The four Visegrad states — Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia (until 1993 Czechoslovakia) and Hungary — form a compact area between Germany and Austria in the west and the states of the former USSR in the east. They are bounded by the Baltic in the north and the Danube river in the south. They are cut by the Sudeten and Carpathian mountain ranges, which divide Poland off from the other states. Poland is an extension of the North European plain and like the latter is drained by rivers that flow from south to north west — the Oder, the Vlatava and the Elbe, the Vistula and the Bug. The Danube is the great exception, flowing from its source eastward, turning through two 90-degree turns to end up in the Black Sea, forming the barrier and often the political frontier between central Europe and the Balkans. Hungary to the east of the Danube is also an open plain. The region is historically and culturally part of western Europe, but its eastern Marches now represents a vital strategic zone between Germany and the core of the European Union to the west and the Russian zone to the east.

Economy and Society

State boundaries have constituted a major topic in the tradition of political geography. Boundary analysis has focused on the international scale, since international boundaries provide perhaps the...

Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

Introduction - body and city: the passive body the plan of the book a personal note. Part 1 Powers of the voice and eye: nakedness - the citizen's body in Perikles' Athens the cloak of darkness - the protections of ritual in Athens the obsessive image - place and time in Hadrian's Rome time in the body - early Christians in Rome. Part 2 Movements of the heart: comunity - the Paris of Jehan de Chelles \"each man is a devil to himself\" - the paris of Humbert de Romans fear of touching - the Jewish ghetto in Renaissance Venice. Part 3 Arteries and veins: moving bodies - Harvey's revolution the body set free - Boullee's Paris urban individualism - E.M. Forster's London. Conclusion: civic bodies - multi-cultural New York.

Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization.

This Handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations; news content; journalism and society; and journalism in a global context. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, each chapter explores:
Key elements, thinkers, and texts; 
Historical context; 
Current state of the art;
Methodological issues;
Merits and advantages of the approach/area of studies;
Limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of studies;
Directions for future research

Offering broad international coverage from top-tier contributors, this volume ranks among the first publications to serve as a comprehensive resource addressing theory and scholarship in journalism studies. As such, the Handbook of Journalism Studies is a must-have resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe.

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The Handbook of Journalism Studies

This article analyzes the distinctive forms that collective memories take in the age of globalization. It studies the transition from national to cosmopolitan memory cultures. Cosmopolitanism refer...

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Memory Unbound The Holocaust and the Formation of Cosmopolitan Memory

Preface. Introduction. Conversation 1: Context and Sociological Horizons. Conversation 2: Ethics and Human Values. Conversation 3: The Ambivalence of Modernity. Conversation 4: Individualization and Consumer Society. Conversation 5: Politics. Notes. Bibliography

Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman

Series editor's forewordIntroductionParameters for a debateCompassion fatigue and the ethics of the journalistic fieldThe compassion of the audienceLifting the lid on compassionTelethons, investments and giftsConclusionGlossaryBibliographyIndex.

Compassion, morality, and the media

Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights.

The Problem of Cultural Studies The Culture Industry The Audience The Media and Morality The Silence

Keith Tester

Papers

Conversations with Zygmunt Bauman

Compassion, morality, and the media

Animals and Society: The Humanity of Animal Rights.

Media, culture, and morality

The Social Thought of Zygmunt Bauman