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Analyzing Media Messages / 5th edition
Using Quantitative Content Analysis in Research
2023 || Paperback || Daniel Riffe e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research. Readers will find a clear definition of quantitative content analysis and step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study, along with examples of content analysis studies and journal articles. This edition has been updated with the latest methods in sampling in the digital age, computerized content analysis...
Persuasion : Social Influence and Compliance Gaining / 7th edition
2023 || Paperback || Robert H Gass e.a. || Taylor & Francis
The seventh edition of this field-leading textbook provides an accessible and rigorous presentation of major theories of persuasion and their applications to a variety of real-world contexts. In addition to presenting established theories and models, this text encourages students to develop and apply general conclusions about persuasion in real-world settings. Along the way, students are introduced to the practice of social influence in an array of contexts (e.g., advertising, marketing, poli...
Sport and Development in Emerging Nations
2023 || Paperback || Cem Tinaz e.a. || Taylor & Francis
For the first time, this book examines the strategies of leaders of emerging nations to use sport as a tool for reaching social, economic, cultural, political, technological or environmental goals and gaining international prestige. It assesses whether sport can really be an effective tool in international development. The book explores the unique challenges, issues and opportunities offered by sport for development in emerging nations.
Bringing together case studies of sport and development ...
Terrorism and Counterterrorism / 7th edition
2023 || Paperback || Brigitte L. Nacos || Taylor & Francis
Focusing on the continued terrorist threat by jihadist groups, such as Al Qaeda and ISIS, and homegrown violent far-right and far-left extremists in the West, Terrorism and Counterterrorism investigates this form of political violence in a historical and contemporary context. In this comprehensive and highly readable text, renowned expert Brigitte Nacos clearly defines terrorism’s diverse causes, actors, and strategies; outlines anti- and counterterrorist responses; and highlights terr...
An Introduction to Numerical Methods / 5th editon
A MATLAB® Approach
2023 || Paperback || Abdelwahab Kharab e.a. || Taylor & Francis
An Introduction to Numerical Methods: A MATLAB® Approach, Fifth Edition continues to offer readers an accessible and practical introduction to numerical analysis. It presents a wide range of useful and important algorithms for scientific and engineering applications, using MATLAB to illustrate each numerical method with full details of the computed results so that the main steps are easily visualized and interpreted. This edition also includes new chapters on Approximation of Continuous Func...
International Political Economy / 7th edition
2023 || Paperback || Thomas Oatley || Taylor & Francis
Broadly viewing the global economy as a political competition that produces winners and losers, International Political Economy holistically and accessibly introduces the field of IPE to students with limited background in political theory, history, and economics. This text surveys major interests and institutions and examines how state and non-state actors pursue wealth and power. Emphasizing fundamental economic concepts as well as the interplay between domestic and international politics, ...
Producing and Directing the Short Film and Video
2023 || Paperback || David K. Irving e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Moral Boundaries
A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care
2023 || Paperback || Joan Tronto || Taylor & Francis
Contests the association of care with women as empirically and historically inaccurate, as well as politically unwise. Tronto presents care as one of the central activites of human life and illustrates the ways in which society degrades the importance of caring in order to maintain the power of those who are privileged.
Organizations in Action
Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory
2023 || Paperback || James D. Thompson || Taylor & Francis
Organizations act, but what determines how and when they will act? There is precedent for believing that the organization is but an extension of one or a few people, but this is a deceptively simplified approach and, in reality, makes any generalization in organizational theory enormously difficult
Think Like a UX Researcher / 2nd edition
How to Observe Users, Influence Design, and Shape Business Strategy
2023 || Paperback || David Travis || Taylor & Francis
Think Like a UX Researcher will challenge your preconceptions about user experience (UX) research and encourage you to think beyond the obvious. It provides a dive-in-anywhere book that offers practical advice and topical examples.