Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • E-Collaboration Technologies and Strategies for Competitive Advantage Amid Challenging Times
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    216,27 €

  • The Politics of Fear in South Sudan
    Daniel Akech Thiong
    When asked in 2016 if he would step down as President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir replied ’my exit could spark genocide.’ Kiir’s words exemplify how fear and the threat of mass violence have become central to the politics of South Sudan. As South Sudanese analyst Daniel Akech Thiong shows, it is this politics that lies at the heart of the country’s seemingly intractable civil wa...
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    156,20 €

  • Zimbabwe@40
    Zimbabwe @ 40 is a celebration of the country’s four decades of independence and statehood. Forty years is a relatively short period in a nation’s life, but it is a formative period: what lessons can be learnt from the successes and failures, challenges and opportunities of the last 40 years? What should be avoided in the next 40?Lloyd Sachikonye and David Kaulemu have assemble...
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    39,73 €

  • Youth In South Africa
    South Africa is characterised by a youthful population, and the challenges and possibilities that characterise the young generation are both warning signs and beacons of hope for a nation founded on social justice. Youth in South Africa: Agency, (in)visibility and national development takes stock of the nation’s development as it affects young people.Authors offer both personal...
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    92,86 €

  • Language and State
    Xing Yu
    This book argues that while humans communicate using language, they create and use media. Media extend the distance of communication. Humans form themselves into a large community. This happens in a long historical process in which the state of the civilized society replaces the tribe of the primitive society. Language replaces kinship in playing a role in the formation of huma...
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    36,34 €

  • Beyond Poverty
    Terry Dalrymple
    Answering the Cry of the Poor in a Million Villages The church is facing a strategic opportunity-85 percent of people living in extreme poverty around the world reside in villages. These villages are also home to the majority of the world’s least reached people. The church has historically played an active role in wholistic ministry and alleviating global poverty with a goal o...
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    11,27 €

  • Innovative Perspectives on Corporate Communication in the Global World
    Today’s global markets demand that companies of all sizes look to international markets for potential customers. The successive crises that have taken place in the last decade make the internationalization of companies essential. This situation is further aggravated in the case of SMEs, as surviving only from national markets is becoming increasingly difficult. Indeed, the econ...
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    314,70 €

  • The Social Media Age
    Zoetanya Sujon
    We are all aware of social media and how it is seamlessly integrated into our private and public lives as everyday users, but this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of social media by asking questions about its place in our society, our culture and our economy. ...
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    181,25 €

  • How to Do Media and Cultural Studies
    Jane Stokes
    The third edition of the bestselling student guide to doing media and cultural studies research provides all the knowledge and practical expertise needed to carry out a project or dissertation. ...
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    190,47 €

  • Posting Peace
    Douglas S. Bursch / Douglas SBursch
    Why is everyone so angry online? The internet seems to have brought the world together only so we can tear each other apart. Social media platforms have become toxic and polarizing environments. Many of us are overwhelmed and disillusioned by endless online conflict and negativity. How did we get here, and what can we do about it? The internet changes not only how we communicat...
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    18,80 €

  • Rethinking Communication in Social Business
    Craig E. Mattson / Craig EMattson
    This book argues that social business, in order to sustain its vital distinctiveness in democratic societies, must shift from an informative to a performative model of communication, especially regarding organizational storytelling, awareness-raising, and social problem-solving. ...
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    54,51 €

  • COVID-19 Manifestation, Ramifications and Future Prospects for Zimbabwe
    Munyaradzi Mawere
    The advent of Coronavirus (also known as COVID-19) pandemic has caused much distress, despondence, fear and pandemonium across all nations of the world. In Zimbabwe, the emergence of the virus sent a chilling message of insecurity and need for conscientiousness and diligence, as the virus decimated humankind amid untold suffering. The pandemic came as a litmus test for the inte...
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    77,80 €

  • New Millennium Woes and Livelihood Struggles in Africa
    Fidelis Peter Thomas Duri / Ngonidzashe Marongwe
    One of the oldest survival pursuits undertaken by the weak and the downtrodden people across the world has been begging. Going back to the ancient Christian biblical times up to the present epoch as well as across varying spatial settings, in situations of trouble and tribulations, parts of various communities have resorted to beggary to either overcome immediate adversities or...
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    49,42 €

