The connection between the media and popular culture is inextricably linked. What we listen to, watch and consume, influences our way of life, and shapes the stories that content creators tell through mass media. With digitalization, the ways in which storytellers reach their audience have evolved significantly. Navigating Disruption: Media Relations in the Digital Age offers an insight into this digital evolution through the eyes of a working-level journalist. This book tells the story of the seismic shift in media operations in both US and Singapore newsrooms between 2011 and 2015, when Bertrand Teo witnessed the cascading impact of digitalization in newsrooms across transnational borders. His foray into public relations - post-journalism - helped him to frame the impact of digitalization on Singapore audiences. Bertrand shares his take on media consumption habits among youth and how PR tactics have adapted to the evolving media landscape.

Navigating Disruption

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Longlisted for the Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction at the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2021   The outcast in a family of former competitive swimmers must prepare for the end of her mother's life in this sharp, sparkling debut from a bold New Zealand talent.   'Tackles the subject of assisted dying with wit and pathos' The Independent 'Darkly funny, desperately sad, brilliantly written. I absolutely loved it' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground   When an affair ends badly and takes her career down with it, 26-year-old Erin leaves Auckland to spend the holiday weekend with her aunt, uncle, and terminally ill mother at their suburban family home. On arrival she learns that her mother has decided to take matters into her own hands and end her life - the following Tuesday.   Tasked with fulfilling her mother's final wishes, Erin can only do her imperfect best to navigate difficult feelings, an eccentric neighbourhood, and her complicated family of former competitive swimmers. She must summon the strength she would normally find in the water as she prepares for the loss of the fiery, independent woman who raised her alone, and one last swim together in the cold New Zealand Sea.

The Swimmers

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Anne is a headstrong young girl growing up in the frontier colony of Carolina in the early eighteenth century. With the death of her mother, and others she holds dear, Anne discovers that life is uncertain, so best live it to the full. She rejects the confines of conventional society and runs away to sea, finding herself in The Bahamas, which has become a nest for pirates plaguing the West Indies. Increasingly dissatisfied with her life, Anne meets a charismatic former pirate, John 'Calico Jack' Rackham, and persuades him to take up pirating again, and she won't be left onshore. The Golden Age of Piracy is a period when frontiers were being explored and boundaries pushed. Wayward Voyage creates a vivid and gritty picture of colonial life in the Americas and at sea. "Anna is a natural storyteller and a gifted writer with colourful language that makes the reader so absorbed that they feel they are part of the adventure." The Bahamas Historical Society "Holmes's depiction of the rough lingo and harsh conditions on tall ships at sea and dimly lit establishments ashore demonstrates both historical fidelity and rich imagination." A Woman's Write.

Wayward Voyage

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A dead body is discovered at the Cape by a local volunteer coastguard Watchkeeper who decides in a spirit of Cornish self-reliance to pursue his own investigation of the affair, which is baffling the local police. In the guise of holidaymakers, he and his slightly sceptical wife follow the clues to the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland where the pieces of the jigsaw begin to fall into place. Constantly misled through their innocent proximity to the crime scene they are under hot pursuit. With the Cornish police now closing in on the investigation, can the couple escape before the conspiracy can take effect?

Bleak Encounter At the Cape

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Robbie Howard is a streetwise, fast-talking, unemployed 23-year old living in Leicester with the only person that he cares about, his critically ill grandad. Effectively orphaned at the age of 8, Robbie has grappled with the transition to adult life prompting him to lie to his grandad about being employed in a job that doesn't exist. His income is usually derived from pedalling stolen goods and participating in other low-level scams with colourful drug addicts and small-time petty criminals. When the opportunity arises to dupe an elderly charity shop worker and steal a high-value donation of clothes by a local rock star, Robbie can't resist. But Robbie realises he's in too deep when the son of the charity worker, Egan, catches on to his game. Could Robbie's time be running out?

Know More Lies

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BOND is a charming, if somewhat self-obsessed, horse who describes his and HIS HUMAN'S journey, charting the highs and lows of equine and human life with humour throughout. His story begins when he is whisked away from his idyllic life at the stud where he was bred, to be marketed from a dressage horse dealer's yard. After demonstrating his naughty side there, his price is slashed enough for his bargain-hunting human to take a chance on him. He describes her back-story including those angels and demons, legends and idiots, both horse and human, that shaped her to be the sort of person he could train to be his perfect owner.    Despite a talent for dressage, Bond is quirky and fails to fit into several stable yards, being asked to leave more than once. Meanwhile, his human struggles through illness and divorce. They travel together both through life and literally when they make the epic voyage in his trusty trailer from Surrey's smart livery yards to their new Scottish Highland home. Here his human seals her future happiness by marrying, in Bond's field by the beach. Finally, delighted to discover that they have indeed heard of dressage in the Highlands, Bond returns to the competition arena to win his coveted rosettes.

