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This book is an indispensable guide for executives, programme leaders, and business owners on maximising value from automation and digital transformation. It provides a real-world journey map of...

This book focuses on the re-evaluation of four Maxwell Anderson plays within the context of the emergence of the New Woman and the perception of a marriage crisis in the United States during the...

Mayoral Collaboration Under Nazi Occupation in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, 1938-46Author: Nico WoutersPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Oct 05, 2016Number of Pages: 350...

The main objective of this book is to add, from a humanist perspective, new interdisciplinary insights and research results to the current academic debate on aging. The collection aims to enhance and...

Chinese practices related to ancestors have long been the subject of conflicting interpretations. These practices are rooted in the lived experience of practitioners, and therefore need to be...

Aging is a topic of growing interest. As life expectancy in western societies is increasing, the growing number and proportion of ?elderly? persons raise urgent questions on how to age ?well?...

This book offers a systematic analysis of a wide range of questions used in censuses, national surveys and international surveys to measure language proficiency. It addresses the urgent need in...

Analyzes the evolution of regulatory framework on ORM and its impacts on banking systems (measurement, management, monitoring and reporting) and on the new Supervisory Review Process (SREP)Explores...

Measuring Multidimensional Poverty and Deprivation: Incidence and Determinants in Developed CountriesAuthor: Roger WhitePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Sep 22, 2017Number of Pages: 272...

This book explores statistical models in regional specialization, presenting a brand new measure. It begins by reviewing existing indicators and models of regional specialization before outlining a...

Measuring Women's Political Empowerment Across the Globe: Strategies, Challenges and Future ResearchAuthor: Amy C. AlexanderPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Nov 27, 2017Number of Pages:...

This book provides a timely political insight to show how mythology plays an affective role in our lives. Brexit, bankers, institutional scandals, the far right, and Russell Brand's "revolution" are...

This book explores the media and conflict relationship in the age of social media through the lens of China. Inspired by the concepts of medialization of conflict and actor-network theory, this book...

Media and Culture in the U.S. Jewish Labor Movement: Sweating for Democracy in the Interwar EraAuthor: Brian DolberPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Jan 09, 2017Number of Pages: 256...

This book provides an analysis of social media and women?s resistance in Iran with relevance to similar polities. The author examines how Iranian women continue to fight against the regime?s gender...

This volume is the first to combine textual analysis of food media texts with interviews with media production staff, reality TV contestants, celebrity chefs, and food producers and retailers across...

This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished...

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people--and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability...

This volume offers a new understanding of the role of the media in the Portuguese Empire, shedding light on the interactions between communications, policy, economics, society, culture, and national...

This book explores the form, dynamics, and main reasons for media capture and conspiracy between editors and executive politicians in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) since 2000. Situated in the...

How can current debates on 'media capture' be understood within the contexts of Africa and Latin America? This edited collection provides a nuanced exploration of media capture--a critical yet...

This edited volume explores different meanings of media convergence and deconvergence, and reconsiders them in critical and innovative ways. Its parts provide together a broad picture of opposing...

Media Governance in Korea 1980-2017Author: Daeho KimPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublication Date: Feb 20, 2018Number of Pages: 219 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 3319703013ISBN-13:...

The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and...

This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with...

This book reviews and advances the theoretical and empirical knowledge at the intersection of opinion change and democracy. Specifically, the volume addresses how opinion change and political...

This book brings together contributions from ten academics and a commentary from a Muslim community leader on how the British media represent some of the most important terminologies related to Islam...

Includes contributions from Europe, USA, South AmericaStrongly tied to the concept of mediatisationIncludes a contribution from David Altheide, who together with Robert P. Snow developed the concept...

This book takes an ethnographic approach to discuss the policy practices within China?s broadcasting industry. Exploring the gap between the contemporary policy regime and its implementation in...

This book examines the media reform processes and re-democratization projects of Ghana and Nigeria's emerging democracies. It evaluates and critiques these reform processes, arguing that because of...