Catálogo de libros: Estudios interdisciplinarios

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  • Re/Thinking Chickens
    Elena Lazutkaite
    Re/Thinking Chickens: The Discourse around Chicken Farming in British Newspapers and Campaigners’ Magazines, 1982–2016 has major social relevance as it focuses on one of the most forgotten and yet most exploited farmed animals, chickens, who now have a combined mass exceeding that of all other birds on Earth. Dr Elena Lazutkaitė demonstrates that the planet’s most numerous bird...
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    70,06 €

  • Innovative Perspectives on Corporate Communication in the Global World
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    242,33 €

  • Twenty
    Rebecca Shafi
    2020 was a strange and chaotic year full of unbelievable events. This collection of twenty poems contains thoughts on all of it: pandemic, politics, natural disasters, protests, and more. These thoughts and images were gathered tenderly, and shared in this short book, as a way to help us make sense of this experience together - through soft kindnesses, and words of beauty. ...
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    27,31 €

  • The Transformation of Capacity in International Development
    Avideh K Mayville / Avideh K. Mayville
    'The Transformation of Capacity in International Development' exposes the transformation of capacity building as a concept of practice within development through an examination of USAID’s work in Afghanistan and Pakistan from 1977 to 2017. It has implications for the future of rights-based approaches to development, the international management of global security threats and su...
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    57,37 €

  • Stories from Palestine
    Marda Dunsky
    Stories from Palestine profiles Palestinians engaged in creative and productive pursuits in their everyday lives in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. Their narratives amplify perspectives and experiences of Palestinians exercising their own constructive agency.In Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience, Marda Dunsky presents a vivid overview of contemporary...
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    30,15 €

  • Communicating the Climate Crisis
    Julia B. Corbett / Julia BCorbett
    Communicating the Climate Crisis lays out fresh directions and strategies for creating a new story of hope through action—not as isolated and “guilty” consumers, but as social actors who use emotional resilience, climate conversations, justice, and faith to break the current social inertia and create a desired future. ...
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    135,95 €

  • Improving Scientific Communication for Lifelong Learners
    Scientific communication (Sci-Com) is a part of information science and the sociology of science that studies researchers’ use of formal and informal information channels as well as their communicative roles. It also covers the utilization of the formal publication system and similar issues. Within the scientific community, much attention has focused on improving communications...
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    281,94 €

  • The Digital Disconnect
    Ellen Helsper
    Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who’s connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and practice in socio-digital inequalities. She makes an urgent call to broaden our horiz...
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    175,06 €

  • The Digital Disconnect
    Ellen Helsper
    Ellen Helsper goes beyond questions of digital divides and who’s connected or not. She asks why and how social and digital inequalities are linked, as she reveals the tangible outcomes of socio-digital inequalities to everyday lives in an expert exploration of contemporary theory, research and practice in socio-digital inequalities. She makes an urgent call to broaden our horiz...
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    57,69 €

  • Solutions Journalism
    Bill Dodd
    As audiences increasingly avoid negative news, journalists are being called upon to tell optimistic stories about the future. This book explores emerging solutions reporting practices while arguing for a journalism based on hope psychology and a pluralist conception of leadership and expertise. ...
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    129,34 €

  • Marx in the Field
    Alessandra Mezzadri
    Marx in the Field is a unique edited collection illustrating the relevance of Marxian methods to study contemporary capitalism and the global development process. Essays in the collection bring Marx ’to the field’ in three ways. They illustrate how Marxian categories can be concretely deployed for field research in the global economy, they analyse how these categories may be ad...
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    180,18 €

  • Improving Scientific Communication for Lifelong Learners
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    216,09 €

  • The Brexit Referendum on Twitter
    Jingrong Tong / Landong Zuo
    The Brexit referendum on Twitter:a mixed-method computational analysis investigates how Twitter worked in shaping political discourse and its potential for fuelling populism in the month leading to the referendum. ...
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    88,07 €

  • New Frontiers in Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Peace Science
    This volume will improve our collective understanding of how to fight humanity’s persistent and tragic problems with conflicts, climate shocks and disasters. The authors of this volume will offer deep insights, from their research, into the nature of evolving challenges to both global and local sustainability. ...
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    158,28 €

  • Digital Media Effects
    W. James Potter / WJames Potter
    With mobile devices and easy access to the internet, people are now in constant connection with news and entertainment, as well as contributing to content through social media. This book focuses on the unique effects these digital media have, making students aware of media's omnipresence in their lives. ...
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    166,88 €

