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  • TEACH THIS POEM, VOLUME I
    MADELEINE FUCHS HOLZER / THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS
    Instill a love of poetry in your classroom with the illuminating and inviting lessons from Teach This Poem classroom activities. Co-published with the Academy of American Poets, the leading champion of poets and poetry in the US, this book is an accessible entry-point to teaching poetry and fostering a poetic sensibility in the classroom. Each lesson follows a consistent format...

    $820.00

  • MEDIA, ECONOMY AND SOCIETY
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This essential guide to the critical study of the media economy in society teaches students how to critically analyse the political economy of communication and the media. The book introduces a variety of methods and topics, including the political economy of communication in capitalism, the political economy of media concentration, the political economy of advertising, the pol...

    $1,040.00

  • DIGITAL DEMOCRACY AND THE DIGITAL PUBLIC SPHERE
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This sixth volume in Christian Fuchs' Media, Communication and Society series draws on radical Humanist theory to address questions around the digital public sphere and the challenges and opportunities for digital democracy today. The book discusses topics such as digital democracy, the digital public sphere, digital alienation, sustainability in digital democracy, journalism a...

    $1,000.00

  • DIGITAL ETHICS
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society series presents foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of digital technology. Based on the notions of alienation, communication (in)justice, media (in)justice, and digital (in)justice, it analyses ethics in the conte...

    $1,000.00

  • THE JUKEBOX MUSICAL
    KEVIN BYRNE / EMILY FUCHS
    This is a comprehensive guide to the unique genre of the jukebox musical, delving into its history to explain why these musicals have quickly become beloved for multiple generations of theatergoers and practitioners. Providing a concise exploration of the three main categories of the jukebox musical—biographical, genre-specific, and artist catalog—this text is perfect for those...

    $1,100.00

  • DIGITAL FASCISM
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This fourth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series outlines the theoretical foundations of digital fascism and presents case studies of how fascism is communicated online. Digital Fascism presents and engages with theoretical approaches and empirical studies that allow us to understand how fascism, right-wing authoritarianism, xenophobia, and n...

    $820.00

  • ABELIAN GROUPS
    LASZLO FUCHS
    This volume contains information offered at the international conference held in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. It presents the latest developments in the most active areas of abelian groups, particularly in torsion-free abelian groups.;For both researchers and graduate students, it reflects the current status of abelian group theory.;Abelian Groups discusses: finite rank Butle...

    $4,900.00

  • DIGITAL CAPITALISM
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This third volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society book series illuminates what it means to live in an age of digital capitalism, analysing its various aspects, and engaging with a variety of critical thinkers whose theories and approaches enable a critical understanding of digital capitalism for media and communication. Each chapter focuses on a particular...

    $840.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL THEORY
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This second volume of Christian Fuchs’ Media, Communication and Society book series outlines key concepts and contemporary debates in critical theory. The book explores the foundations of a Marxist-Humanist critical theory of society, clarifying and updating key concepts in critical theory – such as the dialectic, critique, alienation, class, capitalism, ideology, and racial ca...

    $980.00

  • MARXIST HUMANISM AND COMMUNICATION THEORY
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This book outlines and contributes to the foundations of Marxist-humanist communication theory. It analyses the role of communication in capitalist society. Engaging with the works of critical thinkers such as Erich Fromm, E. P. Thompson, Raymond Williams, Henri Lefebvre, Georg Lukács, Lucien Goldmann, Günther Anders, M. N. Roy, Angela Davis, C. L. R. James, Rosa Luxemburg, Eve...

    $980.00

  • THEATRE & CHANGE IN SOUTH AFRICA
    GEOFFREY DAVIS / ANNE FUCHS
    First Published in 1997. Can South African theatre continue to maintain its autonomy and exercise its critical role? Can one rethink form and find new content? Can a concept of post-protest theatre be developed? How might theatre contribute to post-apartheid soceity?  These are just of the questions addressed in this book. The real and present difficulties South Africian theatr...

    $1,120.00

  • MARXISM
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    This introductory text is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this short, student-friendly book, leading expert Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding t...

    $740.00

  • URBANIZATION AND URBAN POLICIES IN PACIFIC ASIA
    ROLAND J FUCHS
    This book is the outcome of the Conference on Population Growth, Urbanization, and Urban Policies in the Asia-Pacific Region, held in Honolulu during 8-12 April 1985. It provides wide attention among development planners, urban managers, and scholars in the field of urban and development planning. ...

    $1,200.00

  • NATIONALISM ON THE INTERNET
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    In this timely book, critical theorist Christian Fuchs asks: What is nationalism and what is the role of social media in the communication of nationalist ideology? Advancing an applied Marxist theory of nationalism, Fuchs explores nationalist discourse in the world of contemporary digital capitalism that is shaped by social media, big data, fake news, targeted advertising, bots...

    $1,120.00

  • ACCESS TO POWER
    CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN
    Originally published in 1981, this book is composed of papers that describe and analyse women’s careers in government, business, and the professions. It examines women’s access to and participation in elite careers in the US, and in selected countries of western and eastern Europe – Britain, France, West Germany, Austria, Norway, Finland, Poland, and Yugoslavia – as well as in ...

    $960.00

  • MINDFULNESS FOR STUDENTS
    WENDY FUCHS
    What if you walked into your classroom to find a room full of students who were working cooperatively with one another, focusing on the day’s lesson, and able to regulate their own thoughts and feelings? Learn how to teach mindfulness strategies to your elementary and middle school students to provide a foundation for social-emotional well-being and academic engagement. Based o...

    $600.00

  • WRITERS AND THINKERS
    DANIEL FUCHS
    This is a collection of critical essays that integrate literature and ideas. Daniel Fuchs presents the writer's individuality as artist and thinker, focusing on the writer's interaction within a wide range of cultural, political, and historical periods and situations representative of the modern period. The essays reflect a progression that goes beyond chronology or historical ...

    $1,340.00

  • VIRTUAL REALITY HEADSETS - A THEORETICAL AND PRAGMATIC APPROACH
    PHILIPPE FUCHS
    The purpose of virtual reality is to make possible a sensorimotor and cognitive activity for a user in a digitally created artificial world. Recent advances in computer technology have led to a new generation of VR devices such as VR headsets. Accordingly, virtual reality poses many new scientific challenges for researchers and professionals. The aim of this book, a manual mean...

    $1,380.00

  • INDUSTRIAL TRANSITION
    MARTINA FUCHS
    Recently, the international division of labour in industrial production has grown increasingly more volatile. The separation between 'high-end' tasks undertaken in the traditional core economies and 'low-end' tasks undertaken in newly emerging economies has become increasingly blurred. The new dynamics and unpredictability of actor and process configurations in internationalize...

    $1,460.00

  • WORLDWIDE KNOWLEDGE?
    MARTINA FUCHS
    Putting forward a comprehensive view of knowledge with a specific perspective on place and space, this book provides a new perspective on the globalisation of knowledge. Crossing disciplinary boundaries, the principal agenda of this volume is to open up a perspective ’beyond knowledge’ - i.e. beyond the interpretation of knowledge as scientific-technical knowledge. Author Marti...

    $1,420.00

  • READING MARX IN THE INFORMATION AGE
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    Renowned Marxist scholar and critical media theorist Christian Fuchs provides a thorough, chapter-by-chapter introduction to Capital Volume 1 that assists readers in making sense of Karl Marx’s most important and groundbreaking work in the information age, exploring Marx’s key concepts through the lens of media and communication studies via contemporary phenomena like the Inter...

    $1,120.00

  • CULTURE AND ECONOMY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    Understanding social media requires us to engage with the individual and collective meanings that diverse stakeholders and participants give to platforms. It also requires us to analyse how social media companies try to make profits, how and which labour creates this profit, who creates social media ideologies, and the conditions under which such ideologies emerge. In short, un...

    $1,420.00

  • FUNCTIONS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE AND SOME OF THEIR APPLICATIONS
    B. A. FUCHS / B. V. SHABAT
    Functions of a Complex Variable and Some of Their Applications, Volume 1, discusses the fundamental ideas of the theory of functions of a complex variable. The book is the result of a complete rewriting and revision of a translation of the second (1957) Russian edition. Numerous changes and additions have been made, both in the text and in the solutions of the Exercises. The ...

    $970.00

  • THE PART-TIME PARADOX
    CYNTHIA FUCHS EPSTEIN / CARROLL SERON / BONNIE OGLENSKY / ROBERT SAUTÉ
    Today's professionals, especially women, are caught in a time paradox: can they build a career and a family at the same time? The Part-time Paradox explores the conflict and tension between the time demands of career and family life, and the choice of part-time work as a solution. The changing demographics of the family and the work place make it increasingly difficult for both...

    $820.00

  • DIGITAL LABOUR AND KARL MARX
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    How is labour changing in the age of computers, the Internet, and "social media" such as Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter? In Digital Labour and Karl Marx, Christian Fuchs attempts to answer that question, crafting a systematic critical theorisation of labour as performed in the capitalist ICT industry. Relying on a range of global case studies--from unpaid social media pr...

    $1,360.00

  • CRITIQUE, SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everything. On one hand, there are overdrawn claims that social media (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc) have ...

    $1,560.00

  • JEWISH WOMEN'S TORAH STUDY
    ILAN FUCHS
    One of the cornerstones of the religious Jewish experience in all its variations is Torah study, and this learning is considered a central criterion for leadership. Jewish Women’s Torah Study addresses the question of women's integration in the halachic-religious system at this pivotal intersection. The contemporary debate regarding women’s Torah study first emerged in the seco...

    $1,320.00

  • INTERNET AND SURVEILLANCE
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    The Internet has been transformed in the past years from a system primarily oriented on information provision into a medium for communication and community-building. The notion of “Web 2.0”, social software, and social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and MySpace have emerged in this context. With such platforms comes the massive provision and storage of personal data...

    $1,420.00

  • THE AMERICAN KALEIDOSCOPE
    LAWRENCE H. FUCHS
    Winner of the John Hope Franklin Prize (1991) Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration History Society (1993) Do recent changes in American law and politics mean that our national motto — e pluribus unum — is at last becoming a reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs searches for answers to this question by examining the historical patterns of American ethnicity and the wa...

    $274.00

  • FOUNDATIONS OF CRITICAL MEDIA AND INFORMATION STUDIES
    CHRISTIAN FUCHS
    Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies lays down foundations for the analysis of media, information, and information technology in 21st century information society, as well as introducing the theoretical and empirical tools necessary for the critical study of media and information. Christian Fuchs shows the role classical critical theory can play for analyzing th...

    $1,560.00


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