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Bock analyzes ethnoreligious violence, predominantly using examples from South Asia and the Middle East. He argues that religious leaders have a unique role to play in confronting those who exploit fundamentalist interpretations of sacred passages and manipulate holy symbols to bait people into viol

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Bock begins with a description of ethnoreligious violence in the world today and then offers a case study about Hindu-Muslim riots in India that illustrates how religion is used to engineer violence by those who gain from it.

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A chronicle of the metamorphosis of videotape from its beginnings nearly 35 years ago as a media technology controlled by a few television executives, to a popular communications agent which is profoundly altering the way America consumes information and entertainment.

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This memoir relays the experiences of Paul Kuehnert, a Midwestern teenager in the late 1960's who tried to follow his conscience at the height of the Vietnam War.

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This book examines the rise of South-South economic relations while including a historical, theoretical, and empirical examination that attempts to both place current South-South relations within their historical trajectory and examine in what ways current South-South relations differ from previous attempts such as 'new-regionalism'.

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This book examines the rise of SouthSouth economic relations while including a historical, theoretical, and empirical examination that attempts to both place current SouthSouth relations within their historical trajectory and examine in what ways current SouthSouth relations differ from previous attempts such as 'new-regionalism'.

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Offering a theoretically coherent and integrated introduction, the book examines how communication (symbolic activity) occurs in a range of contexts from individual perception and thought to interpersonal and public situations.

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Offering a theoretically coherent and integrated introduction, the book examines how communication (symbolic activity) occurs in a range of contexts from individual perception and thought to interpersonal and public situations.

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This book builds on a theoretical model for analysis of the role of global social movements in sport. The book takes the theoretical model further but also provides some empirical answers to the questions raised, focusing on select global social movements.

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This book builds on a theoretical model for analysis of the role of global social movements in sport. The book takes the theoretical model further but also provides some empirical answers to the questions raised, focusing on select global social movements.

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"A step-by-step guide to using the brain's hardwired desire for story to achieve any goal, whether it's successfully pitching a product, saving the planet, or convincing your kids not to text and drive, from the author of Wired for Story"--

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This one-of-a-kind book explores the neuroscience behind persuasion and influence to reveal the role that storytelling plays in inspiring, enlightening, and educating an audience.

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This volume in the Contemporary Military, Strategic, and Security Issues series presents a concise introduction to the evolution, key concepts, discourse, and future options for improved strategic communication in today's U.S. government.

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Only when a systems perspective like this is adopted and technology seen as a strategic variable can technology transfer be understood and successfully implemented, says Madu.

Madu thus identifies the failures of technology transfer as the result of malfunctions in three components of the system: technology, structure, and behavior.

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Most of what passes for strategic planning is not strategic at all. Cook maintains that even to attempt strategy there must first be a strategic system, a system that deals with strategic issues, decision-making, and strategic action, which is preceded by strategic thinking.

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Structural adjustment has become the orthodox economic policy in developing countries. International institutions, through structural adjustment loans (SALs), provide both impetus and guidance to developing countries.

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Sustainable development has been approached from many viewpoints over the past 15 years without a concise or precise definition of what sustainable development really stands for.