This book provides a unique perspective on journalism and communication education, drawing on extensive, detailed data across time to examine the evolution of education for journalism and related communication occupations such as public relations and advertising. It demonstrates how journalism and communication education adapted to forces within the university as well as forces from outside the university. Particular attention is given to the impact of the labor markets to which journalism...

First published in 1989. This volume holds a collection of papers to support a project looking at media content in the 1980s and the anticipation of audience behaviours. Some where presented at the conference of the World Association for Public Opinion Research in Montreux, Switzerland in 1987.

This collection covers the major trends of the media environment of the post-Communist world and their recent development, with special focus on Russia and the post-Soviet space. The term ‘media environment’ covers not just traditional print and electronic media, but new media as well, and ranges from the political to entertainment and various artistic spheres. What role do market forces play in the process of media democratization, and how do state structures regulate, suppress, or use ca...

A teenage girl victimized by assault and prejudice. An office worker holding on to his boss’s cat after a failed workplace romance. A father struggling through a ceremony for a son lost in combat. A family whose members can often predict the day they’re going to die.The characters in Casualties are damaged souls doing their best to keep moving despite their difficulties—a motley mélange of memorable misfits who refuse to be victims despite their circumstan...

Step into the fascinating world of medical history with the second edition of Curiosities in Medicine: Alphabetically, now featuring 20 new chapters, for a total of 100 captivating stories! This expanded collection takes you on a journey through the strange, surprising, and sometimes shocking tales that have shaped medicine as we know it.Explore the peculiar, the profound, and the puzzling with entries like:Flying Babies?

This anthology is devoted to the curious side of Medical History. Carl Sagan said: ”You have to know the past to understand the present.” This collection of 80 short stories, written by experts in the field, inspires curiosity and provides a detailed look at the History of Medicine.It investigates many topics, including ancient Egyptian knowledge, the fundamental importance of toothache and how it birthed Anesthesia, and why and when women were allowed to run marathons. The authors...

Why a book on gender issues in mathematics in the 21st century? Several factors have influenced the undertaking of this project by the editors. First, an international volume focusing on gender and mathematics has not appeared since publication of papers emerging from the 1996 International Congress on Mathematical Education (Keitel, 1998). Surely it was time for an updated look at this critical area of mathematics education. Second, we have had lively discussion and working groups on gend...

These opening sentences begin a few of the stories within; stories of intrigue, fascination, and suspense.It was just an old cloak—the kind you see people wearing in those movies. You know, the kind of cloak people wore to escape from Paris and the guillotine during the French revolution…Steven Tyler was wailing about love in an elevator as John eased the blue Civic off the interstate, down the exit and into the Burger King parking lot…My new husban...

The best stories from a master of speculative fictionCalled "one of our brightest cultural commentators" by Publishers Weekly, Kit Reed draws from life—with a difference. This new collection brings together thirty-four of her strong, original stories, from early classics like "The Wait" and "Winter" to six never-before-collected short stories, including "The Legend of Troop 13" and "Wherein We Enter the Museum." An early favorite, "Automatic Tiger," is the first in...

Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. The special edition e-book also includes the winner and five finalists from the "Tell Your True Story" contest, sponsored by Switch Press and Wattpad, the world's largest community of readers and writers. In these stories you will discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. You will witness t...

Disciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years—why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account of how race shapes poverty governance in the post–civil rights era. Connecting welfare reform to other policy developments, the authors analyze diverse forms of data to explicate the racialized origins, operati...

A beautiful, haunting novel about the family we love and the chances we miss, from the #1 bestselling author of The Five People You Meet in Heaven and Tuesdays with Morrie**.**"Every family is a ghost story ..."For One More Day explores the question: What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one? As a child, Charley "Chick" Benetto was to...