Teenagers are tough and anyone who has their own needs help. Witty, enjoyable and genuinely insightful, Get Out of My Life is now updated with how to deal with everything from social media to online threats and porn, as well as looking at all the difficult issues of bringing up teenagers, school, sex, drugs and more. But it's the title of the second chapter, 'What They Do and Why' that best captures the book's spirit and technique, explaining how to translate teenage behaviour into its true, often less complicated meaning.

One key mistake, for instance, is getting in no-win conflicts instead of having the wisdom to shut up when shutting up would be the most effective, albeit least satisfying, thing to do. Another is taking offence when the teenager views you, the adult, as idiotic. And there's advice on what to do when this happens.

The message is clear: parenting adolescents is inherently difficult. Don't judge yourself too harshly!

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media's coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose perspectives are told and the forms of media that empower new voices. Case studies consider questions such as: how has new media changed whose views are represented? Does Chinese or diaspora media offer alternative perspectives for viewing the continent? How do foreign correspondents interact with their audiences in a social media age? What is the contemporary role of charity groups and PR firms in shaping news content? They also examine how recent high profile events and issues been covered by the international media, from the Ebola crisis, and Boko Haram to debates surrounding the "Africa Rising" narrative and neo-imperialism. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and 'darkest Africa' news coverage. It explores the news outlets, international power dynamics, and technologies that shape and reshape the contemporary image of Africa and Africans in journalism and global culture.

Africa's Media Image in the 21st Century is the first book in over twenty years to examine the international media's coverage of sub-Saharan Africa. It brings together leading researchers and prominent journalists to explore representation of the continent, and the production of that image, especially by international news media. The book highlights factors that have transformed the global media system, changing whose perspectives are told and the forms of media that empower new voices. Case studies consider questions such as: how has new media changed whose views are represented? Does Chinese or diaspora media offer alternative perspectives for viewing the continent? How do foreign correspondents interact with their audiences in a social media age? What is the contemporary role of charity groups and PR firms in shaping news content? They also examine how recent high profile events and issues been covered by the international media, from the Ebola crisis, and Boko Haram to debates surrounding the "Africa Rising" narrative and neo-imperialism. The book makes a substantial contribution by moving the academic discussion beyond the traditional critiques of journalistic stereotyping, Afro-pessimism, and 'darkest Africa' news coverage. It explores the news outlets, international power dynamics, and technologies that shape and reshape the contemporary image of Africa and Africans in journalism and global culture.

Second language (L2) pronunciation has become increasingly visible as an important area of L2 teaching and research. Despite the growing number of resources available focused on L2 pronunciation, technology in L2 pronunciation has received much less attention. While technology has been an enduring strand of L2 pronunciation research, it has also been somewhat inconspicuous. Indeed, research has examined a wide variety of technologies such as language-learning platforms, speech visualization software, and Automatic Speech Recognition. Despite the abundance of research, it can be difficult to gain a full sense of work in this area given the lack of a comprehensive and consolidated resource or reference. This book endeavors to fill that gap and make L2 pronunciation technologies more visible by providing teachers and researchers an introduction to research in a wide variety of technologies that can support pronunciation learning. While working to introduce practitioners to numerous technologies available, it also dives into the research-basis for their use, providing new studies and data featuring a wide variety of languages and learning contexts.

In many countries, the majority of high profile journalists and editors remain male. Although there have been considerable changes in the prospects for women working in the media in the past few decades, women are still noticeably in the minority in the top journalistic roles, despite making up the majority of journalism students. In this book, Suzanne Franks looks at the key issues surrounding female journalists - from on-screen sexism and ageism to the dangers facing female foreign correspondents reporting from war zones. She also analyses the way that the changing digital media have presented both challenges and opportunities for women working in journalism and considers this in an international perspective. . In doing so, this book provides an overview of the ongoing imbalances faced by women in the media and looks at the key issues hindering gender equality in journalism.

The book is a combined memoir and impressionistic history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies. At first affiliated with New York's Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University, the Institute housed architects, artists and historians who worked on creative design and intellectual projects and would become world renown. Its creation and direction was in the hands of its able leader, Peter Eisenman. Besides a documentary study of the work that went on there, among an international clearing house, the book is laced with impressions of the author's experience there. It has been in the works for over 12 years and was originally financed by the Graham Foundation for the Study of the Fine Arts and has subsequently been aided by Dr. Jenny Kaufmann. The photographs of the Institute at the height of its activity are included and so does an original ground plan of its West 40th Street office done by Scott Brandi who also designed the book. It ends with 27 interviews of prominent members of the Institute who comment on it and their experiences. The book should appeal to architecture students and those interested in architecture and urbanism of the seventies when the government in the United States was more reasonable in economic and political equity.

The media reporting of the Ethiopian Famine in 1984-5 was an iconic news event. It is widely believed to have had an unprecedented impact, challenging perceptions of Africa and mobilising public opinion and philanthropic action in a dramatic new way. The contemporary international configuration of aid, media pressure, and official policy is still directly affected and sometimes distorted by what was - - as this narrative shows - - also an inaccurate and misleading story. In popular memory, the reporting of Ethiopia and the resulting humanitarian intervention were a great success. Yet alternative interpretations give a radically different picture of misleading journalism and an aid effort which did more harm than good. Using privileged access to BBC and Government archives, Reporting Disasters ex- amines and reveals the internal factors which drove BBC news and offers a rare case study of how the media can affect public opinion and policymaking. It constructs the process that accounts for the immensity of the news event, following the response at the heart of government to the pressure of public opinion. And it shows that while the reporting and the altruistic festival that it produced triggered remarkable and identifiable changes, the on- going impact was not what the conventional account claims it to have been.

