and this absorbing book tells the stories of these evocative...

This book is a commonsense guide to becoming a reflective practitioner, written by a practitioner for practitioners. This second edition is fully revised and updated, incorporating extensive new material emphasizing hands-on tools, worksheets, and guides...

As a result of climate change, ocean temperatures are warming and sea levels are rising. Natural disasters have been increasing in frequency and ferocity. Yet, over six decades, Cuba has developed a world-leading model for disaster preparedness and risk...

Political communication has fundamentally transformed as digital technologies have become increasingly important in everyday life. Technology platforms have become powerful political instruments for world leaders, campaigns, social movements,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419641916Author Michele R AcostaFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)...

Diplomacy is a neglected aspect of Hellenistic history, despite the fact that war and peace were the major preoccupations of the rulers of the kingdoms of the time. It becomes clear that it is possible to discern a set of accepted practices which were...

Awards2023 H.L. "Bud" Goodall, Jr. and Nick Trujillo "It's a Way of Life" Award in Narrative Ethnography from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry."Meditations on the Story I Cannot Write: Reflexivity, Autoethnography, and the Possibilities...

Skills lie at the heart of all actions of a social worker, and inform all aspects of practice - from drawing on vital theoretical and ethical frameworks to applying the law and research findings to particular situations. This user-friendly and logically...

Positive Communication for Leaders provides a practical model of positive communication that can be can immediately inspire unity and influence change in organizations. Drawing on decades of research in the fields of communication and leadership and...

This is a major reassessment of the communications revolution of the seventeenth century. Using a wealth of archival evidence and the considerable output of the press, Jason Peacey demonstrates how new media - from ballads to pamphlets and newspapers -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538192245Author Qamar Ul-HudaFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust...

WINNER of the 2021 British Association for Applied Linguistics Book prize It is well recognized that when people are living with a dementia, effective communication can be a challenge for both them and those they interact with. Despite a plethora of...

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616895327Author Giorgia LupiFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Princeton Architectural PressPublisher Princeton Architectural PressWeight(grams)...

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Effective communication is a vital part of the social worker's job. This welcome new edition of a classic text provides students and practitioners with essential advice and guidance about communicating and interacting in a range of social work settings. ...

'Get Me A Murder A Day!' the famous motto of Lord Northcliffe, founder of the Daily Mail, says it all. Murder, sex and scandal seem to be the mass media's staple diet in Britain. Now we have 24-hour news television, podcasts and blogs enabling constant...

Undoing Gender constitutes Judith Butler's recent reflections on gender and sexuality, focusing on new kinship, psychoanalysis and the incest taboo, transgender, intersex, diagnostic categories, social violence, and the tasks of social transformation. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143109792Author Sherry TurkleFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611805833Author Oren J. SoferFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Wish To Live: The Hip-hop Feminism Pedagogy Reader moves beyond the traditional understanding of the four elements of hip-hop culture - rapping, breakdancing, graffiti art, and deejaying - to articulate how hip-hop feminist scholarship can inform...

In 2006, the Al Jazeera Media Network sought to penetrate the United States media sphere, the world's most influential national market for English language news. These unyielding ambitions surprised those who knew the network as the Arab media service...

Brand Psychology brings together theory and practice from the fields of psychology, design, and marketing to demystify the brand development process. It explores the behavioral science behind brand building, looking at the psychological principles at...

Bringing together a range of renowned scholars in the field, this book examines eighteen key issues within contemporary media studies. Written in an accessible student-friendly style, Media Studies - Key Issues and Debates is an authoritative landmark...

This volume gathers brand new essays from some of the most respected scholars of ancient history, archaeology, and physical anthropology to create an engaging overview of the lives of women in antiquity. The book is divided into ten sections, nine...

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research.Readers will find a clear definition of quantitative content analysis and...

Exam Board: CEM Level & Subject: 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning Suitable for the 2024 tests Practice for your 11+ test in short, quick question bursts Making...

Attempts to raise awareness on a multitude of health issues may actually be counter-productive and even dangerous to solving contemporary health problems. From Awareness to Commitment in Public Health Campaigns: The Awareness Myth discusses several myths...

A smorgasbord of surprising, obscure, and exotic wordsIn this delightful encore to the national bestseller A Word A Day, Anu Garg, the founder of the wildly popular A Word A Day Web site (wordsmith.org), presents an all-new collection of unusual,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781601632982Author James O. PyleFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Career PressPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser