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  • Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth
    Anam Kuraishi
    This book reconceptualises the idea of ’post-truth’. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. ...
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    227,70 €

  • Deliberating War
    Patricia Roberts-Miller
    This book argues that treating politics as war derails essential democratic processes, including deliberation and policy argumentation, in complicated ways. 'Politics is war' is not always just a figure of speech, but often a sincere expression of how people see disagreement-they mean it literally-and they use it to evade the responsibilities of rhetoric. This book takes the me...
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    58,58 €

  • Towards a New Paradigm on Post-truth
    Anam Kuraishi
    This book reconceptualises the idea of ’post-truth’. It does not limit the domain of post-truth to the production factories of fake news. ...
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    65,37 €

  • Narratives of Wellbeing
    This book critically interrogates ’wellbeing’, a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how wellbeing can be defined and measured, but what is created and excluded in the process of striving for and articulating wellbeing. The editors propose a narrative framework as a novel and insightful lens through which to analyse w...
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    208,25 €

  • Development and Regional Stability in Africa
    This book critically engages with the development-security nexus in contemporary Africa, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the African Union (AU). Despite widespread discourse on the ’Africa Rising’ narrative, many African states grapple with persistent economic challenges, violent conflicts, Afrophobia, and democratic setbacks. The AU’s efforts, alongside those of o...
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    159,35 €

  • Halliday and Chinese Linguistics
    Zhuanglin Hu / Min Yang
    This book is a progressive exposition on Halliday’s academic thought and its origins by the renowned linguist Hu Zhuanglin, based on 30 years of research. The first part, 'Chinese Origin,' introduces readers to the author’s gradual understanding that Halliday’s academic thought mainly came from Chinese scholars such as Wang Li, Luo Changpei, and Gao Mingkai. In 1980s, Halliday ...
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    172,34 €

  • Africa Peace Calendar
    Marion Transetti
    Travel the year through Africa, discover its cultural diversity, highlights of its history and above all its rich potential for peacebuilding. The African Peace Calendar brings you there: every day of the year you will discover African events, people, quotes and proverbs calling for peace and an end to wars in Africa. To make this trip is to support the actions for Peace of the...
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    59,45 €

  • The Art of Intercultural Business Communication
    Bertha Du-Babcock / Richard D. D. Babcock
    This book examines intercultural business communication issues and practices from a global and interdisciplinary perspective with an Asian focus, which is essential to any contemporary study on business communication. An essential guide for practitioners, researchers and scholars of international business and communication. ...
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    65,06 €

  • Public Relations for Public Health and Social Good
    Brooke W. McKeever
    Foregrounding the work professional communicators do to support public health and social missions, this book examines how the principles and practices of public relations can be applied by nonprofit, government, and corporate entities working to understand and improve public health and social conditions. ...
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    66,57 €

  • European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication
    Zrinjka Peruško
    European Media Systems for Deliberative Communication explores how four dimensions of national media systems - the legal framework for freedom of expression and information, media accountability, journalism, audience media usage and competencies - contribute to or are detrimental to the success of deliberative communication. ...
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    227,61 €

  • How to Conduct Communication Research
    Elizabeth Dorrance Hall / Kristina M Scharp
    How to Conduct Communication Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods features 48 short, digestible chapters that cover the most essential and practical information students need to know to better understand various approaches and methods for conducting research. Students learn how to use tools from both qualitative and quantitative research methods to maximize their abil...
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    100,82 €

  • Theatre and Global Development
    Bobby Smith
    How do theatre and development partnerships operate? What issues impede collaborations between various institutions and individuals? Why do relations between global North and South partners often fail to reflect important values such as equality, reciprocity and mutual benefit? This is the first book to examine theatre and global development partnerships. It focusses on the UK ...
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    156,97 €

  • Routledge Handbook of the Global South in Sport for Development and Peace
    This book explores the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), putting Global South voices and perspectives at the centre of the analysis. It covers a wide range of thematic and methodological areas that inform existing and emerging discourses in SDP. ...
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    381,24 €

  • Tracking Interaction in Chinese Scholars’ Academic Writing
    Jing Wei
    This book tracks changes in the use of metadiscourse in Chinese scholars’ English and Chinese research articles, discusses how these changes reflect changes in Chinese scholars’ interactions with their peers in China and outside China, and analyzes how Chinese scholars are responding to changes in the academic context that embrace and shape rhetorical practices in the academic ...
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    145,37 €

  • Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad
    Levi Durbidge
    This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity, and place. It offers the first in-depth exploration of mobile technology’s role in language learning and identity formation during study abroad. ...
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    147,53 €

