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Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)
Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations)

This volume examines the relations between popular culture production and export and the state in East and Southeast Asia including the urban centres and middle-classes of Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Thailand, and the Philippines. It addresses the shift in official thinking toward the role of popular...

Digital Matters: The Theory and Culture of the Matrix
Digital Matters: The Theory and Culture of the Matrix
Digital Matters analyzes the complex interaction between the material and immaterial aspects of new digital technologies. It draws upon a mix of theoretical approaches including sociology, media theory and history, cultural studies, and the philosophy of technology to suggest that the matrix of science fiction and Hollywood is but an...
Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R: A Step-by-Step Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics)
Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using R: A Step-by-Step Approach (Springer Texts in Statistics)

Linear mixed-effects models (LMMs) are an important class of statistical models that can be used to analyze correlated data. Such data are encountered in a variety of fields including biostatistics, public health, psychometrics, educational measurement, and sociology. This book aims to support a wide range of uses for the models by applied...

Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing
Questionnaires in Second Language Research: Construction, Administration, and Processing
One of the most common methods of data collection in second language
(L2) research is to use questionnaires of various kinds. The
popularity of questionnaires is due to the fact that they are easy to
construct, extremely versatile, and uniquely capable of gathering a
large amount of information quickly in a form that is readily
...
Virtual and Collaborative Teams: Process, Technologies, and Practice
Virtual and Collaborative Teams: Process, Technologies, and Practice
Virtual and Collaborative Teams is of importance to practitioners and researchers because it brings together in a single accessible source, a variety of current research and practice on the subject of virtual and collaborative teams. Geographic distance, technology, lack of social presence, lack of adequate training...
The Dying Process : Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
The Dying Process : Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care
A strong feature of the book... is the copius discussion of socila theory. This is a very good book, by an auhor who is never willing to take fashionable or politically correct statemnets for granted but attempts to assess these in light of knowledge gained through painful fieldwork experience. Clive Seale, University of London.

Focusing...

Applications of Nonverbal Communication
Applications of Nonverbal Communication
Each and every day, in every social interaction, we communicate our feelings, attitudes, thoughts, and concerns nonverbally. Nonverbal communication is used to convey power and status, it is used to express love and intimacy, it is used to communicate agreement, to establish rapport, and to regulate the flow of communication. Nonverbal...
Propaganda in the Information Age
Propaganda in the Information Age

Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the twenty-first-century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself.

2018 marks 30...

Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present
Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the Present

Civil resistance--non-violent action against such challenges as dictatorial rule, racial discrimination and foreign military occupation--is a significant but inadequately understood feature of world politics. Especially through the peaceful revolutions of 1989, it has helped to shape the world we live in.

Civil Resistance
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Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science
Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science

Social constructivists maintain that we invent the properties of the world rather than discover them. Is reality constructed by our own activity? Or, more provocatively, are scientific facts--is everything--constructed? Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science is a clear assessment of this critical and...

Body language: How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures
Body language: How to read others’ thoughts by their gestures
When I first heard about ‘body language’ at a seminar in 1971, I became so excited about it that I wanted to learn more. The speaker told us about some of the research done by Professor Ray Birdwhistell at the University of Louisville, which had shown that more human communication took place by the use of gestures, postures, position...
Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing
Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing

This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary ‘parenting’ culture. Hodgson and Ramaekers use film in order to offer an...

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