Forskningsprogrammet Centrum för kognitiv semiotik vid Lunds universitet tilldelades anslag av Stiftelsen Riksbankens Jubileumsfond år 2009. Forskarna har bl.a. genom studier av apor och barn analyserat på vilka sätt människans kognitiv-semiotiska f…
This book explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, exploring: minority women and debates over culture and…
This "stimulating and comprehensive" (Kirkus Reviews) collection of original essays on twentieth-century Japan's history and culture provides a unique mix of American and Japanese perspectives on Showa. With an important, substantial Introduction by…
What is trust? Why is it important in emergency-response teams? Humanitarian practitioners identify trust as one of the most important factors in launching timely and effective emergency responses. Building Trust in Diverse Teams can be used through…
In the newly revised version of The Sourcebook of Magic you will discover afresh the basic 77 NLP patterns for transformational magic. What's new? A change from merely describing the patterns to presenting the key questions that allow you to guide a…
This book places the insurgent group Boko Haram, which has terrorised northeastern Nigeria through the last six years, in an historical and cultural context. It examines cultural changes in the lands south of Lake Chad through deep time, showing how…
How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for students, scholars, and those interested in understanding the interactio…
* What do we mean by discourse?* What are the different conceptions of discourse and methods of discourse analysis in the contemporary social sciences?* How can this concept help to clarify key theoretical problems and illuminate empirical cases?The…
Rural Development is a textbook that critically examines economic, social and cultural aspects of rural development efforts both in the global north and in the global south. By consistently using examples from the north and the south the book highli…
Perhaps no word today is used and misused more than globalization. It generally serves to refer to worldwide epoch-defining changes in the organization of societies, economies and politics. But as Petras and Veltmeyer demonstrate, the term globaliza…
The Companion to Development Studies contains over a hundred chapters written by leading international experts within the field to provide a concise and authoritative overview of the key theoretical and practical issues dominating contemporary devel…
This state-of-the-art account of research and theorizing brings together multimodality, learning and communication through detailed analyses of signmakers and their meaning-making in museums, hospitals, schools and the home environment.By analyzing…
Called "one of the best books ever about human communication," and a perennial bestseller, Pragmatics of Human Communication has formed the foundation of much contemporary research into interpersonal communication, in addition to laying the groundwo…
Miljöpsykologi är ett tvärvetenskapligt ämne som handlar om hur vi människor påverkas av vår omgivning och hur vi genom vårt sätt att leva påverkar den. Svensk miljöpsykologi är den första samlingen texter om ämnet på svenska. Här presenterar 20 mil…
Vilka hälsovinster medför fysisk aktivitet? Hur farligt är stillasittande? Vilka åtgärder är effektiva för att främja fysisk aktivitet? Hur når vi ut till olika grupper med rätt budskap och rätt erbjudande? Detta är några av de områden och frågor so…
Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.Presented as an edited collection of 25 wide-ranging short chapt…
In this bestselling Reader, Jaworski and Coupland have collected in one volume the most important and influential articles on discourse analysis. Designed as a structured sourcebook and divided into clear sections, The Discourse Reader covers the fo…
Undergraduate students of environmental communication.
Migrations and the Media critically explores the global reporting of "migration crises," bringing together a range of original interdisciplinary research from the fields of migration studies and journalism, media and cultural studies. Its chapters e…
What do you do when someone dumps rubbish in your street? How do you deal with anti-social neighbours? How do you organize a street party? These are some of the questions faced by a class of 11–13 year olds working on “Storyline, Our Sus…
From the fall of the Ottoman Empire through the Arab Spring, this completely revised and updated edition of Mehran Kamrava's classic treatise on the making of the contemporary Middle East remains essential reading for students and general readers wh…
This international bestseller explains everything you need to know about body language, how to read it, and how to put your best self forwards.
