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La scatola parlante : l'evoluzione del linguaggio televisivo
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ISBN: 8835941024 Year: 1996 Publisher: Roma Ed. Riuniti

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The sociology of news
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ISBN: 9780393912876 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Norton,

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Planning in postmodern times
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ISBN: 0203189957 9780203189955 020318615X 9780203186152 9780415234221 0415234220 9780415234238 0415234239 0203187385 9780203187388 9781134567270 9781134567317 9781134567324 1134567316 1280402199 1134567324 Year: 2001 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Postmodern social theory has provided significant insights into our understanding of society and its components. Key thinkers including Foucault, Baudrillard and Lyotard have challenged existing ideas about power and rationality in society. This book analyses planning from a postmodern perspective and explores alternative conceptions based on a combination of postmodern thinking and other fields of social theory. In doing so, it exposes some of the limits of postmodern social theory while providing an alternative conception of planning in the twenty-first century.This title will appeal to


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Governing future technologies : nanotechnology and the rise of an assessment regime
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ISBN: 9789048128341 9789048128358 9789048128334 9789400730779 9048128331 Year: 2010 Volume: 27 Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer,

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Nanotechnology has been the subject of extensive ‘assessment hype,’ unlike any previous field of research and development. A multiplicity of stakeholders have started to analyze the implications of nanotechnology: Technology assessment institutions around the world, non-governmental organizations, think tanks, re-insurance companies, and academics from science and technology studies and applied ethics have turned their attention to this growing field’s implications. In the course of these assessment efforts, a social phenomenon has emerged – a phenomenon the editors define as assessment regime.Despite the variety of organizations, methods, and actors involved in the evaluation and regulation of emerging nanotechnologies, the assessment activities comply with an overarching scientific and political imperative: Innovations are only welcome if they are assessed against the criteria of safety, sustainability, desirability, and acceptability. So far, such deliberations and reflections have played only a subordinate role. This book argues that with the rise of the nanotechnology assessment regime, however, things have changed dramatically: Situated at the crossroads of democratizing science and technology, good governance, and the quest for sustainable innovations, the assessment regime has become constitutive for technological development.The contributions in this book explore and critically analyse nanotechnology’s assessment regime: To what extent is it constitutive for technology in general, for nanotechnology in particular? What social conditions render the regime a phenomenon sui generis? And what are its implications for science and society?

The blackwell handbook of cross-cultural management
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ISBN: 0631214305 9780631214304 Year: 2002 Publisher: Oxford Blackwell

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This is the first handbook to provide an overview of the major research perspectives in cross–cultural management and to look at how they can be applied to real–world situations. The volume is distinctive in bringing together perspectives previously considered independently, placing the work of management experts alongside contributions from leading cross–cultural psychologists, sociologists and economists. The editors have consciously selected cutting–edge contributors from a variety of countries.The structure of the handbook reflects a systems feedback model of management. Beginning with the influence of national cultures on managerial and employee behavior, the volume goes on to cover strategy, structure, human resources, motivation, rewards and leadership behavior, interpersonal processes, and corporate culture and values. This allows the reader to see the issues within a dynamic and systematic context. The relationships between the chapters are elucidated by commentary from the editors.This authoritative volume will be welcomed by managers, researchers and students seeking insight into cross–cultural issues and problems in and across organisations.


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Neurosociology : The Nexus Between Neuroscience and Social Psychology
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ISBN: 9781441955302 9781441955319 9781441955364 9781489982728 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York NY Springer New York

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Recently, neuroscientists have presented new research which has a direct impact on many areas of Social Psychology. In this innovative volume, the author explores the nexus of Social Psychology and Neuroscience with relation to: -The Human "Self" -The Social Nature of the Mind -Socialization and Language Acquisition -Role-Taking/Theory of Mind -Consciousness -Intersubjectivity -Balanced Social Constructionism -Human Agency -The Effect of Emotion on Rational Decision-Making This groundbreaking work integrates areas of George Herbert Mead's social behaviorism with current neuroscience. The chapters in this volume demonstrate how current work on mirror neurons supports the basic tenets of the American pragmatists' focus on the priority of motor behavior.


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Social media in travel, tourism and hospitality : theory, practice and cases
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ISBN: 9781409420910 9781315609515 9781317053781 9781317053798 9781138247598 Year: 2012 Publisher: Surrey Ashgate

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Social media is fundamentally changing the way travellers and tourists search, find, read and trust, as well as collaboratively produce information about tourism suppliers and tourism destinations. Presenting cutting-edge theory, research and case studies investigating Web 2.0 applications and tools that transform the role and behaviour of the new generation of travellers, this book also examines the ways in which tourism organisations reengineer and implement their business models and operations, such as new service development, marketing, networking and knowledge management. Written by an international group of researchers widely known for their expertise in the field of the Internet and tourism, chapters include applications and case studies in various travel, tourism and leisure sectors.


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Place Pedagogy Change
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ISBN: 9789460916151 9789460916144 9460916147 9789460916137 9460916139 Year: 2011 Publisher: Rotterdam SensePublishers

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Place pedagogy change is a work of creative experimentation in which we explore the ways in which pedagogies of place can enable the relational learning of connections between people, places and communities. In adding the element of place to the dynamic relations between teacher, learner, and knowledge, we articulate a pedagogy of ethical uncertainty. Ethical refers to our mutual responsibilities to others and to the more-than-human world, and uncertainty to the unpredictability inherent in our relationship with this world. In Place pedagogy change, we examine the nature of such innovative pedagogies as they emerged across the curriculum from early childhood to school and community education, and in teacher education. The book will provide a useful text for teachers and teacher eductors wishing to address questions of place and sustainability in educational research and practice.


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Landscape, tourism, and meaning
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ISBN: 9780754649434 9781315591407 9781317108115 9781317108122 9781138255289 Year: 2016 Publisher: London Routledge

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