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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Living in a saturated media environment, we are crowded from all sides by persuasive messages and information. Advice, promotion and propaganda form a spectrum of persuasion and everywhere we see it performed in its full theatricality, complete with actors, scripts, props and costumes. Based on enduring rhetorical principles, these persuasive techniques and the psychology behind them have become increasingly sophisticated during the 'age of persuasion', a century of applied research in advertising, advocacy, public relations, mass entertainment and social control. Media, Persuasion and Propaganda guides the reader through the many varieties of persuasion and its performance, exploring the protocols of rhetoric unique to the medium, from orality and print to film and digital images. Using case studies and exercises, this innovative study poses challenging questions, such as: How do individuals and organisations exert influence to build communities and networks What role do media play in communicating persuasive messages How do we use recent discoveries in cognitive science to promote a cause, advocate social change or market ideas and products How do we defend ourselves against manipulation and undue influence, and when does persuasion turn into propaganda Marshall Soules is the founder and former Chair of the Media Studies Department at Vancouver Island University. In 2011, he was awarded an Outstanding Service Award at VIU for his contributions to the field of Communications and Media Studies. Previous publications reflect his interest in performance, improvisation, digital media, and street art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first detailed, student-focused introduction to modernist avant-garde performance This textbook introduces the reader to modernist avant-garde theatre. It clearly explains the key terms as well as the major movements, including Expressionism, Dadaism, Futurism, Workers' theatres, Constructivism and the Living Newspaper, and Mass Performance, using a case study approach. It introduces the important innovations of the modernist avant-garde, reassesses theatrical techniques, and provides examples of plays and performances from across Europe and America. There are also chapters on The Modernist Body and on Interdisciplinary Performance. The book approaches the modernist avant-garde both as an area of academic study and as potential raw material for contemporary performance. Key Features - The first introductory guide to the modernist theatrical avant-garde - Includes case studies, practical exercises at the end of each chapter, an annotated bibliography and a glossary of performance terms - Includes links to performance-based explorations of theatrical techniques - Provides a springboard for further independent study, both theoretical and practical Claire Warden is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of Lincoln. Her research focuses primarily on constructing new, fluid narratives for modernist performance. She is the author of British Avant-Garde Theatre (Palgrave MacMillan 2012), and multiple journal articles and book chapters on modernism, interdisciplinarity, theatre, art and cultural studies.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - \*\*AUTHOR APPROVED\*\* 'I really like the idea of treating the party as a site of modernist invention and contention.' Sean Latham, University of Tulsa 'Intriguing. There should be more fun in Modernist Studies.' David Trotter, University of Cambridge 'the get-together begins with a delicate and insightful introduction from McLoughlin. offers wit, entertainment and considerable interest' Times Literary Supplement 'Even the most cursory of glances over its contents reveals a substantial critical investment, on the part of the editor.The volume certainly breaks new ground in the fields of material cultures, modernist networking, and space and place studies.' Cambridge Quarterly Leading international scholars illuminate the party's significance in Modernism In 12 chapters internationally distinguished scholars explore the party both as a literary device and as a forum for developing modernist creative values, opening up new perspectives on materiality, the everyday and concepts of space, place and time. There are chapters on Conrad and domestic parties, T S Eliot's ''The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock', the party vector in Joyce's 'The Dead' and Finnegans Wake, Katherine Mansfield's party stories, Virginia Woolf's idea of a party, the textual parties of Proust, Ford Madox Ford and Aldous Huxley and the real-life parties of Sylvia Beach, Adrienne Monnier, Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, the black 'after-party' of the Harlem Renaissance and the parties in extremis in D H Lawrence's Women in Love. Like guests at a party, the chapters talk to and argue with each other. They contribute different approaches: formal, historical, thematic, biographical and theoretical. They address gender and sexuality, race, genre, class, sociality and privacy. And they establish critical viewpoints. The party is shown to be the site both of introspection and self-display. It provokes competition, collaboration and violence. It is an occasion of nihilism as well as a model for creative production. Kate McLoughlin is an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq (2011) and Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text (2007) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to War Writing (2009).

