The development of communication studies has been a lively process of adoption and integration of theoretical constructs from Pragmatism, Critical... Theory and Cultural Studies. Critical Communication Studies describes the intellectual and professional forces that have shaped research interests and formed alliances in the pursuit of particular goals. Hanno Hardt reflects on the need to come to terms with the role of history in academic work and locates the intellectual history within the context of competing social theories. The book provides a substantive foundation for understanding the field and will be a major text in all courses dealing with communication history and theory.

For multinational corporations (MNCs), there is arguably no more important operational function that affects all areas of manufacturing, marketing,... management, and finance as international transfer pricing—the practicing of supplying products or services across borders from one part of the organization to another. Its complexity is compounded by the impact of e-commerce, speeding the flow of goods and services; intangible assets, such as intellectual property, whose value is difficult to quantify; and the activites of policymakers around the world to update their tax laws and regulations, in efforts to close loopholes that have historically encouraged tax avoidance.In Critical Concerns in Transfer Pricing Policy and Practice, Wagdy Abdallah provides an in-depth overview of these recent trends and developments, and considers their implications for the management of MNCs. In particular, he discusses methods for pricing transferred goods and services in the e-commerce era and analyzes the most recent regulation reforms in such countries as Germany, Mexico, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Netherlands. Anticipating increased scrutiny of MNC transfer pricing practices from governments and other external stakeholders, Abdallah outlines a set of practical recommendations for creating a successful transfer pricing system that maximizes value for the company while remaining sensitive to local policies in all of the countries in which it operates.

Exposing the most controversial, little-known practices of America’s most flawed system, Time magazine’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative team... pulls back the curtain on the health care industry to explain exactly how things grew so out of control.Dirty examination and operating rooms in doctor’s offices and hospitals . . . Health care executives pulling in millions in bonuses for denying treatment to the sick . . . More than 100 million people with inadequate or no medical coverage . . . This may sound like the predicament of a third-world nation, but this is America’s health care reality today. The U.S. spends more on health care than any other nation, yet our benefits are shrinking and life expectancy is shorter here than in countries that spend significantly less per capita. Meanwhile, HMOs, pharmaceutical companies, and hospital chains reap tremendous profits, while politicians—beholden to insurers and drug companies—enact legislation for the benefit of the few rather than the many, while the entire system is on the verge of collapse. In Critical Condition, award-winning investigative journalists Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele expose the horror of what health care in America has become. They profile patients and doctors trapped by the system and offer startling personal stories that illuminate what’s gone wrong. Doctors tell of being second-guessed and undermined by health care insurers; nurses recount chilling tales of hospital meltdowns; patients explain how they’ve been victimized by a system that is meant to care for them. Drug companies profit by selling pills in the same manner that Madison Avenue sells soap, while Wall Street rakes in billions by building up and then tearing down health care businesses. And politicians pass legislation perpetuating the injustices and out-right fraud the system encourages. By analyzing the industry and offering an insightful prescription for getting it back on the right track, Critical Condition is an enormously compelling investigative work that addresses the concerns of every American.

This practitioner's guide to building quality collaborative relationships through critical conversations explores three co-teaching models and how... co-teaching fits within school-improvement initiatives. In Critical Conversations in Co-Teaching, the authors describe four sets of proven protocols that foster dramatic improvements in the way educators communicate with their colleagues for the benefit of student learning. These protocols fit into three categories--nonnegotiable conversations (recommended for all partners), special occasion protocols (to use in specific situations), and 'in a perfect world' protocols (to use as enrichment activities to extend learning). Designed to enhance shared practice using a simple structure and process of talking together, the framework can create profound differences in the way teachers work together, in the outcomes they can expect from their students, and in their feelings of connectedness to their profession. The framework leads readers to intentionally focus on building adult relationships and targeting students in more meaningful ways. Authentic conversations from real teachers bring the framework to life. Many teachers who have used the framework report that the process re-energized them and reminded them of why they became educators in the first place. Benefits * Follow step-by-step instructions for the activities and conversations within the framework, along with reproducible materials available online. * Apply the critical conversations matrix to particular activities within the framework, based on the focus questions and anticipated outcomes. * Align efforts with several school-improvement initiatives, including response to intervention, professional learning communities, differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning. * Ensure that all professionals involved are sharing their knowledge, skills, and talents to benefit all students.

Set against the current proliferation of global "difference" and economic realignment, Critical Dispositions explores the notions of "evidence" and... "expertise" in times of material scarcity. Both have come to the forefront of national and international debate in education as "evidence" and "evidence-based" research and pedagogical practices continue as major trends in educational policy. Author Greg Dimitriadis maintains this debate is best understood as part of a broader rise in professional and managerial discourses in various aspects of educational research and practice. Each aims to control and contain some aspect of research and practice in ways that are increasingly specific and targeted. As demonstrated through examples from critical intellectuals and artists outside the field of education, this current proliferation of specific, autonomous fields of inquiry and practice marks a much deeper ambivalence about our contemporary moment and how we understand it. Following Bourdieu and other theorists, Dimitriadis argues that educational researchers and practitioners today must be increasingly self-reflexive about the positions they take up in various fields of inquiry, what they allow us to see and to understand, what they blind us to. This kind of self-reflexivity, however, is becoming increasingly difficult today as material demands and dislocations are forcing educators to occupy particular fields in more specific ways. Unpacking this tension and offering alternative "thinking tools" is at the core of this volume.

