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Comics Beyond Text and Image: On the Substance of Visual Narration (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)
by Benjamin FraserComics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.The book centers on the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It begins from the position that narrative in comics is corporeal, expressed in and through the visual bodies into which the page can be divided analytically, and from the interaction of the human body with the comics body. Drawing on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, the author argues for the primary role of visual narration over textual narration, develops a theory of the comics text as a cohesive and variegated cartography, and shows how thought is expressed in the extensive space of the comics page. This theory is then applied in snapshots of individual comics works that each in their own way continue the philosophical discussions of embodiment.This book moves beyond traditional modes of narration or narrative and will appeal to students and scholars of comics studies, as well as to those thinking about visual narrative more broadly, and to scholars of Spinoza and Deleuze.
Commercial Real Estate Investing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk Management, Strategic Valuation, and Enhanced Returns
by Randall ZislerThe hard, unfiltered truth about the biggest myths and mistakes in real estate investing Commercial Real Estate Investing: An Evidence-Based Approach to Risk Management, Strategic Valuation, and Enhanced Returns is an evidence-based guide and critique of investment practices that teaches investors how to avoid uncompensated risk, improve risk-adjusted returns, and avoid wealth-destroying myths. Each chapter includes an executive summary and numerous exhibits. The book also features interviews with senior real estate industry leaders. The author, Dr. Randall Zisler, legendary advisor to the largest global institutional investors, former Goldman Sachs real estate research director and Princeton University professor, has completed over $6 billion of institutional transactions. Not beholden to any investor or money manager, he is uniquely positioned to speak truth to capital and power; he is completely objective. Topics include: Investment challenges like COVID, inflation, diversification, liquidity, downside, development risk, leverage, underfunded public pension funds, default, obsolescence, and the Winner's Curse The building blocks of real estate, including public and private equity and debt Property types, such as housing, retail, self-storage, industrial warehouses, and office Public policy, including land use controls, rent stabilization, affordability, and sprawl; Risk-based simulations of deals with leverage, limited and general partners and fees Investor checklist of risks and opportunities Sidestepping industry platitudes and abstraction, Commercial Real Estate Investing is a must-read for all real estate professionals as well as novices who seek better decisions with greater confidence while avoiding one-size-fits-all solutions.
Commercial Scale Production of Nanomedicines
by Aliasgar Shahiwala Vandana B. Patravale Ajay J. KhopadeThe commercial production of nanomedicines involves challenges related to scalability, reproducibility, safety, and regulatory approvals. It is essential to have access to a preparation method that can produce large quantities of nanomedicines in a scalable way while maintaining a consistently high level of quality and batch-to-batch reproducibility. This book provides comprehensive guidance on the commercial-scale production of nanotechnology-based products, facilities requirements, and quality assurance. Authored by industrial and academic experts Offers regulatory guidance on the chemistry, manufacturing, and controls (CMC) of nanoparticles and commercial translation of nanomedicines from the lab to market Features case studies of successfully marketed nanotechnologies This book serves as a valuable resource for students and researchers in pharmaceutics, pharmaceutical technology, drug delivery, drug targeting, and biomedical engineering.It also supports industrial personnel working in nanomedicine manufacturing with the latest updates and those seeking to switch or extend their current product range to nanomedicines or start a new venture in nanomedicine production.
Commodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners
by Paul E. PetersonCommodity Derivatives: A Guide for Future Practitioners describes the origins and uses of these important markets. Commodities are often used as inputs in the production of other products, and commodity prices are notoriously volatile. Derivatives include forwards, futures, options, and swaps; all are types of contracts that allow buyers and sellers to establish the price at one time and exchange the commodity at another.This straightforward book provides the necessary theoretical background and covers the practical applications that employers expect new hires to understand. Detailed examples are provided for using derivatives to manage prices by hedging, while strategies are presented for speculating on derivatives. This book also examines the impact of basis behavior on hedging results and shows how the basis can be bought and sold like a commodity. Examples are coordinated across chapters using consistent prices and formats, and industry terminology is used so students can become familiar with standard terms and concepts. This second edition has been fully revised and includes new chapters on futures pricing and risk measures for commodity markets, as well as expanded material on commodity swaps.A test bank of questions and problems also accompanies this edition, which instructors can use for homework assignments, review purposes, or exams. This book is essential reading for students planning careers as commodity merchandizers, traders, and related industry positions.
