Richard Collins: 46 books
by Richard Collins
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
The Road to Zagora is an unusual travelogue spanning India, Nepal, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Peru, Equador and Wales which springs from Richard Collins' compulsion to travel after he was diagnosed with a progressive incurable disease in 2006. 'Mr Parkinson', as Collins refers to his condition, informs...
by Richard Collins
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Borderland immigration and drug trafficking are heated issues for most people living in the Southwest. But for Arizona rancher-author Richard Collins, who operates a 13,000 acre ranch near the Mexican border, they are a daily occurrence. Wanting to hear firsthand from those living and working in the...
Culture, Communication and National Identity
The Case of Canadian Television
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1990
‘There can be no political sovereignty without culture sovereignty.’ So argued the CBC in 1985 in its evidence to the Caplan/Sauvageau Task Force on Broadcasting Policy. Richard Collins challenges this assumption. He argues in this study of nationalism and Canadian television policy that Canada’s...
From Satellite to Single Market
New Communication Technology and European Public Service Television
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2005
Richard Collins explores public service television's role in fostering pan-European cultural identity. Based on extensive primary research, interviews with participants and analysis of key European programmes, this book documents the growth of the public service satellite television network which...
Television
Policy and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2005
In this important and wide-ranging text, Richard Collins combines original research with provocative analysis and argument. He focuses on the impact of new television technologies, national policies for television for television in North America and Europe, the effects of internationalisation, television news and documentaries and the history and likely development of media studies.
No Fear Zen
Discovering Balance in an Unbalanced World
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
No Fear Zen presents an approach to Zen practice that focuses on concentration and sitting (shikantaza) as a discipline that can be practiced in everyday life with the dedication of the samurai. And in a world that requires bravery and decisive action in addition to generosity and compassion, we can...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...
Media and Identity in Contemporary Europe
Consequences of global convergence
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2002
An integrated analysis of the central issues in contemporary media policy. Chapters focus on technological change and its impact on cultural and political identities, the role of the cultural industries in the 'New Economy' and the impact of European integration on national institutions - public service...
by Dr Richard Collins
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Modern international law is widely understood as an autonomous system of binding legal rules. Nevertheless, this claim to autonomy is far from uncontroversial. International lawyers have faced recurrent scepticism as to both the reality and efficacy of the object of their study and practice. For the...
Uptown Lawyer
A Study of Criminal Law in the Real World
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2018
Uptown Lawyer
By: Richard L. Collins
High-powered defense attorney Robert B. Collins recounts his pulse-pounding cases in this new book, Uptown Lawyer. Collins’ clients are as famous and flamboyant as he himself: pop music superstar Michael Johnson, Scott Garrison accused of murdering his...
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Are schools making the most of new technologies? Are they tapping into the learning potential of today’s Firefox/Facebook/cell phone generation? Allan Collins and Richard Halverson argue that the way computers have transformed our workplaces and lives can and should be adapted to transform American...
Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology
The Digital Revolution and Schooling in America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The digital revolution in education is well under way, with more and more learners plugged into the online world. How can schools make the most of both the technology and the learning potential of today’s “born digital” students? In this new edition of their groundbreaking book, Collins and...
HALLOWEEN Boxed Set
550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Stories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: H. P. Lovecraft: The Dunwich Horror. From Beyond… Washington Irving: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Rip Van Winkle The Spectre Bridegroom...
Fortress of Terror: 550+ Horror Classics, Supernatural Mysteries & Macabre Tales
The Phantom of the Opera, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Turn of the Screw, The Dunwich Horror, Frankenstein, The Vampire, Dracula, A Haunted Island, Black Magic, The Beetle, The Picture of Dorian Gray…
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart The Cask of Amontillado The Black Cat… Henry James: The Turn of the Screw The Ghostly Rental…...