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Ny Democracy's Fourth Wave? - Digital Media and the Arab Spring

In 2011, the international community watched as citizens mobilized through the Internet and digital media to topple three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, and Qaddafi in Libya. This book examines not ...

Ny The Immersive Internet - Reflections on the Entangling of the Virtual with Society, Politics and the Economy

The internet has begun to develop into a much more immersive and multi-dimensional space. Three dimensional spaces and sites of interaction have not just gripped our attention but have begun to weave or be woven into the fabric of our professional...

Ny The World of Agricultural Economics - An Introduction

This textbook takes a truly international approach towards agricultural economics, uniting many different perspectives on the subject and providing insight into agriculture in general, and into how practical farming works in particular. The book i...

Ny Right Wing Populism in Europe - Politics and Discourse

Right-wing populist movements and related political parties are gaining ground in many EU member states. This unique, interdisciplinary book provides an overall picture of the dynamics and development of these parties across Europe and beyond. Com...

Ny The Arab Spring - Critical Analyses

This volume provides a wealth of in-depth, country-specific analyses of the Arab Spring, in addition to works that examine the larger theoretical framework and socio-political implications of events. Unlike other analyses, often from the perspecti...

Ny Förhörsgrammatik : samtalsteknik för att söka sanningen

En bok om förhörsteknikens grunder. En handledning om olika förhörsstrategier och hur man skall värdera utsagor och påståenden som ibland står mot varandra. I bokens avslutande del diskuteras olika kulturers betydelse för lyckade samtal eller förhör.

Ny The Value of Arts and Culture for Regional Development - A Scandinavian Perspective

In this new volume, 28 Scandinavian researchers and others who are active in arts and culture seek to answer the questions: What has been the effect of regional and local investment in arts and culture? And what positive and negative experiences h...

Ny Resilience - Why Things Bounce Back

All systems break down. Some bounce back, others do not. This is a book about why.RESILIENCE is a book about how the world works. It covers business, economic, geographic and social systems in a thrillingly readable narrative. A wealth of absorbin...

Ny The World of Agricultural Economics - An Introduction

This textbook takes a truly international approach towards agricultural economics, uniting many different perspectives on the subject and providing insight into agriculture in general, and into how practical farming works in particular. The book i...

Ny The Morality of China in Africa - The Middle Kingdom and the Dark Continent

Edited with authority by the influential and respected Stephen Chan, this unique collection of essays gathers together for the first time both African and Chinese perspectives on China's place in Africa. The book starts with an excellent introduct...

Ny Restless China

This compelling book explores the explosive pace of change in China and how its citizens are grappling with a dramatically new world, both in the public and private spheres. China's stratospheric growth has made it the second largest economy in th...

Ny Pointing - Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet

Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from various fields who study communication. However, ideas and findings have been scattered across diverse publications in different disciplines, and opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange have...

Ny Literacy as Translingual Practice - Between Communities and Classrooms

The term translingual highlights the reality that people always shuttle across languages, communicate in hybrid languages and, thus, enjoy multilingual competence. In the context of migration, transnational economic and cultural relations, digital...

Ny Fixing the African State - Recognition, Politics, and Community-Based Development in Tanzania

Fixing the African State explains why the predominant approach to international development produces outcomes that are incompatible with its underlying assumptions and intended objectives. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research undertaken in D...

Ny Land and Post-conflict Peacebuilding

Claims to land and territory are often a cause of conflict, and land issues present some of the most contentious problems for post-conflict peacebuilding. Among the land-related problems that emerge during and after conflict are the exploitation o...

Ny Studying Social Networks - A Guide to Empirical Research

"Studying Social Networks" provides a concise, introduction to empirical network research. Students and practitioners new to social research will find easily understandable learning goals, examples, and exercises all in one volume. The a...

Ny The Digital Turn: User's Practices and Cultural Transformations

By combining the analysis of the new forms and environments of the digital world with critical scholarship of the role of the users, this book argues that cultural field is facing a challenge of the digital turn. The digital turn hereby implies th...

Ny Organization and Organizing - Materiality, Agency and Discourse

This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in ...

Ny Global Information Society - Technology, Knowledge, and Mobility

We have been living and working in the information society for decades, yet still we struggle to understand and keep up in the face of its constant flux and vast scope. In this unique interdisciplinary text, three scholars at the forefront of this...

Ny Introducing Just Sustainabilities - Policy, Planning and Practice

Introducing Just Sustainabilities discusses key topics, such as food justice, sovereignty and urban agriculture; community, space, place(making) and spatial justice; the democratization of our streets and public spaces; how to create culturally in...

Ny Creating Capabilities - The Human Development Approach

If a country's Gross Domestic Product increases each year, but so does the percentage of its people deprived of basic education, health care, and other opportunities, is that country really making progress? If we rely on conventional economic indi...

Ny Conflict Transformation - Essays on Methods of Nonviolence

Ny Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere

This study of the Russian internet explores how, when, and why the internet challenges leaders in non-free states. Using an analysis of content, community, catalysts, control, and co-optation, Revolution Stalled moves beyond 'virtual' politics to ...

Ny Protecting the Gift - Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)

Safety skills for children outside the home Warning signs of sexual abuse How to screen baby-sitters and choose schools Strategies for keeping teenagers safe from violenceAll parents face the same challenges when it comes to their children's safet...

Ny Confucius Lives Next Door - What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West

Those who've heard T. R. Reid's weekly commentary on National Public Radio or read his far-flung reporting in National Geographic orThe Washington Post know him to be trenchant, funny, and cutting-edge, but also erudite and deeply grounded in what...

Ny Kittler and the Media

With books such as Discourse Networks and Gramophone, Film, Typewriter and the collection Literature, Media, Information Systems, Friedrich Kittler has established himself as one of the world's most influential media theorists. He is also one of t...

Ny War and Conflict in Africa

After the Cold War, Africa earned the dubious distinction of being the world's most bloody continent. But how can we explain this proliferation of armed conflicts? What caused them and what were their main characteristics? And what did the world's...

Ny Castells and the Media - Theory and Media

One of the most prolific and respected scholars today, Manuel Castells has given us a new language for understanding the impact of information and communication technologies on social life.Politicians can no longer run for office without a digital...

Ny Tales from Facebook

Facebook is now used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world, many of whom spend several hours a day on this site. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. Yet until...

Ny Peace - A World History

How peace has been made and maintained, experienced and imagined is not only a matter of historical interest, but also of pressing concern. Peace: A World History is the first study to explore the full spectrum of peace and peacemaking from prehis...