* First volume to examine the diffusion of non--violence in the 20th Century in global perspective. * Contains interviews with leading world figures including Vaclav Havel, Lech Walesa, and the Dalai Lama.
Media Studies examines the new and rapidly developing fieldof media studies to discover what insights it has to offer studentsand general readers as they negotiate their way through the new -and thoroughly saturated - media environment.
This book focuses on issues that cut across several policy areas, such as measuring public sector performance, the role of the state, regulation and Britain's relationship with the EU.
In this timely book, Cedric de Leon examines the ways in which social scientists and other observers have imagined the relationship between parties and society. He introduces and critiques the full range of approaches, using enlivening comparative examples from across the globe.
This book is based on a collaborative research project by an international team of journalism scholars. It provides insights into how... Læs mere
The "great crash of 2008" and its associated banking crisis have revealed the limitations of mainstream economics. Nonlinearity, Complexity and Randomness in Economics presents a variety of cutting edge papers by leading economists, scientists, and philosophers.
* An introduction to the ways organizations use rhetoric - a key topic for the field of organizational communication. * Designed as part of the Polity Organizational... Læs mere
Society' is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute... Læs mere
This volume presents a dozen original essays by leading scholars in the fields of the ancient novel, Julio-Claudian culture, and early Roman imperial history, focused on Petronius... Læs mere
* This is the next book in the Key Concepts in Philosophy series focusing on the core and difficult topic of paradoxes. * An accessible and entertaining introduction to the study of paradoxes, in which the author provides a detailed examination of a wide variety of paradoxes.
This review of the critical reception of Old English literature from 1900 to the present moves beyond a focus on individual literary texts so as to survey the different schools, methods, and assumptions that have shaped the discipline.