  • Communicating in the Anthropocene
    Alexa M. Dare / Alexa MDare / C. Vail Fletcher / CVail Fletcher
    In Communicating in the Anthropocene: Intimate Relations, the contributors analyze how to live in connection with other beings in the face of crisis and to engage the concept of the Anthropocene from within. ...
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    169,57 €

  • Breaking Cycles of Violence in Israel and Palestine
    Franke Wilmer
    Peace activists empathically engaging with one another and working from both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are trying to disrupt the dominant conflict narratives that make this conflict seem so intractable. Can their activism bring about a tipping point that can break the cycle of violence? ...
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    142,88 €

  • Speak Well and Prosper
    Frank DiBartolomeo
    Your success in life is largely determined by your social skills-by your ability to interact positively and effectively with others and ensure their cooperation. This interaction is greatly dependent on presenting your ideas to your direct reports, colleagues, and superiors in a cogent, clear, and convincing manner. This is where Speak Well and Prosper: Tips, Tools, and Techniq...
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    17,16 €

  • Speak Well and Prosper
    Frank DiBartolomeo
    Your success in life is largely determined by your social skills-by your ability to interact positively and effectively with others and ensure their cooperation. This interaction is greatly dependent on presenting your ideas to your direct reports, colleagues, and superiors in a cogent, clear, and convincing manner. This is where Speak Well and Prosper: Tips, Tools, and Techniq...
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    24,11 €

  • Handbook of Research on Narrative Interactions
    Recep Yılmaz
    Our understanding of the concept of narrative has undergone a significant transformation over time, particularly today as new communication technologies are developed and popularized. As new narrative genres are born and old ones undergo great change by the minute, a thorough understanding can shed light on which storytelling elements work best in what format. That deep underst...
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    386,84 €

  • Entrepreneurs and SMEs in Rwanda
    David L. Poole
    Entrepreneurs and Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) have become the darlings of neoliberal development thinking, with the received wisdom being that such enterprises hold the key to the economic transformation of low-income countries. This thinking has profoundly influenced development policy in Rwanda, but has singularly failed to deliver the much anticipated emergence...
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    154,27 €

  • Digital Media Effects
    W. James Potter / WJames Potter
    With mobile devices and easy access to the internet, people are now in constant connection with news and entertainment, as well as contributing to content through social media. This book focuses on the unique effects these digital media have, making students aware of media's omnipresence in their lives. ...
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    83,35 €

  • Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture
    Lyndon Way
    Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field. ...
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    57,79 €

  • Analysing Politics and Protest in Digital Popular Culture
    Lyndon Way
    Supporting you with varied pedagogy throughout, this engaging new book provides a foundational understanding of politics and protest before focusing on step-by-step instructions for carrying out analysis on your own. It includes up to date cases, such as analysis of memes about Brexit, Trump and even coronavirus, that cater for this quickly moving field. ...
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    175,18 €

  • Multidimensional Peacebuilding
    Wendy Kroeker
    Multidimensional Peacebuilding analyzes the role of local actors in working towards sustainable peace in Mindanao, Philippines. Wendy Kroeker examines the mediatory and solidarity-affirming role of these peacebuilders in the ongoing peace process regarding the conflict in Mindanao. ...
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    142,90 €

  • Handbook of Research on Contemporary Storytelling Methods Across New Media and Disciplines
    Stories are everywhere around us, from the ads on TV or music video clips to the more sophisticated stories told by books or movies. Everything comes wrapped in a story, and the means employed to weave the narrative thread are just as important as the story itself. In this context, there is a need to understand the role storytelling plays in contemporary society, which has chan...
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    354,44 €

  • Change the World Using Social Media
    Paul Signorelli
    This one-stop handbook to leveraging social media to foster collaboration and achieve positive change uses success stories to illustrate how activists produce transformations in their extended communities. ...
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    44,78 €

  • The Crisis of Belonging and Ethnographies of Peacebuilding in Kaduna State, Nigeria
    Benjamin Maiangwa
    This book uses critical qualitative and narrative inquiry methods to discuss intercommunal conflicts in Kaduna, Nigeria. More broadly, the author examines these conflicts within the context of postcolonial African crises and local peacebuilding. ...
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    129,38 €

  • Digital contention in a divided society
    Paul Reilly
    Representing the first in-depth qualitative study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used to mediate contentious public parades and protests in Northern Ireland, this book explores the implications of mis-and dis-information spread via online platforms for peacebuilding in societies transitioning out of conflict. ...
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    157,31 €

  • Grading Justice
    In Grading Justice, new and seasoned teachers are invited to explore socially-just approaches of assessment, including practices aimed at resisting and undoing grading and assessment altogether, to create more democratic grading policies and practices, foregrounding the transformative potential of communication within college courses. ...
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    170,08 €