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Naturlauf
Scholarly Journeys Toward Gustav Mahler Essays in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange for his 90th Birthday
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This collection of essays forms the second Festschrift to honour the dean of Gustav Mahler research, Henry-Louis de La Grange, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday. It includes vibrant, new historical, theoretical, and aesthetic research on the complex mind which produced among the best-loved...
The Education Doctorate (Ed.D.)
Issues of Access, Diversity, Social Justice, and Community Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2015
This first-of-its-kind text explores the Ed.D. program as a crucible for equitable higher education and community leadership. It was inspired in part by the Carnegie Project on the Educational Doctorate (CPED) and, more broadly, by widespread international interest in the power of the Ed.D. as a force...
Sacred Matters, Stately Concerns
Faith and Politics in Asia, Past and Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Politics and religion have been major forces throughout history, and they still are as anyone who pays attention to current events can see. Understandably, the relationship between religion and politics calls for careful and ongoing scholarly exploration. At the same time, global centers of economic...
The Fantasy of Reality
Critical Essays on «The Real Housewives»
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
With over twenty different casts, multiple spin-off series, and five international locations, The Real Housewives franchise is a television phenomenon. The women on these shows have reinvented the soap opera diva and in doing so, have offered television viewers a new opportunity to embrace a loved,...
Mediated Communities
Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. Contributors draw...
by Dale Hample
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Interpersonal Arguing is an accessible review of scholarship on key elements of face-to-face arguing, which is the interpersonal exchange of reasons. Topics include frames for understanding the nature of arguing, argument situations, serial arguments, argument dialogues, and international differences...
Education, Science and Knowledge Capitalism
Creativity and the Promise of Openness
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
We live in the age of global science – but not, primarily, in the sense of ‘universal knowledge’ that has characterized the liberal metanarrative of ‘free’ science and the ‘free society’ since its early development in the Enlightenment. Today, an economic logic links science to national...
Funding Journalism in the Digital Age
Business Models, Strategies, Issues and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
The news media play a vital role in keeping the public informed and maintaining democratic processes. But that essential function has come under threat as emerging technologies and changing social trends, sped up by global economic turmoil, have disrupted traditional business models and practices,...
Communicology for the Human Sciences
Lanigan and the Philosophy of Communication
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This edited volume develops the philosophy of communication inspired by the scholarship of Richard L. Lanigan, with emphasis on communicology as a human science. Lanigan’s syntheses of the philosophies of speech, language and discourse stemming from the works of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty,...
From Tahrir Square to Ferguson
Social Networks as Facilitators of Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The last several years have seen mass uprisings and dynamic social movements across the globe, from the onset of the Arab Spring in 2011, to the Black Lives Matter movement following Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. There is no doubt that social media platforms such as Facebook...
by Bonnie Evans-Hills, Michael Rusk
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2015
Is it possible to bridge two faiths, to cross through myriad cultures, and to seek to understand some of today’s great global crises from the viewpoint of the other? With an estimated 5 million Muslims in the United States, Islam is a faith that invites attention. Beginning with the perceived dissonance...
Biblical Representations of Moab
A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Biblical Representations of Moab: A Kenyan Postcolonial Reading employs critical theories on colonial, anticolonial, and postcolonial ethnicity and African cultural hermeneutics to examine the overlap of politics, ethnicity, nationality, economics, and religion in contemporary Kenya and to utilize...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This volume is an up-to-date account of communication theories from around the world.
Authored by a group of eminent scholars, each chapter is a history and state-of-the-art description of the major issues in international communication theory.
While the book draws on an understanding of communication...
Libertys Dilemma
America. Two Nations Dependent/Independent
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Liberty’s Dilemma is a diagnostic analysis of the falling away in the United States from the founders’ vision of individual liberty and freedom of association. The founders never could have envisioned the enormous expansion of industrial and scientific power we have experienced, nor the national...