Social Science : Sociology

Nurses, locally and globally, are facing new and complex challenges on account of living in a culturally diverse and dynamic world. This special issue of Contemporary Nurse (the first Australian-based nursing journal to carry a special feature dedicated to transcultural nursing) provides a timely opportunity to reflect on some of these challenges and on the various ways in which nurses might respond effectively to them. This special issue also provides a timely reminder of the importance and moral imperatives of the theory and practice of transcultural nursing and its emphasis on care as a universal, but diverse culturally constructed phenomenon, that lies at – and must remain at – the heart of nursing research, education, and practice. more...

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Concerns about the increasing greenhouse gases in our atmosphere and the resulting global effects have received high visibility in the general media as well as scientific journals. These concerns have been translatedinto several projects from the international scientific community-projects aimed to better understand the processes of climate and how these changes impact the ecosystem. The lively selection of articles in this issue of Advances in Ecological Research cover a wide spectrum of ecology and provide something of interest to all ecologists. Topics include temperature and organism size, carbon allocation in trees, and the role of morphological plasticity in resource acquisition. more...

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`Extremely good well presented, each chapter deals with a specific and well defined theme. Effective use of illustrative examples is made throughout the text and their purpose is clearly explained by the author' - Andy Bennett, Professor of Communication and Popular Culture, Brock University. How does advertising position itself in consumer culture? In what ways does it `create' desire and wants? This richly illustrated, incisive text produces the most complete critical introduction to advertising culture, by offering: - a sophisticated and comprehensive discussion of the main relevant theories; - an extensive discussion of how real adverts work, together with reproductions of advertising images and copy; - a demonstration on how advertising constructs subjects; - a highly instructive historical overview of advertising; - a demonstration of the relationship between advertising and industrial capitalism. more...

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Esteve examines crowd representations in American literature from the antebellum era to the early twentieth century. As a central icon of political and cultural democracy, the crowd occupies a prominent place in the American literary and cultural landscape. Esteve analyses the aesthetic and political meanings of such urban crowd scenes. more...

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Examining practices of representation and their relation to juridical and cultural formations, this volume features contributions that are based on four themes in contemporary, theoretically informed critical scholarship. The chapters range across the media of speech and writing, word and image, legislation and judgment, literature, and cinema. more...

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