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  • Television Audiences Across the World

    Deconstructing the Ratings Machine

    Edited by J. Bourdon, C. Méadel ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first to deal with the world composition of television ratings. It focuses on the peoplemeter, a 25 year old technology which succeeds in homogenizing very different populations and television practices. It provides a fascinating account of the production of figures on which the whole world of popular culture depends. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    “Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.”Published in 1859, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty presented one of the most eloquent defenses of individual freedom in nineteenth-century social and political philosophy and is today perhaps the most widely-read liberal ... Read more

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  • End of Discussion

    How the Left's Outrage Industry Shuts Down Debate, Manipulates Voters, and Makes America Less Free (and Fun)

    by Mary Katharine Ham, Guy Benson ...
    They want to shut you up. But don’t let this be the End of Discussion.In this fresh and provocative new book, Mary Katharine Ham and Guy Benson, dynamic Fox News and Townhall Media duo, expose how the Left exploits fake outrage to silence their political opponents—in public, on social media, at work, and even in their own homes. You’ve felt it and “End of Discussion” can help you fight it.The ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Digital Barbarism

    A Writer's Manifesto

    by Mark Helprin ...
    “A strange, wondrous, challenging, enriching book….Beautiful and powerful…you will not encounter another book like it.”—National Review onlineIn Digital Barbarism, bestselling novelist Mark Helprin (Winter’s Tale, A Soldier of the Great War) offers a ringing Jeffersonian defense of private property in the age of digital culture, with its degradation of thought and language and collectivist bias ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Multicultiphobia

    by Phil Ryan ...
    Official multiculturalism, established as Canadian government policy in 1971, has drawn criticism from many scholars and journalists who view it as a potential threat to a strong, unified Canadian society. In this timely and original book, Phil Ryan examines the emergence and influence of these criticisms, which continue to provoke an anxiety he calls "multicultiphobia." Although Ryan argues that ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Identity in Democracy

    by Amy Gutmann ...
    Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to ... Read more

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  • Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems

    The Sub-Saharan African Experience

    by Randolph Quaye ...
    Balancing Public and Private Health Care Systems appears at a timely moment, given widespread current discussion about equity in healthy care and the role of the state in healthcare planning. In response to the World Bank recommendation that the principle of cost recovery be included in healthcare financing strategies, African countries embraced the principle of public-private partnerships in ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Accounting for Culture

    Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship

    Edited by Caroline Andrew, Monica Gattinger, M. Sharon Jeannotte, Will Straw ...
    Series series Governance Series
    Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.The concept of cultural citizenship is a relative newcomer to the cultural policy landscape, and offers a potentially compelling ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Borderlands Media

    Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants

    by David E. Toohey ...
    David E. Toohey’s Borderlands Media: Cinema and Literature as Opposition to the Oppression of Immigrants is an in-depth analysis which explores the immigrant experience using a mixture of cinema, literary, and other artistic media spanning from 1958 onward.Toohey begins with Orson Welles’s 1958 Touch of Evil, which triggered a wave of protest resulting in Chicana/o filmmakers acting out against ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Hunting Practices of the Wachiperi

    Demystifying Indigenous Environmental Behavior

    by Rodolfo Tello ...
    Series series Environmental Sustainability Series
    When it comes to environmental conservation and sustainable development initiatives in tropical forests, indigenous peoples are key players. They have been described often as either conservationists or destroyers of biodiversity. The position adopted on this matter is important because it guides the design and implementation of conservation strategies. The central question about what makes ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • John Dewey and the Habits of Ethical Life

    The Aesthetics of Political Organizing in a Liquid World

    by Jason Kosnoski ...
    This book uses John Dewey to articulate discursive practices that would help citizens form better intellectual and moral relationships with their fragmented, shifting political environment. These practices do not impart more or better information to citizens, but instead consist in dialog exhibiting rhythms and patterns that increase their interest in inquiring how distant events and communities ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • Marginalities in India

    Themes and Perspectives

    Edited by Asmita Bhattacharyya, Sudeep Basu ...
    This volume engages with the renewed focus on various forms of persisting and new marginalities in globalising India. The persistence of hunger in pockets of India; forcible land acquisitions and their impact on deprived sections of society; the effects of urban relocations; material deprivation of minority groups and tribes as a result of conflicts; continuing caste discrimination; reported cases ... Read more

    $80.99 USD