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Publishing is currently going through dramatic changes, from globalisation to the digital revolution. A whole culture of events, practices and processes has emerged centred around books and writing, which means that scholars of publishing need to understand it as a social and cultural practice as much as it is a business. This book explores the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception. It discusses topics as diverse as emerging publishing models, book making, writers’ festivals, fan communities, celebrity authors, new publishing technologies, self-publishing, book design and…
Exploring the culture, practice and business of book production, distribution, publication and reception, this anthology demonstrates that publishing needs to be understood as a social and cultural practice, and not just as a business.
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COVID-19, Racism and Politicization
Media in the Midst of a Pandemic
This book explores the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role of national and international media and governments in the initial coverage of the developing crisis. With specific chapters written mostly by scholars based in these countries, it examines how the media in India, China, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Taiwan, Bangladesh, New Zealand and the USA responded to this pandemic. The volume particularly addresses their role in both countering and spreading misinformation and in the politicization of the health crisis. The chapters highlight various issues specific to individual countries,…
This book explores the global media and government response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Examining countries from the USA to Asia, it addresses the media’s role in both countering and spreading misinformation, politicizing the crisis, and fueling racism and conspiracy theories.
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Sport tourism is now widely regarded as a tool for sustainable local development. This book brings together 24 authors from a range of countries to address this topic, with analyses ranging from particular types of events to more theoretical approaches concerning the role of sport tourism in the development of Spanish cities or the digital communication of sporting events in Italy as a means of promotion. The book is geared towards academic researchers and students interested in sport tourism, sport economics, management, and sustainable development, as well as policymakers and…
Sport tourism is a tool for sustainable local development. This book’s 24 authors offer analyses from case studies to theory. An essential read for academics, students, policymakers, and professionals looking to promote their territory.
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Human–Robot Interaction
Control, Analysis, and Design
This book introduces state-of-the-art technologies in the field of human-robot interactions. It details advances made in this field in recent decades, including dynamics, controls, design analysis, uncertainties, and modelling. The text will appeal to graduate students, practitioners and researchers in the fields of robotics, computer and cognitive science, and mechanical engineering.
This book introduces state-of-the-art technologies in human-robot interactions. It details recent advances in dynamics, controls, design, and modelling, appealing to graduate students, practitioners, and researchers in robotics, computer science, and mechanical engineering.
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Essays on the History and Politics of the Internet
Cyberpolitics
This is a book about the politics and history of the Internet. The Internet has been in existence for over fifty years. The way we live our lives has changed considerably because of this new medium. As the Internet has become increasingly popular, it has been drawn into age-old struggles over censorship and freedom of expression. It has played an increasing role in commerce, and controversies have erupted over privacy, security, consumer rights, intellectual property rights, taxation, and other matters. With the rise of Internet-connected smartphones, the Internet has become…
The Internet was created with a democratic dream to empower individuals. This book explores the contrast between that dream and the reality: a world of new, anti-democratic centers of power, and age-old struggles over censorship, privacy, and freedom of expression.
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The Univac Corporation
In from the Beginning
Univac Corporation (now Unisys) has been an innovator in computer systems since the early 1960s. Univac (then Remington Rand), built the first commercial computer, the Univac I. This volume continues the story of Univac (later Unisys) computer systems from the Univac 1105. Its successors—the early Univac 1100 machines—helped to establish the concept of a family of computer systems. It was one of the first to develop and deploy a multidimensional operating system that supported interactive, real-time, and batch processing. Ease of access and operation in all modes was especially attractive…
This volume tells the story of the Univac 1100 series. It pioneered the concept of a computer family, a multidimensional OS supporting interactive and batch processing, and evolutionary designs with upward compatibility that protected its customers’ investment.
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Trial and Error in Journalism and Communication Education
Between the Classroom and Industry
This book explores the challenges of teaching journalism and communication in an ever-changing media environment. It considers the classroom as a space of “trial and error” and, therefore, of necessary innovation. It brings together professors and students from different universities across Europe to recount their teaching and learning experiences. The book also provides training proposals which offer an insight into the ongoing international debate on which teaching trends and practices can be effective in the digital environment. As such, the text will contribute to strengthening the university teaching of…
This book explores teaching journalism and communication in a changing media environment. Bringing together professors and students from across Europe, it offers training proposals and insights to strengthen university teaching for professional communicators in the digital age.