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your concise, up-to-date guide to global environmental ethics. This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental problems. Key features: - Takes a distinctive approach to climate ethics - Includes new chapter on the ethics of climate change - Contains up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam (Laos) - Integrates environmental ethics with ethical theory - Includes new passages on environmental aesthetics, lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in Ecuador Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at a number of African institiutions. In 2008 he was awarded a D. Litt. by Cardiff University for contributions to environmental philosophy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of contemporary multicultural dilemmas viewed through the lens of Bhikhu Parekh's political thought Bhikhu Parekh's contribution to the political theory of multiculturalism is widely regarded as amongst the most original and significant. In this book leading political theorists of multiculturalism like Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Joseph Carens, Peter Jones and Rajeev Bhargava revisit and use Parekh's insights to emphasise their continuing importance and the vitality of multiculturalist theory. While some contributors locate Parekh in the tradition of British pluralism or as inspired by Gandhi, others apply his theory to a range of controversial contemporary multicultural dilemmas and other theorists extend it in new directions. This book will be essential to students and scholars of multiculturalism as well as those who think that multiculturalism no longer has anything to offer. Varun Uberoi is a lecturer in political theory and public policy at Brunel University. His work focuses on how to foster unity among the culturally diverse citizens of modern polities. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A stimulating new collection of essays that enriches greatly the constantly expanding literature on American independent cinema. Perkins and Verevis have gathered an impressive group of contributors whose thought-provoking discussion of often forgotten, though still important, films challenges existing canons while opening up new and exciting paths in American independent film research, which future studies are bound to follow. Highly recommended!' Yannis Tzioumakis, University of Liverpool The terms 'independent' and 'indie' hold instant recognition and considerable cultural cachet in contemporary film and popular culture. As a brand of American filmmaking and a keynote of critical film discourse, indie denotes specific textual, industrial and reception practices that have been enthusiastically cultivated over the last two decades, underpinned by a canon of highly visible films such as Juno, Memento and Slacker and by influential figures like Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Kevin Smith and Joel and Ethan Coen. Looking beyond the directors and works that have branded indie discourse in the 1990s and 2000s, US Independent Film After 1989: Possible Films attends to a group of 20 texts that have not been so fully subsumed by existing critical and promotional rhetoric. Through individual studies of films including All the Real Girls, The Exploding Girl, Laurel Canyon, Jesus' Son, Old Joy, Primer and You Can Count on Me, leading cinema scholars consider how notions of indie practice, poetics and politics can be opened up to account for a larger body of work than the dominant canon admits. With particular attention to female directors, this innovative and comprehensive book explores the central tenets of indie scholarship while simultaneously emphasising the classifying processes that can limit it. Claire Perkins is Lecturer in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Constantine Verevis is Associate Professor in Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. Cover image: All the Real Girls, 2003 (c) Jamine Prods/Jean Doumanian/The Kobal Collection Cover design: Barrie Tullett.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Nuclear power has been a consideration and part of energy policies of many countries across the world since its emergence as an electricity provider after the Second World War. Nuclear energy is a low-carbon energy source and therefore can contribute to reducing the effects of climate change. However, it is also faced with issues of high start-up costs, risk and waste disposal.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your concise, up-to-date guide to global environmental ethics. This fully updated and expanded textbook offers new reflections on global environmental issues including climate change, sustainable development and biodiversity preservation, while remaining sensitive to global developments such as the Summits at Durban on climate and at Nagoya on biodiversity. It supplies an ethical critique of current international environmental problems and negotiations, and the shape which international regimes will need in order to cope with global environmental problems. Key features: - Takes a distinctive approach to climate ethics - Includes new chapter on the ethics of climate change - Contains up-to-date case studies on issues such as Haiti's re-forestation project, food sovereignty and resistance to the Xayaburi Dam (Laos) - Integrates environmental ethics with ethical theory - Includes new passages on environmental aesthetics, lobbying websites and the Yasuni Reserve in Ecuador Robin Attfield is Professor of Philosophy at Cardiff University, where he has taught philosophy since 1968. He has also served as Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy at a number of African institiutions. In 2008 he was awarded a D. Litt. by Cardiff University for contributions to environmental philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An exploration of contemporary multicultural dilemmas viewed through the lens of Bhikhu Parekh's political thought Bhikhu Parekh's contribution to the political theory of multiculturalism is widely regarded as amongst the most original and significant. In this book leading political theorists of multiculturalism like Charles Taylor, Will Kymlicka, Joseph Carens, Peter Jones and Rajeev Bhargava revisit and use Parekh's insights to emphasise their continuing importance and the vitality of multiculturalist theory. While some contributors locate Parekh in the tradition of British pluralism or as inspired by Gandhi, others apply his theory to a range of controversial contemporary multicultural dilemmas and other theorists extend it in new directions. This book will be essential to students and scholars of multiculturalism as well as those who think that multiculturalism no longer has anything to offer. Varun Uberoi is a lecturer in political theory and public policy at Brunel University. His work focuses on how to foster unity among the culturally diverse citizens of modern polities. Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol.