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Hardcover. The telegraph, telephone, and television, not to mention the Internet and mobile telephony, are all forms of communication that move information faster than the speed at which objects move. Both labor and capital and armies and commodities once moved at the same speed as the information organizing them. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFC; JFSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653983
- ISBN
- 9780745653983
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Provides and clear and engaging introduction to the key concept of organizational discourse. The text is illuminated with examples throughout. This book demonstrates the importance of studying organizational discourse by addressing classical organizational themes, objects and questions associated with organization studies. Series: PKGS - Polity Key Themes in Organizational Communication. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: CFGR; GTC; KJU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745654218
- ISBN
- 9780745654218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. In focusing on the practices, politics and ethics of listening, this wide-ranging book offers an important new perspective on questions of media audiences, publics and citizenship. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745660240
- ISBN
- 9780745660240
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 77.59
€ 77.59
Paperback. Sub-Saharan Africa is no longer a troubled dark continent. Most of its constituent countries are now enjoying significant economic growth and political progress. The new Africa has begun to banish the miseries of the past, and appears ready to play an important role in world affairs. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1H; GTF; KCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745661636
- ISBN
- 9780745661636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.08
€ 26.08
Hardcover. * An engaging analysis of an emerging, cutting-edge area of media studies. * This accessible text draws is driven by empirical examples and terminology is clearly introduced and explained. Num Pages: 180 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 180
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745662268
- ISBN
- 9780745662268
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. We live in a world where a tweet can be instantly retweeted and read by millions around the world in minutes, where a video forwarded to friends can destroy a political career in hours, and where an unknown man or woman can become an international celebrity overnight. Virality: individuals create it, governments fear it, companies would die for it. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; UBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 145 x 16. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671284
- ISBN
- 9780745671284
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.49
€ 60.49
Hardcover. * The first book to explore the social meaning of the 'always on' webcam and the role it has come to play in our lives. * Using case studies from the UK and Trinidad and Tobago, the authors examine how webcams have become an integral part of people's everyday life. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 160 x 21. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745671468
- ISBN
- 9780745671468
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. The second edition of Presidential Campaign Communication is designed to help readers understand and appreciate how the people of the United States use human communication to select their presidents. Series: Contemporary Political Communication. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; GTC; JFD; JPHF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 173 x 24. Weight in Grams: 690.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680231
- ISBN
- 9780745680231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Paperback. Since the end of the Cold War a significant number of peace agreements have been signed, many of them in bloody intra-state conflicts that were previously thought beyond resolution. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745680279
- ISBN
- 9780745680279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardcover. Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion. But behind this ubiquitous fibre prized for its softness lies a darker story of exploitation and hardship. Series: Resources. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFG; GTF; KNDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745681979
- ISBN
- 9780745681979
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745687988
- ISBN
- 9780745687988
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Paperback. Bringing warring parties to the negotiating table is the aim of any peace process. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 229 x 23. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745687995
- ISBN
- 9780745687995
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81
Hardcover. For successful political leaders, public speaking is only half the battle. A good politician must also be a competent performer. Series: PCPC - Polity Contemporary Political Communication Series. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745689616
- ISBN
- 9780745689616
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardcover. Social semiotics reveals language's social meaning its structures, processes, conditions and effects in all social contexts, across all media and modes of discourse. This important new book uses social semiotics as a one-stop shop to analyse language and social meaning, enhancing linguistics with a sociological imagination. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: CFB; GTE; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Polity
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745696201
- ISBN
- 9780745696201
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.24
€ 73.24
Hardback. Volume VI on Human Rights and Media introduces and analyzes the significant relationship and discourse of human rights and media. As agenda setters, framers and integral actors in human rights movements, various forms of media are analyzed by the contributing authors. Series Editor(s): Papademas, Diana. Series: Studies in Communications. Num Pages: 226 pages, indices. BIC Classification: GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780762300525
- ISBN
- 9780762300525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.34
€ 126.34
Hardback. Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. This work explores how Thai national identity in the global economy is linked to prostitution and gender, and how certain images of "the prostitute" have silenced discourses of prostitution as work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMT; GTB; JFMX; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808729
- ISBN
- 9780774808729
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.01
€ 114.01
Paperback. Prostitution in Thailand has been the subject of media sensationalism for decades. This work explores how Thai national identity in the global economy is linked to prostitution and gender, and how certain images of "the prostitute" have silenced discourses of prostitution as work. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMT; GTB; JFMX; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774808736
- ISBN
- 9780774808736
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59
Paperback. The essays in this volume reassess Gandharan Buddhism in light of these findings, utilizing a multidisciplinary approach that illuminates the complex historical and cultural dynamics of the region. Editor(s): Brancaccio, Pia; Behrendt, Kurt A. Series: Asian Religions and Society. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1F; GTB; HRE. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 142 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774810814
- ISBN
- 9780774810814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.18
€ 46.99
€ 42.18
Hardback. "Merry Laughter and Angry Curses" reveals how the late-Qing-era tabloid press became the voice of the people. This book shows the tabloid community to be both a producer of meanings and a participant in the social and cultural dialogue that would shake the foundations of imperial China and lead to the 1911 Republican Revolution. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774823388
- ISBN
- 9780774823388
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.64
€ 107.64
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; GTC; HBJK; JFD; LNRC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774824057
- ISBN
- 9780774824057
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.59
€ 40.99
€ 36.59