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Concerns about the effects of television on children are a recurrent focus of public controversy. David Buckingham, gives an insight into children's responses to horror films, to 'weepies' and soap operas, to news and 'realty programmes'.

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Examines the consequences of people moving to beautiful recreational places and the social structure and natural environment of those places.

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It is through these stories that human service professionals can come to see homelessness as the children themselves see it and can learn what living in a shelter is like.

Children who are homeless tell their own story.

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Get to know Ms. AMAZING With This Trade paperback Collecting Issues 2,3,4,5 and 6 in one GIANT BOOK! The First Lady of LIFE Comics Universe!

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This volume offers a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the present and future impact of these modern technologies (including word processors, videotex and video and digital optical discs) on professional, business and scholarly research information, as well as on information to the general public.

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A portion of the book describes the psychological traumas associated with political unrest and a society undergoing major transition, paying particular attention to three major traumas: child abuse and neglect, children who have been the victims of an unjust and inequitable educational system, and children caught in the war of political violence.

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Written by some of the most distinguished scholars in the field of ethnic relations, this volume examines the role of ethnicity in modern day society and the impact of government policy on ethnic relations.

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So-called multiculturalists have been recently targeted by journalists and scholars arguing that such apologists are the cause of contemporary cultural fragmentation, racism, neo-segregation, lowered standards, and a radicalism that ignores the wishes of mainstream America.

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Multiculturalism has been blamed for encouraging oppression of women. Many critics opportunistically deploy gender equality to justify the retreat from multiculturalism, hijacking the equality agenda to perpetuate cultural stereotypes. The author offers a way of addressing dilemmas of justice and equality in multiethnic, multicultural societies.

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This book focuses on how mass hysteria has emerged among people across the globe due to reactions to news media reports and policies instituted by governments to address the challenges emanating from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Multimodal Discourse outlines a new theory of communication for the age of interactive media. Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen provide students with a wide-ranging analysis of the various communication styles and the ways by which text is now understood as the interaction of sound, music, vision, colour and language.

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This comparative analysis of multiracials who identify as part-Asian and part-White and those who identify as part-Black and part-White indicates vastly different experiences of what it means to be multiracial. The book attends to a nuanced understanding of how racism and inequality operate when an intersectional approach is taken into account.

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Losing a child is a mothers worst nightmare, but when you lose two children your innocent sons at the hands of the man they should have trusted the most, its almost unimaginable.

For Denise Williams this was her reality her very real nightmare.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Murders and Acquisitions analyses representations of the serial killer in popular culture.

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Offers an overview of ""the Australian"" newspaper, mapping its uneven and uncharted progress across its first three decades.

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The inside story of the skullduggery at the heart of one the Murdoch empire's subsidiaries, NDS.

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Engaging with contemporary scholarship on museums and their interaction with communities, this work features contributions from highly respected scholars from around the world addressing a wide range of key issues. Offering new approaches and foregrounding new curatorial strategies, this is a must read for students and curators alike.

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Focusing on the role of national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary forms, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly.

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Focusing on the role of national art galleries in continental Europe, England and Scotland, this book explores the interrelationship between artistic and exhibitionary forms, as well as between power and governance in those places where the roots of modern culture were being laid most visibly.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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At a time when the 'social' analysis of music is receiving unprecedented attention, this important new book demonstrates ways in which sociological ideas can make a distinct contribution to understanding music. In doing so, it also highlights the contrasts between a sociological perspective and those emanating from cultural studies and musicology.

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Chapters present accessible narratives on music and its cultural resonations, music theory and technique is broken down for the lay reader, and each volume presents a chapter of alphabetically arranged entries on significant people and terms.

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