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What are the effects of increasing conglomerate ownership on the creation and dissemination of news and culture Available for the first time in paperback, these nine essays by leading media insiders and critics take probing, critical looks at the dramatic changes of recent years.

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Congress and National Security reviews the factors that have led to today's dysfunctional Congress and the impact the breakdown has had on its role in shaping national security policy.

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This book establishes a set of parameters for social capital that help us examine how policy can increase cooperation between organisations and individuals, and how a social capital framework can also help us understand the public policy process. It helps understand how social capital theories can be integrated into grassroots policy making.

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This book offers a new interpretation of the Conservative partys revival and adaptation to democratic politics in the early twentieth century. New insights are provided into how the Conservatives met the challenges provided by class, gender and regional identities and the means by which the party adapted to innovations made by their opponents.

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Suitable for managers of rock art in Australia, this manual covers such areas as deterioration processes, sources of damage, visitor management and practical conservation. It includes examples and colour illustrations.

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Considering Class shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must take place on the terrain of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play.

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Examines the "constitutional faith" that has, since 1788, been a central component of American "civil religion". By taking the parallel between wholehearted acceptance of the Constitution and religious faith, this book opens up a host of intriguing questions about what it means to be American.

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This book focuses on explaining why the EU agreed to eastern enlargement and the (uneven) pattern of accommodation of the applicants' preferences in substantive policies. -- .

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Illustrates that what is distinctive about any particular society is not the fact of its modernity, but rather its own unique debates about modernity. The book addresses the roles of various interests in the making of India's public culture - examining different sites of consumption.

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Travel back in time to the North-Eastern part of North America of the 1500s, when initial and sustained contacts between Europeans and Natives were being formed along increasingly developed trade routes.

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In this volume, the author seeks to explore those unobtrusive links that regulate and organize the ensemble of our representations - the raw material refashioned in our imaginary and our fantasies - exploring what it is that is recognizably "postmodern" about them.

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Political parties have always been fundamental to Australias representative democracy. As organisations, however, their continued centrality and longevity depend upon their ability to respond to changing political, social and technological circumstances, such as declining levels of membership and partisan affiliation, and the rise of social media.

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Gothic images pervade contemporary culture, from popular interior decorating programmes to news stories of vampire-obsessed killers. This book seeks to analyse this trend. Why is Gothic perennially undergoing revival What is its role in modern consumer culture And is its popularity or its usefulness drawing to an end

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Policing, crime, poverty, prison management - these are just some of the key issues facing society today. This book addresses such issues, raising questions that should be of interest not only to academic criminologists but also to all those involved in the criminal justice system.