“branston gill”

Cinema and Cultural Modernity discusses the central debates of film and cinema studies and explores these in their social and political contexts. It includes histories of the ways in which we view Hollywood's global dominance, up to the development of late modernity and the declaration of 'postmoder... More

"The Media Student's Book" is a comprehensive introduction for students of media studies. It covers all the key topics you will encounter in the area, and provides a detailed, lively and accessible guide to concepts and debates. This fourth edition, now in color, has been thoroughly revised, re-orde... More

"News, Gender and Power" addresses the pressing questions of how gender shapes the forms, practice, institutions and audiences of journalism, and draws on feminist theory and gender-sensitive critiques to explore the connections between news, gender and power. Within this framework the contributors ... More

With hundreds of handwriting samples, this is an exhaustive textbook on handwriting analysis. The instruction presented here has many important applications in life, from choosing an employee or partner to analyzing and detecting forgeries.With hundreds of handwriting samples, this is an exhaustive ... More

On October 16, 1954, E. H. Crump, the political boss of Memphis and a force in Southern politics for nearly half a century, died at his home in Memphis. He left a place known as "America's Cleanest City," "America's Quietest City," the capital of Mississippi, and the safest city in the South. To Cru... More

A comprehensive and easy-to-follow introduction to this powerful tool offers practical information on analysis, insights and assessment.... More

In seventeenth-century Valladolid, Spain's new capital, Miguel Cervantes is busy writing his comic masterpiece," Don Quixote, which is being issued in installments. It is quickly making him the most popular author in the country, when three potential disasters strike: Cervantes discovers that there ... More

An Indian journey is rich in its diversity, a colourful exploration of people, places, myths, monuments, art, culture, cuisine and celebrations. And India is a country not so much for seeing as for experiencing. In a departure from the merely exotic, 'A Passage Through India' is a journey into the h... More

6th June, 1984: The Indian Army storms the Golden Temple in Amritsar. Called Operation Bluestar, the historic and unprecedented event ended the growing spectre of terrorism perpetrated by the extremist Sikh leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and his followers once and for all. But it left in its wake... More