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Comprehensive exploration of where media effects research has been in the last 20 years, andwhat the future might hold for the field as rapid changes in the media environment continue.

A cutting edge examination of community media from theoretical, empirical, historical, and practitioner perspectives, with essays on subjects like women's video collectives in India, indigenous radio in Colombia, street newspapers in Canada, and independent media in Nigeria.

This resource provides all teachers, regardless of level, experience, or area of specialization, with effective instructional strategies for students with/without disabilities and across grade levels and content areas.

Comprehensive coverage on the state of research, critical analysis and promising avenues for further study on prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination.

Covering topics such as: life course; social and psychological contexts of ageing, this collection of readings presents a variety of perspectives on ageing from different communities across the United States: Native American, Puerto Rican, African American, the elderly homeless, white working class, gay and Mexican amongst many others.

Developed for district leaders, curriculum directors, principals, and teacher leaders, this book shows how to lead a collaborative and sustainable curriculum mapping initiative.

Provides Masters level marketing students and practitioners in the hospitality industry with a major reference and resource book on key topics and best practices in various facets of strategic management.

Pick up Problem-Based Learning in Social Studies: Cues for Culture and Change and find out just how easy it is to integrate the essential life skill of problem solving into the curriculum. This sourcebook focuses on two key concepts of problem-based learning-culture and change-and defines ten big ideas which form the basis for five learning objectives outlining the goals for the learner. Complete with more than 25 activities and numerous assessments and reproducibles, the ideas and learning experiences-in the form of activities-can be easily adapted for K-College classrooms. Take advantage of Problem-Based Learning in Social Studies: Cues for Culture and Change and create mind-opening, problem-solving opportunities across the curriculum.

Intends to inform students of their choices among political values. This title challenges students to consider the various ways ideological frameworks shape political actions. It examines how traditional left/right ideologies - liberalism and conservatism, socialism and fascism - shift to adapt to various political realities in post-9/11 world.

Incorporates the American experience as a touch point for students and examines those areas of the world in which the US is most engaged. This book answers such questions as - What are the purposes of government (the ends of politics)? What do governments do (the functions of politics)? Who exercises political power (the processes of politics)?

Details the kinds of expenditures member of the 'freshman class' can and can't be reimbursed for, the kinds of mailings that can and can't be paid for with taxpayer money, the use of various types of office equipment, a section on house rules, and even some rules for ethics.

How can students best understand the ideas that animate US foreign policy decisions and the processes that facilitate them? How can they come to terms with the motivations that guide these decision makers? This text identifies three value orientations - security, economic, and community - that fundamentally shape US foreign policy choices.

Whether the issue is sexual predators, abortion, same-sex marriage, sexual harassment, or internet pornography, stories relating to sexual matters regularly make headlines in the news and provoke strong emotions. This book addresses sexual policy in the United States, as shaped by federal laws, state laws, and court cases.

Captures both the tensions and opportunities at the forefront of state politics. This title covers the debilitating challenges governors face in an era of ballooning gubernatorial stature and performance expectations, reflected in the removal of Gov Gray Davis (D-CA) and the departures of Gov John Rowland (R-CT) and Gov Jim McGreevey (D-NJ).

Contains a collection of documents alongside crafted, objective analysis of all the key events of the Cold War. This title presents analytical essays on the presidents and their roles during the Cold War from Harry Truman through George H W Bush, and over 150 important primary source documents with explanatory headnotes.

Collects, explains, and offers comparison of each of the fifty state constitutions. This title reveals individual state priorities, the significance of state constitutions and their impact on issues that affect the day-to-day lives of citizens.

As witnessed in the 2004 elections, Americans feel the influence of interest groups today more than ever before. This book focuses specifically on the role of interest groups in elections. It shows that communication channels are the bedrock of interest group leverage on political parties, individual candidates, and voters.

Explores the increasingly dominant role values play in public and private life, concluding that a serious rift in political and cultural values in America produced the astounding tie between George W Bush and Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election. This title provides an explanation for the outcome of Election 2000.

Focuses on how government tried and eventually succeeded in balancing the US federal budget in 1998. The author describes the successive efforts of Congress and the administration over seventeen years to shape a process that would encourage balance, as well as the reactions of federal agencies to the pressure.

Evaluates the Electoral College system and six legitimate alternatives to it. This title features discussion on how the Electoral College was created, evolved, and works, providing fundamental historical and political knowledge. It helps improve students' understanding of political analysis.

With a new section on justice, this title integrates the insights of ancient, modern and postmodern political thought. It offers a thorough exploration of the art and craft of political theory.

The 1990s can be characterized as the decade when the Asia-Pacific Rim Nations embraced elections. This work focuses on 12 countries and examines how their elections have been conducted, the domestic implications, and how the elections have differed from the West.

By stressing the need of the analyst to recognize the political, social, and ideological forces that operate in the policy process while retaining analytical integrity, the authors bring a "real world" awareness to the understanding of the environment in which analysts must function.

Considers three principal themes: the emergence of nations, the international legal challenges that such nations pose, and international legal efforts to accommodate nations within the global state system. This book is suitable for students of international law, political science, and ethnic studies.

How did a Democratic president and a Republican Congress reach agreement at a time of intense partisanship, mutual distrust, and suspicion? This book debunks conventional views of Washington politics that portray an antiquated separation-of-powers system hopelessly mired in partisan politics.

Offers an overview of contemporary campaigns and elections and the role parties play in them. Drawing on extensive interviewing and archival research, the author argues that campaign-centered politics is now the dominant force in American elections with serious implications for representative democracy.

Offers an evaluation of electoral trends - distrust of government, desire for a renewal of the American dream, decreasing voter turnout, support for self-government, debate over the shape of political conflict - which the author characterizes as a politics of disappointment.

Provides information on national party conventions, which have been a key element of the US electoral process since the early nineteenth century. This title presents an examination of US nominating conventions, including pre-convention politics, descriptions of the convention system, and information on specific conventions and political parties.

Features biographical information on approximately 9,000 of the important US elected and appointed leaders. This title includes key facts on political leaders spanning 220 years of American history. It offers an appendix of additional reference tables on Congress, including sessions held, leadership, and committee chairmen.

Offering a fresh perspective on non-violent protest movements and fledgling democracies, this title chronicles the peaceful transitions from Soviet or authoritarian order that have occurred in Europe and Eurasia including: Poland; Hungary; East Germany; Czechoslovakia; the Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; Georgia; and, Ukraine.