Globalization, Gender, and Media tackles the emergence of “sexy violence” imagery and the coalescence of the sexual and violent meanings in contemporary global mainstream news, television, film, and s
This book explores the emergence of "sexy violence" imagery in the global media and focuses on how such imagery is used to advance particular interpretations regarding globalization and the role of ge
This book explores the overlapping area of study that discourse linguists and cognitive linguists are interested in. It procedes from considerations of information structuring, coherence and foregroun
Written by business and economics scholars from Europe and Taiwan, the 18 essays in this volume examine international business alliances and networks. The first section addresses research on diaspora
Bazaar of Opportunities goes beyond the paradigm of open innovation and underlines the variety of opportunities that firms may have in the innovation and new business development with external actors.
Although Hegel and feminism seem an unlikely couple, Hegelian philosophy played a prominent part in the thinking of groundbreaking feminist philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir to Luce Irigaray. This
Hall (tourism, U. of Otago, New Zealand) and Harkonen (research and business development, Helsinki Business Polytechnic, Finland) assemble 13 essays by scholars and researchers in tourism, economics,
The nine-volume series summarizes the entire field of pragmatics--the study of of how language is used. Here scholars of linguistics, particular languages, and communications look at the pragmatics of
This collection of essays challenges a common interpretation of democratization: the assumption that Western democracy is the standard for the study of democratization occurring elsewhere in the world
From early modernity to today, society has encountered various forms of interpersonal violence. Through exploration of particular areas within Europe and Russia to Africa, America and Asia, this colle
*Please note the 2015 paperback is a reprint of the original 2008 hardback*In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. P
In an increasingly urbanized world more and more people are turning to our forests and woodland for recreation and tourism. Planning and providing for this growing demand poses challenges that need to
