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International Horror Film Directors
Horror films have for decades commanded major global audiences, tapping into deep-rooted fears that cross national and cultural boundaries in their ability to spark terror. This book brings together a group of scholars to explore the ways that this fear is utilized and played upon by a wide range...
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Directory of World Cinema: East Europe
Part of the Directory of World Cinema series, this title includes contributions from some of the leading academics in the field. It features film recommendations from a range of genres for those interested in watching more cinema from these regions. It also features comprehensive filmography as a...
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Italian TV Drama and Beyond
Television drama has emerged as the dominant medium of contemporary storytelling in Italian society. Informed by the nation's historical and cultural heritage, the narratives offer insight into Italian society and competing versions of Italian identity, highlighting the wide array of television p...
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Resetting the Stage
Commercial theatre is thriving across Europe, while public theatre has suffered under changing patterns of cultural consumption. Resetting the Stage argues that public theatre is best served not by imitating its much larger commercial counterpart, but by asserting its artistic distinctiveness and...
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Configuring America
Elvis Presley. Marilyn Monroe. LeBron James. Like many cultural figures who hail from the United States, they are known all over the world. ConFiguring America provides a series of incisive essays that analyse a wide range of such figures: those who embody America’s tendency to produce celebritie...
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Throbbing Gristle
This book situates the British band Throbbing Gristle as both a lens and critical tool for England during the punk years and the Winter of Discontent. Using detailed archival research and testimony from key performances, it plots the impact and affective reach of the band. 20 b/w illus.
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Secretary to the People
Chronicling the evolution of Sheryl Oring’s ongoing project I Wish to Say. Since 2004, Oring has set up a public office to type dictated messages to the US president. Recording how analog communication fosters civic engagement in a digital age. Highlighting intersection of art, democracy and acti...
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Dancing with Parkinson's
This book explores the experience and value of dancing for people living with the neurodegenerative disorder Parkinson’s disease. Sara Houston argues that the benefits of participatory dance are best understood through the experiences, lives, needs and challenges of people living with Parkinson’s...
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People's Pornography
Since its establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China has upheld a nationwide ban on pornography, imposing harsh punishments on those caught purchasing, producing, or distributing materials deemed a violation of public morality. A provocative contribution to Chinese media studies by a w...
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A Divided World
Roosevelt’s New Deal introduced sweeping social, political and cultural change across the United States, which the Hollywood film community embraced enthusiastically. When the heady idealism of the 1930s was replaced by the paranoia and fear of the post-war years, Hollywood became an easy target ...
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Veganism, Sex and Politics
Veganism is so much more than what we eat. It’s about striving to live an ethical life in a profoundly unethical world. Is being vegan difficult or is it now easier than ever? What does veganism have to do with wider struggles for social justice – feminism, LGBTQ+ politics, anti-racism and enviro...
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Artist Teacher
This book presents a robust history of the artist-teacher from the classical era to the twenty-first century. Particular pedagogical portraits illustrate the artist-teacher in various contexts. This book focuses on the complex thinking processes artists utilize when teaching and offers a reconcil...
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Redefining Theatre Communities
Redefining Theatre Communities explores the interplay between contemporary theatre and communities. It considers the aesthetic, social and cultural aspects of community-conscious theatre-making. It also reflects on transformations in structural, textual and theatrical conventions, and explores ch...
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Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine
Beautifully written and exhaustively researched, Stanley Kubrick at Look Magazine features never-before-published photographs from the Look archives and complete scans of Kubrick’s photo essays from hard-to-obtain back issues of the magazine. It will be an indispensable addition to the libraries ...
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World Film Locations: Boston
Boston has a rich tradition of cinematic representation. This book considers the full spectrum of Boston's abundant aesthetic potential, looking in depth into forty-six films that were filmed on location in the city. Presented at the intersection of critical analysis and visual critique, the film...
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New Zealand Film and Television
Notwithstanding the challenges of a limited population size and the struggle to fund such costly forms of screen production as high-end film and television, both of these New Zealand screen industries have been the site of significant expectation, achievement and cultural influence. Whilst there ...
