News media, movies, blogs and video games issue constant invitations to picture war,
experience the thrill of combat, and revisit battles past. War, it's often said, sells. But what …

Media and Power addresses three key questions about the relationship between media and
society.* How much power do the media have?* Who really controls the media?* What is the …

This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an
ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the press's role in such processes …

A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to
analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans …

We have been struck for well over thirty years now, in both the USA and the UK, and via
research evidence from still other nations, by the continuing failures on the part of …

Boys' underachievement in education has now become a global concern, taxing the minds
of governments across the Western world. Boys and Schooling in the Early Years represents …

Sex crime has become one of the most intense areas of public and political concern in
recent decades. This book explores the complex influences that shape its construction in the …

Sinn Féin (“ourselves” or “we ourselves”) began innocuously enough, at least in etymology,
when founder Arthur Griffith asked the publishers of an Oldcastle paper if he might use their …

Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of
the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and …

The news media is not well disposed to peace. The war correspondent has no equivalent
peace correspondent and extensive analysis about the media and war (Taylor 1998; …