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Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (Paperback, Main): Shaun Bythell Remainders of the Day - More Diaries from The Bookshop, Wigtown (Paperback, Main)
Shaun Bythell
R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Bookshop in Wigtown is a bookworm's idyll - with thousands of books across nearly a mile of shelves, a real log fire, and Captain, the bookshop cat. You'd think after twenty years, owner Shaun Bythell would be used to the customers by now. Don't get him wrong - there are some good ones among the antiquarian porn-hunters, die-hard Arthurians, people who confuse bookshops for libraries and the toddlers just looking for a nice cosy corner in which to wee. He's sure there are. There must be some good ones, right? Filled with the pernickety warmth and humour that has touched readers around the world, stuffed with literary treasures, hidden gems and incunabula, Remainders of the Day is Shaun Bythell's latest entry in his bestselling diary series.

Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend - A Publishing History (Paperback): Sean Grass Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend - A Publishing History (Paperback)
Sean Grass
R1,595 Discovery Miles 15 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens's death. Enhanced by four appendices that offer contemporary accounts of the Staplehurst railway accident, information on archival materials, transcripts of all of the contemporary reviews, and a select bibliography of editions, Grass's book shows why this last of Dickens's finished novels continues to intrigue its readers and critics.

More Advertising Worldwide (Hardcover, 2002 ed.): Ingomar Kloss More Advertising Worldwide (Hardcover, 2002 ed.)
Ingomar Kloss
R1,729 Discovery Miles 17 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book deals with all aspects of advertising in selected countries. It is a follow-up of Advertising Worldwide by the same editor. The leading magazine "Werben und Verkaufen" (Advertising and Selling) wrote in its review to that volume: "For all advertisers, agencies and students an absolute must is this reader with contributions to the state as well as to the different cultural and legal conditions of advertising worldwide".(Issue 40/2001) The book covers Bulgaria, China, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Malaysia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom and contains a chapter on intercultural management and a case study of Barclaycard International. The authors are specialists from the respective countries.

The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists (Hardcover): Mohammed El-Nawawy The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Process in the Reporting of Western Journalists (Hardcover)
Mohammed El-Nawawy
R2,771 Discovery Miles 27 710 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Of the enormous number of books published on the Arab-Israeli conflict, most focus on its history or the political dimensions of the current peace process. None, however, has provided an in-depth look at the relationship between those who shape the events and the Western journalists who cover them. In this bold new study, Mohammed A. el-Nawawy explores the ways in which government officials try to manipulate the news media, how the reporters contend with such interference, the professional and newsmaking roles of the journalists, and how their demographic and educational backgrounds influence their coverage of this crucial time and place. Through interviews with 168 Western correspondents--94 in Israel and 74 in Egypt--who, together, represent more than 88 percent of the whole population of foreign correspondents in the Middle East, the author provides an invaluable source of information on the day-to-day activities of reporters in the region, as well as their interactions with government officials.

The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 - Exhuming the Trade (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): F. Potter The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835 - Exhuming the Trade (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
F. Potter
R3,117 Discovery Miles 31 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

To better understand and contextualise the twilight of the Gothic genre during the 1920s and 1830s, "The History of Gothic Publishing, 1800-1835: Exhuming the Trade" examines the disreputable aspects of the Gothic trade from its horrid bluebooks to the desperate hack writers who created the short tales of terror. From the Gothic publishers to the circulating libraries, this study explores the conflict between the canon and the twilight, and between the disreputable and the moral.

Discovering Journalism (Hardcover, New): Warren G. Bovee Discovering Journalism (Hardcover, New)
Warren G. Bovee
R2,777 Discovery Miles 27 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Journalism is the branch of mass communications that provides large numbers of people with the knowledge they need to help them make good decisions about issues currently affecting their personal and public lives. Journalism not only provides news but also presents interpretation, evaluation, and persuasion. Any discussion about journalism requires a common understanding of basic terms and concepts. By defining what journalism is, this book provides the answers to many questions and debates about the current state of the mass media: What is news? Is journalism concerned with more than news? What are the purposes of editorials? Is it good or bad to combine journalism and fiction? Is it possible to report the news objectively? How are public relations and advertising related to journalism? This coherent, general theory explores the function and roles of journalism vital to our personal and public well-being and offers valuable insight in areas affected by journalism such as politics, education, and the law.

Standards-Battles in Open Source Software - The Case of Firefox (Hardcover, New): I. Oshri, Henk de Vries Standards-Battles in Open Source Software - The Case of Firefox (Hardcover, New)
I. Oshri, Henk de Vries
R2,872 Discovery Miles 28 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Standards wars of open source software products are far from being adequately understood. Through the examination of the Mozilla Firefox case, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the drivers, mechanisms and strategies involved in winning a standards-battle in open source software.

