Language Studies category: 15171 books
The 21st-Century Black Librarian in America
Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
The 1970 and 1994 editions of The Black Librarian in America by E.J. Josey singled out racism as an important issue to be addressed within the library profession. Although much has changed since then, this latest collection of 48 essays by Black librarians and library supporters again identifies racism...
Cinematic Social Studies
A Resource for Teaching and Learning Social Studies With Film
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Action! Film is a common and powerful element in the social studies classroom and Cinematic Social Studies explores teaching and learning social studies with film. Teaching with film is a prominent teaching strategy utilized by many teachers on a regular basis. Cinematic Social Studies moves readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2004
This volume offers unique and timely insights on the state of online news, exploring the issues surrounding this convergence of print and electronic platforms, and the public's response to it. It provides an overview of online newspapers, including current trends and legal issues and covering issues...
Political Campaign Communication
Theory, Method, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2014
The premier volume of the Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics (ARCHI), edited by Samantha Kelly Hastings, is the polestar publication for cultural heritage scholars, professionals, and students. Featuring sixteen original works selected by the distinguished editorial board of international...
Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives
Cultural Competence in Action! An Asset-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Written by three experienced LIS professionals, Latinos in Libraries, Museums, and Archives demonstrates the meaning of cultural competence in the everyday work in libraries, archives, museums, and special collections with Latino populations. The authors focus on their areas of expertise including...
by Gary Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Vibrant and insightful, this book introduces students and researchers to the basics of case study research. Adopting jargon-free language, it grounds its advice in concrete experience and real-world cases. Using examples from across the social sciences, Gary Thomas provides practical guidance on how...
by Nick Prior
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
From shifts in format, through the effects on circulation and ownership, to the rise of digitally-produced genres, the ways we create, share and listen to music have changed fundamentally. In Popular Music, Digital Technology and Society, Nick Prior explores the social, cultural and industrial contexts...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2016
This book is a collection of papers written by researchers, lawyers, administrators, analysts and graduate students working and doing research in the field of law, communication and arts. The topics include women rights in Turkey, witness statement as evidence in Turkish law, legal regulations about...
Television and the Self
Knowledge, Identity, and Media Representation
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
This volume provides a thoughtful and wide-ranging exploration of approaches to the critical study of advertising. Current and impending practices of advertising have in many ways exceeded the grasp of traditional modes of critique, due at least in part to their being formulated in very different...
Immigration and America's Cities
A Handbook on Evolving Services
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Generations ago, immigrants came to the U.S. from Europe and Africa in large numbers. Today they are arriving mainly from Latin America and Asia. Most are documented but many are not. While the federal and most state governments have done little beyond controlling borders and ports of entry to address...
The Word
Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Critically acclaimed Black writers reveal how books have shaped their personal lives—in often unexpected ways.
In these thirteen strikingly candid interviews, bestselling authors, winners of the Pulitzer Prize, and writers picked by Oprah’s Book Club discuss how the acts of reading and writing...
Ensayo sobre el lenguaje ritual
La adivinación en quechua y en aimara
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 31, 2015
La finalidad principal de este trabajo consiste en la descripción del lenguaje empleado en los ritos adivinatorios difundidos en las zonas de habla quechua y aimara de la cordillera centro-andina. En particular, se analiza el lenguaje utilizado durante los ritos oraculares de interpretación de hojas...