Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals

This new edition has been extended and updated throughout to reflect the rapidly changing nature of the field, and has been modified to incorporate important changes that have taken place in the information ecosystem since the first edition.

Championing Your School Library

This book is a comprehensive guide to practical strategies for advocating, marketing, and promoting your library by targeting diverse and specific stakeholder groups. It is becoming an essential read as libraries increasingly need to demonstrate their value and impact.

Reimagining the Public Library

Library and Information Science has always been a contested space. This book captures some of the major debates that have taken place within the profession over the past 25 years and suggests how these can be used to inform the future development of libraries.

Radical School Librarianship

Radical School Librarianship is an essential read for school librarians and educators looking to gain a better understanding of how to create environments where equality, diversity, inclusion, and intellectual freedom (EDIIF) can thrive.School librarians perform a critical and frontline role in d...

The AI and Data Revolution

Grounded in theory, this book uses real-life case studies to illustrate how the collection, manipulation and application of data are reshaping businesses. It explains what this means for your organisation and strategies for staying ahead of this data and AI revolution.

The Truth about Confident Presenting

‘The Truth about Confident Presenting’ is a collection of more than four dozen basic truths about successful, confident public speaking in accessible, brief chapters by a master of the art.

Magazines and Modernity in Brazil

The essays gathered in this book discuss transnational networks as well as cross-cultural exchanges in the context of the modern magazine print culture in Brazil (1820s to 1950s).

The Craft of Professional Writing

‘The Craft of Professional Writing’ is the most complete book ever written about the real-life work of being a writer.

The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory

Thorough on the essentials and generous in its intellectual scope, 'The Anthem Dictionary of Literary Terms and Theory' is a guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.

Language of Tomorrow

A comprehensive guide to the history, evolution and current forms of pictographic communication, from Mesopotamian writing systems to emojis. It also discusses the future of communication and the possibility of developing a standardized universal pictographic language. 73 b/w 37 col. illus.  

Beijing Film Academy Yearbook 2016

The Beijing Film Academy Yearbook is a collection of specially selected articles chosen from issues of the Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume collates articles published in the journal throughout 2016, and are translated for an English-speaking readership. Due to the increased academic ...

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching

Using Art as Research in Learning and Teaching explores various multidisciplinary visual and performing art forms, including creative writing, as ways to provide a rich contribution and understanding to research, learning and teaching. Key figures in the field share their art-based research, arts...

Acquisition of a Second Writing System

As Mighty As The Sword

Language and Marginality

Linguistics is a huge discipline with many sub-fields, many of which drift towards, and often overlap with, the primary concerns of cultural studies. In general, however, linguistics is concerned with the deconstruction of language itself, with the nuts and bolts (phonetics, morphology, syntax, l...

The English Language in Europe

Language, Community and the State

Swedish Cops

Michael Tapper considers Swedish culture and ideas from the period 1965 to 2012 as expressed in detective fiction and film in the tradition of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö. Believing the Swedish police narrative tradition to be part and parcel of the European history of ideas and culture, Tapper ar...

Language and Thought

Media Between Culture and Commerce

In the face of declining newspaper sales, challenges from online competitors, and flagging ratings for broadcast news programs, media companies have struggled to maintain their relevance. Media between Culture and Commerce brings together a group of European media experts to address the conseque...

The Art and Science of Handwriting

This book reflects the various facets of the author's lifetime of work in letterforms. The collection of papers and articles, linked by a commentary on a decade in handwriting studies, shows how the educational and medical aspects of her work could not have taken place without a lengthy grounding...

Philosophical Approaches to Communication

A comprehensive introduction to the forms and various philosophical theories of communication, this volume is composed of three sections focusing on the production of culturally relevant communication, the interpretation of communicative messages and the effects of communication on both speaker a...

The Art Rules

Based on his many years in both the art world as a gallery owner and educator, The Art Rules is a practical, operational guide for visual artists that demystifies the art world and empowers practitioners to find success on their own terms. 

Shanghai Street Style

The most creative attire is often found not on the catwalks or inside the auditoriums but on the streets. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. Shanghai Street Style gets at the roots of Shanghai trendsetters' distinct personal styles, identifying the ideas and i...

Jonquils

When a number of language experts were each invited to choose and translate a piece of writing on the subject - simply - of 'flower', Jonquils was the result.

Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research

Towards a Praxis-based Media and Journalism Research brings together current scholarly debates about how to bridge the gap between theory and practice in media and journalism research. Drawing on work from media scholars and practitioners, this book is the first collection to examine how theory a...

Francophone Voices