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Paperback. This book provides an introduction to the basic concepts, approaches and theories used, and shows how these contribute to understanding complex health related behaviour. Public health policies and interventions are more likely to be effective if the beliefs and behaviour of people are understood and taken into account. Num Pages: 184 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHM; MBN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 171 x 242 x 10. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Open University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780335218509
- ISBN
- 9780335218509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.93
€ 43.93
Hardcover. The essays included in this volume illuminate mediations of the individual-society relationship from a variety of angles, both explicitly and implicitly. They highlight the need to consider the consequences of choices made by collective decision-makers, politicians and leaders of organizations. Editor(s): Dahms, Harry F. Series: Current Perspectives in Social Theory. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 3JM; JFFR; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 157 x 26. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784412234
- ISBN
- 9781784412234
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.96
€ 166.96
Num Pages: 288 pages, photographs (black and white), 1 map (black and white). BIC Classification: KCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 534. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804786515
- ISBN
- 9780804786515
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Paperback. A collection of essays showcasing intersections of mothering, the media, and popular culture. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: JFCA; JFSJ1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 621.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773539808
- ISBN
- 9780773539808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 38.74
€ 41.99
€ 38.74
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349949120
- ISBN
- 9781349949120
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 129.27
€ 129.27
Mediating Health Information: The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Tech...
. Ed(S): Wathen, N; Wyatt, S; Harris, R
paperback. Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This bookexamines the ways in whichordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators." Editor(s): Wathen, N; Wyatt, S; Harris, R. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; JPQB; MBPC; MBS; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2008
- SKU
- V9781349299386
- ISBN
- 9781349299386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.41
€ 66.41
Hardback. Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of human and technical mediators. Editor(s): Wathen, Nadine; Wyatt, Sally; Harris, Roma. Series: Health Technology and Society. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHB; MBP; MBS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 238
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230201200
- ISBN
- 9780230201200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.37
€ 67.37
Mediating Cultural Diversity in a Globalised Public Space
. Ed(S): Rigoni, Isabelle; Saitta, Eugenie
Paperback. Through enhancing reflection on the treatment of cultural diversity in contemporary Western societies, this collection aims to move the debate beyond the opposition between ethnicity and citizenship and demonstrate ways to achieve equality in multicultural and globalised societies. Editor(s): Rigoni, Isabelle; Saitta, Eugenie. Num Pages: 202 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSL; JFSR; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 251.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 202
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349345779
- ISBN
- 9781349345779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. The first edition od Mediated Society: A Critical Sociology of Media is a concise text that takes a sociological approach to the study of mass media for second and third year undergraduate students. It can be used as a core text for one-semester courses or as a supplementary text for full year courses. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JFD; JHB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Canada Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195431407
- ISBN
- 9780195431407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 67.65
€ 67.65
Hardcover. Drawing on case studies from the global South, this book explores the politics of mediated citizenship in which citizens are represented to the state through third party intermediaries. The studies show that mediation is both widely practiced and multi-directional and that it has an important role to play in deepening democracy in the global South. Editor(s): Lieres, Bettina von; Piper, Laurence. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFM; JHBA; JPVH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137405302
- ISBN
- 9781137405302
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.40
€ 67.40
Paperback. Editor(s): Piper, L. Series: Frontiers of Globalization. Num Pages: 280 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GTF; JHB; JHBA; JPA; JPHV; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349487691
- ISBN
- 9781349487691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.36
€ 66.36
Paperback. Media are fundamental to our sense of living in a social world. Since the beginning of modernity, media have transformed the scale on which we act as social beings. And now in the era of digital media, media themselves are being transformed as platforms, content, and producers multiply. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: JFD; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 242
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745639215
- ISBN
- 9780745639215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.45
€ 32.45
Hardcover. Contemporary anthropologists' engagement with social & digital media simultaneously offers opportunities to disseminate work in new ways, while challenging scholars to move into unfamiliar collaborative domains & expose their research to new forms of scrutiny. This volume's contributors question whether a fresh public anthropology is emerging. Editor(s): Pink, Sarah; Abram, Simone. Series: Studies in Public and Applied Anthropology. Num Pages: 232 pages, 7 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: JFD; JHM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782388463
- ISBN
- 9781782388463
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.59
€ 162.59
Paperback. Showcases the work emerging from the ethnography of media. This title covers topics ranging from indigenous media projects around the world to the unexpected effects of state control of media to the local impact of film and television as they travel transnationally. Editor(s): Ginsburg, Faye D.; Abu-Lughod, Lila; Larkin, Brian. Num Pages: 429 pages, 23 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JFD; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 429
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520232310
- ISBN
- 9780520232310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.44
€ 40.99
€ 29.44
Paperback. Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745670560
- ISBN
- 9780745670560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.63
€ 28.63
Hardcover. Where is sociology in contemporary media studies? How do sociological questions and arguments shape media analysis? These are the questions addressed in this timely collection on media sociology. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Polity Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780745670553
- ISBN
- 9780745670553
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.61
€ 79.61
Hardcover. Representing a detailed analysis of footballers' wives and their role in contemporary British culture, this books explores how the generic and stereotypical 'Wag' has been created by newspaper and magazine coverage, auto/biographies and influential television programmes. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFCA; JFCD; JFDT; JHBS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137335685
- ISBN
- 9781137335685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.95
€ 66.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JFSJ; JHBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349463190
- ISBN
- 9781349463190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.96
€ 65.96
Hardcover. Adopting a truly global, theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, Media Pluralism and Diversity intends to advance our understanding of media pluralism across the globe. It compares metrics that have been developed in different parts of the world to assess levels of, or threats to, media pluralism. Editor(s): Sukosd, Miklos; Picard, Robert G.; Valcke, Peggy. Series: Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. Num Pages: 384 pages, 23 black & white tables, 6 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 147 x 223 x 27. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137304292
- ISBN
- 9781137304292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 151.06
€ 151.06
Paperback. Research consistently shows how through the years more of our time gets spent using media, how multitasking our media has become a regular feature of everyday life, and that consuming media for most people increasingly takes place alongside producing media. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GTC; JFD; JHB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 163 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745650005
- ISBN
- 9780745650005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.81
€ 24.81