ilość książek w kategorii: 15956
Lobbying for Social Change
ISBN: 9780789031655 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This step-by-step guide to lobbying covers it all?from the basics for beginners to specific techniques for experienced lobbyists"?You and I may never achieve major public office, but we do not need to in order to affect public policy. Author Willard C. Richan"To effect social change, any lobbyistOCOs case must be presented with skill, knowledge, and confidence. This reader-friendly book shows the way. It assumes no prior knowledge of the subject and provides the nuts and bolts of public policy advocacy (lobbying) in non-technical language. Lobbying for Social Change, Third Edition is...
This step-by-step guide to lobbying covers it all?from the basics for beginners to specific techniques for experienced lobbyists"?You and I may never ...
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662,64 zł |
Critical Literacy: Politics, Praxis, and the Postmodern
ISBN: 9780791412305 / Angielski / Miękka / 443 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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148,63 zł |
Visual Intelligence
ISBN: 9780791434369 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, our environment is dominated by the visual. This book explores "visual intelligence" as a basic and indispensable tool of cultural survival. The author offers a practical manual on a non-superficial level for those who seriously want to know how images are processed, how they function in relation to our innermost beings, and how they form the psychological fabric of our political, social, and economic environment. Barry defines how we derive meaning from images and examines perceptual process, how it has evolved, and the role it plays in our thinking. She critically examines the...
Today, our environment is dominated by the visual. This book explores "visual intelligence" as a basic and indispensable tool of cultural survival. Th...
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148,63 zł |
Global Media Spectacle: News War Over Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780791454725 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate, compete, and produce a historical record during significant global events. The authors interviewed seventy-six print and television reporters from the United States, Britain, the People's Republic of China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Australia, Canada, and Japan to delve into the revealing world of writing first drafts of history from reporters' vantage points. Punctuated with witty and incisive examples, the book provides a useful description of...
Focusing on the global media coverage of Hong Kong's transfer from Britain to China, Global Media Spectacle explores how the world media plan, operate...
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136,88 zł |
Dreaming and the Self: New Perspectives on Subjectivity, Identity, and Emotion
ISBN: 9780791457887 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self--particularly to subjectivity, identity, and emotion. Through an investigation of dreams in various cultures, the contributors explore how people as subjects actually experience cultural life, how they forge identities out of their cultural and historical experiences, how the cultural and historical worlds in which they live shape even their bodily habits and responses, and how the person as agent responds to and imaginatively recreates his or her culture....
Drawing upon original fieldwork, cultural theory, and psychological research, Dreaming and the Self offers new approaches to the self--particularly to...
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136,88 zł |
The Idea of Identification
ISBN: 9780791458204 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illustrated with interesting examples drawn from politics and art, The Idea of Identification draws on classical social and rhetorical theories to establish a systematic framework for understanding the varieties and forms of identification. Woodward references a variety of contexts in contemporary life to explore the rhetorical conditions that create powerful and captivating moments. By invoking the influential ideas of Kenneth Burke, George Herbert Mead, Joshua Meyrowitz and others, he shows how the rhetorical process of identification is separate from psychological theories of identity...
Illustrated with interesting examples drawn from politics and art, The Idea of Identification draws on classical social and rhetorical theories to est...
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132,96 zł |
Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks
ISBN: 9780791460993 / Angielski / Twarda / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, a...
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387,77 zł |
Rhetoric Before and Beyond the Greeks
ISBN: 9780791461006 / Angielski / Miękka / 267 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, and China. The book uncovers alternate ways of understanding human behavior and explores how these rhetorical practices both reflected and influenced their cultures. The essays address issues of historiography and raise questions about the application of Western rhetorical concepts to these very different ancient cultures. A chapter on suggestions for teaching each of these ancient rhetorics is included.
Focusing on ancient rhetoric outside of the dominant Western tradition, this collection examines rhetorical practices in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Israel, a...
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136,88 zł |
Alfred Schutz's Sociological Aspect of Literature: Construction and Complementary Essays
ISBN: 9780792348474 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it has been constructed by following a pageof notes for a lecture that he gave in 1955 under the title "Sociological Aspect of Literature. " The result can be considered the substance of Schutz's contribution to the theory of literature. More detail about how this construction has beenperformed is offered in the Editor's Introduction. The complementary essays areby scholars from Germany, Japan, andthe United States, from several generations, and...
The maintext in the present volume has beenconstructed out of passages found scattered aboutin thirty-five years of Alfred Schutz's writings, and it h...
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585,00 zł |
Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era
ISBN: 9780801846939 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse from Chretien de Troyes to Heidegger. Close readings of works such as the medieval grail legends, The Merchant of Venice, Goethe's Faust, and Poe's -The Gold Bug- reveal how discourse has responded to the dissociation of symbol from thing characteristic of money, and how the development of increasingly symbolic currencies has involved changes in the meaning of meaning. Pursuing his investigations into the modern era, Shell points out... In Money, Language, and Thought, Marc Shell explores the interactions between linguistic and economic production as they inform discourse fr... |
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142,19 zł |
Riders of the Pony Express
ISBN: 9780803283053 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texas. Some Californians feared their state would not remain in the Union, separated so far from the free states. Then businessman William Russell invested in a way to deliver mail between San Francisco and the farthest western railroad, in Saint Joseph, Missouri-across two thousand miles of mountains, deserts, and plains-guaranteed in ten days or less. Russell hired eighty of the best and bravest riders, bought four hundred of the fastest and...