Information Technology as Business History - Issues in the History and Management of Computers (Hardcover, New): James W.... Information Technology as Business History - Issues in the History and Management of Computers (Hardcover, New)
James W. Cortada
R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This comprehensive overview of the history of computing and its industry, and of commercial applications of the computer also outlines the history of how computing operations were managed within American companies. Based on extensive research in the contemporary business literature, this work is one of the few which looks at computing as business history, and it is the first to look at the broad scope of computing from the perspective of the business historian. The work is also directed at business managers to help them appreciate and understand the uses of the computer in their firms.

Reinventing Public Service Communication - European Broadcasters and Beyond (Hardcover): P. Iosifidis Reinventing Public Service Communication - European Broadcasters and Beyond (Hardcover)
P. Iosifidis
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

European Public Service Broadcasters (PSBs) are struggling to come to terms with a number of issues: the Europeanisation and globalisation of media ownership, production, programming and distribution; the 'marketisation' of media output; technological convergence; and audience fragmentation. While the prevailing nation-state frameworks for cultural and political identity are gradually fading, some PSBs are finding it hard to serve and promote national culture and identity, and to meet the challenge of growing uncertainties within a cosmopolitan Europe. At the same time, PSBs are considered to be an important way of helping European citizens make sense of such developments by bearing traces of collective identities and therefore creating an expanded, pan-European cultural space. Can PSBs be 'multi-cultural' and mobilise a new sense of Europeanness, while at the same time making the transformation into Public Service Media (PSM) and delivering public service content that will meet audience needs in a digital age? The scholars in this volume - covering mainly European countries but also looking comparatively at the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand - discuss the contemporary relevance of PSM as a cultural and political enterprise and as a forum in which a variety of cultural demands can best be met.

Policy Research in Telecommunications - Proceedings from the Eleventh Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference... Policy Research in Telecommunications - Proceedings from the Eleventh Annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (Hardcover)
Vincent Mosco
R2,839 Discovery Miles 28 390 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Telecommunications policy research has grown vigorously over the past few years as evidenced by the contributors in this volume. In addition to the sheer amount of research, policy studies have grown in diversity reflecting an industry that now affects almost every area of social life. Thus, these chapters confront issues such as economic development, competition, unemployment, educational reform, the role of government, international conflict and cooperation, and many others. The volume is organized according to four issue areas: the economics of telecommunications policy, the impact of policy research on policy decisions, the social impact of accelerating growth in telecommunications, and the international consequences of telecommunications policy.

International Film, Radio, and Television Journals (Hardcover): Anthony Slide International Film, Radio, and Television Journals (Hardcover)
Anthony Slide
R2,504 Discovery Miles 25 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"[Slide's] blockbuster effort fills a gap in this area and is essential for all libraries supporting popular culture or film studies." Library Journal

A Pilgrimage to Jasna Gora (English Translation) - Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Gory (Hardcover, First English ed.): Wladyslaw... A Pilgrimage to Jasna Gora (English Translation) - Pielgrzymka do Jasnej Gory (Hardcover, First English ed.)
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont; Translated by Filip Mazurczak; Foreword by Michal Golębiowski
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Protestants and TV in the 1950s - Responses to a New Medium (Hardcover, 2007 ed.): Martin E. Marty American Protestants and TV in the 1950s - Responses to a New Medium (Hardcover, 2007 ed.)
Martin E. Marty; M Rosenthal
R1,506 Discovery Miles 15 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While television today is taken for granted, Americans in the 1950s faced the challenge of negotiating the new medium's place in the home and in American culture in general. Protestant leaders--both mainstream and evangelical--began to think carefully about what television meant for their communities and its potential impact on their work. Using the American Protestant experience of the introduction of television, Rosenthal illustrates the importance of the interplay between a new medium and its users in an engaging book suitable for general readers and students alike.

India's New Economy - Industry Efficiency and Growth (Hardcover, New): J.K. Sengupta, C Neogi India's New Economy - Industry Efficiency and Growth (Hardcover, New)
J.K. Sengupta, C Neogi
R2,883 Discovery Miles 28 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book examines India's new economy -- its strengths, weaknesses and potential. The book covers three key areas of growth in India's economy -- the IT (information technology) sector, export trade (with its externality effects) and the financial sector (in particular, banking reforms).

