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Jewish Serials of the World - A Research Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Hardcover): Robert Singerman Jewish Serials of the World - A Research Bibliography of Secondary Sources (Hardcover)
Robert Singerman
R2,302 Discovery Miles 23 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

As the pioneering work in its field, Jewish Serials of the World brings together a diverse body of literature essential to the study of the Jewish press from 1674 to the present. It identifies pertinent primary source materials and provides comprehensive coverage of the secondary literature in a field where no bibliographical control has ever existed. Arranged for the most part geographically, the citations include descriptions of significant publications of books, pamphlets, theses and articles, as well as jubilee issues of Jewish newspapers and magazines. In addition to internal cross-references, the work also contains subject and author indexes.

First steps in research (Paperback): K. Maree First steps in research (Paperback)
K. Maree
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 11 - 16 working days

This much-needed title is an introductory text for novice researchers - undergraduate students or junior postgraduate students who are encountering research methodology for the first time. A number of additional features make this title resource for scholars, academics, researchers, psychologists, social workers, teachers and clients: It gives an overview of international perspectives on research methodology. It critically analyses germane questions such as, "What is the language of research" and "How does one pose the right research question?" It facilitates an understanding and application of theories, goals, methods and strategies in research. It examines the historical and philosophical underpinnings of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods research and suggests how these three approaches may be used to conduct research.

Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion - A Parametric Characteristic... Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion - A Parametric Characteristic Approach (Hardcover, 2015 ed.)
Xingjian Jing, Ziqiang Lang
R3,714 R3,453 Discovery Miles 34 530 Save R261 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is a systematic summary of some new advances in the area of nonlinear analysis and design in the frequency domain, focusing on the application oriented theory and methods based on the GFRF concept, which is mainly done by the author in the past 8 years. The main results are formulated uniformly with a parametric characteristic approach, which provides a convenient and novel insight into nonlinear influence on system output response in terms of characteristic parameters and thus facilitate nonlinear analysis and design in the frequency domain. The book starts with a brief introduction to the background of nonlinear analysis in the frequency domain, followed by recursive algorithms for computation of GFRFs for different parametric models, and nonlinear output frequency properties. Thereafter the parametric characteristic analysis method is introduced, which leads to the new understanding and formulation of the GFRFs, and nonlinear characteristic output spectrum (nCOS) and the nCOS based analysis and design method. Based on the parametric characteristic approach, nonlinear influence in the frequency domain can be investigated with a novel insight, i.e., alternating series, which is followed by some application results in vibration control. Magnitude bounds of frequency response functions of nonlinear systems can also be studied with a parametric characteristic approach, which result in novel parametric convergence criteria for any given parametric nonlinear model whose input-output relationship allows a convergent Volterra series expansion. This book targets those readers who are working in the areas related to nonlinear analysis and design, nonlinear signal processing, nonlinear system identification, nonlinear vibration control, and so on. It particularly serves as a good reference for those who are studying frequency domain methods for nonlinear systems.

Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law (Hardcover): Thomas J Miceli, Matthew J. Baker Research Handbook on Economic Models of Law (Hardcover)
Thomas J Miceli, Matthew J. Baker
R5,639 Discovery Miles 56 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

One of the great successes of the law and economics movement has been the use of economic models to explain the structure and function of broad areas of law. The original contributions to this volume epitomize that tradition, offering state-of-the-art research on the many facets of economic modeling in law.The contributors employ a variety of economic methodologies to explore a wide range of topics, including torts, contracts, property, crime, employment, the environment, and legal procedure. This depth and breadth of scholarship reflect the continuing vitality of the economic approach to law, offering an illuminating look into the future of the field and providing inspiration and guidance for the next generation of theorists. This timely volume will appeal to students, professors and researchers in both law and economics, particularly those with an interest in the theoretical and practical intersections of the two fields. Contributors: L. Anderlini, M. Baker, F. Baumann, J. De Mot, B. Deporter, D. Dharmapala, W. Emons, L. Felli, C. Fluet, T. Friehe, N. Garoupa, Z. Grossman, S. Izmalkov, C. Landeo, R. McAdams, T. Miceli, M.Nikitin, J. Pincus, A. Postlewaite, R. Rabon, G. Ramello, K. Segerson, P. Shapiro, T. Tsvetanov, T. Ulen, N. Westelius, A. Wickelgren

