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Society & culture: general
Hardback. In this carefully researched, thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Hughes examines the trajectory of political correctness and its impact on public life. Focusing on the historical, semantic, and cultural aspects of political correctness, it will intrigue anyone interested in this ongoing debate. Series: Language Library. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFG; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405152785
- ISBN
- 9781405152785
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.30
€ 107.30
Hardback. Global Journalism Research offers a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches for studying journalists and journalism around the world. It charts the opportunities and challenges facing journalism research in an increasingly global field. Editor(s): Loffelholz, Martin; Weaver, David. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 200 x 25. Weight in Grams: 834.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153317
- ISBN
- 9781405153317
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.35
€ 130.35
Paperback. Utilizing innovative ethnographic research, Swept-Up Lives? challenges conventional accounts of urban homelessness to trace the complex and varied attempts that have been instituted to care for homeless people. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: JFFB; JFSG; RGCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405153874
- ISBN
- 9781405153874
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.53
€ 34.53
Paperback. The collection brings together a wide range of contributors, including both philosophers and film scholars. All of them address the question of whether philosophy can take the form of, or be articulated through, film. Editor(s): Smith, Murray; Wartenberg, Thomas E. Num Pages: 200 pages, 5 illustrations. BIC Classification: JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 179 x 13. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405154116
- ISBN
- 9781405154116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 57.57
€ 57.57
Paperback. Geographies of Media and Communication systematically analyzes the relationship between geography and communication and shows how geographical approaches open up familiar and unfamiliar aspects of communication for analysis and discussion. Series: Critical Introductions to Geography. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations, maps, figures. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 174 x 16. Weight in Grams: 512.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405154147
- ISBN
- 9781405154147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.99€ 50.81
€ 50.99
€ 50.81
Hardback. Journalism, advertising, radio, television, film, and new media are seen as dynamic parts of our daily lives, interacting with, and often creating the culture we live in. Media Studies: An Introductory Textbook, introduces students to media as they are and have been, integrating history with close textual analysis in s consise, readable style. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 195 x 23. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155601
- ISBN
- 9781405155601
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 121.10
€ 121.10
Hardback. Understanding Media Users focuses on the blurred concept of the active audience at the core of media studies. Charting the complex terrain of screen reception theory and applied research, this new volume offers wide-ranging criticism of media effects. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155663
- ISBN
- 9781405155663
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.23
€ 115.23
Hardback. Over the past thirty years the number of women assuming leadership roles has grown dramatically. This original and important book identifies the challenges faced by women in positions of leadership, and discusses the intersection between theories of leadership and feminism. Editor(s): Chin, Jean Lau; Lott, Bernice; Rice, Joy; Sanchez-Hucles, Janis. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155823
- ISBN
- 9781405155823
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.53
€ 141.53
Paperback. Over the past thirty years the number of women assuming leadership roles has grown dramatically. This original and important book identifies the challenges faced by women in positions of leadership, and discusses the intersection between theories of leadership and feminism. Editor(s): Chin, Jean Lau; Lott, Bernice; Rice, Joy; Sanchez-Hucles, Janis. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155830
- ISBN
- 9781405155830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardback. Moving from her own story growing up in South Africa, anthropologist Ida Susser, looks at the AIDS epidemic in Africa in terms of its impact on a particularly vulnerable both biologically and socially group: women. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1HFM; JFC; JFFH2; JFSJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 175 x 23. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405155861
- ISBN
- 9781405155861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.33
€ 112.33
Paperback. The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Ranciere, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFSG; JPQB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405156301
- ISBN
- 9781405156301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.53
€ 34.53
Hardback. The relationship between space and politics is explored through a study of French urban policy. Drawing upon the political thought of Jacques Ranciere, this book proposes a new agenda for analyses of urban policy, and provides the first comprehensive account of French urban policy in English. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFSG; JPQB; RPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405156318
- ISBN
- 9781405156318
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.17
€ 79.17
Paperback. This volume deals with two momentous and interrelated events in American history. The American Civil War is the country's largest and most significant war, as northern victory created national sovereignty and ended legal slavery. Reconstruction, although intricately linked to the Civil War, has a more complicated and darker legacy. Editor(s): Harrold, Stanley. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405156646
- ISBN
- 9781405156646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.63
€ 43.63
Hardback. * Examines the blue side of the airways with a first-ever analysis of the history and nature of off-color program content. * Explores the treatment of once-forbidden topics in the electronic media, investigating the beliefs, attitudes and actions of those who present such material, those who condemn it, and those who defend it. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405157827
- ISBN
- 9781405157827
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 109.82
€ 109.82
Hardback. The transnational resistances to neo-liberal globalization are arguably the most inspiring political movements of our time. Resistance, Space and Political Identities: The Making of Counter-global Networks makes a distinctive contribution through examining globalised practices of resistance in both the past and present. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405158084
- ISBN
- 9781405158084
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 78.49
€ 78.49
Hardback. Introducing the main findings, methods and analytic techniques of this central approach to language and social interaction, along with real-life examples and step-by-step explanations, Conversation Analysis is the ideal student guide to the field. Series: Language in Society. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CFB; JFFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 173 x 22. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159005
- ISBN
- 9781405159005
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 110.76
€ 110.76
Paperback. American Indian History , which covers the fifteenth century through the present day, illuminates the richness of American Indian historical traditions. Townsend devotes nearly a third of the volume to the ancient world through the eighteenth century and then moves on to extensive coverage of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Editor(s): Townsend, Camilla. Series: Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KB; HBJK; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405159081
- ISBN
- 9781405159081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 40.76
€ 40.99
€ 40.76
Paperback. The Media and the Public explores the ways a range of media have constructed and represented the public. The authors argue that the public is a product of representation, invoked through processes of mediation that are dominated by political, institutional, economic and cultural forces. Series: Communication in the Public Interest. Num Pages: 200 pages, figures. BIC Classification: JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160414
- ISBN
- 9781405160414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.27
€ 43.27
Paperback. The social and political climate surrounding human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research is constantly changing, as is the science, with new developments occurring at a regular pace. Rapid changes can exacerbate fears, and fears often contribute to sweeping pronouncements and prohibitions that may not, ultimately, withstand rational scrutiny. Editor(s): Gruen, Lori; Grabel, Laura; Singer, Peter. Series: Metaphilosophy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; JFM; KNDF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160629
- ISBN
- 9781405160629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.26
€ 28.26
Hardback. This critical examination of racial equality takes a new approach to breaking down racial barriers by proposing a system of equal opportunity through shared labor and contributive justice. A discussion board for ideas and comments relating to the book can be found at: http://howtomakeopportunityequal. blogspot. com/. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFJ; JFSL1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 256 x 181 x 16. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405160810
- ISBN
- 9781405160810
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 107.30
€ 107.30