Detta häfte har tillkommit för att ge den vanlige medborgaren kunskaper som gör att han klarar sig bättre i kontakten med rättsväsendet.Vi skall ta en titt på vad lagen säger om förhör och hur polis och åklagare arbetar.Vi skall också titta på försv…
By tracing the traditional progression of rhetoric from the Greek Sophists to contemporary theorists, The History and Theory of Rhetoric illustrates how persuasive public discourse performs essential social functions and shapes our daily worlds. Stu…
Den här boken handlar om bildens och seendets viktiga roll i vår samtid. Det räcker att nämna perspektivet, kartan och kamerateknikens enorma utveckling för att inse bildens och seendets betydelse för västerländsk kultur. Men trots detta menar förfa…
Sandra Joshel provides a comprehensive overview of Roman slavery. Using a variety of sources, including literature, law, and material culture, she examines the legal condition of Roman slaves, traces the stages of the sale of slaves, analyses the re…
Living with people who differ - racially, ethnically, religiously or economically - is one of the most urgent challenges facing civil society today. Together argues that co-operation needs more than good will: it is a craft that requires skill. In m…
More than a million people have learned the secrets of effective conversation using Conversationally Speaking. This revised edition provides more ways to improve conversational skills by asking questions that promote conversation, learning how to li…
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world's population. The internet's meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, p…
Per Schlingmann är en av de mest inflytelserika kommunikatörerna och profilerna inom svensk politik under senare år. Han är en av arkitekterna bakom Moderaternas framgångsrika förvandling till De nya moderaterna som bidrog till valsegrar 2006 och 20…
This third edition of Miriam Meyerhoff's highly successful textbook provides a solid, up-to-date appreciation of the interdisciplinary nature of the field and covers foundation issues, recent advances and current debates. It presents familiar or cla…
NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED Like Leadership and Self-Deception, The Arbinger Institute's first book, The Anatomy of Peace has become a worldwide phenomenon not because of a media blitz, movie tie-in, or celebrity endorsement, but because reader…
30 years after its publication Marshall McLuhan's The Medium is the Massage remains his most entertaining, provocative, and piquant book. With every technological and social "advance" McLuhan's proclamation that "the media work us over completely" b…
"An excellent book providing students with a historical understanding of mass media and communication. Theories, concepts and models are intertwined throughout the chapters challenging students to critically understand and evaluate the role of mass…
Boken är ett stöd för alla som tänker ansöka om stöd från en fond eller stiftelse - i synnerhet de som verkar inom föreningslivet.Boken berättar också om hur stiftelser fungerar och hur de hanaterar och bedömer ansökningar.
How can small cities make an impact in a globalizing world dominated by `world cities' and urban development strategies aimed at increasing agglomeration? This book addresses the challenges of smaller cities trying to put themselves on the map, attr…
Tidigare upplaga vald till Årets fackbok, nu i ny, helt omarbetad och modern upplaga. Även denna handlar om bildkommunikation, hur man i praktik och utbildning lär sig att i ett visst sammanhang nå fram med ett budskap. Här är det kommunikationen me…
Rörlighetens omvandling är en bok om människors res- och kommunikationsvanor – om vår accelererande förmåga att överbrygga geografiska avstånd. I boken analyseras aktuella förändringstendenser som har stor betydelse för samhällets omdaning och…
This book explores the ways media industries function, how media professionals manage their careers, how media industries engage with creativity and innovation, and how to make sense of this in ways to empower aspiring professionals (as well as thos…
Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application, focuses on the links between theory and everyday experiences. This text uses an engaging writing style and a consistent, organized template to present the concept of theory and help student…
Design för lärande har växt fram ur de senaste 30-40 årens pedagogik, med bakgrund i kända pedagoger som Piaget och Vygotskij. När pedagogiska forskare på 1970-talet började intressera sig för ramfaktorer, dvs. elevgruppers storlek, scheman, lärarna…
In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. Even if they are not technically slaves, they are denied elementary freedoms a…
Vad är forskning? Vad gör forskare? Vad är inte forskning? Vad gör utredare? Vem var Ockham? Och vad skall man med hans rakkniv till? Boken har tillkommit genom att författaren inte hade något att sätta i händerna på de doktorander hon undervisade.…
This new and updated edition of Understanding Naval Warfare offers the reader an accessible introduction to the study of modern naval warfare, providing a thorough grounding in the vocabulary, concepts, issues, and debates, set within the context of…
The extraordinary historical consequences of errors and fictional inventions.
Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Explo…
Immerse yourself in the topic of communication in the workplace with an interesting conversation about the communication demands of today's nursing practice! Communication in Nursing, 8th Edition adopts a uniquely practical and personal approach, pr…
Tankar kring konsten att ha ett samtal som är lite annorlunda: Vad är det i ett samtal som gör att vi upplever att något har förändrats? Kan man möta en annan människa i samtal och gå opåverkad ifrån detta? Vad är det som händer i mötet när vi sa…
