Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

This engaging look at the Judaism that might have been breaks open the Yerushalmiù"The Talmud of the Land of Israel"ùand what it means for Jewish life today. It examines what the Yerushalmi is, how it differs from the Bavliùthe Babylonian Talmudùand how and why the Bavli is used today. It reveals how the Yerushalmi's vision of Jewish practice resembles today's liberal Judaism, and why the Yerushalmi is growing in popularity.

Retraces in sailboat or small plane the routes taken by the Argonauts, Ulysses, Columbus, Vespucci, Magellan, Elcano, and the Portuguese and Spanish explorers of the Americas.

This report documents the state of human rights in 159 countries and territories during the year 2012.

Class-tested at major institutions around the world, this work offers complete coverage of robust and H control. It features clear coverage of methodology, and provides detailed treatment of topics including Riccati equations, m theory, H loopshaping and controller reduction.