Author: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: production, vol, audiences, content, studies, volume, media
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2004-04-28
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0702156566
ISBN-13: 9780702156564

Theoretical approaches to media content, tools for understanding audiences, and the basics of newspaper, television, radio, and film production are covered in this media studies textbook. An overview of text, genre, and narrative analysis provides a context for understanding the relationship of language and society to the media. Ethnographic, focus group, and psychoanalytic approaches to studying audience behavior are outlined. The basic stages of production for print, television, and radio are described, with specific information on radio preproduction, television distribution, and newspaper

Author: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: media, society, studies, history
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2010-06-01
List price: $53.95
ISBN-10: 0702176753
ISBN-13: 9780702176753

Exploring the media as an institution, this volume also introduces the topics of media regulation and content. The nature of communications policy is explained, following overviews of internal and external media regulation. Strategic ways of managing the media are discussed in addition to the guide’s analysis of the ways that media presents issues of identity, race, gender, sexual orientation, the environment, AIDS, and terrorism.

Author: Pieter J. Fourie
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: media, society, studies, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2008-09-01
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 0702176923
ISBN-13: 9780702176920

Authors:W. Fox, M. Fourie, B. van Wyk,
Publisher: Juta Academic
Keywords: africa, south, management, police
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1998-01-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0702146765
ISBN-13: 9780702146763

Written specifically for middle-level South African Police Service (SAPS) managers and complementing SAPS management training programmes, this hands-on guide explores the creation of a learning environment within the SAPS, the development of general and public resource management skills and practices, and the promotion of community policing and its role in the SAPS.

Authors:G.E. Blight, A.B. Fourie, G.R. Wardle,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: africa, developing, geotechnics
Number of Pages: 698
Published: 1999-01-01
List price: $209.95
ISBN-10: 9058090825
ISBN-13: 9789058090829

The proceedings represent a valuable reference on geotechnical problems peculiar to Africa and for engineering solutions to local problems. Topics covered are: Foundation engineering and lateral support; Methods of design and analysis; Monitoring, laboratory and field testing; Municipal, industrial and mining waste and environmental geotechnics; Soil improvement; Transportation geotechnics; Case studies. The proceedings are also an invaluable source of data on the properties of African soils, the properties of residual and tropical soils, as well as climate related problems.

Authors:Pieter van der Valk, Pieter van der Valk, Tove Agner
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: amp, basic, science, clinical, dermatology, contact, dermatitis, syndrome, irritant
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 1995-12-13
List price: $249.95
ISBN-10: 0849373549
ISBN-13: 9780849373541

This book covers a broad range of topics on irritant contact dermatitis, skin irritation, and skin irritants. Many different irritants cause different reactions in different skin types. This is the first book to present a variety of discussions on these skin reactions together in one volume. They include:oEpidemiological dataoClinical aspects including special syndromesoMechanisms and histopathologyoPredisposing factors related to sensitivity and the environment with the focus on irritants and irritant factors.

Authors:Theo Bothma, Erica Cosijn, Ina Fourie, Cecilia Penzho
Publisher: Pearson SA Prentice Hall
Keywords: information, toolkit, survival, literacy, navigating, society
Number of Pages: 196
Published: 2008-04-29
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1770252215
ISBN-13: 9781770252219

This book provides coverage of content and skills essential for those who intend positioning themselves in the academic or workplace environments that are globally connected and competitive - environments where information literacy is no longer a nice to have or recommended proficiency, but a life-long skill to be nurtured. This clear, well-structured text leads the reader through all aspects of information literacy and provides practical advice and relevant examples from a variety of international contexts. This is the updated, second edition of Information Society Survival Toolkit, which was