"This collection of 10 original essays honors the intellectual legacy of Prof Everett M Rogers (1931–2004), a pioneering and distinguished teacher—scholar of diffusion of innovations, communication networks, and social change. Well-known colleagues and contemporaries write on topics that not onl
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y piqued Rogers' curiosity, but to which he made seminal and lasting contributions. The concluding documents Rogers' life journey from his modest farm boy beginnings in Iowa, through his distinguished academic career, to his final return to the farm." (Publisher description)
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"[...] Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indige
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nous filmmaking in each of the three Maghreb countries--Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia--arose with the newly independent nations. Comparative analyses of each country's filmmaking in the decades following independence provide a historical portrait of the conditions and environment for the development of a postcolonial cinema. Armes then turns his attention to an in-depth examination of 10 key films produced between the 1970s and the 1990s, including Omar Gatlato, La Nouba, Halfaouine, Silences of the Palace, and Ali Zaoua. The book includes a dictionary of more than 135 North African filmmakers and a chronological filmography." (Publisher description)
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"This collection of essays was published to honour Chief Aigboje Higo on his 70th birthday. Higo, by many considered to be the doyen of Nigerian book publishing, was a founding father and two-time president of the Nigerian Publishers Association, and for many years Managing Director and later Chairm
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an of Heinemann Educational Publishers (Nigeria) plc. The 15 contributions that are brought together in this Festschrift include essays by many prominent members of the African book professions, including Bodunde Bankole, Henry Chakava, Ayo Odeniyi, the late Victor Nwankwo, as well as Keith Sambrook, a former director of Heinemann's in the UK, whose chapter recounts the story of his visit to Nigeria in 1964 when he and the late Alan Hill (then Chair of Heinemann's) met up with Aig Higo and asked him to join HEB and take charge of their business in Nigeria and West Africa. There are also papers on the economics of publishing, training for book industry personnel, and Bodunde Bankole presents an interesting account of the history and development of the Nigerian Publishers Association and its collaboration with international book trade organizations to provide more visibility for Nigerian book publishing output. A flawed index apart, this is a valuable source of information on the development of publishing and the book trade in Nigeria, and also provides useful overviews of publishing practise in the country." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa, 3d ed. 2008, nr. 755)
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"Die autobiographischen Aufzeichnungen Jean Bernards aus dem Jahre 1945 geben in klarer, eindrucksvoller Sprache, ohne Pathos und Wehleidigkeit, ein erschütterndes Zeugnis vom Leben und Sterben im Konzentrationslager Dachau. Das Original zum Film "Der Neunte Tag" von Volker Schlöndorff." (Verlagsb
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"Nikolaus Groß war Repräsentant der katholischen Arbeiterbewegung, Journalist und Widerstandskämpfer. In historisch-kritischer Analyse wird er als politischer Beobachter, der die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre der Weimarer Republik aus der Perspektive der Zentrumspartei kommentierte, vorgestellt.
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Im Mittelpunkt steht seine Rolle im politischen Widerstand gegen Hitler. Er wurde am 23. Januar 1945 in Berlin hingerichtet. In einem einleitenden Essay legt Alexander Groß sehr persönlich anhand der Gefängnisbriefe dar, was ihm das Vermächtnis seines Vaters bedeutet." (Verlagsbeschreibung)
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