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    Media, Telecommunications, and Business Strategy

    With today’s dynamic and rapidly evolving environment, media managers must have a clear understanding of different delivery platforms, as well as a grasp of critical management, planning, and economic factors in order to stay current and move their organizations forward.

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    Claim 20% Off Johnston & Marshall’s Leading Sales Texts Today

    We are pleased to offer you a huge 20% discount on the new editions of Contemporary Selling and Sales Force Management by Mark Johnston & Greg Marshall.
    
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    May 2013: Textbook of the Month

    Qualitative Research
    The essential guide to theory and practice
    By Maggi Savin-Baden, Claire Howell Major

    Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge – 608 pages

    Complimentary Exam Copy

    Qualitative Research: The Essential Guide to Theory and Practice provides a one-stop resource for all those approaching qualitative research for the first time, as well as those revisiting core concepts and issues. It presents a comprehensive overview of this rapidly developing field of inquiry, cleverly combined with practical, hands-on advice on how to conduct a successful qualitative study.

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    Writing for the Web

    Composing, Coding, and Constructing Web Sites
    Writing for the Web unites theory, technology, and practice to explore writing and hypertext for website creation. It integrates such key topics as XHTML/CSS coding, writing (prose) for the Web, the rhetorical needs of the audience, theories of hypertext, usability and architecture, and the basics of web site design and technology. Presenting information in digestible parts, this text enables students to write and construct realistic and manageable Web sites with a strong theoretical understanding of how online texts communicate to audiences.

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    Electronic Media Law and Regulation, 6th Edition

    Electronic Media Law and Regulation is a case-based law text that provides students with direct access to case law as well as the context in which to understand its meaning and impact. The text overviews the major legal and regulatory issues facing broadcasting, cable, and developing media in today's industry. Presenting information from major cases, rules, regulations, and legal documents in a concise and readable form, this book helps current and prospective media professsionals understand the complex realm of law and regulation. Students will learn how to avoid common legal pitfalls and anticipate situations that may have potential legal consequences.

16. Theatre of the Oppressed in Actions

    An Audio-Visual Introduction to Boal’s Forum Theatre
    Brazilian theater director Augusto Boal’s ‘Theatre of the Oppressed’ movement went global many years ago – it is now practiced all over the world by a wide range of different groups from political activists and practitioners of political (or ‘applied’) theater to students at all levels. This major new DVD contains carefully curated footage from his many documented workshops, masterclasses and lectures.
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    Learning Through Theatre, 3rd Edition

    In the two decades since the publication of the second edition of Learning Through Theatre, it has further established itself as an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners and educators interested in the complex interrelations between teaching and learning, the performing arts, and society at large. Theatre in Education (TIE) has consistently been at the cutting edge of the ever-growing field of Applied Theatre; this comprehensively revised new edition makes an international case for why, and how, it will continue to define how the participatory arts contribute to the learning of young people (and increasingly, adults) in the 21st century.

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    Latest Routledge Research Titles

    We have two new titles to highlight this month: A Social History of Contemporary Democratic Media, part of the Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies Series edited by Jesse Drew, and The Future of Journalism: Developments and Debates, part of the Journalism Studies Series edited by Bob Franklin.

    
     

    
     

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    Digital Media and Reporting Conflict

    Digital Media and Reporting Conflict explores the impact of new forms of online reporting on the BBC’s coverage of war and terrorism. Informed by the views of over 100 BBC staff at all levels of the corporation, Bennett captures journalists’ shifting attitudes towards blogs and internet sources used to cover wars and other conflicts. He argues that the BBC’s practices and values are fundamentally evolving in response to the challenges of immediate digital publication.

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    The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media

    The roles that media play in the lives of children and adolescents, as well as their potential implications for their cognitive, emotional, social and behavioral development, have attracted growing research attention in a variety of disciplines. The Routledge International Handbook of Children, Adolescents and Media analyses a broad range of complementary areas of study, including children as media consumers, children as active participants in media making, and representations of children in the media.