Information and Communications Technology for Competitive Intelligence (Hardcover, New): Dirk Vriens Information and Communications Technology for Competitive Intelligence (Hardcover, New)
Dirk Vriens; Edited by Dirk Vriens
R2,307 Discovery Miles 23 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In today's complex and dynamic world the need to be informed about what is going on in the environment of the organization is increasing rapidly. To this end, organizations implement a process called 'competitive intelligence'. Competitive intelligence (CI) is about gathering and analyzing environmental information for strategic purposes. To gather and analyze this information, information and communication technology (ICT) is an invaluable tool. Examples are: the Internet, data warehouses or specific applications for competitive intelligence. However, the uncritical implementation of these tools may lead to an 'information overload' or to 'environmental myopia'. To select the right ICT tools for CI, an organization needs to understand the role of ICT in the CI-process. Information and Communications Technology for Competitive Intelligence addresses this need. It sets out to assess the role and possibilities of ICT in the intelligence activities from different perspectives.

Heuristic Approaches for Telecommunications Network Management, Planning and Expansion - A Special Issue of the Journal of... Heuristic Approaches for Telecommunications Network Management, Planning and Expansion - A Special Issue of the Journal of Heuristics (Hardcover, Reprinted from JOURNAL OF HEURISTICS, 6:1, 2000)
Robert Doverspike, Iraj Saniee
R2,975 Discovery Miles 29 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The telecommunications industry is experiencing a worldwide explosion of growth as few other industries ever have. However, as recently as a decade ago, the bulk of telecommunications services were delivered by the traditional telephone network, for which design and analysis principles had been under steady development for over three-quarters of a century. This environment was characterized by moderate and steady growth, with an accompanying slower development of new network equipment and standardization processes. In such a near-static environment, attention was given to optimization techniques to squeeze out better profits from existing and limited future investments. To this end, forecasts of network services were developed on a regular planning cycle and networks were optimized accordingly, layer by layer, for cost-effective placement of capacity and efficient utilization. In particular, optimization was based on a fairly stable set of assumptions about the network architecture, equipment models, and forecast uncertainty. This special edition is devoted to heuristic approaches for telecommunications network management, planning, and expansion. We hope that this collection brings to the attention of researchers and practitioners an array of techniques and case studies that meet the stringent time to market' requirements of this industry and which deserve exposure to a wider audience. Telecommunications will face a tremendous challenge in the coming years to be able to design, build, and manage networks in such a rapidly evolving industry. Development and application of heuristic methods will be fundamental in our ability to meet this challenge.

The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective - Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.):... The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective - Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Bernard Grofman, Alexander H. Trechsel, Mark Franklin
R3,160 R1,909 Discovery Miles 19 090 Save R1,251 (40%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume provides an important update to our current understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new contexts, both geographically and institutionally. The subject of e-democracy has morphed over the years from speculative and optimistic accounts of a future heightened direct citizen involvement in political decision-making and an increasingly withered state apparatus, to more prosaic investigations of party and governmental website content and micro level analyses of voters' online activities. Rather than levelling the communications and participation playing field, most studies concluded that existing patterns of bias and power distribution were being repeated online, with the one exception of a genuine change in the potential for protest and e-activism. Across all of these accounts, the question remains whether the internet is a levelling communication tool that elevates the profile of marginalised players in the political system, or whether it is a medium that simply reinforces existing power and participatory biases. While employing case studies from various global perspectives, this book investigates the role of digital media and competitive advantage, campaigns and the effect of social media, online communication as way of fomenting nonviolent revolutions and the undeniable and important role of the internet on democracy around the world.

Blind Spot - When Journalists Don't Get Religion (Hardcover): Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green-Ahmanson Blind Spot - When Journalists Don't Get Religion (Hardcover)
Paul Marshall, Lela Gilbert, Roberta Green-Ahmanson
R1,854 Discovery Miles 18 540 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Today understanding of religion is essential to understanding many major news stories. This book examines how the media frequently miss or misunderstand these stories because they do not take religion seriously, and how they misunderstand religion when they do take it seriously. To the extent that journalists do not grasp events' religious dimensions, both global and local, the authors argue, they are hindered from, and sometimes incapable of, describing what is happening. However, on the national level the press is one of the most secular institutions in American society - not necessarily contemptuous of serious religion, just uncomprehending. The essays in this book examine nine specific news stories that were inadequately or incorrectly reported by major news sources because their religious dimension was ignored, overlooked, or misrepresented. These stories range from the 2004 U.S. presidential elections, to Iran, Iraq, and the papal succession. In each case the author demonstrates how the story might have been more effectively reported and concludes with specific suggestions for journalist. The authors include both scholars and experienced news analysts. Although it will be of particular interest to people of faith, the book offers all readers an interesting and balanced analysis of the news media's uneasy relationship with religion and religious issues.

