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This book provides a critical history of runaway production, a phrase used by Hollywood production labor to describe the outsourcing of film work to foreign locations. Beginning with its inception in the 1940s, Camille Johnson-Yale argues that runaway production represents Hollywoods historical evolution from a place to a global commodity.

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This edited volume covers the various research and application of narratives for health and well-being, focusing on individual, family, and community uses of narrative.

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Their book thus explores ways in which new channels of communication and new uses of information and intelligence will change corporations, and how these changes can be anticipated now in an organization's strategic planning, crisis management, benchmarking, reverse engineering, and defensive intelligence activities.

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This book establishes Herbert G. Klein as a formative figure in the Nixon White House. His contributions to Nixons press strategies and their subsequent impact on the presidents actions have been overshadowed in scholarly literature. It explores the enduring conflict between journalistic truth and presidential image.

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One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat soon turned away from weapons research to make a principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. This work contains a series of dialogues between Rotblat and Daisake Ikeda, the leader of the world's largest and most influential Buddhist organisation.

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A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

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A genealogy of development looking at the contested evolution and roles of development institutions and exploring changes in development discourses.

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In A Rhetoric and Philosophy of Gifts, Eberhardinger discusses how gift character is one of the only qualities that individuate us as social beings on Earth. The horizon and rhetorical power of gift character offers discursive revelations about communication and the human condition.

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This book deconstructs the 2016 campaign appeals of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump to disenfranchised and polarized publics at opposite ends of the political spectrum through a rhetoric of divisive partisanship grounded in antipolitics. These ultimately contributed to the defeat of Hillary Clinton and a decline in American democratic discourse.

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Kaguri overcame tremendous odds as he followed his dream to build a school for AIDS orphans in his village in Uganda. "A School for My Village" weaves together tales from his youth and his inspiring account of building the school and changing the lives of many children.

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Explores a number of themes of interest to those engaged in researching and teaching academic genres. This book is of interest to students on Master's programmes in Teaching English as a Second Langauge and Applied Linguistics, and to scholars researching issues of academic literacy.

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This critical ethnography describes the context, vision, and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances, strategic use of language, and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency.

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This critical ethnography describes the context, vision, and social change tactics of the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center in San Antonio, Texas. It explicates the important roles of intergroup alliances, strategic use of language, and arts programming as a means of connecting personal consciousness-raising to collective agency.

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This book shows how traditional notions of the processes and products of creative adaptation are evolving online. It provides a vocabulary to analyze, discuss, and theorize about the implications of online forms of adaptation and highlights the potential and possible ethical quandaries of adaptation online.

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Under pressure from the World Bank, the International Monetary Funds and the World Trade Organization governments of both industrialized and less developed nations have undertaken extensive reforms and reorganization to streamline their public sectors.

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This book considers teens social media use as a lens through which to more clearly see American adolescence, girlhood, and marginality in the twenty-first century. It investigates how young women use social media to address, mediate, and negotiate the struggles they face in their daily lives as minors, females, and racial minorities.

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What is the relationship between social science research and public health policy, particularly in the developing world

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This book suggests a unique conceptual framework for designing and conducting economic policy in developing countries, particularly those in Africa.

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This book is examines particular African countries that are recovering from civil wars that left thousands of their citizens internally displaced or as refugees in surrounding countries. The countries examined in the book are in the process of rebuilding institutions of governance that include judicial, legislative, and executive branches.

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A comprehensive look at the African emigrants in the USA, exploring the contributions they can make toward greater economic and political freedom in Africa. It studies the reasons why they came to America and what types of reforms are needed to allow them to contribute to Africa's development.

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The complexity of African society entering the 21st century necessitates an interdisciplinary examination of Africa's political, social, and cultural developments and challenges.

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The contributors to the book contend that development is about human beings, so they do not rely exclusively on statistical estimates and projections.

The essays in this book discuss the advances African states have made in spite of, and at times because of, their experiences of European colonial rule.