Commoning Labour and Democracy at Work: When Workers Take Over (Routledge Critical Development Studies)
by Dario Azzellini Marcelo VietaThis book investigates the return of workers’ self-management in recent decades as responses to recurring neoliberal crises. In particular, the book homes in on worker-recuperated enterprises (WREs), a promising form of workers’ self-organization whereby workers restart troubled, bankrupt, or shuttered companies as cooperatives or other forms of democratic workplace.The book argues that WREs are prefigurative of new forms of work based on equality and sustainability. Framed by the concepts of autogestión, the labour commons, and prefigurative ethico-political practices, the book argues that WREs contribute to the construction of more directly democratic community economies. Drawing on a range of contemporary case studies from numerous countries in the Global South and North, as well as new theories of workers’ self-management, the book contributes a critical development, political economic, and class-struggle Marxist perspective to the re-emergent labour question within anti-systemic social movements, while theorizing the transformative nature of WREs for workers, work organizations, and communities.Bringing a class-analysis back into current discourses and debates concerning democracy at work and alternatives to global capital, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of development studies, labour studies, political economy, sociology of development, sociology of work, and political science.
Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire: From the Paris Commune to the Present (Routledge Advances in Democratic Theory)
by Gaard Kets and Mathijs van de SandeIn the 72 days of its existence, the Paris Commune of 1871 was a political and social laboratory where Parisians would experiment with radically democratic urban self-government. Various radical theorists and traditions have claimed the Commune as their own: from the well-known account of Karl Marx and Lenin’s State and Revolution to the anarchists Mikhail Bakunin or Peter Kropotkin, and from the council communists in Germany around the end of the Great War to the soixante-huitards in France.In Communalism as a Democratic Repertoire Gaard Kets and Mathijs van de Sande bring together historians, sociologists, political scientists, theorists, and philosophers to reconstruct how "the Commune" has continued to serve as a source of inspiration to different movements and tendencies throughout the past 150 years, and how communalist thought and practices help us reimagine what radical democracy may look like today. Divided into three parts, contributors begin by exploring how the Paris Commune shaped political debates and influenced various theoretical oeuvres as well as political practices. Part II develops communalist ideas or strategies in a contemporary context. Part III sheds light on three different contemporary communalist practices in the Middle East, Europe, North America, and Latin America.Bridging the gap between historical and theoretical accounts of "the Commune," this book will be enlightening for students of democracy and a valuable resource to scholars and activists interested in the problems and possibilities facing democracy today.
Communicating Esther: The Diffusion and Reception of a Biblical Dream (Routledge Research in Religion, Media and Culture)
by Menahem Blondheim Elihu KatzThis book presents a communications approach to the biblical story of Esther and the ritual that it anchors, the Jewish carnival of Purim. Esther, the second-most written about book of the Bible, is thought to be based on a tale that circulated around 400 BC, and was later transcribed and brought before the Jewish Sages with the request that it be canonized. It was, though God is not mentioned in it, with its focus instead on glamour, drinking, sex, violence, and genocidal plots. Despite the reservations of many at its inclusion in the canon, Esther formed the basis for an extremely popular Jewish ritual: the holiday of Purim.This book discusses how story and holiday combine all of the elements of a communication process – production of content, choice of medium, seal of approval, diffusion over time and space, and promotion of various forms of reception and reaction. It is a case study of "how culture works" and how the text itself is about communicating. It will appeal to all researchers of communication and religion, communication and the Bible, and communication and Judaism, and more generally to readers who are interested in communication or fascinated by culture.
Communicating Food to Children: Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives (Routledge Research in Language and Communication)
by Daniela CesiriThis book offers a systematic account of communication on food aimed at children, investigating verbal and visual strategies used in food media in English from synchronic and diachronic perspectives.While there is a wide body of research on food discourse, there has been little to date on children as a particular category of actors within food-related communication. Cesiri integrates work from corpus linguistics, genre analysis, and multimodality to analyze verbal and visual components in media that transmit specialist knowledge and familiarize children with foundational food concepts, the extra-linguistic factors that shape food-related communication, and the ways in which different genres represent culinary traditions to children. The volume features an extensive corpus of technical products such as cookbooks, commercial products such as advertisements, and institutional products such as leaflets from international institutions. In applying a multi-layered perspective to a diverse range of food-related communication materials, Cesiri seeks to unpack whether potential differences in communicative strategies can be attributed to the source culture of interactants or those shared by a specific community of actors, and in turn, further insights into the nature of domain-specific discourse.This volume will appeal to scholars in discourse analysis, multimodality, corpus linguistics, and childhood studies.
