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Communication Science: Contexts and Channels is a collection of articles that addresses the communication between scientists and the public. The book is an ideal introduction for those studying science and communication courses.

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The Limits of Thought" captures the dialogue between a leading religious teacher and a prominent physicist. Bohm and Krishnamurti explore the nature of humanity and a person's relationship to society, and provide new insights on human thought, death, awakening insight, cosmic order, and the problems of the fragmented mind.

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Why is talk about television forbidden at certain schools? Why does a mother feel guilty about watching Star Trek in front of her four-year-old child? Why would retired men turn to daytime soap operas for entertainment? Cliches about television mask the complexity of our relationship to media technologies. Through case studies, the author explains what audience research tells us about the uses of technologies in the domestic sphere and the cla...

This book collects studies of the social, cultural, and religious history of the Jews in the Graeco-Roman world. The sixteen contributors--some specialists in Jewish history, others in classical studies--tackle the extent to which Jews in this period differed from other peoples in the Mediterranean region, and how much Jewish evidence can be used for the history of the wider classical world.

This collection of essays is drawn from Fintan O'Toole's writings over two decades. Its portraits of people - talk-show hosts, priests, children, pop stars - and its reports of social and political upheaval, reveal a country still in search of itself, but more at ease with its complexities.

An acerbic commentary on the insouciance of the moneyed ruling class in America.

Offers transcripts of interviews with French intellectual Jean Baudrillard, covering topics such as: Fukuyama, 1989 and the collapse of Communism, Bosnia, the Gulf War, Rwanda, the New World Order, consumer society and social exclusion, liberation, and nihilism.

Corrective Reading provides intensive intervention for students in Grades 4-12 who are reading one or more years below grade level. This program delivers tightly sequenced, carefully planned lessons that give struggling students the structure and practice necessary to become skilled, fluent readers and better learners. Four levels for decoding plus four for comprehension address the varied reading deficits and skill levels found among older st...

Byzantine Empresses provides a series of biographical portraits of the most significant Byzantine women who ruled or shared the throne between 527 and 1204.

The Causation Debate in Modern Philosophy examines the debate that began as modern science separated itself from natural philosophy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This collection reconceptualizes women's health and healing, crossing disciplinary boundaries to rupture the biomedicalization of women's bodies. It examines the implications and representations of race, class and gender in health care and offers new approaches to women's health care.

Modern France is an up-to-date introducton to the nature of French society at the end of the twentieth century and examines the transition of France and French life as the nation moves from an industrial to a post-industrial economy.

This wide-ranging introductory text looks at the virtual community of cyberspace and analyses its relationship to the real one as lived out in todays societies.

This text on historical archaeology aims to encourage research that goes beyond the boundaries between prehistory and history. It ranges in subject matter from Roman Britain and Classical Greece, to colonial Africa, Brazil and the United States.

Until very recently it was assumed that the Asian miracle of prodigious economic growth would continue indefinitely. Europe and America, it seemed, were being left behind. The recent financial crisis in Asia has now changed all that.Francois Godement provides a broad-ranging survey of the regions economies since 1993 and explains the main reasons behind the recent financial crisis. He also examines important factors such as demography, Asian v...

Following the success of At Home with Spelling 1-2 for the trade, these spelling workbooks have been expanded to a series of six fill-in workbooks for schools: books 1-2 for Key Stage 1, books 3-6 for Key Stage 2. The content progresses systematically through all the necessary spelling rules, and is cross-referenced to the sequence in the National Literacy Strategy Framework.

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This book offers a fresh and challenging multi-disciplinary interpretation of Aristophanes' Frogs. Drawing on a wide range of literary and anthropological approaches, it seeks to explore how membership of Greek fifth-century society would have shaped one's understanding of the play, and, more specifically, of Dionysus as a dramatic figure.