Product Description: The Mass Media and Power in Britain is a thorough, lievely introduction to the role, importance, and power of the mass media in contemporary British society. What is the mass media, and how does it help shape life in modern Britain? After introducing the student to discussions around these questions, the authors examine the historical development of the mass media, issues of ownership, and the roots of its power in the public and political sphere...read more

Product Description: Tracing the histories of print, broadcasting and film industries, this text provides an introduction to mass communication in Britain. It outlines the main landmarks in the development of the media, the changing nature of their industrial organization and the resulting impact on audiences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This book moves beyond the narrow focus of much of the work on media and cultural studies to examine the whole process of interaction between the media and the social world. Rejecting approaches which focus only on ownership or discourse or audience reception, this new book from the Glasgow Media Group, examines: promotional strategies; media production; representation and audience responses; as well as broader impacts on policy, culture and society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: XML, otherwise known as eXtensible Mark Up language is the latest buzz-word on the Internet, but it's a rapidly maturing technology with powerful real-world applications, particularly for the management, display and organization of data...read more

Product Description: ASP 3.0 Programmer's Reference relates to ASP 3.0 as included with Windows 2000. However, because ASP is now a core part of so many Web-oriented features within Windows, this book covers a far wider area than just the ASP syntax, properties, methods and events...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is a platform-independent language for describing data. The XML and related specifications, as well as the Document Object Model, have all been developed with language independence in mind. This was done to allow any programmer to use these powerful protocols and object models in their own language of choice, thus providing a huge development potential for the XML community and offering a myriad of opportunities to developers working with established technologies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: : In this book, we look at how to integrate XML into your current relational data source strategies. With the increasing amount of data stored in relational databases, and the importance of XML as a format for marking up data - whether it be for storage, display, interchange, or processing - you need to have command of four key skills: understanding how to structure, process, access, and store your data...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chapters written by professional programmers discuss XML specification and navigation, linking, XSLT, presentation technologies, databases, messaging, and B2B applications. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In order to leverage XML's power as a self-describing and extensible language, we need a way to define and describe the allowable content of any type of XML document. In the past, this has been achieved with DTDs, but these have in many ways fallen short of the requirements for working with data...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: XML is now an established technology for the description and transportation of data, and has made a major impact on almost every aspect of software development. When Microsoft introduced the .NET Framework, they took advantage of XML wherever they could...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled" shows where XML as a data model makes sense, when and how best to get both relational databases and XML to work together, and how to set up and configure the SQL Server XML environment. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ten years ago, aspiring newspaper editor Kevin Williams convinced Elizabeth Coblentz, an Old Order Amish wife and mother, to write a weekly cooking column called “The Amish Cook.” Each week Elizabeth shares a family recipe and discusses daily life on her Indiana farm, spent with her husband, Ben, and their eight children and 32 grandchildren...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is an accessible introduction to the different theories of the mass media. It seeks to emphasize the importance of using theory not only to make sense of the role of media in society but also to understand particular aspects of mass communication...read more

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Product Description: Mass media studies in Britain and the USA are dominated by an Anglo-American framework. This unique book seeks to redress this imbalance by looking at the mass media in a European context and exploring the distinctly European understanding of the role of the mass media in society...read more

Product Description: Bitten is a series of poems written to help the readers understand the importance of self-identity, adaptability, acceptance, and of course understanding the reality of a dream.

Product Description: The work of Oakeshott has retained a striking currency in philosophical discourse about education. His influence can be most notably seen through the writings of Paul Hirst and Richard Peters, two philosophers whose work had an enormous impact on educational thinking and practice...read more

Product Description: John Henry ("Fitz") FitzGerald worked for Colt from 1918 till 1944. Shooting, originally published in 1930, was the culmination of Fitz's work in the firearms field. In it he discusses his work with law enforcement and the courts, his theories and practices about practical shooting of the "one hand gun" and his thoughts about target and exhibition shooting, hunting and home defense...read more

Product Description: This cookbook couldn't bend to the fast pace of our e-mail driven world. Like a slow Sunday pot roast, it had to simmer . . . culminating many months of conversation, writing, and Amish wisdom." --Kevin WilliamsPart almanac, part cultural overview, part culinary calendar, The Amish Cook at Home is the harbinger of a new era in home cooking...read more

Product Description: This Text-book traces the evolution of the newspaper, documenting its changing form, style and content as well as identifying the different roles ascribed to it by audiences, government and other social institutions. Starting with the early 17th century, when the first prototype newspapers emerged, through Dr Johnson, the growth of the radical press in the early 19th century, the Lord Northcliffe revolution in the early 20th century, the newspapers wars of the 1930s and the rise of the tabloid in the 1970s, right up to Rupert Murdoch and the online revolution, the book explores the impact of the newspapers on our lives and its role in British society...read more