Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (Mertens Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

Representations of Islam in the News: A Cross-Cultural Analysis (Mertens Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

The representation of Islam is unquestionably a critical test for comparing journalistic reporting across countries and cultures. The Islamic religion has weight in international reporting (defining what we termed 'foreign Islam'), but it is also the religion of numerically important minority

Islam Through Objects (Bigelow Anna)(Pevná vazba)

Islam through Objects represents the state of the field of Islamic material cultural studies. With contributions from scholars of religion, anthropologists, art historians, folklorists, historians, and other disciplines, Anna Bigelow brings together a wide range of perspectives on Islamic

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama (Ciobanu Estella)(Pevná vazba)

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and the performativity of gender

Representations of the World in Language Textbooks (Risager Karen)(Paperback)

This book presents a new and comprehensive framework for the analysis of representations of culture, society and the world in textbooks for foreign and second language learning. It points to the need for language learning materials to deal seriously with knowledge about the world, including its

Late Stalinism: The Aesthetics of Politics (Dobrenko Evgeny)(Pevná vazba)

In this nuanced historical analysis of late Stalinism, Evgeny Dobrenko analyzes key cultural texts to trace the emergence of an imperial Soviet consciousness, which he argues still very much defines the political and cultural profile of modern

Researching Communications: A Practical Guide to Methods in Media and Cultural Analysis (Deacon David)(Pevná vazba)

The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods,

Answering Islam: The Crescent in Light of the Cross (Geisler Norman L.)(Paperback)

Answering Islam evaluates the claims of orthodox Islam from a Christian point of view, appealing especially to the Qur'an and the Bible. The authors, a Christian apologist and a former Muslim, provide apologetic answers to prepare Christians for ministry in the Islamic context. This second edition

Design and Analysis of Cross-Over Trials (Jones Byron)(Pevná vazba)

Design and Analysis of Cross-Over Trials is concerned with a specific kind of comparative trial known as the cross-over trial, in which subjects receive different sequences of treatments. Such trials are widely used in clinical and medical research, and in other diverse areas such as veterinary

Metabolism of the Anthroposphere: Analysis, Evaluation, Design (Baccini Peter)(Pevná vazba)

An overview of the cultural evolution of material flows and stocks with an emphasis on the design of metabolic processes in urban systems.Over the last several thousand years of human life on Earth, agricultural settlements became urban cores, and these regional settlements became tightly connected

Islam in Liberal Europe: Freedom, Equality, and Intolerance (Hafez Kai)(Pevná vazba)

Islam in 'Liberal' Europe provides the first comprehensive overview of the political and social status of Islam and of Muslim migrants in Europe. In addition to offering a critical assessment of positive and negative trends in Islamic-Western relations, Kai Hafez also engages in a theoretical

Islam: A Very Short Introduction (Ruthven Malise)(Paperback)

Islam dominates the news, often in stories filled with images of violence. Yet these disturbing images are at odds with a faith that most adherents--who now number over a billion worldwide--would regard as no less pacific than Buddhism or Christianity. Indeed, the word Islam in Arabic means

Cross-Cultural Social Media Marketing: Bridging Across Cultural Differences (Moriuchi Emi)(Pevná vazba)

To increase brand awareness, engagement and revenue, companies are acknowledging the importance of integrating social media marketing in their overall marketing strategy. Social media marketing complements a brand or company's current marketing strategy as it aids in amplifying a company's brand

The Wealth of Virtual Nations: Videogame Currencies (Crowley Adam)(Pevná vazba)

This book considers representations of wealth and the wealthy in videogames. The introduction explores the estrangement of wealth from everyday life in the contemporary west, and argues that videogames have contributed to modern life by dramatizing the economic anxieties of our age -- in

Cultural DNA: The Psychology of Globalization (Bains Gurnek)(Pevná vazba)

Develop deeper cultural intelligence to thrive in a globalized world. Cultural DNA is a thought provoking book for successful engagement with cultures around the world. Written by Gurnek Bains, founder and chairman of a global business psychology consultancy, this book guides leaders through the

Calculus and Analysis in Euclidean Space (Shurman Jerry)(Pevná vazba)

The graceful role of analysis in underpinning calculus is often lost to their separation in the curriculum. This book entwines the two subjects, providing a conceptual approach to multivariable calculus closely supported by the structure and reasoning of analysis. The setting is Euclidean space,

News of the Dead (Robertson James)(Pevná vazba)

Econometric Analysis of Cross Section and Panel Data (Wooldridge Jeffrey M.)(Pevná vazba)

The second edition of a comprehensive state-of-the-art graduate level text on microeconometric methods, substantially revised and updated.The second edition of this acclaimed graduate text provides a unified treatment of two methods used in contemporary econometric research, cross section and data

Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (Vogler Stefan)(Pevná vazba)

In Sorting Sexualities, Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United States. His study focuses specifically on state classification practices around LGBTQ people seeking asylum in the United States and sexual offenders being evaluated for

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History (Knowles K.)(Pevná vazba)

Shakespeare's Boys: A Cultural History offers the first extensive exploration of boy characters in Shakespeare's plays, examining a range of characters from across the Shakespearean canon in their original early modern contexts and surveying their subsequent performance histories on stage and

Marked Women: The Cultural Politics of Cervical Cancer in Venezuela (Martnez Rebecca G.)(Pevná vazba)

Fractional Order Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications (Akdemir Ahmet Ocak)(Pevná vazba)

A guide to the new research in the field of fractional order analysis Fractional Order Analysis contains the most recent research findings in fractional order analysis and its applications. The authors--noted experts on the topic--offer an examination of the theory, methods, applications, and the

ABC News: 75 Years in the Making (Baxter John)(Pevná vazba)

A deluxe 224-page gift book celebrating the history and achievements of ABC News. Filled with photos of famous faces, newsworthy events, and spotlights on key on-air personalities, this beautiful coffee table book commemorates 75 years of ABC News

Tattoos and Popular Culture: Cultural Representations in Ink (Barron Lee)(Paperback)

The rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos and Popular Culture showcases how tattoos have been catapulted from 'deviant' and 'alternative' subculture, into a popular culture, becoming a potent signifier of 'difference' for the

Koran (Pickthall Ed M.)(Pevná vazba)

While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderbad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam, and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this English interpretation of the Holy