Communication amid Mega-Crises
by Deborah Sellnow-Richmond Marta LukacovicTaking up the unique challenges of mega-crisis events, this book provides a framework for rethinking crisis approaches and designing a world that is better prepared to avoid or minimize these catastrophic events.In this book, the authors argue that mega-crisis events and phenomena, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change, necessitate a shift from traditional managerial approaches to crises that operate within an assumed pre-crisis, crisis, post-crisis framework. They instead acknowledge the structural nature of mega-crises while putting at the center the role of communication to address these crises. The book considers the structural, social, political, economic, and cultural tenets of effective communication before and during mega-crisis events. It examines issues of leadership, inclusive messaging, and the politicization of risk, while addressing emerging challenges like the impact of AI and misinformation.This book is suited to advanced students and scholars within crisis communication, emergency management, public health, public administration, and interdisciplinary studies, and will be of interest to researchers in the public policy and community building arenas.
Communication and Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of ICCIS 2024, Volume 2 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1372)
by Lipo Wang Harish Sharma Vivek Shrivastava Ashish Kumar TripathiThis book gathers selected research papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS 2024), organized by Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India, during November 8–9, 2024. This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research work involving cutting-edge technologies for communication and intelligent systems. Over the past few years, advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have sparked new research efforts around the globe, which explore novel ways of developing intelligent systems and smart communication technologies. The book presents single- and multi-disciplinary research on these themes to make the latest results available in a single, readily accessible source. The work is presented in four volumes.
Communication and Intelligent Systems: Proceedings of ICCIS 2024, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1374)
by Lipo Wang Harish Sharma Vivek Shrivastava Ashish Kumar TripathiThis book gathers selected research papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Communication and Intelligent Systems (ICCIS 2024), organized by Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT), Bhopal, India, during November 8–9, 2024. This book presents a collection of state-of-the-art research work involving cutting-edge technologies for communication and intelligent systems. Over the past few years, advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning have sparked new research efforts around the globe, which explore novel ways of developing intelligent systems and smart communication technologies. The book presents single- and multi-disciplinary research on these themes to make the latest results available in a single, readily accessible source. The work is presented in four volumes.
Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field
by Andrew C. Billings Michael L. Butterworth Nicky LewisCommunication and Sport: Surveying the Field examines a wide array of topics necessary for students to understand sports media, rhetoric, culture, and organizations from micro to macro-level issues. Everything from youth to amateur to professional sports is addressed through varied useful lens such as mythology, community, and identity. Communication and Sport introduces readers to the traditions and vocabulary found in communication scholarship as it then explains what distinguishes communication from related disciplinary approaches, such as sociology, anthropology, history, and cultural studies. Subsequent chapters explore such issues as: fan cultures; racial identity and gender in sports media; politics and nationality in sports; parent/child relationships and player/coach interactions in sports; sports and religion; and crisis communication in sports organization. In response to changes in the sporting landscape, the Fifth Edition features an extensive structural change and reorganization with newly designed units and chapters in addition to introducing a new coauthor Nicky Lewis.
Communication and Sport: Surveying the Field
by Andrew C. Billings Michael L. Butterworth Nicky LewisCommunication and Sport introduces readers to the traditions and vocabulary found in communication scholarship as it then explains what distinguishes communication from related disciplinary approaches, such as sociology, anthropology, history, and cultural studies. Subsequent chapters explore such issues as: fan cultures; racial identity and gender in sports media; politics and nationality in sports; parent/child relationships and player/coach interactions in sports; sports and religion; and crisis communication in sports organization. In response to changes in the sporting landscape, the Fifth Edition features an extensive structural change and reorganization with newly designed units and chapters in addition to introducing a new coauthor Nicky Lewis.
