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In Why Do People Sing?

Communication studies is a fragmented field.

Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis.

How elections are reported has important implications for the health of democracy and informed citizenship.

Public relations is, by design, the least visible of the persuasive industries.

The public, James Carey famously wrote, is the 'god-term' of journalism, 'the term without which the entire enterprise fails to make sense.

This revised edition of Kimberly Hutchings s best-selling textbook provides an accessible introduction to the field of Global Ethics for students of politics, international relations and globalization.

In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz.

Today's economic system, premised on the sale of physical goods, does not fit the information age in which we live.

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing.

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics.

How did the Nazis imagine their victory and the subsequent Thousand-Year Reich ?

Introduction to any complex international conflict is enriched when the voices of the adversaries are heard.

The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi s writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist.

James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.

With more than 500,000 people killed and at least half the population displaced, Syria's conflict is the most deadly of the twenty-first century.

Life for too many African American men is a battle with extreme disadvantage, a fight for survival, and a struggle for dignity in a society which labels them a "e;problem.

Within the so-called seduction community, the ability to meet and attract women is understood as a skill which heterosexual men can cultivate through practical training and personal development.

Across the Western world, people are angry about the inability of government to perform basic functions competently.

What should be done after the end of a repressive regime or a civil war?

For much of the last half century, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has seemed the outlier in global peace.

Media are poetic forces.

Can we talk about the news media without proclaiming journalism either our savior or the source of all evil?

The world economy is expanding rapidly despite chronic economic crises.

Adonis' influence on Arabic literature has been likened to that of T.

In the mediated digital era, communication is changing fast and eating up ever greater shares of real-world power.

Understanding Development offers a comprehensive introduction to the multidimensional and evolving nature of international development in the contemporary world.

Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe s leading radical thinkers.

Mediated Intimacy looks at contemporary sex and relationship advice, exploring how our intimate lives are shaped through different media, from manuals and magazines to television and Twitter.

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent.

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad.

What Journalism Could Be asks readers to reimagine the news by embracing a conceptual prism long championed by one of journalism's leading contemporary scholars.

A singular development in the post-Cold War era is the use of military force to protect human beings.

China's future is arguably the most consequential question in global affairs.

Once marginalized in the world economy, Africa today is a major global supplier of crucial raw materials like oil, uranium and coltan.

In the context of profound transformations in the professional, business, technological and social context of journalism, it is crucial for journalism studies and education to move beyond limited approaches to the discipline.

This inspirational book provides the backstory to current attempts by states and corporations to control the Internet.

During the Holocaust, 99 percent of all Jewish killings were carried out by members of state organizations.

Liveness is a persistent and much-debated concept in media studies.

Few trends have had as much impact on television as formats have in recent years.

This book sets out to unravel and explain the puzzle of the global rise of China: how, in just forty years, China has been quickly transformed from a poor, backward third-world country to one of the world s core economic powerhouses.

In recent decades cognitive science has revolutionised our understanding of the workings of the human mind.

Whether we are out on the streets or between the sheets, cotton is our constant companion.

With the advent of digital devices and software, self-tracking practices have gained new adherents and have spread into a wide array of social domains.

Information overload, the shallows, weapons of mass distraction, the googlization of minds: countless commentators condemn the flood of images and information that dooms us to a pathological attention deficit.

Keep your muscles strong, flexible, and healthy with these 60 stretches to help you loosen up and improve your overall health wherever you are!

A complete, step-by-step manual for safely sheltering-in-place at home so you are prepared for any disaster or disease.

Be as productive as possible at work while never leaving your home with these 500 easy-to-follow hacks that will instantly improve your work-from-home experience.

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Take control of your wedding planning (and budget) with over 500 easy hacks to help your wedding go as smoothly as possiblefrom preventing wardrobe malfunctions to making an adjustable seating chart.