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31. Language in Public Spaces in Japan

    Edited by Nanette Gottlieb

    This book throws light on ideologies, practices and sociocultural developments currently shaping language use in Japan by departing from the more common investigation of language in private contexts and examining aspects of the language found in a range of significant public spaces, from the...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
32. Peace Education

    The Concept, Principles, and Practices Around the World

    Edited by Gavriel Salomon, Baruch Nevo

    Peace Education: * presents views on the nature of peace education, its history, and relationships to neighboring fields; * examines relevant psychological and pedagogical principles, such as the contact experience, conciliation through personal story telling, reckoning with traumatic memories,...

    Published November 13th 2012 by Psychology Press
33. Communication and Power in the Global Era

    Orders and Borders

    Edited by Marwan M. Kraidy

    Series: Shaping Inquiry in Culture, Communication and Media Studies

    This book re-visits how we think about communication and power in the global era. It takes stock of the last fifty years of scholarship, maps key patterns and concepts and sets an agenda for theory and research. The book addresses such questions as: How are national and cultural identities...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
34. The Rhetoric of Intellectual Property

    Copyright Law and the Regulation of Digital Culture

    By Jessica Reyman

    Series: Routledge Studies in Rhetoric and Communication

    In recent years we have witnessed a rising tension between the open architecture of the Internet and legal restrictions for online activities. The impact of digital recording technologies and distributed file sharing systems has forever changed the expectations of everyday users with regard to...

    Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
35. The Spatial Dimension of Risk

    How Geography Shapes the Emergence of Riskscapes

    Edited by Detlef Müller-Mahn

    Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

    Through its exploration of the spatial dimension of risk, this book offers a brand new approach to theorizing risk, and significant improvements in how to manage, tolerate and take risks. A broad range of risks are examined, including natural hazards, climate change, political violence, and...

    Published November 5th 2012 by Routledge
36. The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication

    2nd Edition

    Edited by Anita L. Vangelisti

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The...

    Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
37. Mapping an Empire of American Sport

    Expansion, Assimilation, Adaptation and Resistance

    Edited by Mark Dyreson, J.A. Mangan, Roberta J. Park

    Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives

    Since the mid-nineteenth century, the United States has used sport as a vehicle for spreading its influence and extending its power, especially in the Western Hemisphere and around the Pacific Rim, but also in every corner of the rest of the world. Through modern sport in general, and through...

    Published October 30th 2012 by Routledge
38. The Routledge Reader in Rhetorical Criticism

    Edited by Brian Ott, Greg Dickinson

    Bringing together 50 key readings on rhetorical criticism in a single accessible format, The Rhetorical Criticism Reader furnishes instructors with an ideal resource for teaching and practicing the art of rhetorical criticism. Unlike existing readers and textbooks, which rely on cookie-cutter...

    Published October 16th 2012 by Routledge
39. Classical Rhetoric and Modern Public Relations

    An Isocratean Model

    By Charles Marsh

    Series: Routledge Research in Public Relations

    This book expands the theoretical foundations of modern public relations, a growing young profession that lacked even a name until the twentieth century. As the discipline seeks guiding theories and paradigms, rhetorics both ancient and modern have proven to be fruitful fields of exploration....

    Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
40. Neurorhetorics

    Edited by Jordynn Jack

    Series: Rhetoric Society Quarterly

    In academia, as well as in popular culture, the prefix "neuro-" now occurs with startling frequency. Scholars now publish research in the fields of neuroeconomics, neurophilosophy, neuromarketing, neuropolitics, and neuroeducation. Consumers are targeted with enhanced products and services, such as...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge