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  • TOBYS GESCHICHTE
    JENNIFER FREEDMAN
    Tobys Geschichte ist eine Erzählung von Stärke, Ausdauer und Liebe. Toby ist ein Schnauzer-Welpe, der selbstlos seine Familie verlässt und sich auf ein großes Abenteuer begibt, um sein endgültiges Zuhause zu finden. Auf seiner Reise lernt er Freundschaft, Loyalität und Güte kennen, doch er begegnet auch Grausamkeit und Hoffnungslosigkeit. Tobys Geschichte ist voller bunter Char...

    $102.00

  • RETHINKING SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH AND RIGHTS FOR YOUNG WOMEN IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
    TAMARYN CRANKSHAW / JANE FREEDMAN / CAROLIEN AANTJES / NANA K. POKU
    This important book provides a critical examination of the sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) of young women and girls in Southern Africa, examining the ways in which current policies and programmes aimed at improving SRHR often fail to reach the most marginalised populations. Addressing key regional challenges such as high rates of HIV, unintended pregnancies, un...

    $1,060.00

  • CHANGING THE NARRATIVE
    LAWRENCE FREEDMAN / HEATHER WILLIAMS
    Narratives provide the storylines of conflict and in doing so become an arena of conflict themselves. When states mount information campaigns against each other, they are trying to change the narrative. The digital platforms of the new information environment have been identified by various analysts as a significant factor in contemporary strategy and crisis management. But whi...

    $540.00

  • VISUAL METHODS OF INQUIRY
    KERRY FREEDMAN / RICHARD SIEGESMUND
    Visual Methods of Inquiry: Images as Research presents qualitative researchers in the social sciences with the benefits, applications, and forms of visual research methods. It includes a wide variety of images to illustrate the many uses of visual methods for social research. Contemporary visual culture theory and practice offers wide-ranging opportunities for methodological ad...

    $1,040.00

  • INTRODUCING JAPANESE POPULAR CULTURE
    ALISA FREEDMAN
    Specifically designed for use in a range of undergraduate and graduate courses, while reaching specialists and general readers, this second edition of Introducing Japanese Popular Culture is a comprehensive textbook offering an up-to-date overview of a wide variety of media forms. It uses particular case studies as a way into examining the broader themes in Japanese culture and...

    $1,060.00

  • GENDER, EQUALITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
    SHARRON FITZGERALD / JANE FREEDMAN
    This book addresses a gap in both contemporary theorising and empirical analysis of the European Union’s (EU) law and policy frameworks on migration, sex work and anti trafficking. Drawing on the authors’ previous research on these policies and with their practical experience of engaging with various EU institutions in law and policy-making fora around gender, equality and just...

    $1,160.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND PLAYABLE MEDIA
    ERIC FREEDMAN
    This book introduces readers to artificial intelligence (AI) through the lens of playable media and explores the impact of such software on everyday life. From video games to robotic companions to digital twins, artificial intelligence drives large sectors of the culture industry where play, media and machine learning coexist. This book illustrates how playable media contribute...

    $1,000.00

  • A MEETING ABOUT LAUGHTER
    NIKOLAI ERDMAN / VLADIMIR MASS / JOHN FREEDMAN
    First Published in 1995. A Meeting About Laughter is a collection of sketches, interludes and theatrical parodies by Nikolai Erdman, Vladimir Mass and others. Translated from the Russian Theatre Archive by John Freedman, Harvard University. Erdman is best known as the author of The Warrant and The Suicide, both written for Vsevolod Meyerhold in the 1920s. Also including the tra...

    $1,120.00

  • COMMUNICATING ENDANGERED SPECIES
    ERIC FREEDMAN / SARA SHIPLEY HILES / DAVID B. SACHSMAN
    Communicating Endangered Species: Extinction, News, and Public Policy is a multidisciplinary environmental communication book that takes a distinctive approach by connecting how media and culture depict and explain endangered species with how policymakers and natural resource managers can or do respond to these challenges in practical terms. Extinction isn’t new. However, the p...

