Pierre Hamel & Henri Lustiger-Thaler 
Urban Movements in a Globalising World [PDF ebook] 

Now in its fourth edition, this book is one of the leading texts on the evolution of electronic mass communication in the last century, giving students a clear understanding of how the media of yeste …

The aim of this book is to examine the qualities of leadership and decision-making in the police service. Based on groundbreaking research using unique, advanced methods for examining policing in com …

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Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of the patterns of employment and education of women in this field. …

Syracuse, New York, in the late 1980s led U.S. cities in African American infant deaths. Even today, in this ‘all American city, ‘ infants of color die more than two times as often as white babies. I …

Targeting Terrorists: A License to Kill? examines the political history and ethics of targeted killing. Avery Plaw”s analysis addresses the questions of moral, political and legal justification in t …

Bringing together well-established scholars of media, political science, sociology, and film to investigate the representation of Washington politics on U.S. television from the mid-2000s to the pres …

Throughout history, there has been an intrinsic need for humans to detect deception in other humans. Developed in 1923, the polygraph machine was a tool designed to do just this. To date, there have …

An Introduction to Political Communication explores the relationship between politics, the media and democracy in the UK, the USA and other contemporary societies. Brian Mc Nair examines how politici …