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Dramas of Nationhood
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on... more...
m-Profits
Wiley 2004; US$ 120.00UMTS as a technology allows for exciting new applications of some of the best ideas of services in the fixed telecoms, cellular/mobile telecoms, and internet environments, with many revolutionary new possibilities which simply do not exist in the current media and communications vehicles.The current worldwide interest in UMTS/3G is driven partly by... more...
3G Marketing
Wiley 2005; US$ 105.00Next generation wireless is not about technology, it is all about marketing…. What is the service offering rather than the features of the latest handset? Who are the customers and which are the most profitable? How do you identify and market to communities? How do you tariff for profit? If you need to know the answers and more, you really... more...
Reeds Sea Transport
A&C Black 2011; US$ 45.50This book gives a complete picture of the Maritime Transport Industry sothat those involved with shipping can see their own specific field ofinterest in perspective and understand how the basic model of this mode of transportoperates.The sixth edition of Reeds Sea Transporthas been updated throughout to take account ofchanges in the industry. It includes... more...
Shipping Derivatives and Risk Management
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 130.00A comprehensive book on shipping derivatives and risk management which covers the theoretical and practical aspects of financial risk in shipping. The book provides a thorough overview of the practice of risk management in shipping with the use of theoretical examples and real-life applications. more...
Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2008; US$ 114.95Multimodal Safety Management and Human Factors is a wide-ranging compendium of contemporary SMS and HF approaches from the aviation, road, rail and medical domains. It brings together 27 chapters from both the academic and professional worlds that focus on applications, tools and strategies in SMS and HF; a wellspring of the practical rather than the... more...
Desperately Seeking the Audience
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95Millions of people all over the world are avid members of the television audience. Yet, despite the central place television occupies in contemporary culture, our understanding of its complex and dynamic role in everyday life remains surprisingly limited. Focusing on the television audience, Ien Ang asks why we understand so little about its nature,... more...
Voices in Ruins
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 105.00Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic. more...
Cable Visions
NYU Press 2007; US$ 79.00Cable television, on the brink of a boom in the 1970s, promised audiences a new media frontier-an expansive new variety of entertainment and information choices. Music video, 24–hour news, 24-hour weather, movie channels, children's channels, home shopping, and channels targeting groups based on demographic characteristics or interests were... more...









