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31. Planning Advertisements (RLE Advertising)

    By Gilbert Russell

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    The purpose of every advertisement is to sell the thing which it advertises. Looking at the full range of the planning involved in the advertising business, Planning Advertisements first considers the initial stage, where the advertisement practitioner—advertiser relationship is paramount, before...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
32. The Business of Advertising (RLE Advertising)

    By Clarence Moran

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    The Business of Advertising outlines the practice of the advertising trades, some of the more important restrictions on advertising, and a few of the questions which arise in connexion with the business. First published in 1905....

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
33. The Economic Implications of Advertising (RLE Advertising)

    By Otto Firestone

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    Is advertising a factor that contributes to rising costs and prices? This study, commissioned to answer just that question by the Institute of Canadian Advertising, examines the effect of advertising on the Canadian economy, on business, the consumer, costs and prices, productivity, competition,...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
34. The Economics of Advertising (RLE Advertising)

    By Frederic Taylor

    Series: Routledge Library Editions: Advertising

    What is the economic justification of advertising? Is it a vital energizing force in industry, or does it represent a serious waste of money and effort? The great increase in the volume of publicity in modern times is causing people to wonder what its final outcome will be, and whether it is a...

    Published March 20th 2013 by Routledge
35. Russia's Skinheads

    Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives

    By Hilary Pilkington, Al'bina Garifzianova, Elena Omel'chenko

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series

    Russia’s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives provides a thorough examination of the phenomenon of skinheads, explaining its nature and its significance, and assessing how far Russian skinhead subculture is the ‘lumpen’ end of the extreme nationalist ideological spectrum. There are...

    Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
36. Global Perspectives on Football in Africa

    Visualising the Game

    Edited by Susann Baller, Giorgio Miescher, Ciraj Rassool

    Series: Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives

    Football, in many ways, is a visual endeavour. From the visual experience within the stadium itself to worldwide media representations, from advertisements to football art and artefacts: football is much about seeing and being seen, about watching, making visual and being visualised. The FIFA World...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
37. New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights

    Edited by Dana Collins, Sylvanna Falcon, Sharmila Lodhia, Molly Talcott

    On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights. Interdisciplinary feminist conversations among scholar-activists can both challenge and enrich new directions in feminism and...

    Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
38. Disorder and the Disinformation Society

    The Social Dynamics of Networks and Software

    By Jonathan Marshall, James Goodman, Didar Zowghi, Francesca da Rimini

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    Based in both rigorous theoretical work and case studies of software and network usage and installation, this book explores the idea that disruption and disorder are essential to the dynamic composition of contemporary Information Society. It covers topics ranging from organizational and social...

    Published March 14th 2013 by Routledge
39. Understanding the Self and Others

    Explorations in intersubjectivity and interobjectivity

    Edited by Gordon Sammut, Paul Daanen, Fathali Moghaddam

    How do we, as human beings, come to understand ourselves and others around us? This question could not be more timely or pertinent to the issues facing humankind today. At the heart of many of our world’s most troubling political and social problems lies a divergence, and sometimes a sharp...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
40. Consuming Families

    Buying, Making, Producing Family Life in the 21st Century

    By Jo Lindsay, JaneMaree Maher

    Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

    This book explores contemporary families as sites of consumption, examining the changing contexts of family life, where new forms of family are altering how family life is practised and produced, and addressing key social issues – childhood obesity, alchohol and drug addiction, social...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge