"A comprehensive guide for authors – especially students and budding scholars – designed to facilitate communication and understanding between authors and editors at CODESRIA, covering aspects of presentation and organization of manuscripts, notes and reference systems, tables and illustrations,
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obtaining permissions to reproduce material, preparing text on disk, dealing with copy editing queries and proofs, preparing an index, and more. While principally designed for CODESRIA authors, it will be useful for any author preparing a manuscript for publication." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2454)
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"This manual aims to help researchers enhance their communication skills and encourages them to think about the potential audiences for and beneficiaries of their research at the inception of every project. The manual highlights principles and procedures that have proven successful in presenting res
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earch results to peers, colleagues, the media, policymakers, and interest groups. It includes guidelines for targeting and reaching selected audiences as well as exercises for applying those guidelines. It invites researchers, workshop participants, and other readers to use their own recent work to develop immediately useful, usable communication strategies and documents. Although this manual outlines the principles for communicating food policy research, we caution our readers to use common sense and adapt the principles to the given situation. Experience has shown us that one approach can be successful in one scenario, but another approach is needed for a different situation. There is no single formula for achieving impact, but many possibilities to succeed in influencing policymakers and opinion leaders." (Page V)
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"Developing an efficient library service for print-disabled people is extremely important, because there are significantly fewer books available commercially in accessible formats compared to what is published in print for the general public. The need to build collections in alternative formats and
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make them available for readers who are unable to browse shelves makes it necessary to develop special services. These guidelines were developed with input from many people from all over the world, including those who use libraries for the blind, work in them, or have a professional interest in the success of these libraries. The Standing Committee of the IFLA Libraries for the Blind Section wishes to acknowledge and thank all those who contributed." (Preface)
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"Kriege sind eines der wichtigsten Themen von Filmen. Filme können das Publikum zur Parteinahme in kriegerischen Auseinandersetzungen bewegen. Sie vermitteln denen, die Kriege nicht aus eigenem Erleben kennen, das eindrücklichste Bild. Auch daher sind Kriegsfilme ein bevorzugtes Mittel politischer
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Propaganda. Sie fließt auch in Filme ein, die auf den ersten Blick unpolitisch daherkommen. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes untersuchen die Darstellungen des Krieges im zeitlichen und internationalen Vergleich. Das Verhältnis von gesellschaftlichen Hintergründen und literarischen Vorlagen zu den Filmen wird in die Analysen mit einbezogen." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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"A useful practical guide for all those involved in setting up book policy strategies, and the formulation and adoption of national book acts, especially those in the developing world. It sets out the objectives of a national book policy, and then deals with a review of the sub-sectors concerned (i.
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e. author, publisher, printer, distributor/bookseller, and the reader and libraries), examining policy definitions, the law relating to books, the different components of book development, and providing guidelines for book policy strategies. A separate chapter deals with textbooks for schools, and two appendices cover “Formulating a national book policy” (including aspects of evaluation and development strategies), and “A model book law”." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2030) [refers to the first edition]
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"A short, critically annotated listing of significant literature in two categories: (i) books that examine the environment of publishing in developing countries, and (ii) books and training manuals that have been written specifically to assist publishers in those countries." (Hans M. Zell, Publishin
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g, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 177)
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"A revised and updated edition of the popular How to Get Published in South Africa (1996), dealing with all the steps involved in finding the right publisher and breaking into print. The focus is on non-fiction, although there is much practical advice here for writers of all genres." (Hans M. Zell,
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Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 2517)
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"The Blackwell Guide to Theology of Popular Culture outlines various general theories of popular culture, identifies theologians and theological concepts that are conducive to analyzing popular culture, and explores religious themes that are asserting themselves through popular movies, novels, music
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, television shows and advertising. Includes information on apocalypticism, Augustine, Accenture, Apple, Google, McDonalds, MTV, Starbucks, bricolage, confession, Disney, Dogma (film), existentialism, commodity fetishism, God, the Gothic, guilt, the holy, idols and idolatry, Jesus Christ, Immanuel Kant, The Life of God (as Told by Himself), Friedrich Nietzsche, divine providence, Puritans and puritanism, religious symbols, sin, Six Feet Under (HBO series), Paul Tillich, tattoos, body piercings and scarification, simularum, etc." (Publisher description)
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"As a component of international cultural cooperation, the donation of second-hand books is a current practice that is both common and controversial. The practice arose from the realization that bibliographic and documentary resources were unevenly distributed in the world. Book donation programmes
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aim to transfer a portion of the books that are plentiful in rich countries to poor countries where they are scarce. [...] Book donations programmes are complex. They require careful planning in order to achieve their objectives. After half a century of experience in this field, UNESCO has amassed knowledge capable of effectively guiding those actively involved in this type of initiative. The donation of books is not just operational but, above all, has to accommodate the needs and demands of sustainable development in the countries and communities concerned. In this guide, UNESCO examines both the policy and practical aspects of book donations. Donation programmes can, we are sure, be a very beneficial and useful practice as long as they consider a complex and variable set of factors. These factors are examined in this work with a view to proposing an integrated approach to their development, within a series of structural interactions which together form the "book chain." (Introduction, page 7-8)
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