"The purpose of the final evaluation was to provide the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) and the U.S. Agency for International Development with an assessment of the relevance, effectiveness, and lessons learned from OTI’s mega-program in Afghanistan. Since evaluations of the media program ha
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d been undertaken and a study of management issues was planned, this evaluation addressed the following fundamental questions: 1. Was OTI strategic? 2. Did OTI promote government legitimacy? 3. Did OTI’s use of participatory democratic processes increase citizen’s connections to each other and to local authorities?" (Executive summary, page 6)
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"The author is the former Manager of the Centre of the Book's Community Publishing Project, and here describes the activities of this innovative new project. The Centre provides funding and technical support for new small publishers, individual writers, and writers' groups in South Africa and helps
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them to develop publishing skills." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 1015)
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"The Brazilian publishing market is optimistic about its near future. According to the Brazilian Book Chamber (CBL - Câmara Brasileira do Livro), the main organization of the sector in Brazil, which comprises all professionals at the national level, the prospects are “favorable, considered to be
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the best in 20 years.” In the short term, the forecast for 2005 is for sales expansion and growth in book production, with title prices staying the same for the next two years without scheduled increases. Both factors result from government initiatives that became effective at the beginning of 2005, for the purpose of reducing taxes related to the book publishing sector. In the long term, throughout the remaining of this decade, a general market expansion is expected with an increase in the number of readers." (Executive summary)
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"Esta es precisamente la característica del periódico CONOSUR Ñawpaqman: recuperar las voces cotidianas. Y es precsiamente lo que Fernando Garcés ha logrado en su investigación: rastrear, a partir de la inscripción del discurso oral, un aspecto de la etnografía de la comunicación quechua, al
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recoger la creatividad de los hablantes y propiciar la divulgación de los enunciados tal y como se generan desde la identidad quechua. Es una transferencia "de la voz al papel", en la cual los individuos y la colectividad se mantienen con voz propia, son dueños de su palabra." (Cubierta del libro)
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"Wie kein Krieg zuvor war der Irak-Krieg von 2003/04 ein »Bilderkrieg«, in dem die Kriegsparteien Bilder als Waffen einsetzten und via Bild kommunizierten. Im Anschluß an seine große Studie »Bilder des Krieges - Krieg der Bilder« (2004) untersucht der Flensburger Historiker und Sozialwissensch
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aftler Gerhard Paul erstmals und umfassend die visuelle Rüstungsspirale des Irak-Krieges, die in den Hinrichtungsvideos und den Horrorbildern aus Abu Ghraib und Falludscha ihren Gipfelpunkt erreichte. Er rekonstruiert die Planung und die Inszenierung des Angriffs als sauberen »Blitzkrieg«, die symbolische Politik der Besetzung und Unterwerfung sowie die fotografischen Ikonen, die der Krieg produzierte. Paul untersucht die unterschiedlichen Perspektiven der Akteure - angefangen von den Militärs, über die »embedded correspondents« bis hin zu den Freelance-Reportern - auf das Geschehen und die vielfältigen »Bildstörungen« in Gestalt von Weblogs und Warblogs, die das gewünschte Kriegsbild immer wieder unterliefen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"This book can benefit people who work with children and those who are interested in beginning puppetry or who want to expand their puppetry knowledge base. It is meant to be an aid to research, an idea starter, and a curiosity tickler. If you have always wanted to try shadow puppetry, for instance,
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you might want to know a little about the cultures that use shadow puppetry. Then you might want to be led to some books that would give you ideas for trying out shadow puppetry. The titles of suggested books at the end of each entry will lead you to the bibliography with its annotations, which in turn will give you information about the recommended books. Reading the annotations will help to refine your choices and point you toward the first title to try. For example, if you’re a classroom teacher interested in shadow puppetry, you might gravitate to Wisniewskis’ Worlds of Shadow, a book written for teachers. The same title might also appeal to a health worker with a minimum budget and small amount of equipment space who wants to use puppets to involve children in learning about healthy living." (Preface)
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"The article treats the two sides of book policy – prohibitive and creative, on the example of the Republic of Estonia. If the earlier period of book history was dominated by persecution of authors and prohibition of books, then the contemporary democratic societies manifest freedom of expression,
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stimulating the dissemination of the most diverse ideas." (Abstract, page 10)
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