This is the proceedings of an August 2009 conference organized by the Classification and Indexing Section of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions on the topic of subje
This collection of readings takes a feminist approach to understanding four specific types of communication: organizational, health, family, and pedagogical. Eighteen original contributions from acade
This edited collection analyzes how communication and gender influence work-life balance decisions for men and women in today’s culture. Touching on key topics in work-life balance research, contribut
Stretching Boundaries: Cases in Organizational and Managerial Communication focuses on non-traditional organizations in a variety of contexts. Because cases range from small family-owned entrepreneurs
In this volume, several leading foreign policy and international relations experts consider the long term prospects and implications of US foreign policy as it has been shaped and practiced during the
The aim of this book is to analyse why and how states respond to human security, both at home and abroad. Although states still define security as "the defense of territory" from military attack, incr
This book provides information to the state of art of research in nanotechnology and nano medicine and risks of nano technology. It covers an interdisciplinary and very wide scope of the latest fundam
While the European Landscape Convention adopted in Florence in 2000 by the European Council offers a public-action framework through a normative definition, the marine and submarine dimensions of land
Built in the early 1980s, Detroit's People Mover is an elevated 2.9-mile automated mass transit system that loops around the downtown area of the city making stops at thirteen stations. When the city
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we describe as the 'conceptual aphasia' gripping ra
This book presents a metacritique of racial formation theory. Across a diversity of approaches and objects of analysis, the contributors assess what we describe as the 'conceptual aphasia' gri
Despite the increasing variety of heroic women portrayed in film, television, and other popular culture channels, much of the understanding of heroines has been limited to females as versions of male