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The book explores the theme of active sports tourism, which includes extreme sports, those in contact with nature, and the so-called ‘slow adventure’. It shows that it is a rapidly developing sector because it is less expensive than other tourism segments, produces more economic impact for the host territory and is more attentive to respect for the environment. The book provides a complete picture of the phenomenon at an international level, investigating its territorial development, the profile of sports tourists, the role of communication and host branding, the contamination between…
Active sports tourism is a rapidly developing sector. Less expensive, with greater economic impact and more respect for the environment, it includes everything from extreme sports to ‘slow adventure’. This book provides a complete international picture of the phenomenon.
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Contested Tourism Commodities
What’s for Sale
This book discusses tourism niches as contested commodities that have grown and become part of the tourist setting in many destinations. Over time, they develop organically, and, in some cases, underground before they explode into the mainstream, and, more often than not, cause controversy. The text traces the roots of different tourism trends, using examples from both industry and existing studies, revealing the importance of understanding their key drivers, dynamics and impacts. It is in managers’ interest to monitor such trends and tourist pursuits as they cross over because they…
This book explores tourism’s contested niches, from slum tourism to trophy hunting. It traces how marginal pursuits explode into the mainstream, causing controversy as they are commodified, packaged, and sold while the lines between acceptance and outrage blur.
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Therapeutic Journalism
Presenting Information with Emotional Literacy
This innovative book shows how empirical methods and emotional literacy can create a therapeutic form of journalism. After the emotional global suffering in 2020, it presents a new form of journalism where raw information can be analyzed through an emotional and therapeutic lens to bring psychological wellness to the journalism product as it informs. This exciting new model gives rationality, sensitivity, and plurality that empower students to see the world with a fresh pair of eyes: for the first time, students can learn to incorporate analytical, emotional and primal literacy…
This book shows how emotional literacy and clinical psychology can create a therapeutic form of journalism. It presents a new model to analyze information through an emotional lens, empowering students to inform with empathy and see a shattered world with a fresh pair of eyes.
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This ground-breaking textbook finally provides a new approach to journalism. With the Internet and the collapse of traditional journalism created in a pre-social media era, this book presents an alternative through both an empirical and experimental approach. This exciting new model allows a bold new method of connecting with the world, where diversity and multiple perspectives are now the norm. This book shows students a bright new path: one that is narrative-free, and presents verified facts in a simple, interconnected way. We can see how the world interconnects, shifts, changes,…
As traditional journalism collapses, this ground-breaking textbook provides a new path. It presents a narrative-free, experimental model using verified facts to show how the world interconnects. Through unique exercises, you will see reality and truth in a whole new light.
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Different industries use data analytics and the process modelling technique successfully in a variety of ways. These popular intelligent approaches improve the quality and quantity of production. This book focuses on the technique of soft-sensing based on spectral data with multi-source high-dimensional mechanical frequency in order to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. The book will be of interest to researchers and professors working in data analytics, engineers and technicians who need a modelling method based on small sample data, and PhD students who need to solve modelling and control challenges in…
This book presents a soft-sensing technique using spectral data to assess difficult-to-measure process parameters. It’s a practical guide for researchers, engineers, and students who need a modelling method for small sample data to solve real-world control challenges.
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This unique and innovative book fuses journalism with both psychology and biology to create a new scaffolding where primal literacy is the guiding force to covering high-risk environments. When humans are in high-stress situations, their perceptions of reality can be easily deceived and manipulated. What is safe, moral, truthful, and brave can be distorted, unless the journalist has a strong core in primal literacy. This text remedies this oversight by showing the mechanisms of primal literacy and survival instincts to create a powerful and reliable scaffolding with internal,…
This book fuses journalism with psychology to show how primal literacy is the key to covering high-risk environments. In high-stress situations where reality can be manipulated, learn how to avoid propaganda and report the truth safely. These methods apply in war and peace.