Achieving Full Realization and Mitigating the Challenges of the Internet of Things (Hardcover): Marcel Ohanga Odhiambo, Weston... Achieving Full Realization and Mitigating the Challenges of the Internet of Things (Hardcover)
Marcel Ohanga Odhiambo, Weston Mwashita
R6,451 Discovery Miles 64 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As the IoT market is booming, several issues are delaying the full realization of the technology. IoT devices, in cybersecurity terms, greatly increase security risk. This means that any scientific work that offers cybersecurity strategies will excite security experts who will be glad to expand their knowledge base on IoT cybersecurity. As a result of the booming of the IoT market, business competitors are jockeying for a piece of the market. This means that solutions from researchers that address compatibility issues will be greatly welcomed by IoT technology developers. Connectivity providers are likely to embrace solutions to challenges of bandwidth since a growing IoT market must be followed up by bandwidth-intensive IoT applications which tend to jostle for space on the current client-server model. Overpromising followed by underdelivering, has been the current approach by many innovators and the mismatch results in losses in production, orphaned technologies accompanied by frequent system failures. Solutions that address IoT performance issues are likely to excite many start-ups. Solutions to challenges of fragmentation presented by thousands of devices from different manufacturers operating on proprietary ecosystems are likely to be warmly embraced by many IoT brands developers. As such, a publication that specifically addresses the challenges faced in the rolling out of IoT technologies is sorely needed.

American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals (Hardcover, Annotated edition): David E Sloane American Humor Magazines and Comic Periodicals (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
David E Sloane
R3,292 Discovery Miles 32 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This first annotated guide devoted entirely to American humor magazines and periodicals provides a comprehensive survey of a genre that has both enriched and reflected American mores, popular culture, and literature for over two hundred years. It offers analytical essays, bibliographies, and historical information on nearly three hundred of the most important individual publications, as well as extensive listings of rare periodicals about which very little is presently known.

Violence and Understanding in Gaza - The British Broadsheets' Coverage of the War (Hardcover): D Kaposi Violence and Understanding in Gaza - The British Broadsheets' Coverage of the War (Hardcover)
D Kaposi
R2,122 R1,934 Discovery Miles 19 340 Save R188 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Violence and Understanding in Gaza is the first comprehensive investigation of the British broadsheets' coverage of the Gaza War. Written in accessible language and engaging style, it critiques the newspapers' output, which it is argued replicates the black and white logic of war instead of focusing on negotiations and peace.

Fashion & Music (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Jochen Strahle Fashion & Music (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Jochen Strahle
R5,302 Discovery Miles 53 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book will broaden readers' understanding of the links between the music and fashion industries. It highlights the challenges currently facing the fashion industry in terms of hyper-competition, definition of ever-faster trends, changing consumer demands etc. In fact, the fashion industry is heavily influenced by the digital revolution in the music industry, which has changed the face of individual music consumption and social reference, and therefore, also has impacts on fashion consumption and social reference. This understanding is crucial in order to realign any fashion company's strategies to the demands of modern fashion consumers. In terms of content, the book first discusses the social perspective of fashion and music. This includes an analysis of music as a key influencer of fashion trends, both theoretically and on the basis of a case study on grunge music. Then the role of music in the fashion business is addressed, and covers in-store music and the role of music in fashion communication. Following up, the role of fashion in the music business is analyzed. This includes the trend of co-design of fashion collections, music artists' role of differentiation by style, and the market for music fashion merchandise articles (both theoretically and drawing on a case study). In closing, potential lessons learned from the music industry are developed for the fashion industry. This includes an analysis of the digital revolution and the advent of the crowdfunding idea (both theoretically and in a case study).

Marketing Literature - The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (Hardcover): C. Squires Marketing Literature - The Making of Contemporary Writing in Britain (Hardcover)
C. Squires
R1,519 Discovery Miles 15 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is an important study of the publishing of contemporary writing in Britain. It analyzes the changing social, economic and cultural environment of the publishing industry in the 1990s-2000s, and investigates its impact on genre, authorship and reading. It includes case studies of Trainspotting and the His Dark Materials trilogy.

The Battle of Brazil - Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut (Paperback, Newly Rev): Jack Mathews The Battle of Brazil - Terry Gilliam v. Universal Pictures in the Fight to the Final Cut (Paperback, Newly Rev)
Jack Mathews
R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In 1985, Universal Pictures released Terry Gilliam's film, Brazil, under protest. Gilliam had mounted the first director's guerilla campaign against a major Hollywood studio to circumvent his mo being sliced to bits or shelved. LA Times film writer and writer Jack Mathews was right in the th the battle, acting as intermediary between the President of Universal, Sid Sheinberg and Gilliam and producer Arnon Milchan. This is a blow-by-blow account of that epic and historic fight as it happene 1985 as well as from the more sober perspective of a dozen years after.

Father's Day Creek - Fly fishing, fatherhood and the last best place on Earth (Hardcover): Dan Rodricks Father's Day Creek - Fly fishing, fatherhood and the last best place on Earth (Hardcover)
Dan Rodricks; Foreword by Lefty Kreh
R723 R676 Discovery Miles 6 760 Save R47 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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