This book offers a provocative challenge to the accepted norms in media studies and psychology. The author begins with a comprehensive review of all the research on the effect of violent movies and television on aggression and crime. Having shown the lack of scientific support f…
A number of research studies about project manager skills needed in the future say that soft, or people, skills are core necessities during the next 10 years at least. Enthusiasm, persistence, and patience of the project managers are three key skills to achieve more successful p…
"Beckett and Badiou offers a new reading of Samuel Beckett's work on the basis of a full, critical account of the thought of Alain Badiou. Badiou is the most eminent French philosopher alive today. His devotion to Beckett's work has been lifelong. Yet for Badiou philosophy must …
Claws of the Panda tells the story of Canada's failure to construct a workable policy towards the People's Republic of China. In particular the book tells of Ottawa's failure to recognize and confront the efforts by the Chinese Communist Party to infiltrate and influence Canadia…
"This book takes a fresh look at corporate power in the regulatory process. It examines how corporations seek to prevent, shape, make or revoke regulation. The central argument is that in doing so, corporations utilise distinct power resources as experts, innovators and operator…
Samuel Beckett is one of the most important figures in the history of Irish literature, and he continues to influence successive generations of writers. In Beckett and Contemporary Irish Writing, Stephen Watt searches for the 'Beckettian' impulse in Irish literature by tracing t…
