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Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume II: Britain and the Indian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
Introducing Cultural Studies
Learning through Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
"An outstanding entry level text aimed at those with little or no cultural studies knowledge... Innovative, creative and clever."
***- Times Higher Education ***
"The ideal textbook for FE and first year HE cultural studies students. Its quality and character allow the reader...
by Dr. Andy Ruddock
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
When societies worry about media effects, why do they focus so much on young people? Is advertising to blame for binge drinking? Do films and video games inspire school shootings? Tackling these kinds of questions, Youth and Media explains why young people are at the centre of how we understand the...
News as Entertainment
The Rise of Global Infotainment
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
"Thussu brings to this project the passion for news of a socially committed former journalist, the political economy of his international relations education and a formidable assembly of global detail, examining the recent explosion of 'infotainment'."
- John Downing, Southern Illinois University
"Thussu's...
Encyclopedia of Time
Science, Philosophy, Theology, & Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2009
"With a strong interdisciplinary approach to a subject that does not lend itself easily to the reference format, this work may not seem to support directly academic programs beyond general research, but it is a more thorough and up-to-date treatment than Taylor and Francis's 1994 Encyclopedia...
by Kerry E Howell
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
This book provides students with a concise introduction to the philosophy of methodology. The book stands apart from existing methodology texts by clarifying in a student-friendly and engaging way distinctions between philosophical positions, paradigms of inquiry, methodology and methods. Building...
Qualitative Inquiry in Everyday Life
Working with Everyday Life Materials
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
This book is a 'survival guide' for students and researchers who would like to conduct a qualitative study with limited resources. Brinkmann shows how everyday life materials such as books, television, the internet, the media and everyday conversations and interactions can help us to understand larger...
Discourse Studies
A Multidisciplinary Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
"A landmark in the oeuvre of one of the founding fathers of discourse analysis. Van Dijk has managed to edit a volume of lasting significance, and some of the chapters in this book belong to the most widely read in the field. In its totality, Discourse Studies offers us a 360 degree tour of the...
Intersubjectivity
The Fabric of Social Becoming
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 1996
This clearly written and broad-ranging text introduces and explains the notion of intersubjectivity as a central concern of philosophy, sociology, psychology and politics. The main purpose of the book is to provide a coherent framework for this important concept against which the various and contrasting...
Understanding Management Research
An Introduction to Epistemology
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2000
'These sections represent the clearest rendition yet of these subjects, with difficult concepts introduced in a digestible form for the neophytic (or not so neophytic) researcher. Whilst in a book this size not every argument can be presented, there is ample extra material to be found to encourage...
by Ms Angela Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
'The ultimate book on the creative skills of journalism'
- Writing Magazine
'Useful and timely... it is refreshing to discover a book so overtly designed to inspire students to think about what can make writing good - or even great.'
- Media International Australia
This is a book about...
by Dr. Arthur A, Berger
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
In the Sixth Edition of Media Analysis Techniques, author Arthur Asa Berger once again provides students with a clearly written, user-friendly, hands-on guide to media criticism. The book empowers readers to make their own analyses of the media rather than just accept how others interpret the media....
Family Life Education
Principles and Practices for Effective Outreach
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
Drawing on the best scholarship and their own years of professional experience, Stephen F. Duncan and H. Wallace Goddard provide a practical, how-to guide to developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining effective family life education programs. This thoroughly updated Third Edition of Family...
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences
No Last Words
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 1998
Bakhtin and the Human Sciences demonstrates the abundance of ideas Bakhtin's thought offers to the human sciences, and reconsiders him as a social thinker, not just a literary theorist. The contributors hail from many disciplines and their essays' implications extend into other fields in the human...