An Introduction to the Uses and Diffusion of the News
How do audiences use mass media, and how does news spread through society? This text examines how media cultivates fear and shapes our beliefs about crime, risk, and social issues. It covers key theories like the Spiral of Silence, the Knowledge Gap, and Cultivation Theory.
This book discusses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on both high-level politics and people’s inner worlds. Through diverse religious, historical, social, and legal analyses, it offers broad perspectives and questions the future of international security.
Complexity and Uncertainty in Contemporary Cities
Contemporary cities face growing complexity and uncertainty. This book reviews the history of systems thinking and provides a conceptual model applying systemic principles and foresight techniques to urban planning, facilitating collaborative and integrated approaches to cities.
Critical Coalitions
Explore the dynamic interplay of literature and contemporary themes like postcoloniality, gender, and new media. Combining scholarly dialogue, no-holds-barred interviews, and poignant poetry, this book offers fresh perspectives on culture, identity, and representation.
This volume reflects a rich tradition of Kantian thought. Essays rethink Kant’s most controversial themes—freedom, morality, transcendental idealism, radical evil, and revolution—and indicate his importance for current philosophical debates.
This book equips students and practitioners with the analytical skills to represent a client in a civil federal tax dispute. Using the Code, Regulations, and case law, you will learn to identify and analyse procedural issues from a tax controversy’s inception through litigation.
Citizen participation can improve local government performance, but it has a dark side: discrimination, exclusion, and elite capture. This book argues that success depends on circumstances like socioeconomic development, and that merely reforming institutions is not enough.
This book offers human resources practitioners and researchers a hands-on guide to applying quantile regression to indices of diversity in an organizational setting. With examples throughout, it illustrates how to analyze the IQV, Shannon, Simpson, and other indices.
Witchcraft, Superstition and Rationality
This book explores the impact of witchcraft-related violence in India, interrogating the intersection of gender, caste, and power. It reveals how superstition is weaponized as a tool of oppression and examines anti-superstition laws, activism, and the need for cultural change.
This book explores the role of NGOs in educating underprivileged children and the challenges they face. It covers curriculum development, collaboration with formal schools, CSR support, and the need for a sustainable model to help achieve the goal of ‘Education for all’.
This three-volume manual provides information on 262 species of southern African decapods, providing updates to their taxonomy, and ecological and fisheries information. It is arranged systematically, progressing from the earliest forms to the most derived and advanced forms.
Pretty Ugly
Why did we evolve a sense of beauty? This book answers from the perspective of scientists with deep knowledge of the arts, weaving together experimental science with art, music, and more. They show how all our senses are similar under the hood in shaping our aesthetic experience.
Japan is the world’s third-largest economy, yet surprisingly little-known. This book charts its journey from the rapid modernization of the Meiji Period to its postwar “economic miracle,” and reveals how its growth outpaced the West even during the so-called “lost decade.”
Leonardo da Vinci and Verrazzano’s Royal Discovery of New York (1524-2024)
The discovery of explorer Verrazzano’s 500-year-old travel report led to a world map found among Leonardo da Vinci’s papers. Astonishingly, their families were neighbors. Did Leonardo influence his countryman? This book offers new evidence on their connection.
The Disembodied Mind
Is the mind entirely separate from physics? Relying on empirical science, this book presents a model of an objective mind completely unconnected with anything physical. The mind has no effect on the physical world, but, by free volition, navigates the world we experience.
Situational English Level I
This book immerses students in lifelike contexts that integrate the four core language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Engage with thought-provoking passages and dialogues to build grammar, vocabulary, and fluency for confident, effective communication.
Neuroscience in Criminal Law
This work assesses how neuroscience informs the protection of fundamental rights in Canada. We analyze the application of ‘neurolaw’ in cases involving cruel punishment for adolescents, the capacity to consent, and the decriminalization of certain psychoactive substances.
A Study of Daisaku Ikeda
This book explores the philosophical and religious work of Daisaku Ikeda, framing it as a philosophy of action. With a strong spiritual and religious reference, Ikeda’s work interprets the human through emancipative will, translating philosophy into practical social engagement.
William Stevens Fielding was one of Canada’s most influential statesmen. From journalist to premier of Nova Scotia, he became Laurier’s finance minister and heir apparent, negotiating the 1911 free trade agreement before returning as finance minister under Mackenzie King.
Andreas Gryphius and T.S. Eliot’s “The Dissociation of Sensibility”
A new appraisal of Andreas Gryphius, the great Baroque poet, through T.S. Eliot’s “Dissociation of Sensibility.” Supported by new translations, it shows how Eliot illuminates Gryphius as Gryphius illuminates Eliot. Both suffered the cataclysm of civil war and despair.
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