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This is the first book to focus on rugby union's transition from an amateur to a professional sport and how it has dealt with the realities of commercialism and a more diverse spectating public. Based on interviews with players from eight leading rugby nations, it offers a perspective on how rugby has evolved into a global product.

From the ideological bias of the press, to the role of headlines in newspaper articles and ways in which newspapers relate to their audience, the book provides a comprehensive analysis of newspaper language.

With a view to advancing our understanding of the "frame competition" around climate change, and to presenting the perspectives of journalists regarding climate change as a journalistic topic, this book presents an in-depth case history of media coverage of climate change in Ireland.

Reflecting new developments in the field, this long-awaited second edition of Adam Roberts' Science Fiction is a compelling and invaluable introduction to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. With an entirely new conclusion and updated chapters throughout, this book presents a concise history of science fiction, along with explanations of key concepts in the genre.

This book presents an overview of Dublin's mass-housing building boom from 1935 to 1975 for the first time. Rowley examines how and why this endeavour occurred: from national political and economic shifts, to the influence of post-war reconstruction programmes in Britain.

Genocide is a topic beset by ambiguities over meaning and double standards. This book sets out to clarify the meaning of the term genocide and its historical evolution, and provides a working definition. It makes the argument that each instance of genocide is best understood within a particular historical framework.

First published in 1997, this study aims to forge new connections between debates on prostitution, media processes and everyday life in its exploration of depictions of female prostitution in British and Irish broadsheet newspapers between 1987 and 1991.

Explores the growth area of positive political economy within economics and politics. This book explains the spatial model of voting from a mathematical, economics and game-theory perspective.

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Analyses the construction of socio-spatial boundaries seen in gedner, colour, sexuality, age, lifestyle and disability, arguing that powerful groups tend to dominate space to create fear of minorities in the home, community and state.

Counsellors and psychotherapists are faced with ever-increasing complexity in their work with adolescents. In this book, Bronagh Starrs offers an understanding of developmental and therapeutic process from a relational-phenomenological Gestalt perspective.