Cultural and media studies

This book offers a curated collection of scholarship that significantly contributes to the shaping of Critical Food Studies in Asia.

This book challenges conventional wisdom about labor migration during the Cold War era, revealing a complex landscape of mobility that transcended the supposed rigid boundaries between socialist and capitalist worlds.

This book reviews and advances the theoretical and empirical knowledge at the intersection of opinion change and democracy.

This book is a socio-philosophical journey across several aspects of our society's focus on individual freedom, taking cues from some of the most prominent thinkers of our time.

This book provides an alternative agenda to deepen understanding of grassroots governance and interaction in Taiwan.

This book offers a comprehensive, evidence-based, and engaging inquiry into women's oppression and its mitigation through contemplative practices like meditation.

This book explores the current impasse that global regulators face in the digital sphere.

This book looks at Margaret Atwood's use of food motifs in speculative fiction.

It is widely recognized that Latinos are a sizable and diverse population and that we are a young demographic.

This book is the third publication out of the Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation (AEI) Lab that focuses exclusively on research that empirically investigates crossovers between arts, entrepreneurship and innovation.

This book, a rich collection authored by rhetorical scholars, unpacks how rhetoric contributes to argumentation studies.

This book examines argumentative situations as they develop in different cultures and language groups.

This book introduces the principles of place and time by discussing the main roles they play in argumentation, unpacking the multifarious meanings of spatiality and temporality.

This book provides a rigorous social historical study of Eastern and East Central European Jewry with a specific focus on women.

This book contains several critical essays, book reviews, and poems that address the current pandemic to mark a sad but hopeful first anniversary of COVID.

This book explores translation strategies for films and TV programs.

This book is the first linguistic study that combines CL and CDA to compare the media representations of Macau's gaming industry in English-language newspapers published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau.

This book proposes new design and development models for local cultural and creative products, intended to improve the quality of these products and to preserve or enhance their local economic benefits.

The book explores the WIPO journey so far and looks at how relevant the treaties are in contemporary world after 25 years of their existence.

The invention of Mauveine by Perkin in 1856 led to a revolution in the world of textiledyeing.

This book is about Big Brother Naija (BBN), which is a Nigerian version of the Big Brother franchise featured in more than 50 countries of the world with its major concept drawn from George Orwell 's novel, Nineteen Eigther-Four .

This book presents a case study of English-Medium Instruction (EMI) implemented by universities in Vietnam, making valuable theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the research in EMI which is currently a popular theme in the field of Higher Education.

The book contributes to the sparse academic literature on African and minority language media research.

This book addresses the role of modern surveying and representation technologies in preserving and disseminating cultural heritage.

Over time, philosophers and historians of science have introduced different notions of 'ways of thinking'.

This is a collection of essays marking the 30th anniversary of the historic Cold War's formal conclusion in 1991.

The book showcases research on digital entertainment solutions in different sectors.

"e;This book is an important analysis of how police themselves define and respond to police corruption and wrongdoing.

This book presents perspectives from South Asian countries, such as India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan.

This book includes the proceedings of the fourth workshop on recommender systems in fashion and retail (2022), and it aims to present a state-of-the-art view of the advancements within the field of recommendation systems with focused application to e-commerce, retail, and fashion by presenting readers with chapters covering contributions from academic as well as industrial researchers active within this emerging new field.

Professor Drew's latest work makes the case that even great public policy needs to be deliberately and strategically sold in order for it to ultimately be considered a success.

Why are reflection and supervision important for coaches?

The book explores the evolving relationships between parents and children, the significance of the Jewish school in their lives, how young people think about religious practices, and their lives in the UK.

Myanmar has faced numerous divisions that hinder its democratization and peacebuilding processes since emerging out of decades of military dictatorship.

In this book, Ben Lazare Mijuskovic uses both an interdisciplinary and History of Ideas approach to discuss four forms of intertwined theories of human consciousness and reflexive self-consciousness (Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel; Schopenhauer's subconscious irrational Will; Brentano and Husserl's transcendent intentionality; and Freud's dynamic ego).

This book gets to the heart of trophy hunting, unpacking and explaining its multiple facets and controversies, and exploring why it divides environmentalists, the hunting community, and the public.

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This book introduces the basic principles underlying the design and analysis of the digital communication systems that have heralded the information revolution.

This book explores the enduring significance of sacred landscapes in an increasingly globalized world, with a particular focus on the Christian sacred landscape and its connection to pilgrimage and rituals.

Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist.

This book is an exploration of one of the world's largest man-made reservoirs, Lake Kariba, created along the Zambezi River in central Africa.

The book explores the close relationship between media institutions and power elites in Arab societies.

This book makes a significant interdisciplinary contribution to existing scholarship on ethnicity, conflict, nation-making, colonial history and religious minorities in the Philippines, which has been confronted with innumerable issues relating to their ethnic and religious minority populations.

This book provides critical insights into the interplay of sociocultural change and educational practices by elucidating the trajectory of Hong Kong's early childhood music education system.

This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians.

The book showcases research on digital entertainment solutions in different sectors.

This book on the fisheries sector in India, through primary surveys as well as secondary literature, brings out various nuances of the sector and its trade opportunities, the complexities surrounding the supply chain of fish, as well as the evolution of its marketing channels.

This book explores the Afro-diasporic experiences of African skilled migrants in Australia.