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This definitive examination of a contemporary social issue asks questions such as: How much media violence is there? What are the meanings conveyed in the way violence is portrayed? What effect does it have on viewers?

Divided into four parts, the book reviews research on media violence; re-examines existing theories of media violence; considers methodological tools used to assess media, and introduces the concept of Lineation Theory, a perspective and new theoretical approach explaining media violence.

Good Mouse Bad Cat is fascinatingly based on a true story about a couple who rescues injured animals, birds, and even a mouse in this particular case. This is an amazing story about a most unusual reaction to a natural occurrence that will find both the animals in the story and the reader totally in awe. Humorous and unbelievable it is a must read for all.

Using theories and methods rooted in behavioral sciences change management experts James McCalman and David Potter aim to broaden managers' and consultants' understanding of cultural change to help them lead a successful change intervention in their organization.

They explain how to analyze and diagnose the company's organizational culture, become aware of key challenges and how to overcome them, and how to adapt leadership styles in order to ensure fitness when leading a cultural change program. Chapters cover key topics such as: change context, language and dialogue as a...

Well-known journal editors and Communication scholars Alison Alexander and W. James Potter provide an insiderOCOs guide to getting published in scholarly communication journals. Alexander and Potter begin with a review of the manuscript submission process followed by coverage of writing traps that should be avoided. Additional chapters, written by eight other distinguished journal editors, tell prospective authors what editors and reviewers look for when deciding which articles should be published and which should not.

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Samkhya is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, system of classical Indian philosophy. This book traces its history from the third or fourth century B. C. up through the twentieth century. The Encyclopedia as a whole will present the substance of the various Indian systems of thought to philosophers unable to read the Sanskrit and having difficulty in finding their way about in the translations (where such exist). This volume includes a lengthy introduction by Gerald James Larson, which discusses the history of Samkhya and its philosophical contours overall. The remainder of the...