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This book provides critical feminist and communication insights into womens experiences of ovarian cancer. It argues for renewed critical examination of discourses around ovarian cancer diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and advocacy and reflections on how these discourses further hegemonic practices that undermine womens lived experiences.

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Communication Theory and Application in Post-Socialist Contexts serves as a resource for anyone on the quest of diversifying and globalizing communication studies. It captures significant communication tendencies in several post-socialist countries and situates these tendencies within communication theory and application in a wide array of areas.

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With the rapid globalisation of commerce and culture and the increasing recognition of information as an economic resource, the grounds for defending the welfare state have shifted. Communication policy is now more widely understood as social policy.

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This book addresses contemporary urban life through ethnographic examinations of mundane experience. International in scope, authors explore the city as image, movement, history, and relationship.

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This collection provides a comprehensive examination of the growth of the Korean media and communications industry in recent decades. The contributors analyze such topics as the Korean Wave, newspapers, broadcast television, film, gaming, and new communications technologies.

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Heyer approaches his subject as a problem in intellectual history and social thought, includes major twentieth-century thinkers who deal with the communications/history question, and concludes his study with an appraisal of the work of several contemporary researchers who have attempted detailed studies of specific media or historical periods.

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Providing perspectives on women's issues and the communication process, this book contends that communications is at important crossroads because of, rather than in spite of, women. A further challenge makes the case for breaking the hold and subsequent control by traditional mass media on women's issues.

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This book explores how women within the male-dominated Communist Party in the United States built a home for feminist ideology and practice during the early Cold War. It explores how, in articles and petitions, women carefully crafted voices that spoke to the partys concerns while challenging its theoretical and practical limitations..

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Communities and the Clean Energy Revolution profiles people in eight locations across the U.S. leading unique clean energy projects. This book provides unique insight into transitioning to solar, wind, and other types of clean, renewable power and the transformation of Americas energy system.

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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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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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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 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.