This book focuses on the connection between action and verbal communication, exploring topics such as the mechanisms of language processing, action processing, voluntary and involuntary actions, knowledge of language and assertion. Communication mod…
This book analyzes the impact food aid programmes have had over the past fifty years, assessing the current situation as well as future prospects. Issues such as political expediency, the impact of international trade and exchange rates are put unde…
The recent worldwide explosion of interest in enzymes as cata- lysts in industrial processes has arisen primarily because of the potential of major innovative advances which have taken place over the last two decades, foremost among these being nove…
What are the issues at stake in women's health and local political activism across the globe? In this major analysis of women's empowerment and its relationship to health, Jane Stein looks at the factors that determine success in the fight for bette…
Designed to engage, inspire and challenge students while laying out the fundamentals of the craft, Principles of American Journalism introduces readers to the core values of journalism and its singular role in a democracy. From the First Amendment t…
This book presents the fmdings of a comparative study of three European metropolitan regions: Vienna, Barcelona and Stockholm. The heart of the work consists of empirical studies carefully designed and developed in order to identify the main actors…
Every weekday, the wildly popular Tom Joyner Morning Show reaches more than eight million radio listeners. The show offers broadly progressive political talk, adult-oriented soul music, humor, advice, and celebrity gossip for largely older, largely…
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world's most populous country is shaped by its complex…
Dieses essential vermittelt das Know-how f r einen erfolgreichen Umgang mit den entscheidenden Instrumenten jeder Pressearbeit. Im Mittelpunkt stehen praxisorientierte Antworten auf zentrale Fragen jeder Pressearbeit: Wie erzielt eine Non-Profit-Org…
In late 2006 SAMP undertook a national survey of the attitudes of the South African population towards foreign nationals in the country. The data from this survey allows us to analyze the state of the nation's mind on immigration, immigrants and ref…
Die literarische Rezeption ist im zunehmenden Masse zum Gegenstand literaturwissenschaftlicher Forschung geworden. Da allerdings haufig mit einem vagen und wenig prazisen Rezeptionsbegriff operiert wird, schien es notwendig, ein differenziertes Mode…
Edexcel's own resources for the new GCE General Studies AS specifications.
This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict. Betrayal of Palestine is an important and innovative wo…
This edited collection presents cutting edge research into the topic of green messages and subsequent consumer responses. The research studies draw on a rich tradition of communication, psychological and sociological theories that examine consumer r…
Desde los gramaticos griegos hasta nuestros dias, la interjeccion se muestra como un misterioso elemento; tanto que incluso se ha llegado a dudar sobre su naturaleza linguistica. Actualmente entendida como elemento de la lengua, a pesar de los numer…
The Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and the Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries have drastically restructured Europe's trade architecture towards the third world. This volume examines the consequences of EPAs fo…
This is an in-depth case study of a joint operating arrangement (between the "Seattle Times" and the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer") and its impact on the five surrounding daily newspapers in its market. The study examines this impact in the context o…
This is an in-depth case study of a joint operating arrangement (between the Seattle Times and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and its impact on the five surrounding daily newspapers in its market. The study examines this impact in the context of te…
"Those who find themselves living in the Americas, no matter what their ethnic, educational, or economic background, must ultimately 'become their own personalities,' melding their point of view with their points of origin and their places of settle…
The unique catalytic properties of enzymes and the numerous techniques for immobilization of enzymes and cells continue to maintain a high degree of practical and scientific interest in this area called Enzyme Engineering. This fourth International…
Alison Horbury investigates the reprisal of the myth of Persephone - a mother-daughter plot of separation and initiation - in post-feminist television cultures where, she argues, it functions as a symptom expressing a complex around the question of…
This guide assists ADB project officers in understanding natural hazards, hazard mapping, disaster risk assessments, and in taking disaster risk into account in project design.Asia and the Pacific faces significant exposure to every major type of ge…
Issues of reputation management are negotiated in a wide array of contexts, yet arguably one of the most visible of these areas involves how such stories unfold within the sporting arena. Whether involving individual athletes, teams, organizations,…
From the fall of Troy to interstellar messages by way of the Underground Railroad and Captain Midnight, Secret Messages is a collection of ninety-five of the most interesting examples of code and concealed communications throughout history. Authors…
The creative industries are the subject of growing attention among policy-makers, academics, activists, artists and development specialists worldwide. This engaging book provides a global overview of developments in the creative industries, and anal…
This book contains the full research papers presented at the 20th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held in 2017 at Wageningen University & Research in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The selected contributions show trends in the doma…
Locating Queerness in the Media: A New Look examines how media images of the LGBTQ community create a universal consciousness about the existence of queer people, ranging from tragic and villainous to upbeat and courageous. In this book, contributor…
This book investigates the role of inference in argumentation, considering how arguments support standpoints on the basis of different loci. The authors propose and illustrate a model for the analysis of the standpoint-argument connection, called Ar…
Recent concerns with the evaluation of argumentation in informal logic and speech communication center around nondemonstrative arguments that lead to tentative or defeasible conclusions based on a balance of considerations. Such arguments do not app…
Welcher Zusammenhang besteht zwischen Sprache und Imagination bzw. Traumen? Welche Regeln, welche Strukturen liegen Therapiegesprachen zugrunde, die auf Imaginationen basieren? Dem von der linguistischen Therapieforschung bisher vernachlassigten Ber…
This text highlights the role that renewable energy can play in achieving sustainable development. It focuses on rural areas of developing countries, looking in particular at stand-alone solar home systems and grid-connected biomass cogeneration pla…
The primacy of reading examines how recent changes in university and tertiary education system put pressure on scholars to strategically plan and pursue individual research careers.Läs merThese changes primarily rewarding the ability to publish arti…
This work contains forewords by Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop Emeritus, Cape Town, South Africa and Mogobe Ramose, Chairperson and Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of South Africa. "Health, Trade and Human Rights" shows ho…
The goal of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) of encouraging intraregional mobility must be understood in the context of changing population dynamics, rising educational levels and aspirations, and increasingly dynamic-if complex-ec…
A rite of passage for Filipino American college students, Filipino Cultural Night challenges official accounts of the past
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Note: 1,3, Hochschule f r angewandtes Management, ehem. FH f r angewandtes Management Erding, 8 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch,…
The focus on results in development agencies has led to increased focus on impact evaluation to demonstrate the effectiveness of development programmes. This book illustrates the broad range of methods available for counterfactual analysis of infras…
This collection reports on research and development in the field of computers and writing, including the design of computational models and tools to teach writing. The book reviews computational, cognitive and educational factors, written by researc…
Over the last two decades the expanding role of Southern countries as development partners has led to tectonic shifts in global development ideas, practices, norms and actors. Researchers are faced with new questions around identity, power and posit…
How do criminals communicate with each other? Unlike the rest of us, people planning crimes can't freely advertise their goods and services, nor can they rely on formal institutions to settle disputes and certify quality. They face uniquely intense…