Why Cryptography Should Not Rely on Physical Attack Complexity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015): Juliane Kramer Why Cryptography Should Not Rely on Physical Attack Complexity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2015)
Juliane Kramer
R3,193 Discovery Miles 31 930 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book presents two practical physical attacks. It shows how attackers can reveal the secret key of symmetric as well as asymmetric cryptographic algorithms based on these attacks, and presents countermeasures on the software and the hardware level that can help to prevent them in the future. Though their theory has been known for several years now, since neither attack has yet been successfully implemented in practice, they have generally not been considered a serious threat. In short, their physical attack complexity has been overestimated and the implied security threat has been underestimated. First, the book introduces the photonic side channel, which offers not only temporal resolution, but also the highest possible spatial resolution. Due to the high cost of its initial implementation, it has not been taken seriously. The work shows both simple and differential photonic side channel analyses. Then, it presents a fault attack against pairing-based cryptography. Due to the need for at least two independent precise faults in a single pairing computation, it has not been taken seriously either. Based on these two attacks, the book demonstrates that the assessment of physical attack complexity is error-prone, and as such cryptography should not rely on it. Cryptographic technologies have to be protected against all physical attacks, whether they have already been successfully implemented or not. The development of countermeasures does not require the successful execution of an attack but can already be carried out as soon as the principle of a side channel or a fault attack is sufficiently understood.

Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles (Hardcover): Udo Merkel Identity Discourses and Communities in International Events, Festivals and Spectacles (Hardcover)
Udo Merkel
R2,493 R1,862 Discovery Miles 18 620 Save R631 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection focuses on the multi-layered links between international events and identity discourses. With a unique line-up of international scholars, this book offers a diverse range of exciting case studies, including sports competitions, music festivals, exhibitions, fashion shows and royal celebrations.

Communication and "The Good Life" (Hardcover, New edition): Hua Wang Communication and "The Good Life" (Hardcover, New edition)
Hua Wang
R3,160 Discovery Miles 31 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is a "good life" and how can it be achieved? In this volume, communication scholars and media experts explore these fundamental questions about human existence and aspiration in terms of what a "good life" might look like in a contemporary, mediatized society. While in many ways a mediatized society brings us closer to some version of the "good life", it also leads us away from it. The affordances of new technologies seem to have shifted, for many, from an opportunity to an obligation. Rather than choosing when and where to be connected to these larger networks of information and acquaintances, we feel we must be permanently available, thus losing the luxury of controlling our time and attention. This volume illuminates the complexity of our modern era, exploring how society can leverage exciting new opportunities whilst recognizing the complex challenges we face in a time of constant change. It helps us understand how we have come to this point and where we may be going so that we may study the opportunities and the dangers, the chances and the risks, that digital media pose in our quest for some version of "the good life".

Talk about Data (Paperback): Martin Eppler, Fabienne Bunzli Talk about Data (Paperback)
Martin Eppler, Fabienne Bunzli
R490 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R100 (20%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Data literacy is one of the key skills that companies are looking for but it's a specialist skill - currently. This book is your comprehensive guide to becoming data literate: understand data analytics, how to use data insights effectively in your organisation, and how to talk about data with experts and non-experts confidently.

Finding the Source of Medical Information - A Thesaurus-Index to the Reference Collection (Hardcover): Geneva L. Bush, Barbara... Finding the Source of Medical Information - A Thesaurus-Index to the Reference Collection (Hardcover)
Geneva L. Bush, Barbara S. Shearer
R1,935 Discovery Miles 19 350 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"This work consists of a listing of basic reference sources in the field of medicine and allied health and a thesaurus-index providing quick access to the cited sources. . . . Recommended for medical and health sciences libraries." Choice