Das Themenfeld Koerpergedachtnis hat im 21. Jahrhundert mit einem grossen theoretischen Erbe des 20. Jahrhunderts und mit dessen historischer Last, dem posttraumatischen Nachlass der Totalitarismen und Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit zu tun. Zu Ersterem hat sich seit den 1990er Jahren ein beachtlicher Forschungszweig entwickelt. Die Auseinandersetzung mit den Traumata der Totalitarismen in osteuropaischen Kulturen ist aber immer noch nicht in gebuhrendem Masse in die Forschungen einbezogen. Deren wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung hat auch im heutigen Kontext eine wichtige politische Dimension. Die Beitrage dieses Bandes untersuchen die Beziehungen von Koerper, Gedachtnis und Literatur mit Fokus auf die Geschichte der Sowjetunion und Osteuropas im 20. und 21. Jh.

Das Buch untersucht die komplexe und spannungsreiche Wechselbeziehung von Stadt und Geschlecht in ihrer Bedeutung fur die Grossstadtentwicklung des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts.Wollte man den Tenor der Forschungen zum Verhaltnis von Stadt und Geschlecht in einem Satz zusammenfassen, so konnte dieser lauten: In der Imagination sind Stadte weiblich - in der Realitat sind Stadte unweiblich. Dieses irritierend-faszinierende Bild ergibt sich aus der Gegenuberstellung von literatur- und kunstwissenschaftlichen Studien einerseits und soziologischen und planerischen Untersuchungen andererseits."

Time-traveller Chloe Kingsley wakes up in the Mediterranean, dressed in 1990s party clothes. Mistaken for a mermaid goddess, Chloe soon realises she is in biblical Canaan. She and Cheftu are reunited, only to become vassals to David, the Israelite king.

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Suzanne Frank, writing in the bestselling tradition of Diana Gabaldon and Mary Renault, stunned the literary world with her provocative portrayal of Egypt at the time of the Exodus in Reflections in the Nile. The Detroit Free Press called the sweeping, evocative story "an adventure you won't want to put down." And now the story continues in this lush, erotic, and meticulously researched novel. Here the fascinating characters of Reflections reemerge on a dazzling Aegean island called Aztlan-the fabled lost world of Atlantis-where a mystery older than time may be solved, and where a love more powerful than death lives on...

Shadows on the Aegean

Chloe Kingsley expected to wake up in 1997; instead, fate and a rip in the fabric of time-space are sending Chloe to a mysterious ancient culture, another woman's body, and an enormous test of her love for Cheftu the physician. In Aztlan, an advanced civilization set on a volcanic isle in the Aegean, Chloe becomes Sibylla, a prophetess about to enter the political arena and ceremonial bull rings of a dazzling, decadent kingdom.

Soon enmeshed in a royal power struggle and a contest to become the consort of Phoebus Apollo, a charismatic young prince, Chloe is threatened by palace schemes and deadly passions. Though her outward appearance is changed, undeniable love draws Chloe and Cheftu together again.

Visions of a terrifying catastrophe inspire Chloe and Cheftu to desperately try to save Aztlan from utter destruction. But already the rumblings of doom are shaking a glorious culture that created labyrinths and a new panoply of gods, as two lovers, sworn to be together for eternity, are torn apart by cruel rituals, twisted ambition...and heinous murder.

Shadows On The Aegean provides a stirring blend of finely drawn characters, authentic historic detail, and passion, while offering a fascinating theory about the real location and fate of Atlantis, a world renowned in legend, long searched for, long dreamed about, and never found...

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While visiting her archaeologist sister in Egypt, Dallas artist Chloe Kingsley steps into a forbidden chamber and is whisked back in time to the biblical Exodus.

Diese Arbeit diskutiert die religioesen und bildasthetischen Funktionen und Vorstellungen, die Hugo van der Goes beim Akt des Malens beschaftigten. Im Spiegel seiner Zeit und eines seiner Auftrage, des monumentalen Triptychons fur den Leiter der Medici-Filiale in Brugge, Tommaso Portinari, lasst sich eine kunstlerische Entwicklung ablesen, die zeigt, welchen bedeutsamen Stellenwert mimetische Malerei fur die Sinn- und Gottsuche des fruhneuzeitlichen Individuums hatte.

Die vorliegende Arbeit zeigt, dass die Einbindung in ubergeordnete Netzwerkstrukturen eine wichtige Voraussetzung fur die Innovations- und Wettbewerbsfahigkeit von Branchen und Unternehmen darstellt. Ein Vergleich markt- und planwirtschaftlicher Netzwerkstrukturen akzentuiert zudem die besonderen Bedingungen wirksamer Vernetzungen. Am Beispiel der jeweiligen Entwicklungen der Druckmaschinenindustrie im geteilten Deutschland werden die Hypothesen uber die Wechselwirkungen zwischen Netzwerkverknupfungen, einzelbetrieblicher Innovationsdynamik und der Konkurrenzfahigkeit einer Branche in unterschiedlichen Wirtschaftssystemen empirisch spezifiziert und differenziert. (Franz Steiner 2000)