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Membership in Service Clubs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

Membership in Service Clubs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-04
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  • Publisher: Springer

Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world.

Transcultural Aesthetics in the Plays of Gao Xingjian
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

Transcultural Aesthetics in the Plays of Gao Xingjian

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

Gao Xingjian has been lauded for his inventive use of Chinese culture in his paintings, plays, and cinema, however he denies that his current work participates in any notion of Chinese. This book traces the development of these forms and how the relate and interact in the French language plays of the Nobel Laureate.

Mandating the Measurement of Fraud
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 229

Mandating the Measurement of Fraud

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

This project examines the concept of fraud loss measurement by critiquing existing measurement methodologies, and argues for the mandating of fraud loss measurement by enforced self regulation, the creation of a British Standard of fraud loss measurement, and the establishment of an information exchange matrix to develop best practice.

Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 183

Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-29
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  • Publisher: Springer

An accessible case study of television heritage, Remembering Dennis Potter Through Fans, Extras and Archive draws on the memories of fans and extras of Potter's productions. In providing insight into issues of visibility, memory and television production, it fulfils a vital need for better understanding of television production history as heritage.

The British Olympic Association: A History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

The British Olympic Association: A History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

Since its creation the British Olympic Association (BOA) has been one of the most important institutions in sports governance. In spite of its prominence there has hitherto been no single-volume history of the Association. This scholarly yet accessible study fills that gap, assessing the origins, evolution, strengths and shortcomings of the BOA.

The Risk of School Rampage: Assessing and Preventing Threats of School Violence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 211

The Risk of School Rampage: Assessing and Preventing Threats of School Violence

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  • Published: 2014-04-25
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  • Publisher: Springer

By examining averted school rampage incidents, this work addresses problematic gaps in school violence scholarship and advances existing knowledge about mass murder, violence prevention, bystander intervention, threat assessment, and disciplinary policy in school contexts.

Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 123

Media in Egypt and Tunisia: From Control to Transition?

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book examines the mass media systems of Egypt and Tunisia under the pre-uprising regimes, with a focus on the last decade of the Mubarak and Ben Ali periods, as well as on how media are adapting to the political transitions underway. Findings are based on extensive interviews with journalists.

Participation, Citizenship and Intergenerational Relations in Children and Young People's Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Participation, Citizenship and Intergenerational Relations in Children and Young People's Lives

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-14
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  • Publisher: Springer

Research about children and young people's participation and involvement in research is an emerging area of academic inquiry. Based on the themes of participation, citizenship and intergenerational relations, this edited collection draws on the latest research in this area, and includes chapters co-authored with children and young people.

Asian Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 245

Asian Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-24
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  • Publisher: Springer

The National Perspectives on the Development of Public Relations: Other Voices series is the first to offer an authentic world-wide view of the history of public relations. It will feature six books, five of which will cover continental and regional groups. This first book in the series focuses on Asia and Australasia.

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 112

Football's Dark Side: Corruption, Homophobia, Violence and Racism in the Beautiful Game

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-05-02
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  • Publisher: Springer

Association football is the richest, most popular sport in history with a multicultural global following. It is also riven with corruption, racism, homophobia and a violence that has for decades resisted all attempts to tame it. Cashmore and Cleland examine football's dark side: the unpleasant, sleazy and downright nasty aspects of the sport.