Prior to the Civil War, the fastest mail between the West Coast and the East took almost thirty days by stagecoach along a southern route through Texa...
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73,14 zł |
Music at the Margins: Popular Music and Global Cultural Diversity
ISBN: 9780803931930 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Aims to determine whether there is a growing homogenization of the world's popular music, or whether there is a continuing and perhaps ever-increasing diversity of song styles and forms. Focuses on how the process of popular music production is perceived by local musicians and reflects upon theory.
Aims to determine whether there is a growing homogenization of the world's popular music, or whether there is a continuing and perhaps ever-increasing...
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525,01 zł |
Information Campaigns: Balancing Social Values and Social Change
ISBN: 9780803932197 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working from the premises that information campaigns and social marketing efforts represent attempts at planned social change and that it is insufficient to examine inherently social phenomena in a social vacuum, the contributors to this volume provide a social context for examining these domains.
Working from the premises that information campaigns and social marketing efforts represent attempts at planned social change and that it is insuffici...
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525,01 zł |
Social Research in Communication and Law
ISBN: 9780803932678 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A guide for conducting research involving both legal and communication questions. It shows communication law scholars how to make use of the methodologies employed in communication science. It addresses topics such as reconciling communication and law, social research approaches to libel and theories pertaining to freedom of expression.
A guide for conducting research involving both legal and communication questions. It shows communication law scholars how to make use of the methodolo...
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387,39 zł |
Managing Interpersonal Conflict
ISBN: 9780803933125 / Angielski / Miękka / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the process of interpersonal conflict - from the initial decision as to whether or not to confront differences through to how to plan the actual confrontation. It deals extensively with negotiation and, where negotiation proves unsuccessful, with third-party dispute resolution. To avoid destructive or violent behaviour, Donohue emphasizes the importance of keeping conflicts under control and of focusing on the pertinent issues. He argues that the key to managing conflict is to address differences collaboratively so that the parties can create better solutions and,...
This book explores the process of interpersonal conflict - from the initial decision as to whether or not to confront differences through to how to pl...
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616,76 zł |
Organizations and Communication Technology
ISBN: 9780803935310 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focuses on the role of theory for advancing our knowledge of communication technology in organizations at several levels - micro, group and macro. This volume examines diverse topics, including telecommunications, communication networks and media, the use of group decision support systems, and discretionary databases.
Focuses on the role of theory for advancing our knowledge of communication technology in organizations at several levels - micro, group and macro. Thi...
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625,32 zł |
Information
ISBN: 9780803939059 / Angielski / Miękka / 75 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume thoroughly covers the sub-field of information, and is one of the first in a series which synthesizes the research literature on major concepts in the field of communication. Each concise volume includes a research definition (concept explication) and presents a state-of-the-art analysis of theory and empirical findings related to the concept.
After defining the word information', the author contrasts non-linear and reflexive ideas about human communication with linear perspectives. Information is equated with uncertainty. The result presents a pattern for the process of... This volume thoroughly covers the sub-field of information, and is one of the first in a series which synthesizes the research literature on major con...
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387,39 zł |
Mass Communication and Public Health: Complexities and Conflicts
ISBN: 9780803939257 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Intended to increase understanding of the influences of mass communication on health issues, this book explores shared responsibilities among media and public health professionals. The discussions are centred around conflicts within various public health, media and academic communities.
Intended to increase understanding of the influences of mass communication on health issues, this book explores shared responsibilities among media an...
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525,01 zł |
Public Opinion
ISBN: 9780803940239 / Angielski / Miękka / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Public opinion - is it a simple aggregation of individual views, or is it some kind of collective-level, emergent product of debate? What is the role of public opinion in popular government? How do the mass media shape public opinion or link it with governmental decision-making? This book explores such questions by tracing the historical development and application of the concept of public opinion.
Public opinion - is it a simple aggregation of individual views, or is it some kind of collective-level, emergent product of debate? What is the role ...
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387,39 zł |
Negotiation Basics: Concepts, Skills, and Exercises
ISBN: 9780803940529 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Presenting principles of negotiation from theoretical and practical perspectives, this book helps readers develop negotiating skills in both individual and collective situations. Each chapter introduces and discusses an essential negotiating concept and then connects that concept to a related skill. Exercises are integrated throughout each chapter to provide readers with the opportunity to practice these skills. Using this unique theory-into-practice organization principle, the book demonstrates how negotiation works, outlines options and procedures for negotiation preparation, and identifies...
Presenting principles of negotiation from theoretical and practical perspectives, this book helps readers develop negotiating skills in both individua...
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525,01 zł |