Communication for Effective Stage Management: A Collaborative Production Tool
by Casey L. SammarcoCommunication for Effective Stage Management: A Collaborative Production Tool provides a comprehensive examination of communication theory through the lens of effective stage management and offers ideas and methods for stage managers to enhance their communicative presence throughout a theatrical process.This book offers new, extensive in-depth discussion of communication techniques and how these methods apply to the role of the theatrical stage manager as the facilitator of information. Part I dives into the methods and principles of business communication employed by stage managers and discusses how these techniques are best implemented throughout a theatrical process, all supported with real-life examples. It also offers discussion questions and resources to enhance the content and encourages the reader to self-analyze their own communication techniques during the production process. Part II contains excerpts from other industry professionals who offer their own unique perspective as to the collaborative and communicative work of stage managers and how their own artistic careers are impacted by the communication systems of a stage management team.This book is best suited for advanced stage management students, professional theatre practitioners, and theatrical educators.
Communication in Action
by Jonathan Michael BowmanThrough a narrative, practical approach enriched with inclusive examples, Communication in Action inspires students to think critically about the role of effective communication in driving meaningful change within their own lives and communities. Author Jonathan Bowman empowers students to apply fundamental communication principles in daily life, fostering self-awareness and an understanding of diverse perspectives. Each chapter includes activities that motivate students to engage with their online and in-person social networks, practicing effective communication for personal and professional growth. Bowman also challenges students to confront issues of power, privilege, and social justice by encouraging them to take impactful actions—whether through direct interaction or civic involvement and engagement. With engaging discussions of core concepts and contemporary examples, this text not only encourages students to explore how effective communication can drive change in their lives but also inspires a new wave of communicators committed to fostering community well-being.
Communication in Action
by Jonathan Michael BowmanThrough a narrative, practical approach enriched with inclusive examples, Communication in Action inspires students to think critically about the role of effective communication in driving meaningful change within their own lives and communities. Author Jonathan Bowman empowers students to apply fundamental communication principles in daily life, fostering self-awareness and an understanding of diverse perspectives. Each chapter includes activities that motivate students to engage with their online and in-person social networks, practicing effective communication for personal and professional growth. Bowman also challenges students to confront issues of power, privilege, and social justice by encouraging them to take impactful actions—whether through direct interaction or civic involvement and engagement. With engaging discussions of core concepts and contemporary examples, this text not only encourages students to explore how effective communication can drive change in their lives but also inspires a new wave of communicators committed to fostering community well-being.
Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication
by Steve Duck David T. McMahanCommunication in Everyday Life explores fundamental concepts, theories, and skills, enabling students to apply the material to their personal and professional lives. With a thematic integration of the relational perspective and a focus on demonstrating its direct relevance to their own everyday communication, authors Steve Duck and David T. McMahan help students build a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, while developing practical skills such as listening, critical thinking, effective use of technology, understanding nonverbal communication, creating persuasive strategies, and managing group conflicts. With updated coverage of media and technology, new examples, and updated references, the Fifth Edition offers timely insights into modern communication topics central to everyday life.
Communication in Everyday Life: A Survey of Communication
by Steve Duck David T. McMahanCommunication in Everyday Life explores fundamental concepts, theories, and skills, enabling students to apply the material to their personal and professional lives. With a thematic integration of the relational perspective and a focus on demonstrating its direct relevance to their own everyday communication, authors Steve Duck and David T. McMahan help students build a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, while developing practical skills such as listening, critical thinking, effective use of technology, understanding nonverbal communication, creating persuasive strategies, and managing group conflicts. With updated coverage of media and technology, new examples, and updated references, the Fifth Edition offers timely insights into modern communication topics central to everyday life.
Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking
by Steve Duck David T. McMahanCommunication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking offers an engaging look at the inseparable connection between relationships and communication. Steve Duck and David T. McMahan combine theory and application to introduce students to fundamental communication concepts. Their book provides a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, while helping readers master practical communication skills, such as listening and critical thinking, using technology to communicate, understanding nonverbal communication, creative persuasive strategies, and managing group conflict. The Fourth Edition includes practical instruction on communicating interpersonally, in groups, in interviews and on making effective presentations. The authors inspire students to think critically, connect communication theory to their own experiences, and enhance their communication skills along the way.
