Bettina Fabos

Richard Campbell

Christopher Martin

Ron Becker

Get to the heart of the AI revolution and brush up on your media literacy skills as you explore the media landscape of today, and where it all came from, using the current and relevant research found in Media & Culture.

An Introduction to Mass Communication

Media & Culture

The #1 introduction to mass communication text, Media & Culture: Mass Communication in a Digital Age, is at the forefront of the ever-changing world of this dynamic course, addressing the most current issues of our time—including the proliferation of fake news, the #metoo movement, the use and abuse of social media platforms, consumer privacy, and the role media plays in our democracy. The Twelfth Edition of Media & Culture digs deeper than ever before into the worldwide reach and ethical implications of today’s media by highlighting global issues, such as foreign interference in social media and the effect of international box office revenue on decisions made by the domestic film industry,and ethical considerations, such as the fight against sexual harassment across the media industries and the coverage of recent mass shootings, throughout each chapter. This is an exciting and tumultuous time in the media. Developing an understanding of mass communication and becoming a critical consumer of the media is vitally important, especially now as the media are under siege and the lines between fact and fiction are being continuously blurred. Media & Culture reaches students where they are and puts the media industries into perspective historically and culturally, helping them to become more informed citizens who use critical thinking and media literacy skills in their daily lives, even as they are bombarded by information, in a variety of ways and via a variety of media. The Twelfth Edition of Media & Culture digs deeper than ever before into the worldwide reach and ethical implications of today’s media by highlighting global issues, such as foreign interference in social media; augmented reality gaming around the world; the effect of international box office revenue on decisions made by the domestic film industry; newspaper and television consumption around the globe; China’s dominant media corporations; new bias around the globe; and international media research; and ethical considerations such as the coverage of recent mass shootings; #MeToo and the fight against sexual harassment across the media industries; gender problems in digital gaming; breaking through Hollywood’s race barrier; contemporary politics reviving interest in classic novels; and public relations and "alternative facts".

Robert Francis

Ian Kirby

Caroline Bentley-Davies

Help your students make those vital two levels of progress in Reading and Writing with this new KS3 series from Collins. Each book concentrates on moving students up one level in reading or writing, covering each of the Assessment Focuses in turn. These brand new books offer student-friendly explanations and activities to build, develop and extend students'' literacy skills, showing them precisely what they need to do to make progress. Whether you''re looking for a one-off lesson, snappy starters or a longer programme of study, these flexible resources are designed to fit around the needs of your teaching and your classes. Aiming for Level 5 Writing will help you to * Target areas of underperformance, with a chapter on each Assessment Focus and support at the right level written by experienced teachers and consultants. * Explain, build and develop the essential writing skills for this level, with clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities. * Motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a colourful, magazine-like layout. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter Level Boosters to help students understand how to progress. * Gather evidence for your periodic APP assessments, with longer tasks flagged up throughout as APP opportunities. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. Plus, get your students ready for Functional Skills! These books will help you build the foundations for success in the new KS4 qualification. clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities. * Motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a colourful, magazine-like layout. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter Level Boosters to help students understand how to progress. * Gather evidence for your periodic APP assessments, with longer tasks flagged up throughout as APP opportunities. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. Plus, get your students ready for Functional Skills! These books will help you build the foundations for success in the new KS4 qualification. clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities. * Motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a colourful, magazine-like layout. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter Level Boosters to help students understand how to progress. * Gather evidence for your periodic APP assessments, with longer tasks flagged up throughout as APP opportunities. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. Plus, get your students ready for Functional Skills! These books will help you build the foundations for success in the new KS4 qualification. clear, accessible explanations, inspiring examples and lively follow-up activities. * Motivate and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a colourful, magazine-like layout. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter Level Boosters to help students understand how to progress. * Gather evidence for your periodic APP assessments, with longer tasks flagged up throughout as APP opportunities. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. Plus, get your students ready for Functional Skills! These books will help you build the foundations for success in the new KS4 qualification. and engage students, with exciting stimulus texts, fresh approaches to learning and a colourful, magazine-like layout. * Embed Assessment for Learning in your day-to-day teaching, with clear learning objectives, criteria for self and peer assessment on every double-page, and end of chapter Level Boosters to help students understand how to progress. * Gather evidence for your periodic APP assessments, with longer tasks flagged up throughout as APP opportunities. * Plan ahead without the stress, with ready-to-use double-page lessons and a teacher guide at the back of the book. Plus, get your students ready for Functional Skills! These books will help you build the foundations for success in the new KS4 qualification.

