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The introduction of new technologies exerts a profound influence on our ways of thinking about current businesses and issues. They quickly make obsolete the products and services that these businesses provide.

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Masters of the Drum, comprising eight essays and two interviews, examines both celebrated and insufficiently explored Caribbean, African, and African-American lit/orature that asserts the interface between the scribal and the spoken/gestural in Black word art.

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This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

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This book provides a vivid reader on experiences of mediation throughout history and in many different regional, cultural and legal contexts.

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Strasser is a lecturer, supervisor, and psychotherapist in private practice; Randolph has been a practicing barrister for some 30 years and accredited mediator for 15-plus years.

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Many books covering the introduction to mass communications lean towards the descriptive and social scientific aspects of the media. The book is organized chronologically to facilitate analysis of developments in the art and industry of mass communications within the context of concurrent social, political, economic, and technological changes.

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An authoritative yet accessible introduction to the history, politics, and society of one of Latin America's most enigmatic and culturally diverse countries.

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An exploration of the diverse forms of cultural and economic exchange which connect Africa to the rest of the global South.

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The world is a great place. But there are also great problems. A solution is suggested here.

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Pioneered by M A K Halliday, social semiotic theory sees meaning as created through the interaction of texts (including writing, images, sound and space) within a given context. Divided into five sections, this title features contributors who use social semiotic theory to analyse a range of contexts, including the classroom, museum, and cinema.

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An overview of the new developments and applications of social semiotic theory, pioneered by M.A.K Halliday.

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Drawing on such varied texts and visual media as daguerrotypes, political cartoons, tourist posters, and religious artifacts, these essays explore how pictures and words combine to illuminate the psyche of the American nation.

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An essential exploration of the DRCs hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

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An essential exploration of the DRCs hybrid forms of governance and the challenges posed in delivering vital public services.

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This authoritative, thorough volume covers a broad range of topics from history to culture to current struggles in these fascinating countries.

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Nervous Laughter examines 40 years of situation comedy, decade by decade, providing the first truly panoramic view of TV's most popular dramatic form. Within this context, Hamamoto traces what he describes as the dominant liberal democratic ideology implicit within situation comedy and explains its enduring popularity.

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A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as well as Robert de Beugrande.

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Respected commentator Trevor Barr tells the story behind the exponential growth of media and information technology

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This volume centers on a critical examination of press coverage of peace-related issues and of the relationships between newspaper journalism and the peace movement in Canada in the 1980s.

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Rachlin contends that a press, free from legal constraints imposed by an oppressive government, can still undermine the possibility of pluralism and the requirements of democracy if it is constrained by its own narrow vision of the world.

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