  • Rabies in the Streets
    Deborah Nadal
    Explores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish. ...
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    57,26 €

  • Arguing with Numbers
    A collection of essays which deploy rhetorical lenses to explore how mathematics influences the values and beliefs with which we assess the world and make decisions, as well as how our values and beliefs influence the kinds of mathematical instruments we construct and accept. ...
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    128,80 €

  • Development and Subsistence in Globalising Africa
    In Africa, people striving to live and survive under the complex relationship between development and subsistence have been directly or indirectly feeling influences of globalisation. As Africa’s involvement in globalisation deepens, social phenomena are apparently synchronizing or becoming more similar to those in the rest of the world, but they are not homogenised with them, ...
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    81,39 €

  • Understanding Ubuntu for Enhancing Intercultural Communications
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    216,11 €

  • The Early Christian Attitude to War
    C. John Cadoux / CJohn Cadoux
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    44,90 €

  • The Early Christian Attitude to War
    C. John Cadoux / CJohn Cadoux
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    28,14 €

  • Handbook of Research on Representing Health and Medicine in Modern Media
    Gülşah Sarı
    Traditional and social media are used extensively in terms of public health today. Studies show that social media works much better than other follow-up systems, leading it to become a modern and somewhat new tool for disease coverage and information discovery. The current state of the representation of health and medicine in the media is an important factor to analyze in the f...
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    387,58 €

  • Chinese Social Media
    Peter Lunt / Shuhan Chen
    This book examines the social media experiences of middle class Chinese adolescents. Their enthusiasm for self-expression online, their mediated social relations (guanxi) with family, friends, classmates and colleagues are analysed in the context of China’s modernity. ...
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    136,23 €

  • Development Induced Displacements in Zimbabwe
    for Conflict CCMT
    Rural communities, particularly in developing countries, face perpetual risks of being displaced by infrastructure development projects (e.g. dams, roads, transmission lines), urban development and expansion projects, or large-scale commercial projects (e.g. mining, timber and agriculture). Development-induced displacements may lead to loss of land, livelihoods, shelter, proper...
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    39,70 €

  • PEACE
    Richard Birrer
    Peace: A Compendium provides a uniquely comprehensive, intensive and practical presentation of the diverse facets of peace. Featuring both classic and contemporary works, it enables readers to understand the history of peace and conflict from a variety of disciplines including philosophy, literature, law and theology while also introducing them to the most current perspectives ...
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    57,09 €

  • Building Communities through Food
    David F. Purnell / David FPurnell
    This book examines the power of food as a communicative tool to bring people of diverse backgrounds together. The author argues that food enables people to look past their differences and focus on their similarities, thus creating a stronger sense of community via the sharing of a meal. ...
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    54,77 €

  • Theorizing Criminality and Policing in the Digital Media Age
    Julie B. Wiest
    Sponsored by the Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Sociology section of the American Sociological Association (CITAMS),this volume in Emerald Studies in Media and Communications features social science research on criminality, policing, and mass media in the digital age. ...
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    158,10 €

  • Media Power and Global Television News
    Saba Bebawi
    The Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting. Yet, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a ’Western’ perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the rest of the world. The arrival of Al Jazeera English might, therefore, be regard...
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    52,58 €

  • How to Do Media and Cultural Studies
    Jane Stokes
    The third edition of the bestselling student guide to doing media and cultural studies research provides all the knowledge and practical expertise needed to carry out a project or dissertation. ...
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    69,51 €

  • The Social Media Age
    Zoetanya Sujon
    We are all aware of social media and how it is seamlessly integrated into our private and public lives as everyday users, but this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of social media by asking questions about its place in our society, our culture and our economy. ...
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    63,76 €

  • Understanding Games and Game Cultures
    Hugh Davies / Ingrid Richardson / Larissa Hjorth
    No longer a marginal media form, the study of digital game industries and ’gameification’ is more popular than ever. Hjorth and Richardson bring you Understanding Games and Gaming Culture; the must-read guide to global games studies. Giving students the tools to conceptually navigate contemporary game studies, this book examines game development, audience and profit in the cont...
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    175,05 €

  • The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication
    Nirit Weiss-Blatt
    The Techlash and Tech Crisis Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the evolution of tech journalism. The emerging tech-backlash is a story of pendulum swings: we are currently in tech-dystopianism after a long period spent in tech-utopianism. ...
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    142,96 €


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