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Social Work Theory and Practice with the Terminally Ill, second edition, takes a compassionate look at ways that social workers can help dying people and their families. The social workers who work mo

+ Siochr· is a researcher, writer, and activist in media and communication; Girard teaches at Delft U. of Technology in the Netherlands. In this text they examine media governance at the global level

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their sta

In this timely book, leading researchers consider how media inform democracy in six countries – the United States, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden. Taking as their sta

Nineteen papers are presented by Park (Lake Forest College, US), Jankowski (Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences), Jones (U. of Illinois, US) on "the long history of new media," a label the

This collection explores the surprising ways by which cheap print moved across Europe, focussing on Italy, the Netherlands and Britain. Looking at pedlars, commerce and communication, it presents a mo

Multi-channel estuaries, such as the Mekong Delta in Vietnam and the Scheldt in the Netherlands, have characteristics of both the river and the sea, forming a unique environment influenced by tidal mo

This book presents a systematic overview and assessment of the impacts of politics on the media, and of the media on politics, in authoritarian, transitional and democratic regimes in Russia, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its analysis of the interactions between macro- and micro-level factors incorporates the disciplinary perspectives of political science, mass communications, sociology and social psychology. These essays show that media's effects on politics are the product of often complex and contingent interactions among various causal factors, including media technologies, the structure of the media market, the legal and regulatory framework, the nature of basic political institutions, and the characteristics of individual citizens. The authors' conclusions challenge a number of conventional wisdoms concerning the political roles and effects of the mass media on regime support and change, on the political behav

Drawing on interviews and a study of BBC documents, style guides, and output, Luscombe (English, journalism, media studies, Utrecht U., The Netherlands) examines how BBC radio journalists define the c

At once military, social and art history, this book elucidates various visual media, much of it little known, that denounce military cruelty in the Netherlands of the 16th and 17th century. This uniqu

The media historians who are the contributors to this volume are employed in academic institutions in Canada, France, the US, Germany, England, Belgium, Italy, and the Netherlands. They bring diverse