Author: Jes Battis
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Keywords: investigating, fiction, cult, science, territories, farscape, uncharted, sex
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 184511342X
ISBN-13: 9781845113421

"My name is John Crichton. I’m lost. An astronaut. Shot through a wormhole.  In some distant part of the universe.  I’m trying to stay alive. Aboard this ship.  This living ship. Of escaped prisoners."  During its fourth and--for the present--final season, Farscape was the Sci-Fi Channel’s highest rated original series.  With its dedicated fan-base, Farscape seasons are still  top-billing Sci Fi DVDs.  This first substantial analysis of the show, written by a scholar-fan, uncovers Farscape’s layers and those of the living spaceship Moya. Jes Battis proposes th

中文参考译名:调查媒体话语
Author: OKEEFE
Publisher: Taylor & Francis DUMP LIST
Keywords: discourse, media, investigating
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0203015703
ISBN-13: 9780203015704

Author: Lee Barnard
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Keywords: graffiti, investigating, understanding
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2006-10-26
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 1598006428
ISBN-13: 9781598006421

How did Graffiti get started? What do those words say and what’s their meaning? How do you locate the vandals if they’re not caught in the act? Once they are caught what happens? Why do they tag? These are all questions that will be answered when you read Understanding and Investigating Graffiti.

Author: Dr Andy Ruddock
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: audiences, investigating
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-08-25
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1412922690
ISBN-13: 9781412922692

Picking up on some of the themes developed in his critically acclaimed book Understanding Audiences (SAGE), this new book on audience research focuses on qualitative methods and will draw upon students’ own media experience. Structured around contemporary topics, including celebrity and reality TV, Investigating Audiences is designed with the needs of lecturers and students in mind. The book is divided into chapters that deal with audience research in terms of concepts and topics. Regarding concepts, Investigating Audiences is firmly grounded within interpretive approaches to studying viewer

Author: Michael J. Comer
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company
Keywords: fraud, corporate, investigating
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 2003-02
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0566085313
ISBN-13: 9780566085314

Former customs and excise investigator Michael J. Comer explains how the modern fraud sleuth operates in this humorous but extremely serious volume. The author and Maxima Group Plc are used extensively by banks and other bodies with security holes.

Author: Mark Nicholls
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Keywords: plot, gunpowder, investigating
Number of Pages: 330
Published: 1991-07
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0719032253
ISBN-13: 9780719032257

This book attempts to examine the ways in which the government of James I set about discovering the details and ramifications of the Gunpowder Plot. The book also has broader aims, to expand our knowledge of the way this administration adapted itself to emergencies, and to elucidate the means by which the Privy Council and its agents enforced their will within the realm.

Author: Bruce A. Jacobs
Publisher: Roxbury Publishing Company
Keywords: anthology, deviance, investigating
Number of Pages: 498
Published: 2001-10-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1891487566
ISBN-13: 9781891487569

The highly readable articles in this comprehensive anthology explore the essence of deviant behavior - its construction, explanation, commission, and control. Substantive introductions to each section and to each article allow the book’s component parts to stand on their own depending on instructional needs. Topic-specific Internet Websites are also provided. Bruce Jacobs has selected an eclectic cross-section of compelling readings. The book’s theoretical coverage draws from classic as well as contemporary approaches (e.g., lifecourse, general strain, institutional anomie, f