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Sparks provides a challenging reassessment of the impact of the collapse of communism on the media systems of Eastern Europe. He analyzes both the changes themselves and their implications for the ways in which we think about the mass media.

This edition explores and explains the use of this methodological tool. Evert Gummesson refines the basic ideas from the first edition with conceptual developments, updated literature references and current examples from research and practice.

This book focuses on the author's experience in Minnesota where a design team of architects, planners, economic and community development practitioners provided planning and design assistance to local communities. The book explores the advantages of a systems approach to community design.

This key text in educational leadership focuses on the significance of the context and culture of schools.

This textbook provides a non-technical introduction to the philosophy of science. Through asking whether science can provide us with objective knowledge of the world, the book provides a thorough and accessible guide to the key thinkers and debates that define the field.

This book is a course text for teaching assistants. It aims to help students make the transition into undergraduate level study. It is also a teaching and learning resource for students and tutors on undergraduate programmes.

Encourages readers to become the best kind of secondary English teacher. This book offers practical applications of ideas and approaches, and presents a view of the subject, that is at the same time professionally and practically focused. It offers perspectives on the teaching of English and literacy.

Includes conceptual and practical issues that are associated with identifying and assessing battered women in mental health services challenges traditional mental health approaches to domestic violence. This title offers alternative strategies and procedures to improve the response to battered women.

The Second Edition of this bestselling text provides a comprehensive overview of the ways in which social theory has attempted to theorize the importance of the media in contemporary society.

* Provides brief accounts of the central ideas behind key concepts of critical social theory* Prepares students to tackle primary texts and gives them a point of reference when they find themselves stuck * Is essential reading for undergraduates in sociology and across the social sciences.

This up-to-date text addresses the implications of postmodernism and post-structuralism for feminist theorizing. It identifies the challenges of this through the development of 'conceptual literacy'.

`Along with the "how" and "why" of psychotherapy, Bonnie Meekums provides realistic examples of people whose lives have benefited from dance movement therapy. It is my honour to recommend this book' - Dianne Dulicai, President of the American Dance Therapy Association

Drawing on a wide variety of sources, this book treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and reflects, and critically comments upon, the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory.

Media literacy is a topic of interest, especially to educators. This book brings together the scattered work on media literacy.

Qualitative Marketing Research clearly explains the use and importance of qualitative methods, clarifying the theories behind the methodology and providing concrete examples and exercises which illustrate its application to management studies and marketing.

This book shows social science students the importance of attending to design issues when undertaking social research, and is a one-stop critical guide to design in social research that students and researchers will find invaluable.

Presents insights, techniques and skills needed to understand why some adult students have difficulties with learning a second language. This book also presents theories and models of learning, and covers areas including: learning styles and personality dispositions; student motivation, self-efficacy and anxiety; and, how to interview students.

Five Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. This new edition has been substantially revised and updated to address today's issues of the body in modern life, community and politics.

the definitive guide to successfully publishing social science research, securing a job, gaining tenure, surviving research assessment exercises, and obtaining promotion.

This book is for school counsellors, teachers and administrators who have to deal with the escalating violence in today's schools.

This book is the result of nearly two decades of research and development into providing educational researchers with a set of reliable and valid measures to study the nature of middle schools, and practitioners with a set of tools to evaluate their school climate with an aim towards organizational improvement.

This practical book guides the reader through the potentially problematic areas of academic ethics. Recognizing the political and legal, as well as moral, dimensions of ethical questions, the authors offer strategies to help deal with many of the ethical dilemmas that may arise during an academic career.