Writing

George Fetherling

Until now, there has been no single source for the life stories of assassins in various eras and cultures: the infamous ones and the surprisingly forgotten, the ideologues and the zealots, the sociopaths and the mercenary killers. A Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins fills this gap for the benefit of the true-crime fans, the historian, the student and the general reader alike. We all know the names Lee Harvey Oswald and John Wilkes Booth. But who assassinated the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, igniting the First World War? What wealthy aristocrat killed Rasputin and lived on until 1967? How many different people attempted to assassinate Hitler - or Queen Victoria? Which modern world leader holds the record for escaping assassins' plots - and, more to the point, who were the plotters? How have assassins in Japan, say, differed from those in the United States? What assassins have been produced by such famously peace-loving societies as Canada and Australia? to browse or to read from cover to cover, whether as a refreshingly new take on history and politics or as a psychological portrait of the assassin personality. It is much more than a ready-reference, and has no political subtext. Rather, it is a collection of biographical stories, a few well-known but most obscure, dealing with individual assassins from the ancient world to the present day. Researched with care and told with style and insight, A Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins is a complete chronicle of some of the most influential crimes in history.

A Biographical Dictionary of the World's Assassins

The Physical Origins of the Cosmic Ultraviolet Background

This text contains poems and activities covering the National Curriculum list of pre-20th-century poets. Much more than an anthology, it is a textbook and includes suggestions for oral and written work, together with full background notes.

Classic Poems

Shawn Harmsen

A concise and affordable resource for the mass communication course, Media Essentials provides a flexible, informative, and relevant breakdown of what the media is, how it works, and how it impacts today's most talked-about subjects. From #metoo to content streaming to social media and politics, students learn how a wide variety of recent developments have impacted the mass-media landscape--and how past innovation and change have informed our current media world. Media Essentials is available with LaunchPad, a robust online platform designed to help students fully engage with course content--and with the world of mass media. From our acclaimed LearningCurve adaptive quizzing, which helps students learn and retain concepts, to compelling features like an interactive e-book and a variety of entertaining and thought-provoking video clips, LaunchPad gets students connected with--and interested in--the information they need to succeed in class.

Media Essentials

Traces the brief but creative lives of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontèe. Includes excerpts from their journals, poetry and prose.

The Brontës

This book combines a patient testimony with a scientific primer on empty nose syndrome (ENS), which is a debilitating medical condition resulting from aggressive nose surgery (on the turbinates). The turbinates are vital nasal organs that heat, humidify, filter, direct, streamline, sense, and pressurize airflow, while also providing airflow resistance to the lungs. When they are damaged or removed, a host of symptoms may result: breathlessness, nasal dryness, throat irritation, thick mucus, disturbed sleep, and sometimes chronic sinusitis. An award-winning book endorsed by top doctors familiar with ENS, Having Nasal Surgery? helps the reader to avoid ENS, to lower the risk of ENS if surgery is chosen, to explore non-surgical treatments, and to ultimately manage ENS. Jim Cox, Editor-in-Chief of Midwest Book Review, stated: "Invaluable reading for medical students, physicians, and non-specialist general readers, 'Having Nasal Surgery' is especially recommended for personal, professional, and community library Health & Medicine reference collections and reading lists."

Having Nasal Surgery? Don't You Become an Empty Nose Victim!

Understanding addiction is the only way to help a drug addict overcome their problem. This book helps you not only understand addicts and their behaviors, but also to identify and understand the triggers that make addicts continue to abuse drugs. Sections are divided into the four main types of addicts. At the end of each section you are given easy action steps you can use to speed up and ease the process of recovery for any addict. This book is for anyone who loves an addict. It was written by Christopher Martin, a former drug addict who was addicted to some of the worst drugs you can imagine for over a decade. He has seen things firsthand that no doctor or addiction specialist will ever know about. If you've spent your time worrying about an addict, trying to help them with rehab, detox and interventions this book is for you. The truth is, most of the things taught in colleges and in treatment centers don't work. If they did work then rehab would not be the revolving door that it is. Treatment centers and specialists are not trained to help the root causes of drug and alcohol addiction. Most time addicts come out worse off than when they started. To beat addiction you need to understand what caused it, and what continues to trigger the addict's brain - they are not always the same thing. Addicts and alcoholics tend to only listen to other addicts and alcoholics. That's because they can understand and relate to each other. This book gives you the knowledge and experience to do the same. Now you can help the addict you love because you will know more about what they are going through, and how to stop it. This is a short, easy to read action plan that dives into the nitty gritty behaviors that drug addicts try to hide. Knowing and understanding these things gives you an advantage over addiction, which will help you callout your addict and make them understand what they are doing. Often addicts do not realize the things they do until it's too late. This book helps you put an end to that vicious cycle. If you love someone you feel like you are losing to drug addiction this book is for you. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There is a positive outcome waiting just around the corner for you. Take advantage of the real-world experience this author has to offer. Don't wait until it's too late. Don't let addiction carry someone you love even further down the wrong road. Get your copy now.

