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This book examines the challenges and opportunities of community-focused counter-radicalization and counter-terrorism projects as identified by such projects leaders. It draws on research based on the experiences of twenty-nine community-based counter-radicalization projects in eight countries.

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Comparative advertisementsthe kind that refer to the other guys or actually identify competitors by namecan be tremendously successful, or lead to a marketing disaster. The History, Theory, and Practice of Comparative Advertising reveals the possibilities and pitfalls associated with this widely used approach.

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Comparative advertisementsthe kind that refer to the other guys or actually identify competitors by namecan be tremendously successful, or lead to a marketing disaster. The History, Theory, and Practice of Comparative Advertising reveals the possibilities and pitfalls associated with this widely used approach.

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This books examines social aspects of information-oriented society in the United States. Areas covered include: understanding the extent of information work in the United States; defining information in an information-oriented society; and social attitudes and values toward information technology.

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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 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 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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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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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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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.

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This collection features engaging scholarly essays and creative writings that examine the meaning of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. It provides a meaningful space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.

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This collection features engaging scholarly essays and creative writings that examine the meaning of race, gender, and sexual orientation as interlocking systems of oppression. It provides a meaningful space to analyze identity and identity politics, highlighting the complexities of identity formation in the twenty-first century.

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This book addresses different approaches to critical intercultural communication pedagogy. The contributors explore a range of theoretical frameworks and intercultural concepts, and offer practical applications and case studies to illuminate the many facets of critical intercultural communication pedagogy.

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This book argues that relational citizenship articulates relational membership for individuals, not as a status granted from the state, but as a multilayered interactive process centered on connections to multifaceted histories, peoples, institutions, and future paths. This theory offers strategies to rethink how belongingness is accomplished.

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Not until the early 1980s did Americans collectively redirect their attention to Vietnam. Diverse forms of symbolic expressions- speeches and argument, prose and poetry, films, TV programs, memorials, private conversations- all strive to give shape and significance to the war.

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Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation.

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Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation.

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Looks at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. This book questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. It also examines contemporary globalization.