Featuring case studies and assignments, this book contains key questions and sections on mass media and media skills. It takes into account developments in communication and media studies, and provides an introduction to both communication theory and practice.[...]

Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from [...]

The Corporation is a major vehicle of business activity worldwide. It incurs social costs and generates benefits that continually change - hence, whether it still provides a net benefit to society is contestable. Evidence-based observations of the last decade of corporate sagas and the role of accou[...]

"Neuromusculoskeletal Clinical Tests: a Clinician's Guide" is an essential tool for both students and clinicians working in the orthopaedic/musculoskeletal field. Recalling, applying and interpreting correctly the vast range of clinical tests is a difficult task for even the most experienced clinici[...]

A Companion to Creative Writing comprehensively considers key aspects of the practice, profession and culture of creative writing in the contemporary world.[...]

Since the end of the Cold War, more and more countries feature political regimes that are neither liberal democracies nor closed authoritarian systems. Most research on these hybrid regimes focuses on how elites manipulate elections to stay in office, but in places as diverse as Bolivia, Georgia, Ky[...]

'I don't like killing, but I'm good at it. Murder isn't so bad from a distance, just shapes popping up in my scope. Close-up work though - a garrotte around a target's neck or a knife in their heart - it's not for me. Too much empathy, that's my problem. Usually. But not today. Today is different...[...]

The Etruscans were the creators of one of the most highly developed cultures of the pre--Roman Mediterranean.[...]

"Marvellous". (John Boyne, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas). "Adorable...A gem of a book". (Marian Keyes). The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a story about love, life and lobsters...Meet Don Tillman. Don is getting married. He just doesn't know who to yet. But he has designed a very det[...]

The Rosie Effect is the charming and hilarious sequel to Graeme Simsion's bestselling debut novel The Rosie Project. Until a year ago, forty-one-year-old geneticist Don Tillman had never had a second date. Until he met Rosie, 'the world's most incompatible woman'. Now, living in New York City, they [...]