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Human history is a history of powerful civilisations which collapsed for various reasons, but behind all of those reasons there was the inability of each civilisation to adapt to changes that were introduced by the human race itself or by the external environment. Judging from history we can expect that our civilisation might collapse as well. This book takes a look at the huge changes brought by new technology that was introduced by humans over the past few decades and might have the power to destroy the modern…
History shows that civilizations collapse when they fail to adapt to change. Today, new technology threatens to destroy our own world. This book analyzes its social disadvantages—from fake news to its earliest victims—and asks what must be done to adapt and use it for the good.
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This book addresses the extensive global efforts of the International Maritime Organization to create rules around effective ballast water management. It will appeal to the marine environmental administrator, technology developer, port authority, shipowner, maritime lawyer, researcher, educator and student in the area of aquatic invasive species. The book highlights the technical and technological steps that an organization may take to achieve the now-established global standard for preventing ships from introducing marine invasive species through the ship’s ballast water. In addition to highlighting technologies to prevent invasions, it calls for more…
Navigate global standards for ballast water management. This guide covers the technology, regulations, and risk strategies to prevent marine bio-invasions and addresses the urgent need to manage existing threats, even in the Arctic.
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This book systematically examines the challenges that confront foreign correspondents in covering Africa for an international audience in the digital era. It explores factors that influence how Africa is reported in international news and the challenges of journalism practice in Africa, including how foreign correspondents carry out their job. The book takes a thematic approach to understanding the contemporary international news environment in context and in flux, and addresses international journalism practices in Africa, particularly the factors that influence how the continent is reported. The book is inclusive and truly…
This book examines the challenges confronting foreign correspondents in covering Africa for an international audience in the digital era. It explores factors that influence how Africa is reported, addressing international journalism practices and issues rarely considered.
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Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to all the Shakespeare productions available for viewing on computer or TV. From Beerbohm Tree’s silent scene from King John, to Helen Mirren as Prospera and Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff, Peter Cochran gives an expert opinion on the best and the worst, basing his judgements on a lifetime of viewing, teaching, acting and directing. The book covers films, television productions, plays on YouTube, and DVDs of videoed stage productions, as well as cinematic Shakespearean spin-offs such as Throne of Blood and Joe Macbeth. The…
Small-Screen Shakespeare is a guide to Shakespeare productions on computer or TV. From silent films to cinematic spin-offs, Peter Cochran gives an expert opinion on the best and worst, based on a lifetime of viewing, teaching, acting and directing.
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Watching Pages, Reading Pictures
Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy
Italian cinema is internationally well-known for the ground-breaking experience of Neo-Realism, comedy "Italian-Style," Spaghetti Westerns, and the horror movies of the seventies. However, what is rather unfamiliar to wider audiences is Italian cinema's crucial and enduring affair with literature. In fact, since the very beginning, literature has deeply influenced how Italian cinema has defined itself and grown. This book provides an empirical approach to this complex and fruitful relationship. The aim is to present discussions dealing with significant Italian film adaptations from literary materials which greatly exemplify the variety of…
While Italian cinema is known for Neo-Realism and Spaghetti Westerns, its crucial affair with literature is less familiar. This book explores this fruitful relationship through discussions of significant film adaptations that exemplify this alliance’s variety.
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When there is political tension or war in the Middle East or in Eastern Europe, oil and jet fuel prices shoot upward. If an airline isn’t protected against these higher prices, they can devastate its finances and send it quickly into bankruptcy. This seemingly happens on a yearly basis. Thankfully for most airlines, they are able to protect themselves against higher oil and jet fuel prices, at least in the short term, by hedging using financial instruments. The challenge for airlines is to determine which financial instruments they should use,…
Volatile fuel prices can bankrupt an airline. Hedging offers protection, but which financial instruments should be used? This book explores hedging strategies and the operational levers—airfares, capacity, and fleet size—needed when that protection wears off.
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Digging the Seam
Popular Cultures of the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was one of the most important political events in British history. It was a bitter dispute that polarised public opinion, divided nation and families alike, and the results in terms of the destruction of centuries of industrial and cultural tradition are still keenly felt. The social and political consequences of this dispute, which have resonated for the past quarter century, have been subject to detailed analysis and reflection. The consequences for the arts and popular culture are less clearly mapped. This book attempts to begin to…
The 1984–5 Miners’ Strike was a bitter dispute that divided Britain. While its political consequences have been subject to detailed analysis, its impact on popular culture is less mapped. This book explores that legacy in film, music, theatre, and art.
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