  • Language Learning, Digital Communications and Study Abroad
    Levi Durbidge
    This book argues for a view of study abroad as emergent of tensions between localised and globalised imaginaries of language, identity, and place. It offers the first in-depth exploration of mobile technology’s role in language learning and identity formation during study abroad. ...
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    39,37 €

  • Under Development
    Ian Smillie
    This is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It’s about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isn’t working. ...
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    41,05 €

  • Under Development
    Ian Smillie
    This is a memoir about development: personal development, the development of ideas and understanding, rights and justice, war and peace, poverty and prosperity. It’s about one of the greatest imperatives of our time: the drive to end global poverty and why, despite exaggerated claims to the contrary, it isn’t working. ...
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    101,94 €

  • Perspectives on Plagiarism in China
    Yongyan Li
    This book examines the issue of plagiarism in the Chinese context of history and education, both in classical and contemporary times. ...
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    227,49 €

  • Peace and the politics of memory
    Annika Björkdahl / Johanna Mannergren / Johanna Mannergren Selimovic / Susanne Buckley-Zistel
    The book explores how the politics of memory impacts peace in societies transitioning from a violent past. It finds that three elements of memory politics - inclusivity, pluralism, and dignity - play a key role for a just peace. ...
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    52,76 €

  • Keeping Peace in Troubled Times
    Nina Käsehage
    This interdisciplinary anthology offers both theoretical reflections and empirical data on past, present and possible future war and crisis situations. In addition, against the background of the authors’ academic and practical experience in the field of international political observation and consultancy, proposals are formulated for peacekeeping in crisis regions and with rega...
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    171,79 €

  • Listen and Design
    Iwan J. Azis
    This open access book thoroughly investigates the domain of policy design tailored specifically for micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) with a central emphasis on harmonizing these policies with the preexisting social capital inherent to these enterprises, consistent with the mandate of Bank Indonesia to guard price stability and to promote financial stability, inclusi...
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    71,59 €

  • Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication
    Multi-Stakeholder Contribution in Asian Environmental Communication focuses on how diverse actors can come together to promote sustainable environmental practices. ...
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    227,45 €

  • A Jew in Gaza
    Allan J. 'Alonzo' Wind
    This is the unique story of how A.J. 'Alonzo' Wind, retired Foreign Service Officer and international development executive, assumed the position of Mission Director for International Medical Corps in the occupied Palestinian territories, living in Gaza and East Jerusalem during 2022 and 2023. It offers a view into Gaza few have had, as an American Jew, as a Baha’i, as a humani...
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    24,40 €

  • Chinese Mental Health Scale Translation
    Meng Ji / Yi Shan
    This open access book illustrates the key steps and procedures of developing mental health scales into linguistically and culturally appropriate translations. Through illustrative case studies, we demonstrate that traditional forward and backward translation have significant methodological limitations when applied in mental health scale translation, such as linguistic and cultu...
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    47,07 €

  • Personal Conflict Management
    Amy Janan Johnson / Ioana A. Cionea / Suzanne McCorkle
    This third edition bridges the theory behind why conflict occurs with specific skills and tools to transform difficult interpersonal encounters into beneficial, constructive exchanges. ...
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    135,50 €

  • Personal Conflict Management
    Amy Janan Johnson / Ioana A. Cionea / Suzanne McCorkle
    This third edition bridges the theory behind why conflict occurs with specific skills and tools to transform difficult interpersonal encounters into beneficial, constructive exchanges. ...
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    244,74 €

  • Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition
    Inge van de Ven / Lucie Chateau
    In our information age, deciding what and whom to trust is a pressing matter. This book revaluates the hermeneutic tradition for digital culture, covering three dimensions: suspicion, trust, dialogue. Can we move beyond a surplus of both trust and distrust in and on platforms, towards new forms of intersubjective dialogue? ...
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    86,07 €

  • The Semantics of Development in Asia
    This open access book explores Japanese involvement in Asian development through selected development ideas and lexemes that are widely regarded in Japan as ’untranslatable’ into other languages. Each chapter traces the genealogy of locally nuanced development ideas and lexemes in Japan and the process by which they have spread across Asia and beyond through Japan’s development...
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    73,31 €

  • The Middle East Conflict
    Margret Johannsen
    This textbook deals with the Middle East conflict as a key element of international relations. The origins of the conflict and its international dimensions, the major Israeli-Arab wars, attempts at a solution, peace plans and visions for the future are presented in a concise manner. Extensive map material illustrates the findings.The English translation of this book, originally...
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    122,09 €