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The Philadelphia Connection
Philadelphia is one of America's most interesting and innovative cities for theatre, rich in new theatres, new plays, and rising playwrights. This book paints a picture of the city's burgeoning scene through interviews with some of Philadelphia's most influential and successful playwrights, inclu...
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World Film Locations: Madrid
World Film Locations: Madrid is a trip through the urban space conceived as film location. The premise is that these locations must have been protagonist of films shot in Madrid since the silent era to the present. Madrid is the film capital of the Hispanic World from the standpoint of production...
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Fan Phenomena: Sherlock Holmes
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy fr...
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Television Courtroom Broadcasting
Are witnesses, jurors or others in courtrooms distracted by in-court television cameras and their operators? Citing a lack of evidence one way or the other, the US Supreme Court has recommended additional research on the matter. Answering the court’s recommendation, this proof-of-concept study de...
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Cinemas of the Other
An updated collection of recent interviews with filmmakers whose works represent trends in the film industry of Central Asia, this new geospecific edition expands upon the earlier volume Cinemas of the Other: A Personal Journey with Film-Makers from the Middle East and Central Asia.Following an i...
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The Audience Experience
The Audience Experience identifies a momentous change in what it means to be part of an audience for a live arts performance. Together, new communication technologies and new kinds of audiences have transformed the expectations of performance, and The Audience Experience explores key trends in th...
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Origins of Giant Planets, Volume 2
These books will provide a comprehensive overview of giant planet formation, aimed at graduate students and postdocs beginning research on the topic. They will also be a useful reference for observers seeking to interpret their images of young, forming planets or disk features that may be plane...
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Web Content Mining
This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data mining and web mining. After this ...
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First-Principles Calculations for Cathode, Electrolyte and Anode Battery Materials
This reference text explores first-principles calculations that can be used to determine the essential chemical and physical characteristics of cathode, electrolyte and anode materials in ion-based batteries. The book focuses on simulations and provides a theoretical framework for 3D multi-com...
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Microbial Fuel Cells
This reference text will cover the electrochemical performance of microbial fuel cells (MFCs), the basic mechanisms, operating factors, step-by-step synthesis, required materials for high electrochemical performance and a comparison with other bioelectrochemical approaches in terms of energy g...
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Transformations of Materials
Phase transformations are among the most intriguing and technologically useful phenomena in materials, particularly with regard to controlling microstructure. After a review of thermodynamics, this book has chapters on Brownian motion and the diffusion equation, diffusion in solids based on tran...
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Spectroscopic and Microscopy Techniques for Archaeological and Cultural Heritage Research (Second Edition)
Scientific and technological advancements give new and improved opportunities for the preservation and interpretation of items of cultural and archaeological importance in terms of composition, manufacturing methods and past restoration actions. Scientific analysis of these objects is challeng...
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Human-Assisted Intelligent Computing
Current trends in application problems in engineering, science and technology are also reaching into the areas of economics, finance and, especially the social sciences. This edited book focuses on well-known and new methodologies of optimization techniques in humanized computing that are used ...
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Artificial Intelligence for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 1
This is a comprehensive resource on various concepts in machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. Learning-based systems and models are fundamental to automation and artificial intelligence and they will form the core to all functions in business and all aspects of human li...
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Biomaterials and Medical Devices for Advanced Healing Therapies
This book aims to critically discuss in detail, the fabrication of custom-made scaffolds and all the biological, and physico-chemical aspects related with their adhesion, propagation, proliferation and cell colonization processes, through in vitro assays and in vivo implantation trials. This i...
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Computational Intelligence Based Solutions for Vision Systems
Computer vision and image processing-based systems and their applications are already an integral part of modern living and are expected to increase in prevalence and complexity. Vision system provides the ability to handle and examine the large data generated by cameras and make a decision ba...
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Hadronic Jets (Second Edition)
One of the most striking phenomena that can be observed in high-energy collisions of elementary particles is the production of highly collimated bunches of particles. These objects are known as hadronic jets. The word ‘hadronic’ refers to the fact that jets are made up of hadrons, particles whi...
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Simplified Quantum Computing with Applications
This book focuses on the fundamental concepts of quantum computing from the beginning: the function Deutsch evaluation algorithm, the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm, the Grover’s search algorithm, the Bernstein-Vazirani algorithm for identifying linear functions, the Simon period finding algorithm, t...
