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Their thorough analysis of the content and slant of each item provides a clearcut picture of just what the media covered and how the coverage differed when an incumbent was not running.

The study is based on news items collected from 23 sources in the three media, covering the Labor Day through Election Day period of both campaigns.

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The world of communication scholarship can be divided into two main schools, the empirical school and the critical school.

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This book is an introduction to the key debates and dimensions in media studies. Posing questions about the nature of culture in modern society, it looks at the historical development of the various media, their relationship with modernity and the critical commentaries that have evolved as a result of their public and private presence.

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Including late-breaking data from the Iraq occupation and the disastrous CBS News reports on Bush's Vietnam-era National Guard Service, acclaimed media scholars Stephen J. Farnsworth and S. Robert Lichter examine news coverage of military policy, economic policy, and scandals ...

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Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms. Libraries offer an ideal conte...

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Following the passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), librarians are more frequently called upon to provide assistance with navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace and understanding health insurance terminology and forms. Libraries offer an ideal conte...

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The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians highlights the many ways that librarians are addressing researchers changing needs at a variety of institutions. From foundations to applications, this book provides context for librarians who are new to it as well as new ideas and approaches for experienced data librarians.

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The Medical Library Association Guide to Data Management for Librarians highlights the many ways that librarians are addressing researchers changing needs at a variety of institutions. From foundations to applications, this book provides context for librarians who are new to it as well as new ideas and approaches for experienced data librarians.

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This authoritative book guides both library graduate school students and seasoned librarians from academic, health sciences, and public libraries, to develop, maintain, nurture, and advertise consumer health collections. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

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This authoritative book guides both library graduate school students and seasoned librarians from academic, health sciences, and public libraries, to develop, maintain, nurture, and advertise consumer health collections. It covers all that is involved in developing a new consumer health library.

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Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for library and information science graduate students as well as librarians new to health a...

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Comprised of fifteen chapters written by experienced consumer health librarians, The Medical Library Association Guide to Providing Consumer and Patient Health Information is designed for library and information science graduate students as well as librarians new to health a...

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This book is an ethnographic account of the practice of clinical psychology under the auspices of the reductionism of biomedicine. Sylvia Olney uses Peircean linguistic analyses to naturalize consciousness by validating the dimensions of mind and intention to restore psychotherapy to its place as a significant healing art.

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Health and Illness in American Gilded-Age Art addresses the place of organic disease--cancer, tuberculosis, syphilis--in the life and work of Gilded-Age artists, demonstrating how works of art were marked by disease and functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late nineteenth century.

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Suitable for courses in medieval literature, this work offers a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the middle ages, focusing particularly on Middle English and the period from 1300-1500. It includes introductions to authors, texts and contexts; guides to key critics, concepts and topics.

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A resource for courses in medieval literature. It provides students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.

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The book discusses influential figures like Abelard, Peter Lombard and Hugh of St Victor; the use made by Aquinas of Aristotle; the mystical theology of Bonaventure; Robert Grosseteste's and Roger Bacon's interest in optics; the complex metaphysics of Duns Scotus; and the political thought of Marsilius of Padua and William of Ockham.

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An introduction to the life of towns and cities in the medieval period, this book shows how medieval towns grew to become important centers of trade and liberty.

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A scholarly, up-to-date and readable survey of the shaping of the medieval English landscape.

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A scholarly, up-to-date and readable survey of the shaping of the medieval English landscape.

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A concise, superbly illustrated guide to Britain's medieval monasteries. Rosewell provides basic information on the different monastic orders, the monastic layout and architecture, the administration of the monastery, the round of prayer, food and drink, sign language, illness, learning, charity and pilgrimage.