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Big changes have been taking place in reading in recent years. While American society has become more visual and digital, the general state of literacy in America is in crisis, with educators and public officials worried about falling educational standards, the rising...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-07
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When family members experience a diagnosis of a chronic disease (e.g., cancer) or a health crisis (e.g., postpartum depression), not only the diagnosed individuals but entire families experience immediate and long-term stress as a consequence. Families with members...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-07
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In the age of the spectacle, democracy has never looked so bleak. Our world, saturated with media and marketing, endlessly confronts us with spectacles vying for our attention: from Apple and 9/11 to Facebook and the global financial crisis. Democratic politics, by...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Mediated Girlhoods: New Explorations of Girls’ Media Culture is the first anthology devoted specifically to scholarship on girls’ media culture. Taking a cultural studies approach, it includes analyses of girls’ media representations, media consumption, and media...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2011-03-07
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This book presents the first study of voice-over from a wide approach, including not only academic issues but also a description of the practice of voice-over around the globe. The authors define the concept of voice-over in Film Studies and Translation Studies and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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While popular music and the mass media in France are firmly established areas of enquiry, there have been relatively few academic studies of the youth and popular music press. This book focuses on Salut les copains (Hi Buddies/Mates) (1962-76), which achieved a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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The studies presented in this volume focus on two distinct but related areas of specialized communication professional and academic settings, resting on an anti-essentialist notion of identity as a phenomenon that emerges from the dialectic between individual and...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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The recognition that identity is mutable, multi-layered and subject to multiple modes of construction and de-construction has contributed to problematizing the issues associated with its representation in discourse, which has recently been attracting increasing...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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This volume presents some of the findings from a project on various aspects of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), including conciliation, mediation, and arbitration. To study the discursive practices of ADR today, an international initiative has been undertaken by a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-03-03
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Everyone loves a children's book. And many dream about writing one. But is it actually possible for an unpublished writer—armed with a good story idea and a love of kids—to write, sell, publish, and promote a book? Yes, it is! Veteran children's book publishing...
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For Dummies
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2011-03-03
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This book presents a detailed analysis of the alliteration of the whole of the Poetic Edda (or Elder Edda) of the Codex Regius, using the Germanic alliterative framework established by Andreas Heusler. The considerable regularity of the alliterative scheme is...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-03
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The Bang-Bang Club is the story of four young photographers who covered the last years of apartheid, taking many of the most memorable photographs of the period. In this stunning new book, the group's two surviving members recount their political, emotional, and...
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Basic Books
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2011-03-01
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Francis Lodwick FRS (1619-94) was a prosperous merchant, bibliophile, writer, thinker, and member of the Royal Society. He wrote extensively on language, religion, and experimental philosophy, most of it too controversial to be safely published during his lifetime. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-02-28
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In this updated edition of his brief, engaging book, Robert J. Fogelin examines figures of speech that concern meaning--irony, hyperbole, understatement, similes, metaphors, and others--to show how they work and to explain their attraction. Building on the ideas of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2011-02-24
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Foundations of Voice Studies provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the multifaceted role that voice quality plays in human existence. Offers a unique interdisciplinary perspective on all facets of voice perception, illustrating why listeners hear what...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-02-23
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'Mia Culpa is often very funny, and sometimes very serious.' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Engaging stuff.' SUNDAY AGE Sometimes, when I meet someone new and I tell them I'm a writer, they ask 'What do you write about?' Tricky question. It's a lot like asking a woman who's just...
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E-Penguin
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2011-02-23
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The contextual contributions to meaning are at the core of the debate about the semantics/pragmatics distinction, one of the liveliest topics in current philosophy of language and linguistics.The controversy between semantic minimalists and contextualists regarding...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-02-21
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Bereits mit 34 Jahren veröffentlichte der Berliner Berufsschriftsteller und Journalist Karl Gutzkow (1811-1879) seine «Gesammelten Werke». Er war damit in den Stand eines Klassikers erhoben und ließ sich dies gut honorieren. Was sind die Gründe für Gutzkows erfolgreiche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2011-02-21
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The book was awarded the 2011 NCA Franklyn S. Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression. This book sets out to explore how hate comes alive in language and actions by examining the nature and persuasive functions of hate in American society....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-02-21
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