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Inside Jihadism : understanding jihadi movements worldwide

Tác giả: Farhad Khosrokhavar

Jihad is the most organized force against Western capitalism since the Soviet era. Yet jihadism is multifaceted and complex, much broader than Al Qaeda alone. In the first wide-ranging introduction to today's rapidly growing jihadism, Khosrokhavar explains how two key movements variously influence ...

LikeWar : the weaponization of social media

Tác giả: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking

Through the weaponization of social media, the internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the internet. Terrorists livestream their attacks, “Twitter wars” produce real-world casualties, and viral misinformation alters not just the result of battles, but the very ...

Rhetoric in civic life : 2nd ed.

Tác giả: Catherine Helen Palczewski, Richard Ice, John Fritch

Rhetoric in Civic Life provides a richly textured, conceptually organized introduction to rhetorical theory and concepts. Sophisticated yet accessible, it guides students in exploring rhetorical action in a democratic society.

Model-making : materials and methods

Tác giả: David Neat

The book looks at how these materials behave and how to get the best out of them, then illustrates a range of relatively simple methods of building, shaping, modelling, surfacing and painting with them. Useful features of the book include: The different uses of models in various disciplines The ...

The sea we swim in : how stories work in a data-driven world

Tác giả: Frank Rose

In The Sea We Swim In, Frank Rose leads us to a new understanding of stories and their role in our lives. For decades, experts from many fields-psychologists, economists, advertising and marketing executives-failed to register the power of narrative. Scientists thought stories were frivolous. ...