A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Sociology of the Body brings together forty-two classic and contemporary essays exploring the multitude of ways in which human bodies shape and are shaped by society. Employing an overarching intersectional approach, Claudia Malacrida and Jacqueline Low draw insightful connections among the diverse readings, revealing how different social constructs and relationships combine to influence how bodies are used, represented, understood, and managed. With ... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. This bestselling book examines childhood trauma and the enduring effects it has on an individual's management of repressed anger and pain. Why are many of the most successful people plagued by feelings of emptiness and alienation? This wise and profound book has provided millions of readers with an answer--and has helped them to apply it to their own lives. Far too many of us had to learn as children to hide our own feelings, needs, and memories skill... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. The Second Edition of this successful text has been updated and extensively revised to provide students with an engaging introduction to media studies . Practical and accessible, Questioning the Media invites readers to be activ e participants in the process of understanding the importance of the media today. New chapters on media and identity, global media influences, compute r-mediated communication, feminist media theories, popular music and news c... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Globalization is a key area in contemporary media studies. This Reader combines classic work in the field with a series of overview essays written by leading scholars to offer a comprehensive and illuminating overview of this key area in contemporary media studies. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Humans are imperfect, and problems of speaking, hearing and understanding are pervasive in ordinary interaction. This book examines the way we 'repair' and correct such problems as they arise in conversation and other forms of human interaction. The first book-length study of this topic, it brings together a team of scholars from the fields of anthropology, communication, linguistics and sociology to explore how speakers address problems in their own ... View More...
Illustrations made by using CAT-scans, X-ray photography, crystal scintilla tion, computer mapping, and thermography show how the body works and explai ns the different types of body tissue. View More...
This classic textbook, written by distinguished academics from around the w orld, has now reached its third edition. It provides an invaluable guided t our through key areas: theories of media and society; studies of media orga nization; and studies of media, culture, and ideology. Critical overviews are combined with original case studies. To keep pace with the ra pidly change field, the majority of essays in this third edition are new. T hese include overviews of media and society from the perspectives of class, gender, and ethnicity that plug media studies into new developments in the socia... View More...
This volume illustrates and exemplifies the variety of ways in which the ma ss media have been researched over the past fifty or more years. It provide s extracts from seminal works and relates them to developments in the field as a whole and to later works. The volume identifies the major divisions w ithin the field, including mass society theory, the media effects tradition , political economy, the public sphere, media occupations and professionals , cultural hegemony, feminism, and "new" audience research. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. North American gated communities, African squatter settlements, European ho using estates, and Chinese urban villages all share one thing in common: th ey represent types of suburban space. As suburban growth becomes the domina nt urban process of the twenty-first century, its governance poses an incre asingly pressing set of global challenges. In Suburban Governance: A Global View, editors Pierre Hamel and Roger Keil have assembled a groundbreaking s... View More...
Provides summaries, new theoretical frameworks and new findings on how chil dren learn to read. This book highlights how research has moved from descri ptions of changes during learning towards understanding the processes by wh ich learning takes place. View More...
This edition of an introductory text opens with a chapter that brings ethno graphy up-to-date and aims it toward the next century. At a time when numer ous disciplines, organizations, and communities are discovering ethnography , Agar shows how the fundamentals endure. View More...
One of the "Teach Yourself" series, this text on linguistics includes secti ons on speech disorders, politeness, the language of advertising and phonet ics. View More...
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Describes the basic theory of chemistry from the standpoint of thermodynami cs, quantum mechanics and spectroscopy, as well as statistical mechanics, k inetics and macro/microscopic structures. This edition has been revised to include new material on macromolecules and surface dynamics. View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. We all use euphemisms. We ask for directions to the "ladies room" or convey the news that someone has recently "passed away." In fact, euphemisms have existed throughout recorded history: they are used by preliterate peoples, and have probably been around since human language first developed. And th e same is true of offensive language, or "dysphemisms"--words used as weapo ns against others, or as release valves for anger and frustration. In this fas... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Understanding Cultural Geography: Places and Traces offers a comprehensive introduction to perhaps the most exciting and challenging area of human geo graphy. By focusing on the notion of 'place' as a key means through which c ulture and identity is grounded, the book showcases the broad range of theo ries, methods and practices used within the discipline. This book not only introduces the reader to the rich and complex history of cultural geography ,... View More...
A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 978-1-4987-2813-3 Fracture Mechanics: Fundamentals and Applications, Fourth Edition is the most useful and comprehensive guide to fracture mechanics available. It has been adopted by more than 150 universities worldwide and used by thousands of engineers and researchers. This new edition reflects the latest research, industry practices, applications, and computational analysis and modeling. It encompasses theory and applications, linear and nonlinear ... View More...
The title doesn't reveal much, but this is a mixed bag of 24 essays on how the process of searching and creating meaning in our "everyday lives is sub ject to politicization and struggle," the main issue being "exercise of pow er." As one might guess, some essays are more readable than others. They in clude Gore Vidal's "Requiem for the American Empire," Jean Bethke Elshtain' s "Cultural Conundrums and Gender: America's Present Past," and Angus's "Me dia Beyond Representation." There's something here for everyone--students a nd teachers of mass media, popular culture, and communications, as we... View More...