    $1,200.00

  • REPORT ON THE IBAN
    DEREK FREEDMAN
    The Iban or the Sea Dayaks of Sarawak have probably been the best known of the indigenous peoples of Borneo for well over a century. Much has been written about them, but until the results of Dr Freeman's field research were published by the Government of Sarawak and by Her Majesty's Stationery Office in 1955 there was little information on their methods of agriculture and thei...

    $1,120.00

  • CHINESE LINEAGE AND SOCIETY
    MAURICE FREEDMAN
    This book takes the argument first set out in Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China a step further. It incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data (gathered in the Hong Kong New Territories in 1963) and draws on a wide variety of written sources. As in his first book on the subject, the author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society withi...

    $1,200.00

  • LINEAGE ORGANISATION IN SOUTH-EASTERN CHINA
    MAURICE FREEDMAN
    This essay is the work of a social anthropologist but it is not based upon field work. It is concerned with Chinese matters but it is not written by a sinologue. In this essay are the author’s reflections on certain aspects of southeastern Chinese society during the last hundred and fifty years, with attention on the Fukien and Kwangtung region of China has it has specialized n...

    $1,120.00

  • AMERICAN PUBLIC OPINION TOWARD ISRAEL
    AMNON CAVARI / GUY FREEDMAN
    This book examines trends in American public opinion about Israel in over 75 years, from 1944 to 2019. Analyzing data from hundreds of surveys in jargon-free writing, the authors show that public support for Israel has seen a dramatic shift toward increased division between partisan and select demographic groups, elaborating on the implications that this important change may ha...

    $1,160.00

  • ARMS CONTROL
    LAWRENCE FREEDMAN
    Originally published in 1986, although the pace of arms control negotiations has been stepped up, there is still little sign of agreement. In this paper the author examines the current negotiating effort, with particular emphasis on its implications for European security. He provides an up-to-date analysis of the superpower discussions on nuclear arms control, including the imp...

    $1,000.00

  • THE REVOLUTION IN STRATEGIC AFFAIRS
    LAWRENCE FREEDMAN
    Rapid developments in information technology and precision weaponry are said to herald a 'revolution in military affairs' (RMA), making possible quick and decisive victories with minimal casualties and collateral damage. But has such a revolution taken place? The issues that drive conflict will persist, and many of the technical advances associated with the RMA will not necessa...

    $740.00

  • THE PERSISTENCE OF CODE IN GAME ENGINE CULTURE
    ERIC FREEDMAN
    With its unique focus on video game engines, the data-driven architectures of game development and play, this innovative textbook examines the impact of software on everyday life and explores the rise of engine-driven culture. Through a series of case studies, Eric Freedman lays out a clear methodology for studying the game development pipeline, and uses the video game engine a...

    $1,120.00

  • ISRAEL UNDER RABIN
    ROBERT O FREEDMAN
    The 1992 elections represented a watershed in Israeli politics. Returning to power for the first time in fifteen years, the Labor government, under Yitzhak Rabin, has implemented significant changes in foreign policy and domestic politics. Perhaps the most important changes were Israel's recognition of the PLO and the signing of the Declaration of ...

    $800.00

  • THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE CAMP DAVID
    ROBERT O FREEDMAN
    Since the Camp David agreements of September 1978, the Middle East has experienced a series of major military and political developments that have affected not just the nations of the region and the two superpowers, but the rest of the world as well. The fall of the Shah of Iran, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Iraqi invasion of Iran, the assassination of Egyptian Presi...

    $1,200.00

  • PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS IN CENTRAL EUROPE, 1500-1700
    JOSEPH S. FREEDMAN
    Published in 1999. The articles in this collection focus on instruction - and writings arising from that instruction - in philosophy and the arts during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries with emphasis on Central Europe. The introduction brings together and expands upon many of the topics discussed - and conclusions reached - in the remaining seven articles. Four of these ...

