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Carr introduces fundamental concepts, theories, and applications of CMC. Building on CFO, SIP, SIDE, and hyperpersonal theories, this engaging text provides a framework across all digital channels. The second edition adds a new chapter on health and wellbeing, as well as increased discussion of AI and immersive VR and AR technologies.

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This up-to-date encyclopedia examines the conflict between India and Pakistan from Independence to the present day, with an authoritative treatment that presents the issues evenhandedly and from both countries' perspectives.

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This book explores the ways in which emotions enter a conflict scenario and investigate their role as causes or consequences of the conflict. It sheds new light on questions of the extent to which context and culture-related dimensions are conducive to conflict dynamicity and management either by calming emotions or increasing their severity.

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This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of conflict analysis and resolution. Covering theory, research and practice, the authors provide a typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict.

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This textbook is dedicated to an analysis of the emergent role of conflict analysis and resolution. Covering theory, research and practice, the authors provide a typology of the types of conflict, and a through examination of influences - uctural, strategic and cultural - on conflict.

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This unique survey examines how the inherent ambivalence of Palestinians and Israeli moderates toward the peace process and one another undermined the Oslo Peace Accords.

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Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.

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This book challenges stereotypes about the romance genre, examining how modern romance production serves women in multiple ways, from escapism to sexual education, from fantasy to fun, and most importantly, as a site of production for feminist texts.

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This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a respected international scholar provides a thoughtful synthesis and brilliant analysis of todays China.

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This overview of Chinese politics, economy, and society by a respected international scholar provides a thoughtful synthesis and brilliant analysis of todays China.

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Taking a forward-looking approach, this book critically examines the issues and dynamics central to Africa's problematic development and situates these issues within the contents unique cultural, political, economic, and social milieu.

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An in-depth exploration of the impact of GM crops in Ghana, and what the new Green Revolution means for development in Africa and beyond.

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This book analyzes the history of book banning in K-12 classrooms and school libraries in the United States from the 1950s to the present. The author argues for the inclusion of controversial books in order to teach children to discover and debate values that are inconsistent with their own, rather than eliminating exposure to sensitive subjects.

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Grounded in cognitive, affective, and behavioral elements, speech anxiety is a serious problem for a large number of people and has been found to affect career development as well as academic performance.

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Brown and her colleagues offer an unprecedented analysis of how multinational corporations and developing countries manage, in the face of differing values, to relate as each proceeds in the interest of particular development objectives.

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This book examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associated with order and brownness is associated with disorder in a variety of imaginative, nativist ways

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This book examines the notion of the body politic in border newspaper coverage of the USA-Mexico divide and how the nation and immigration are racially imagined in crime news discourse, where whiteness is associated with order and brownness is associated with disorder in a variety of imaginative, nativist ways

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A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences.

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The authors argue that communication plays a central role in the evolution of different frameworks of restorative justice. Not just about sending and receiving messages, communication gives meaning to restorative justice and helps to structure thought and behavior when individuals engage in restorative practices in various contexts.

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Presents an economist's eye to bear on an age-old question: Are market exchange and aesthetic quality friends or foes This book asks what happens when cultures collide through trade, whether technology destroys native arts, why (and whether) Hollywood movies rule the world, and whether 'globalized' culture is dumbing down societies everywhere.

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Through detailed and empirical analysis of the institutions, governing logics, risk-management practices, and crisis communications involved in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the 2010 BP oil crisis, and the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis, this book demonstrates that contemporary financial and energy complexes pose significant threats to liberal democracy and ecological sustainability.

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This edited volume both provides and examines different ways of engaging with critical communication pedagogies in an age of crisis acceleration, where crisis communication impacts social systems including political, economic, educational, cultural, and environmental systems.