What is media research and how is it done? This book offers detailed introductions and practical guidance for all aspects of media research, from developing a research question and choosing sources to interpreting media texts, applying qualitative and quantitative methods, conducting interviews, and much more.You will encounter:A ′Fundamentals′ section covering eight big topics like ′what is method?′A global perspective reflected in case studies of media res...

In Qur experience, there is bias and inconsistency in much of what is written about the effects of divorce on offspring. When interested students have asked for appropriate resources, we have been hard-pressed to respond without providing a long list of contradictory sources. Much of what is currently available reflects the cultural bias that parental divorce is one of the worst things that can happen to offspring. This book has grown out of our desire to provide a comprehensive, accessibl...

From same-sex marriages to hate-crime laws, gay, lesbian and bisexual people have fought an uphill battle to gain equal rights. Now a comprehensive new reference collects in one volume the strategies, hard data, and legal arguments that are central to the fight for equality in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) life.Up-to-date and readable, Everyday Activism is the one essential book that provides the basic facts on the key questions faced by LGB citizens.

In 1941, influential US publishing magnate Henry Luce declared the world was in the midst of the first great American century, believing his nation held the power and vision to lead and transform the world. What did a newly outward-looking and hegemonic United States mean for its northern neighbour? North of America is a sharp-eyed volume providing a unique look at postwar Canada, bringing to the fore the opinions and perceptions of a broad range of Canadians – from consumers to d...

Building a Special Relationship offers thoughtful insight into Canadian and American foreign relations during the 1950s, when Canada and the United States found new diplomatic footing as allies in the shadow of the Cold War. This book shows how the Eisenhower years were crucial in forming the bilateral relationship that currently exists between Canada and the United States. Under President Eisenhower and Prime Ministers St. Laurent and Diefenbaker, policy makers on both sides of t...

Jim Hawkins, the son of an innkeeper, longs for adventure. One of the inn's guests, a coarse old bully named Billy Bones, reveals a map showing the whereabouts of buried treasure. After Bones dies, Jim and his mother flee with the map to Squire John Trelawney, outwitting other pirates who were chasing Bones. With Trelawney's friend Dr. Livesey, the squire charters a schooner carrying a band of pirates led by Long John Silver. Excitement and heroic action await Jim Hawkins as he seeks to fo...

“Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest—Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!”When young Jim Hawkins discovers a mysterious treasure map in the sea-chest of a deceased, rum-soaked pirate, his quiet life at the Admiral Benbow Inn is instantly shattered. Thrust into a perilous voyage across the unforgiving ocean aboard the Hispaniola, Jim is soon racing against time to uncover the legendary loot of the bloodthirsty Captain Flint. But he is not alone. The ship’s charmi...

A chance encounter in a Parisian café leads to a series of unfortunate misunderstandings that threaten to bring to a premature and irreconcilable end the envisioned marriage between a pair of young lovers. When eligible bachelor Dick Naseby meets the lovely young Esther Van Tromp - a woman estranged from her cherished father, a talented artist whose success takes him around the world - he is too well-bred and smitten with her to confess the truth: he knows her father well. He wrongly belie...

This classic of Robert Louis Stevenson, charts the tale of David Balfour in the Year 1751: Who upon arriving at his uncles house upon his Fathers death, is then promptly Kidnapped on his orders. All seems lost until a chance encounter with one Alan Breck, which leads to adventure, shipwreck, and a journey across the Highlands of Scotlands, pursued by Redcoats in a land still rife with unrest in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.Believed to based in parts on the real life...

This timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson of man's struggle with his dual nature is brought to life in this audiobook edition.

A chance meeting in a pub in Debenham leads our narrator to uncover the dark secrets of two men. One, the local village drunk, the other a supposedly well to do London Doctor. What common thread could possibly connect the two? The answer to that question, reveals a history of murder, and blasphemy in the name of early medical science...A short story by Robert Louis Stevenson, narrated by Michael Ward.

Tensions run deep, survival runs deeper.Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, Kidnapped (1886) is a gripping narrative told by David Balfour, a young Whig and Lowlander, who is tracked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder, kidnap and shipwreck and, in the company of Alan Breck, a Jacobite, escapes through the Highlands.Kidnapped is an adventure story in which the tensions run deep, not only between pursuer and ...