Environmental movements are the subject of increasingly rigorous political theoretical study. Can the Frankfurt School's critical frameworks be used to... address ecological issues, or do environmental conflicts remain part of the "failed promise" of this group? Critical Ecologies aims to redeem the theories of major Frankfurt thinkers—Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and Herbert Marcuse, among others—by applying them to contemporary environmental crises.Critical Ecologies argues that sustainability and critical social theory have many similar goals, including resistance to different forms of domination. Like the Frankfurt School itself, the essays in this volume reflect a spirit of interdisciplinarity and draw attention to intersections between environmental, socio-political, and philosophical issues. Offering textual analyses by leading scholars in both critical theory and environmental politics, Critical Ecologies underscores the continued relevance of the Frankfurt School's ideas for addressing contemporary issues.

This book argues that, despite the scholarly emphasis on 20th-century congressional history, it is necessary to study the nation's first 150 years in... order to understand more fully the evolution and functioning of the modern Congress—a time when parties emerged, developed, realigned, and dissapeared; Congressional standing rules changed; the workload of Congress increased dramatically; and both houses grew greatly in size.

Two generations ago Kevin Phillips challenged Republicans to envision a southern-based national majority. In Whistling Past Dixie, Tom Schaller issues... an equally transformative challenge to Democrats: Build a winning coalition outside the South.

''What a smart and useful book! It provides teachers with a wealth of knowledge and material to help their students develop critical perspective and... suppleness of thought.''--Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles This bestseller was the first text to specifically address the challenges of teaching critical theory in high school literature classrooms. Since its original publication, the author has worked with hundreds of teachers and students to update and refine the lessons she presents. This completely revised Second Edition now features:* A new introductory chapter that focuses on ideology and literary theory.* A new chapter on using literary theory with diverse learners.* An expanded discussion of gender, including new activities.* A reframing of Marxist literary theory. * A new postcolonial lens that will help students read such classics as Things Fall Apart.* An amplified focus on cultural texts, with new material on helping students think critically about music videos, websites, advertisements, films, and television shows and two new activities for analyzing a contemporary movie.* Many new additions to the appendix of activities, including handouts from teachers who have adapted the original activities for use with diverse students.Praise for the First Edition!''All the undergraduate students cited [Appleman's book] as their favorite piece of work for the semester, and the one that was most successful during student teaching.'' --English Journal''This book provides powerful ways to get young people thinking about literature and about how it relates to their lives.'' --Rethinking Schools''Compelling.'' --Teacher Magazine''Interesting and provocative''--Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy''Many teachers have difficulty engaging students in critical analyses of literature because teachers themselves do no know how to use strategies to ease their students into this higher order thinking process. Appleman's text helps teachers understand how and why, 'now perhaps more than ever before, students need critical tools to read the increasingly bewildering and text-filled world that surrounds them,' and provides detailed strategies to guide students' review of literature.''--Voice of Youth Advocate

''What a smart and useful book! It provides teachers with a wealth of knowledge and material to help their students develop critical perspective and... suppleness of thought.''--Mike Rose, University of California, Los Angeles This bestseller was the first text to specifically address the challenges of teaching critical theory in high school literature classrooms. Since its original publication, the author has worked with hundreds of teachers and students to update and refine the lessons she presents. This completely revised Second Edition now features:* A new introductory chapter that focuses on ideology and literary theory.* A new chapter on using literary theory with diverse learners.* An expanded discussion of gender, including new activities.* A reframing of Marxist literary theory. * A new postcolonial lens that will help students read such classics as Things Fall Apart.* An amplified focus on cultural texts, with new material on helping students think critically about music videos, websites, advertisements, films, and television shows and two new activities for analyzing a contemporary movie.* Many new additions to the appendix of activities, including handouts from teachers who have adapted the original activities for use with diverse students.Praise for the First Edition!''All the undergraduate students cited [Appleman's book] as their favorite piece of work for the semester, and the one that was most successful during student teaching.'' --English Journal''This book provides powerful ways to get young people thinking about literature and about how it relates to their lives.'' --Rethinking Schools''Compelling.'' --Teacher Magazine''Interesting and provocative''--Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy''Many teachers have difficulty engaging students in critical analyses of literature because teachers themselves do no know how to use strategies to ease their students into this higher order thinking process. Appleman's text helps teachers understand how and why, 'now perhaps more than ever before, students need critical tools to read the increasingly bewildering and text-filled world that surrounds them,' and provides detailed strategies to guide students' review of literature.''--Voice of Youth Advocate

This book is a critical appreciation of the work of sixteen leading curriculum theorists, taking account of the writings of a balance of... established thinkers and curriculum analysts from the fields of education, philosophy, sociology and psychology. Together these commentators offer a broad perspective with views from the UK, the US and Europe, and from a range of political stances ranging from radical conservatism through liberalism to socialism and libertarianism. The theorists include major names such as Lev Vygotsky, Jerome Bruner, Maxine Greene, Basil Bernstein, Micheal Foucault, Elliott Eisner, John White, Michael Apple and more. Ideal for students on all teacher training courses looking for an introduction to some of the key educational thinkers of our time, this key text can also be used as a companion volume to the Routledge four-volume set on curriculum theory.