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Mathematical Methods for Cryocoolers
This book will explore all key mathematical methods that need to be learned in order to model a cryocooler with all its various aspects and physical phenomena. The cryocooler will be studied in terms of thermodynamics, harmonic approximations, nodal numerical modelling, 2D and 3D modelling, an...
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Atomic Physics
Atomic Physics provides a concise treatment of atomic physics and a basis to prepare for work in other disciplines that are underpinned by atomic physics, such as chemistry, biology and several aspects of engineering science. The focus is mainly on atomic structure since this is what is primarily...
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Barocaloric Effects in the Solid State
This research and reference text will be the first book to provide a detailed review of the performance of barocaloric materials and measurement methods. Since it’s discovery in 2010, the barocaloric effect has earned its own place in international conferences, and a comprehensive book is need...
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The book is designed as a textbook for a graduate or advanced undergraduate course in SETI, exploring the history, theory, and methods of the field. It provides a history and description of modern methods in the major types of SETI (including searches for radio, laser, solar system, and artifa...
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Mermaids
Women with fish tails are among the oldest and most popular of mythological creatures. This book presents a comprehensive, interdisciplinary and beautifully illustrated study of mermaids and their influence on Western culture. The roots of mermaid mythology and its metamorphosis through the centu...
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Optical Path Theory
Optical Path Theory: Fundamentals to Freeform Adaptive Optics focuses on the potential to find analytical close form solutions using optical path theory to solve and design adaptive optics systems. With a thorough introduction to the subject, the first chapters of the book explore the three mai...
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Molecular techniques in identifying microorganisms in feed: microbiome analyses
Animal feeds harbor a complex microbial community. Most microbial approaches for analysis have focused on estimating pathogen levels in feeds such as Salmonella. Nonpathogens in feed have been characterized using conventional microbial culture-based approaches; however, these methods are limited ...
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Controlling bacterial pathogen contamination of animal feed products
Animal feed is increasingly recognized as a significant reservoir for foodborne and animal pathogens. Minimizing the contribution of contaminated feed to pathogen transmission throughout the food supply chain is therefore critical for ensuring food safety and animal health. Various interventions ...
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Exposure, transfer and uptake of environmental contaminants in animal feed: risk assessment, decontamination and detoxification interventions
This chapter provides an overview of the risk assessment related to chemical contaminants in animal feed, the transfer and uptake of environmental contaminants into animal-derived food products, and the methods available for decontamination and detoxification of feeds. It emphasizes the importanc...
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Techniques for detecting mycotoxins in animal feed products
Mycotoxins, toxic metabolites of fungi (e.g., Aspergillus, Fusarium) in optimal temperature/humidity, contaminate a large range of global crops and animal feed. They cause multi-toxicity (e.g., carcinogenicity), harm animal health, enter the human food chain via animal products (e.g., milk, meat)...
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Techniques for detecting viral pathogens in animal feed products and manufacturing surfaces
This chapter reviews techniques for detecting viral pathogens in animal feed products and manufacturing surfaces. It begins by providing a brief history of viral pathogens in animal feed ingredients. The chapter then moves on to provide an overview of current applications of diagnostic sampling a...
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Viral pathogen contamination of animal feed products and their effects
The purpose of this chapter is to review the literature on the risk of feed for animals, the protocols developed to reduce this risk, and the global response to this new information. As much of the published literature on feed risk has centered on viral diseases of pigs, the chapter will primaril...
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Foodborne bacterial pathogen contamination of animal feed products and their effects
Foodborne disease remains a public health concern. Contributing to this issue is the persistence of foodborne pathogens in animal systems, which can originate from a multitude of food sources, including meat and egg products. These pathogens can be found in the environment where animals are raise...
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Improved batching and micro-scaling systems for more precise feed control
The advancement of animal nutrition and feed safety assurance increasingly rely on refining feed production systems. Modern feed manufacturing is a precision-focused process enabled by automation, real-time sensing, and data-informed decision-making. This chapter presents an overview of advanced ...
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Assessing risks from mycotoxins in animal feed and animal-derived products
This chapter aims to elucidate the actual threat posed by the most prevalent mycotoxins in agricultural commodities, animal feed, and related products with respect to the occurrence of foodborne illnesses and diseases. The underestimated hazard of joint mycotoxin uptake in low contamination level...
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The Possibility of Sociology
The Possibility of Sociology offers a foundation for sociology in today’s global world – integrating approaches that see society primarily in terms of intersectional conflict, intrasectional differences and heterosectional complementarity.
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Animals in Gothic Short Fiction
Animals in Gothic Short Fiction is an anthology of 19th- and early 20th-century Gothic short stories featuring animals.
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Political Parties and Democratic Governance in Africa
This book examines the challenges political parties pose to democratic governance in Africa, focusing on political stability, elections, accountability, and democratic consolidation, with particular attention to Nigeria.
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Political Cinema in Kazakhstan
Political Cinema in Kazakhstan is the first book-length study of the films of Adilkhan Yerzhanov, one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary world cinema. Across dark comedy, absurdism and satire, Yerzhanov exposes the contradictions of power, corruption and everyday life in authoritarian...
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Making America Gothic Again
Making America Gothic Again explores the ways that the rise of populist extremism has been intensified by Donald Trump’s weaponization of a politics of fear, a state of mind that, as gothic theorists have long recognized, quickly becomes its own self-propelling force.
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Screen Adaptations of Daphne du Maurier’s Fiction
Focusing on feature films adapted from Gothic suspense thrillers by British popular writer Daphne du Maurier (1907–1989), this book explores both celebrated classics, including Alfred Hitchcock’s Jamaica Inn, Rebecca and “The Birds,” Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now, Henry Koster's My Cousin Rachel,...
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Atlantic Exchanges in the Early Modern World
Rethinking Atlantic history beyond discovery, this volume traces the circulation of objects, ideas, texts, and knowledge, revealing dynamic networks of exchange, encounters, and transformations that connected cultures and continents across centuries.
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Post-liberal Futures
Post-Liberal Futures: Epistemic Justice, Ontological Freedom and the Black Archive advances a critique of liberalism’s limits in securing recognition and non-domination, positioning the Black Archive as a conceptual and institutional resource for reimagining democracy through alternative epistemo...
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Virginia Woolf & Cornwall
This book explores Virginia Woolf’s lifelong relationship with Cornwall, from her childhood holidays in St Ives to periodic visits as an adult. The county offered Woolf an alternative to metropolitan Bloomsbury, a haven and a respite from illness, and became a source of much of her literary work.
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Artificial Intelligence, Art and Indigeneity
This book explores the cultural and ethical implications of generative AI through the lens of Indigenous visual culture in Latin America. Responding to the rise of tools like DALL·E and Midjourney, it documents the AIAI project (2023–), which invited Indigenous artists and writers from Argentina,...
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CILIP Guidelines for Secondary School Libraries
This fully updated and revised version of the essential CILIP-endorsed guidelines for secondary school libraries addresses the current and changing schools’ landscape and impact of social, cultural and technological changes of recent years.
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The Science and Practice of Family Enterprise
A theory-driven evidence-based journey into the fascinating, yet challenging, world of business-owning families. A comprehensive, sometimes provocative, narrative that embeds the what (i.e., the practice) in the science (i.e., the why).
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The Spatial History of Empire
Empires expand from a central core, incorporating territories and peoples into political and economic systems that favor the core. Drawing on examples across time and regions, this book explores Empire as a spatial and territorial phenomenon.
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The climate problem and the role of agriculture
Agriculture and land use are at the very heart of tackling climate change in the 21st century, both in terms of their potential to help deliver net zero, and as sectors that are already experiencing some of the most severe climate-related impacts. In this chapter the authors explore this pivotal ...
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Mitigating nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions from agriculture
As the global population continues to grow, the development of N2O mitigation strategies remains a research priority. The biological and chemical processes that drive N₂O emissions from agricultural systems are well-established, but these processes are influenced by numerous spatially and tempora...
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Regional variation in the potential to reach net zero emissions in global agriculture
Agriculture contributes 10–12% of direct anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and up to 20–25% when land-use change is included. Key emissions of carbon dioxide (CO₂), methane (CH₄), and nitrous oxide (N₂O) arise from soil organic matter decomposition, livestock enteric fermentation, rice culti...