Communication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking
by Steve Duck David T. McMahanCommunication in Everyday Life: The Basic Course Edition With Public Speaking offers an engaging look at the inseparable connection between relationships and communication. Steve Duck and David T. McMahan combine theory and application to introduce students to fundamental communication concepts. Their book provides a strong foundation in communication concepts, theory, and research, while helping readers master practical communication skills, such as listening and critical thinking, using technology to communicate, understanding nonverbal communication, creative persuasive strategies, and managing group conflict. The Fourth Edition includes practical instruction on communicating interpersonally, in groups, in interviews and on making effective presentations. The authors inspire students to think critically, connect communication theory to their own experiences, and enhance their communication skills along the way.
Communications and Networking: 19th International Conference, ChinaCom 2024, Chongqing, China, November 2–3, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #646)
by Song Guo Xiaojie Wang Zhaolong NingThe two-volume set LNICST 645 + 646 constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Communications and Networking in China, ChinaCom 2024, held in Chongqing, China, during November 2–3, 2024. The 40 full papers and 2 Short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. They focus on Wireless Communications and MIMO systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Augmented Reality, Edge Computing and the Internet of Things, Signal Processing and Optimization Algorithms, Task Scheduling and blockchain. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Part I: Wireless Communications and MIMO systems; Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Augmented RealityPart II: Edge Computing and the Internet of Things; Signal Processing and Optimization Algorithms; Task Scheduling and Blockchain
Community Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (Community Development Research and Practice Series)
by Grey Magaiza Savathrie Margie MaistryCommunity Development in Sub-Saharan Africa explores the dynamics of community development thinking, processes, and approaches in contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. This edited collection prioritises how localised community processes foster transformation in resource-poor communities. The book emphasises examples of community resilience and recovery using locally informed approaches that respect local cultures and ways of being. The book further highlights the formative, yet understudied role of community development practice in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on how local actions are critical in reducing poverty, enhancing local innovations and sustainability, diversifying livelihoods, and strengthening the architecture for transformative futures. The primary audience is scholars and students with interests in community development, history of development, international development, African Studies, and development theorising, as well as community development policymakers and practitioners.
Community Structure Analysis from Social Networks
by Sajid Yousuf Bhat, Fouzia Jan, and Muhammad AbulaishThis book addresses social and complex network analysis challenges, exploring social network structures, dynamic networks, and hierarchical communities. Emphasizing network structure heterogeneity, including directionality and dynamics, it covers community structure concepts like distinctness, overlap, and hierarchy. The book aims to present challenges and innovative solutions in community structure detection, incorporating diversity into problem-solving. Furthermore, it explores the applications of identified community structures within network analysis, offering insights into social network dynamics. Investigates the practical applications and uses of community structures identified from network analysis across various domains of real-world networks Highlights the challenges encountered in analyzing community structures and presents state-of-the-art approaches designed to address these challenges Spans into various domains like business intelligence, marketing, and epidemics, examining influential node detection and crime within social networks Explores methodologies for evaluating the quality and accuracy of community detection models Examines a diverse range of challenges and offers innovative solutions in the field of detecting community structures from social networks The book is a ready reference for researchers and scholars of Computer Science and Computational Social Systems working in the area of Community Structure Analysis from Social Network Data.
Community-Engaged Research with Marginalized Populations
by Beth M. Huebner Janet Garcia-Hallett Kelli E Canada Ashley GivensThis text is a concise, accessible, and applied how-to guide for people interested in conducting community-engaged research. The authors define specific community-engaged research approaches, and then present a variety of strategies, resources, and tips throughout the book in the context of social justice and ethics. Written by authors who teach research methods and who conduct community-engaged research, the book benefits from a range of case studies and examples from areas as diverse as mental health, criminal-legal research, and urban planning. A short companion guide posted on the Resources tab above is designed for research teams to use collaboratively to build capacity in carrying out their research within communities.
Community-Engaged Research with Marginalized Populations
by Beth M. Huebner Janet Garcia-Hallett Kelli E Canada Ashley GivensThis text is a concise, accessible, and applied how-to guide for people interested in conducting community-engaged research. The authors define specific community-engaged research approaches, and then present a variety of strategies, resources, and tips throughout the book in the context of social justice and ethics. Written by authors who teach research methods and who conduct community-engaged research, the book benefits from a range of case studies and examples from areas as diverse as mental health, criminal-legal research, and urban planning. A short companion guide posted on the Resources tab above is designed for research teams to use collaboratively to build capacity in carrying out their research within communities.