In Search of Boundaries - Communication, Nation-States, and Cultural Identities (Hardcover): Joseph M. Chan, Bryce T. McIntyre In Search of Boundaries - Communication, Nation-States, and Cultural Identities (Hardcover)
Joseph M. Chan, Bryce T. McIntyre
R2,589 Discovery Miles 25 890 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In this age of global communication, local identities and nation-states reassert themselves when cultural boundaries are dissolved and reconstructed. This collection of essays by noted scholars in many fields provides a wide range of theoretical approaches and empirical studies that, together, shed light on how local cultural identities resist the forces of globalization by virtue of tradition, transculturation, domestication and hybridization. Examining how people make sense of the world and their own identities as cultural and national boundaries are crossed, In Search of Boundaries transcends many traditional dichotomies between East and West and, more importantly, between tradition and modernity. Interest in the study of boundaries has grown in sociology, anthropology, geography, and other social sciences, but it has not focused on communication processes. This book fills that void with a series of wide-ranging approaches, from the critical to the liberal, the empirical to the cultural, and the Occidental to the Oriental, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the increasingly global nature of nationality, culture, and identity.

Progress in Communication Sciences - Volume 13 (Hardcover): Franklin J. Bostner, George Barnett Progress in Communication Sciences - Volume 13 (Hardcover)
Franklin J. Bostner, George Barnett
R2,573 Discovery Miles 25 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This volume focuses on persuasion and the structure and analysis of persuasive communication. It brings together contributions from scholars from a variety of backgrounds in communication sciences and psychology, with insights into the processing of persuasive messages, attitude theory as viewed from a neural network model, and models of resistance to influence. This series compiles research from a range of disciplines such as information science, library science, and international relations, that share the unifying purpose of understanding communication and information processing. It offers reviews of those diverse areas that fall within the broad rubrics of information and communication science, as well as an overview of how people use information. The volumes report on research in three important areas: information transfer and information systems; the uses and effects of communications; and the control of communications and information.

European Cinema and Television - Cultural Policy and Everyday Life (Hardcover): Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall, Andrew Higson European Cinema and Television - Cultural Policy and Everyday Life (Hardcover)
Ib Bondebjerg, Eva Novrup Redvall, Andrew Higson
R3,314 Discovery Miles 33 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and collaboration, and of how cultural products circulate across national borders. The chapters investigate how watching film and television from neighbouring countries can be regarded as a special kind of cultural encounter with the possibility of facilitating reflections on national differences within Europe and negotiations of what characterizes a national or a European identity respectively.

Meaningful Moves - Optimize Your Baby's Development (Hardcover): Sarah E Lane Meaningful Moves - Optimize Your Baby's Development (Hardcover)
Sarah E Lane
R537 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R45 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises (Hardcover): Erdem OEngun, Nilufer Pembecioglu, Ugur... Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises (Hardcover)
Erdem OEngun, Nilufer Pembecioglu, Ugur Gunduz
R7,484 Discovery Miles 74 840 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Today, individuals and societies of the digital age are no longer constrained by conventional contexts, narratives, settings, and status; they are surrounded and guided by digital tools and applications leading to a digital revolution. That digital revolution changed the individual along with living styles and cultural and social relations among people. Moreover, these revolutionary changes and the increasing capabilities of smart devices have brought today's people a new kind of public sphere with questionable freedoms but also restraints in its digital dimensions. Now, it is possible to talk about the digital dimension and equivalence of all the concepts that are both individually and socially constructed in a new digital world. The Handbook of Research on Digital Citizenship and Management During Crises covers many different components engaged with digital world responsibilities. The authors assess the position, status, and reactions of the new citizen against future catastrophes. Covering topics such as epistemic divide, internet addiction, and new media technologies, this text serves as a cutting-edge resource for researchers, scholars, lawmakers, trainers, instructional designers, university libraries, professors, students, and academicians.

New Foundations for a Science of Text and Discourse - Cognition, Communication, and the Freedom of Access to Knowledge and... New Foundations for a Science of Text and Discourse - Cognition, Communication, and the Freedom of Access to Knowledge and Society (Hardcover)
Robert De Beaugrande
R2,674 Discovery Miles 26 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

"A magnum opus in the now vast domain of discourse studies, whose history, methods, and subdomains mobody knows as well as Robert de Beugrande. No other book in the humanities and social sciences today integrates such encylopedic knowledge into a thoroughly transdisciplinary, international, intercultural, and critical program. For all advanced students of discourse, this book should be their major mentor, guide, and compendium of research." -Teun A. van Dijk, University of Amsterdam and Editor of the journals Text and Discourse and Society "Professor de Beugrande has been one of the most influential scholars in text linguistics since he helped to found it as a discipline. He commands a large panorama of knowledge and brings this learning to bear on a variety of topics, giving fresh insights and new dimensions. In his latest book, he ranges over linguistic, educational, and cultural disciplines in order to synthesize an important framework within which text and discourse can be understood in new ways." -John Sinclair, Birmingham University and Editor-in-Chief of Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary

For ALL the People - Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life (Paperback): Deval Patrick For ALL the People - Redeeming the Broken Promises of Modern Media and Reclaiming Our Civic Life (Paperback)
Deval Patrick; Michael Slaby
R432 R404 Discovery Miles 4 040 Save R28 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Writing about Quantitative Research in Applied Linguistics (Hardcover): L. Woodrow Writing about Quantitative Research in Applied Linguistics (Hardcover)
L. Woodrow
R2,239 Discovery Miles 22 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

There is increasing pressure on academics and graduate students to publish in peer reviewed journals, but many students and researchers who are new to quantitative methods struggle to write up statistics in reports, theses and journal articles. This book is an accessible reference text aimed at helping people write about quantitative research in applied linguistics, focusing mainly on writing for journals. Different types of statistical analysis are explained in detail along with annotated examples drawn from published and unpublished sources. The book offers advice on academic writing, how and where to get research published, and recommends additional resources helpful for both students and seasoned researchers.

International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations - Applying Bourdieu's Tools (Hardcover): Garth Stahl, Derron Wallace,... International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations - Applying Bourdieu's Tools (Hardcover)
Garth Stahl, Derron Wallace, Ciaran Burke, Steven Threadgold
R4,111 Discovery Miles 41 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

International Perspectives on Theorizing Aspirations offers new insights and guidance for those looking to use Bourdieu's tools in an educational context, with a focus on how the tools can be applied to issues of aspiration. Written by contributors from the UK, USA, Australia, Nigeria, Jamaica and Spain, the book explores how Bourdieu's tools have been applied in recent cutting-edge educational research on a range of topics, including widening participation, migration, ethnicity, and class. The contributors consider how aspirations are theorized in sociology, as well as exploring the structure/agency debates, before recapitulating Bourdieu's tools and their applicability in educational contexts. A key question running through the chapters is: how does social theory shape research? Including recommended readings, this is essential reading for anyone looking to use Bourdieu in their research and for those studying aspiration in an educational research setting.

Breakdown in Traffic Networks - Fundamentals of Transportation Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Boris S. Kerner Breakdown in Traffic Networks - Fundamentals of Transportation Science (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Boris S. Kerner
R4,814 Discovery Miles 48 140 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book offers a detailed investigation of breakdowns in traffic and transportation networks. It shows empirically that transitions from free flow to so-called synchronized flow, initiated by local disturbances at network bottlenecks, display a nucleation-type behavior: while small disturbances in free flow decay, larger ones grow further and lead to breakdowns at the bottlenecks. Further, it discusses in detail the significance of this nucleation effect for traffic and transportation theories, and the consequences this has for future automatic driving, traffic control, dynamic traffic assignment, and optimization in traffic and transportation networks. Starting from a large volume of field traffic data collected from various sources obtained solely through measurements in real world traffic, the author develops his insights, with an emphasis less on reviewing existing methodologies, models and theories, and more on providing a detailed analysis of empirical traffic data and drawing consequences regarding the minimum requirements for any traffic and transportation theories to be valid. The book - proves the empirical nucleation nature of traffic breakdown in networks - discusses the origin of the failure of classical traffic and transportation theories - shows that the three-phase theory is incommensurable with the classical traffic theories, and - explains why current state-of-the art dynamic traffic assignments tend to provoke heavy traffic congestion, making it a valuable reference resource for a wide audience of scientists and postgraduate students interested in the fundamental understanding of empirical traffic phenomena and related data-driven phenomenology, as well as for practitioners working in the fields of traffic and transportation engineering.

The Politics of Telecommunications - National Institutions, Convergences, and Change in Britain and France (Hardcover): Mark... The Politics of Telecommunications - National Institutions, Convergences, and Change in Britain and France (Hardcover)
Mark Thatcher
R6,663 Discovery Miles 66 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines and compares policy making in telecommunications in Britain and France over the last three decades. The book examines questions related to liberalization, regulation and the role of the nation state in an increasingly international economy.