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Sources of methane from livestock and land use
This chapter begins with an overview of methane as a greenhouse gas (GHG). It then examines the principal agricultural methane sources, beginning with enteric fermentation in ruminants. The chapter reviews mitigation strategies for enteric emissions, followed by assessment of methane from manure ...
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North America: climate change, agriculture and land use
This chapter is focused on the North American subregion of Northern America, comprising the United States and Canada, which collectively represent 10% of global and 83% of North American agricultural land. Both nations rank among the top five global exporters of agricultural goods, playing a crit...
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East Asia: climate change, agriculture and land use
This chapter explores the current status of greenhouse gas emissions from wheat, maize, and rice production in East Asia. By synthesizing current research, the chapter examines the threats to crop production posed by climate change, the environmental impact of agricultural activities, and potenti...
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Land use and the global carbon cycle
Land use change and agricultural expansion are major drivers of greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, threatening climate stability and ecosystem resilience. At the same time, land systems offer some of the most promising opportunities for carbon sequestration and climate mitigation. Th...
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Mitigating methane (CH4) emissions from beef cattle
Beef is an important agricultural commodity and remains central to many consumers in both developed and developing countries. However, with around 1.6 billion cattle and calves globally, cattle are the single largest contributor to agricultural methane emissions. It is imperative that solutions t...
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Europe: climate change, agriculture and land use
This chapter focuses on the changes in agricultural greenhouse gas emissions in Europe over recent decades. It draws specific attention to emission intensities from various production systems and provides an overview of potential initiatives the EU has in place in order to reduce these emissions....
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Farmer decision-making for climate-smart farming
Despite national and international efforts to address emissions from farming and food, agricultural systems have failed to decarbonise at an appropriate rate to meet emissions reduction targets by 2030 and 2050. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) reflects the range of practices and technologies that...
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Increasing carbon sinks: options for soil carbon sequestration
This chapter reviews the levers for increasing soil organic carbon stocks through agricultural management practices. It first provides an overview of the results of global meta-analyses of long-term experiments. It then goes on to discuss remote sensing techniques that contribute to the regional ...
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South America: climate change, agriculture and land use
This chapter examines the path to net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in South American agriculture. Despite being a major global food exporter contributing less than 5% of global GHG emissions, the region faces a complex challenge due to significant social inequality, varying technology adop...
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South Asia: climate change, agriculture and land use
This chapter examines how South Asian agriculture and land use are impacted by climate change. It takes into account changes in weather patterns, temperature fluctuations and greenhouse gas emission levels. The chapter also examines adaptive strategies such as crop varieties, irrigation technique...
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Africa: climate change, agriculture and land use
African agriculture faces a triple challenge: meeting rising demand for food, managing rapid changes in land use, and adapting to climate change. Although Africa accounts for less than 4% of global greenhouse gas emissions, over 60% originate from the agriculture, forestry, and other land-use sec...
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Wellbeing in Law Firms
Wellbeing in Law Firms explores how the legal profession can create healthier, more sustainable and higher-performing workplaces by placing wellbeing at the heart of firm strategy and culture. The book examines why wellbeing has become a business-critical issue and how firms can move beyond aware...
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Advances in understanding and optimising gut microbiomes in pigs
This book reviews the wealth of research on understanding pig gut microbiota, the relationship between gut function and animal health, as well as how the pig gut microbiome can be optimised.
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Farming and watershed management
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the planning, design and implementation of natural flood management (NFM) programmes to offset climate-induced flood risks. The book explores the range of NFM techniques, including peatland restoration, wetland creation and the use of leaky barriers ...
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Sources of nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions on farms
This chapter reviews farm-based sources of nitrous oxide (N₂O) as a greenhouse gas (GHG). As the chapter discusses, N₂O emissions on farms primarily result from microbial processes in areas with high concentrations of inorganic and organic nitrogen. The chapter explores direct N₂O emissions relat...
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Key issues and challenges in accounting for greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector
Current and future changes in the Earth’s climate are driven by changes to atmospheric concentrations of radiatively important greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particles. Improving the characterization and accuracy of emissions inventories in general and especially for activity-specific contributions ...
