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Everyone knows that what koalas do best is sleep but young Clive
cant help feeling different. He hardly ever wants to sleep Hes
itchy and twitchy and sleeping on branches is a dangerous game when
you just cant stop moving Maybe he was mixed up at birth and is
really a monkey Maybe hes an elephant Or something much much bigger
. . . One day somewhere between sleep and wild imagination Clive
wonders what adventures he might have if only he were a different
kind of animal . . . and soon discovers that being himself is not
so bad after all
The best-selling Environmental Communication and the Public Sphere
provides a comprehensive introduction to the growing field of
environmental communication. This groundbreaking book focuses on
the role that human communication plays in influencing the ways we
perceive the environment. Authors Phaedra C. Pezzullo and Robert
Cox examine how we define what constitutes an environmental problem
and how we decide what actions to take concerning the natural
world. The Sixth Edition explores recent events and research,
including fast fashion, global youth climate strikes, biodiversity
loss, disability rights advocacy, single-use plastic ban
controversies, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging
governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East
Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established. Each
chapter provides a detailed investigation of reforms that have
helped to strengthen Taiwan's democracy in such areas as elections,
civil service recruitment, economic policy, social policy,
environmental protection, civil rights, response to the COVID-19
pandemic, civil-military relations, and foreign and mainland China
policy. As a study of Taiwan's democratic governance, this book
will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian politics,
comparative politics, democracy, and Taiwan.
A brand new Australian picture book about a little kookaburra who
couldn't do what kookaburra's are supposed to do - laugh Fitting in
is often difficult for children just as it is for Bridget. She
overcomes this by laughing at herself even though she gets a bump
on the head in the process. Beautiful watercolour illustrations.
This revised and fully updated second edition of the Routledge
Handbook of Environment and Communication provides a
state-of-the-art overview of environmental communication theory,
practice and research. The momentous changes witnessed in the
politics of the environment as well as in the nature of media and
public communication in recent years have made the study and
understanding of environmental communication ever more pertinent.
This is reflected in this second edition, including a number of
exciting new chapters concerned with: environmental communication
in an age of misinformation and fake news; environmental
communication, community and social transformation; environmental
justice; and advances in methods for the analysis of mediated
environmental communication.Signalling the key dimensions of public
mediated communication, the Handbook is organised around five
thematic parts: the history and development of the field of
environmental communication research, the sources, communicators
and media professionals involved in producing environmental
communication, research on news, entertainment media and wider
cultural representations of the environment, the social and
political implications of environmental communication, and the
likely future trajectories for the field. Written by leading
scholars in the field, this authoritative text is a must for
scholars and students of environmental communication across
multiple subject areas, including environmental studies, media and
communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.
Mrs Grey is very worried. Ever since Big Red the leader of all the
kangaroos in the world helped Keith to find his hop - he just cant
STOP hopping Big Red again tries several ingenious ways to help but
in the end sends Keith back to the hop-spital to see Dr Leapyear
the hop-tician. This time the doctor decides to try hop-nosis. But
will it work Will Keith EVER be able to stop hopping
This Handbook provides a comprehensive statement and reference
point for theory, research and practice with regard to environment
and communication, and it does this from a perspective which is
both international and multi-disciplinary in scope. Offering
comprehensive critical reviews of the history and state of the art
of research into the key dimensions of environmental communication,
the chapters of this handbook together demonstrate the strengths of
multi-disciplinary and cross-disciplinary approaches to
understanding the centrality of communication to how the
environment is constructed, and indeed contested, socially,
politically and culturally. Organised in five thematic sections,
The Routledge Handbook of Environment and Communication includes
contributions from internationally recognised leaders in the field.
The first section looks at the history and development of the
discipline from a range of theoretical perspectives. Section two
considers the sources, communicators and media professionals
involved in producing environmental communication. Section three
examines research on news, entertainment media and cultural
representations of the environment. The fourth section looks at the
social and political implications of environmental communication,
with the final section discussing likely future trajectories for
the field. The first reference Handbook to offer a state of the art
comprehensive overview of the emerging field of environmental
communication research, this authoritative text is a must for
scholars of environmental communication across a range of
disciplines, including environmental studies, media and
communication studies, cultural studies and related disciplines.
Mrs Grey is very worried. All young kangaroos have to be presented
to Big Red, the leader of all the kangaroos in the world. But what
on earth is Big Red going to say about Keith? Big Red has never met
a hop-less kangaroo in all his born days! He tries several
ingenious ways to make Keith hop but nothing works until Keith
visits the hop-spital, where the doctor suggests a very scary
remedy...!
Cambridge, 1961. A group of students set off on the trip of a
lifetime. Against the backdrop of the Cold War they travel through
the Soviet Union to the Middle East, South Asia and on to Africa.
Their mode of transport? The iconic VW Kombi. This book tells the
story of that trip, not just the people they met and the places
they saw, but the many experiences - sometimes nerve-wracking,
sometimes bizarre - that they encountered along the way. It
provides a fascinating insight into a world on the brink of change
- seen through the eyes of nine young men fresh from university.
The two VW Kombis doggedly traversed treacherous mountain passes,
near-impossible roads, jungle tracks and river crossings on their
journey through Anatolia, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. This
book is an affectionate and highly entertaining re-creation of the
relationship between the nine young travellers and their
companions, the two VW Kombis which functioned as transport,
shelter, canteen and home. It is also a tribute to the determined
and rugged determination of the VW Kombi whose descendants still
tackle the highways and the more daunting roads of the world.
In this seminal study, Robert Cox offers a new approach to the
study of power by identifying the connections between production,
the state, and world order.
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