The Diversity of Irony (Hardcover): Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston The Diversity of Irony (Hardcover)
Angeliki Athanasiadou, Herbert L. Colston
R3,542 Discovery Miles 35 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although the figure of irony has enjoyed extensive attention through important contributions to the diverse literatures addressing figurative thought and language, it still remains relatively in the background compared to other figures such as metaphor and metonymy. The present volume, together with a 2017 collection by Angeliki Athanasiadou and Herbert L. Colston, aims to the further exploration of verbal and situational irony, its gestural accompaniments, its comprehension and interpretation, its constructional diversity and its cooperation with other figures such as metaphor and hyperbole. The present volume is a highly interesting collection of chapters dealing with both theoretical investigations and descriptive applications of a central figure pervading human thought and language. Its aim is to draw more attention to irony's diversity and its concomitant connections to other aspects of figurativeness.

Reduction of the Pareto Set - An Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Vladimir D. Noghin Reduction of the Pareto Set - An Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Vladimir D. Noghin
R3,610 R3,350 Discovery Miles 33 500 Save R260 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book focuses on the issues of decision-making with several numerical criteria. It introduces an original general approach to solving multicriteria problems given quantitative information about the preference relation of a decision-maker. It considers the problems with crisp as well as fuzzy preference relations, accepting the four axioms of "reasonable choice". Further, it defines the notion of an information quantum about the preference relation of a decision-maker and studies the reduction of the Pareto set using a finite collection of information quanta, demonstrating that the original approach yields a good approximation for the set of nondominated alternatives in a multicriteria problem. Lastly, it analyzes a possible combination of the axiomatic approach with other well-known methods. Intended for a wide range of professionals involved in solving multicriteria problems, including researchers, design engineers, product engineers, developers and analysts, the book is also a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students of mathematics, economics, and engineering.

Remaking Memory - Autoethnography, Memoir and the Ethics of Self (Paperback): John Freeman Remaking Memory - Autoethnography, Memoir and the Ethics of Self (Paperback)
John Freeman
R683 R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Save R41 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

When research is so connected to personal interest, experience, and familiarity that objectivity becomes a moveable feast, the line between documentation and invention blurs to near-invisibility. John Freeman asks what it means to locate oneself into research findings and narrative reports, and what happens when one's self goes further and becomes the research. Subjecting received truths to a series of hard questions, readers are taken on a journey through self-performance; traumatic memoir; the lure of weasel words; emotional evocation; the vagaries of memory; creative nonfiction; cultural appropriation; illusion masquerading as truth and the complex ethics of university research. Case studies from international autoethnographers run through the book and appendices provide invaluable advice to university researchers and supervisors. The result is a work that sheds new light on forms of narrative research that connect writers' personal stories to the participatory cultures under investigation.

The Presidential Campaign Film - A Critical History (Hardcover, New): Joanne Morreale The Presidential Campaign Film - A Critical History (Hardcover, New)
Joanne Morreale
R2,559 Discovery Miles 25 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Morreale traces the development of the documentary films produced for presidential candidates from Calvin Coolidge in 1923 to George Bush and Bill Clinton in 1992. The work provides insight into today's visually oriented presidential campaign by analyzing the production of candidates' images as the films evolve from classical to modern forms. Campaign films are usually overlooked by campaign scholars, yet they provide the fullest available visual portrait of a candidate during a campaign, they encapsulate persuasive appeals and strategies, and they illustrate Republican and Democratic candidates' different approaches to mediated communication. Morreale concludes that presidential campaign films provide a lens through which we can view both changes and continuities in American politics and culture. Recommended for scholars and students of communication, political science, and history.

Organizational Life on Television (Hardcover, New): Leah Vandeberg, Nick Trujillo Organizational Life on Television (Hardcover, New)
Leah Vandeberg, Nick Trujillo
R2,585 Discovery Miles 25 850 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

What kinds of industries, occupations, and organizational behaviors have been presented on prime time television? This is the first full-length volume to answer this question and summarize quantitative and qualitative studies on the portrayal of organizations, occupations and organizations behaviors on prime time television drama. The volume also offers a unique study of the demography of industries that have appeared on prime time over the last four decades of television, thus offering a historical perspective in addition to the authors' analysis of contemporary prime time programs.

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