    $980.00

  • UNDERSTANDING DESIGN IN FILM PRODUCTION
    BARBARA FREEDMAN DOYLE
    Great visual storytelling is possible on a minimal budget, but you have to spend a lot of energy thinking and planning. In Understanding Design in Film Production, author Barbara Freedman Doyle demonstrates how to use production design, cinematography, lighting, and locations to create an effective and compelling visual story, even on the tightest of budgets. Featuring in-depth...

    $1,120.00

  • CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON JOURNALISTIC BELIEFS AND ACTIONS
    ERIC FREEDMAN
    This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and profession; the impact of censorship and self-censorship; and coping with psychological press...

    $1,200.00

  • ANOTHER KIND OF EVIDENCE
    NORBERT FREEDMAN / JESSE D. GELLER / JOAN HOFFENBERG / MARVIN HURVICH / RHONDA WARD
    In our current professional climate, with calls for 'evidenced-based treatment', and in light of the prestige accorded to this emblem, we can ask: for what purpose do we seek evidence? For our students? For the public at large? For an inner sense of feeling supported by science? Most disciplines are concerned with cumulative knowledge, aimed toward self-affirmation and self-def...

    $1,340.00

  • CONTEMPORARY ISRAEL
    ROBERT O FREEDMAN
    This book provides the reader with a balanced understanding of both the dynamism and the complexity of Israeli politics. It is devoted to Israel's domestic politics which includes right-wing and left-wing parties, Israel's main interest-group parties, Israeli security and foreign policy issues. ...

    $1,460.00

  • ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES
    ROBERT FREEDMAN
    This unique volume intensively studies the nature and extent of US - Israeli relations, from 1948 through the Bush and Obama administrations. Leading experts in the field (including Israeli and North American scholars from a variety of political perspectives) contribute original essays on the principal political, religious, ethnic, military, economic, and juridical connections ...

    $1,460.00

  • BIODIVERSITY, CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN THE GREAT LAKES BASIN
    ERIC FREEDMAN
    The Great Lakes Basin in North America holds more than 20 percent of the world's fresh water. Threats to habitats and biodiversity have economic, political, national security, and cultural implications and ramifications that cross the US-Canadian border. This multidisciplinary book presents the latest research to demonstrate the interconnected nature of the challenges facing th...

    $1,260.00

  • IMMIGRATION AND INSECURITY IN FRANCE
    JANE FREEDMAN
    The importance of the immigration issue in French politics has been highlighted by the success of Jean-Marie Le Pen, leader of the extreme-right Front National party, in reaching the second round of the presidential elections. This absorbing book closely examines the debate over immigration in contemporary France, looking not only at the development of immigration and nationali...

    $1,320.00

  • GENDER AND INSECURITY
    JANE FREEDMAN
    This title was first published in 2003. Migration is a phenomenon which is at the heart of global politics and, within the EU, governments are continually trying to reinforce their controls of migration. These controls, designed to increase the security of European populations may, however, have the adverse effect of increasing the insecurity of migrants. This is particularly t...

    $980.00

  • SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND PEASANT SOCIETIES
    MAURICE FREEDMAN
    The essays included in Social Organization and Peasant Societies were written in honor of the man who taught their authors. Each entry is about different problems within the general field of "social organization."They were composed in many styles; and deal ethnographically with a heterogeneous collection of peoples and countries. Together they illustrate an important aspect of ...

    $1,420.00

  • POPULATION GROWTH
    RONALD FREEDMAN
    The population of the modern world continues to grow at a rate unprecedented in human history. How are we to explain this massive increase in the number of living people? What is its consequence, now and for the future? How have populations changed in size and structure since the advent of industrial technology? Can we predict the population trends in developing countries? Thes...

    $1,320.00

  • POWER AND PASSION IN SHAKESPEARE'S PRONOUNS
    PENELOPE FREEDMAN
    In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the implications of you/thou use in early modern English has been bedevilled by overconcern with issues of power and status, and her careful research, analysing all the plays, reveals how ...

    $1,240.00


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