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José Ortega y Gasset on Being and Aristotelian Substance
The aim of this book is to offer a concise and accessible exposition of Ortega’s core philosophical claims, with the ultimate aim of analysing his account of the Aristotelian notion of substance (‘ousía’), and of the question of being more generally, as a belief in the Orteguian sense of the term...
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Rose Bertin
An appraisal of Rose Bertin’s contributions to fashion, art and culture in the early days of the fashion industry in eighteenth-century France.
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Neo-Victorian Lesbian Fiction
Neo-Victorian Lesbian Fiction is a study of texts set during the nineteenth century and offers a reparative approach to historical fiction through analyses of neo-Victorian texts’ engagement with queer history.
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Albania and EU Enlargement
This book challenges European integration’s promise of prosperity and democracy, arguing that Albania’s transition has reinforced economic dependency, political elitism, and peripheralization rather than delivering genuine convergence with Europe.
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Adaptive Ethics
A study of African agency, adaptive ethics and personal data governance in a fragmented global digital order.
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Advances in understanding and optimising wheat processing quality: pan breadmaking
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the factors influencing pan bread quality, from wheat composition to emerging technologies and consumer trends. It begins by examining wheat flour constituents and their functional roles in dough performance and bread characteristics. The pan-brea...
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The Practice of Judging
What is it like to be a judge? Is judging an art, or is there a method to it? Can anyone, whatever their background, be taught to do it well? These are the central questions of this highly accessible book. Sir Peter Coulson, who has sat at almost every level from Recorder to the Court of Appeal, ...
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Reflections on Construction Adjudication
Following their acclaimed "Adjudicating Construction and Engineering Disputes", Jonathan Cope and Matthew Molloy now turn to "Reflections on Construction Adjudication", a carefully chosen selection of around 150 blogs written over the last eighteen years. Drawing on their vast experience as pract...
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Open Data in Ancient and Byzantine Studies
Through a range of case studies, this book explores the impact of open-access and openly licensed data and code in classical and Byzantine studies. It argues for the potential that methods of centring interoperability, transparency and documentation in digital scholarship can bring to the study o...
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Family Offices in the Middle East
Written during a period of extraordinary growth in private capital and family office evolution, Family Offices in the Middle East offers a timely exploration of the legal, financial and practical issues faced by single family offices in the region.
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African American Language and Spirituality
An Afrocentric analysis revealing how African spirituality, orality, and communal values shape African American language beyond Eurocentric linguistic paradigms.
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Gaza After October 7
Gaza After October 7 provides an analysis by Richard A. Falk, Professor Emeritus at Princeton and former UN Special Rapporteur, alongside Daniel Falcone, humanities teacher at the United Nations International School.
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Unbearable Pleasure
Smart writing on deep culture, Horowitz wrestles with the meaning of Russian literature, Jewish history, Right-wing Zionism, and the Holocaust
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Navigating the EEOC
This practical guide demystifies the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) complaint process for both employees and employers. Covering every stage—from intake to litigation—it offers clear explanations, strategic insights, and real-world examples. Whether seeking justice or managing ris...
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Shifting Climate Zones
Shifting Climate Zones: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly for Australia is a scholarly monograph examining how the poleward expansion of the tropics is reshaping Australia’s climate zones, ecosystems and societies. It integrates atmospheric science with geographic analysis to assess risks and adapta...
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Tourpreneurship Triumphs
Tourpreneurship Triumphs explores innovative, sustainable, and inclusive entrepreneurial practices in tourism, highlighting digital transformations, and strategic insights for building resilient and future-ready tourism ventures.
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Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero
The book interprets Dallapiccola’s one-act opera The Prisoner (Il Prigioniero) as an allegory about how people remain hopeful in the face of authoritarianism.
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Enumeration Nation
Enumeration Nation confronts the importance of data provenance by investigating the Census Bureau’s 1970 transition to self-enumeration. Joseph Ballegeer follows the participants in the census—Bureau statisticians, survey instrument, and the people being counted—to demonstrate how culture is part...
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Small-Nation Television in a Global Platform Economy
Small-Nation Television in a Global Platform Economy explains how Taiwan built the creative and institutional capacity to make distinctive television drama travel internationally.
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