Identifying and Understanding Your Addict's Behavior to Speed Up and Ease Recovery

How to Help an Addict

"Christopher does a brilliant job of explaining the tools for managing the social, spiritual, mental, and physical aspects of chronic illness. I loved that the book contains straightforward tips for patients, their caregivers, and loved ones. Every chapter includes useful advice." —Edith Wairimu, 5-Star Readers' Favorite Book Review “Finding Joy is a vital guide on how to best manage and navigate life with a chronic illness."—James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art +Do you deal with a chronic, frequently debilitating, or invisible condition? +Does your condition include chronic fatigue, persistent pain, frequent infections, high blood sugar, nervous system dysfunction, lung disease, and/or irritable bowels? +If you answered “yes” to any of the above or if you suffer from ANY chronic condition for that matter, the question then becomes: In spite of continuous physical suffering, how can you experience good emotions, enjoy satisfying relationships, and get the most out of your healthcare? As a school psychologist and patient with multiple invisible chronic illnesses, I want to challenge, encourage, and inspire you to do just that. “I have had various invisible chronic illnesses for nearly forty years, [but] I was still able to find suggestions that will help me. So many of the things I have gone through are reflected in this book. I highly recommend this comprehensive book.” —Sue on Amazon.ca "I’ve had an illness since age 14 and I still suffer from illness now. The author has some great tips and tricks for dealing with illness, in general, and the mental health of someone with a chronic illness. A must read for anyone with an invisible chronic illness." —Carey's Reviews on Goodreads.com “This book was a great encouragement to me that in spite of my pain and suffering, I can still live an abundant life.” —Bob on Amazon.com “Finding Joy provides a comprehensive, evidence-based roadmap for not only coping with chronic illness, but personally optimizing self-growth and resiliency from the experience.” —Joanne Joseph, PhD, professor of psychology and interim dean of the College of Health Sciences, SUNY Polytechnic Institute, and author of The Resilient Child: Preparing Today’s Youth for Tomorrow’s World “This book offers great value for anyone with chronic illness as it contains clear, practical, and actionable insights and steps that can be naturally implemented into daily life. An engaging, easy, and helpful read. Highly recommended.” —Alla Bogdanova, MSc, MIM, co-founder and past president of the International Empty Nose Syndrome Association

Proven Strategies for Discovering Happiness, Meaning, and Fulfillment

Finding Joy with an Invisible Chronic Illness

A haunting, fast-paced war memoir, Chasing Alexander is Christopher Martin's account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A failing college student obsessed with Alexander the Great, Martin enlists in the US Marines to become a different sort of man, a man like Alexander. From his difficulty at boot camp to his disappointing deployment to Iraq, Martin fears he may never follow in Alexander's footsteps. ﻿Then, after a strategy change, Martin and his unit arrive in Marjah, "the bleeding ulcer" of Afghanistan. There he faces heat, fleas, and a hidden enemy. As the casualties mount, Martin struggles to control his emotions and his newfound sense of power. Chasing Alexander looks unflinchingly at the seductive side of war, and its awful consequences.

A Marine's Journey Across Iraq and Afghanistan

Chasing Alexander

"The Restoration Project" explores The Twelve Steps of Humility, the heart of "The Rule of Saint Benedict," revealing how this ancient guide leads to wisdom, strength, and love. The book weaves prayer, poetry, and art with contemporary stories of brokenness, joy, and discovery to lead the reader to a place of spiritual renewal. The book is a cornerstone of a national initiative, also called The Restoration Project.

The Restoration Project

Part of a series of magazine-style books on popular texts for GCSE, this book deals with The Diary of Anne Frank. It encourages pupils to become actively involved in researching the texts and in exploring their own responses.

The Diary of Anne Frank

A biography of the English author who has been called the first great science fiction writer, with a discussion of his works.

Christopher Martin

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