It's All About Me

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Journey Among Animals is a delightful and enlightening collection of stories about the author's amazing encounters with animals, set in the context of her life, career and travels. Her stories highlight the intelligence and cognitive abilities of many animals and show that, like humans, they can display a sense of humour, curiosity, love, jealousy, boredom and individual personalities. The stories are about animals as varied as goats, hopping-mice, bandicoots and potoroos in Australia; mongooses, hyraxes, genets and attractive rodents in Nigeria; and mole-rats, bats, antelopes and elephants in Malawi. The book is packed with easy-to-read information. Bats have a special place in it - although much-maligned, bats are actually friendly, curious and amazingly intelligent creatures. These astonishing stories will help to transform people's attitudes towards animals. Meredith Happold specialised in animal behaviour, ecology and conservation. She taught at university level, published many papers in zoological journals, and wrote and/or edited the profiles of bats in the definitive series Mammals of Africa. Journey Among Animals will appeal to animal lovers as well as professional zoologists. It contains hitherto unpublished information about animal behaviour and shows how the study of animal behaviour has changed during the author's lifetime.

Journey Among Animals

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Harbouring a dark secret from his past, immortal Lord Blake from medieval England arrives mysteriously in a sleepy coastal town in Georgia, USA. There he meets Hugo Wegener, an ex-doctor who is burdened with his own dark secret, and life-long resident Ginny Harrison, who is involved in her aging father's absurd dream of refurbishing and reopening the town's long-defunct zoo.   As Blake's relationship with Ginny blooms, he finds himself involved in the insane zoo project and, when Bruce Kelly, an exotic game smuggler from South Africa, arrives in town on the eve of the grand reopening with a plan to rid the zoo of its valuable animal species, it is up to Blake, Hugo, and the old man to stop him, without revealing the terrible secrets of their pasts.

In the Beast's Cage

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At The Stroke of One is the memoir of Ian C Graham, who was born and raised in Berry Brow, Huddersfield and moved to Cornwall with his family in 1996 to take over the running of the Bossiney House Hotel.  It is a tale of an ordinary man, a happy life, and the aftermath of dealing with a life changing stroke.  Covering his childhood, working life, sporting life as a keen cricketer and footballer as well as his family life (including his marriage and children and divorce), At The Stroke of One evaluates life before, during and after the stroke Ian experienced aged forty-seven.  Restricted on use in his right-hand side from his shoulder down to his right foot, Ian suddenly found life very different and simple activities became a challenge. Ten weeks of recuperation in a specialist unit opened his eyes to the reality that life is precious and needs to be lived to the full.

At The Stroke of One

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Philip is an English teacher in Worcester, nearing retirement. Feeling melancholy, as another academic year approaches, he looks back with sadness at his life because, although happy and successful, it has been unremarkable. He compares himself to the characters in the literature he has taught and wishes his life had been more exciting. In this mood, he encounters Jane - a lost love from 40 years ago who dropped him abruptly after they played Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in an outdoor production in Jersey in 1977. With Jane suddenly back in his life, Philip struggles with new temptations and powerful memories. But will it all end in terrible tragedy?

So Much More the Man

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A pictorial history of the Blackpool "Standard" coastal trams from the 1920s to when they were taken out of service in the 1960s.

The Blackpool Standards

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Each of 15 emojis represents a number to enter into the grid-but which one? Some values are given to you, and following simple rules, you have to work out the rest. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier-but always interesting. A puzzling breath of fresh air!

Emojis

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For BrainBox, use multiplication and addition. For Just Plus and Alcatraz, use addition. For Multi-tasking, use two-way multiplication. Finally, in The Warehouse, solve the tricky storage number issue! Les Page has devised some ingenious and challenging new puzzles for anyone who enjoys Sudoku, KenKen, Train Tracks, and similar puzzles. Sometimes difficult, sometimes easier-but always interesting. A puzzling breath of fresh air!

The Compendium

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The Absent Prince

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Tintin finds a model of an old warship, the Uncorn, once commanded by one of Capten Hadog's ancestors 400 years ago. Hidden within the ship is a clue to the location of the lost treasure of the infamous pirate, Raca Goch - and it's a clue a gang of unscrupulous criminals is prepared to kill for.

Dirgelwch Yr Uncorn

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Find it! In the backyard contains 25 things for children to search for whilst out the back of the house, along with amazing facts and mind-bending puzzles. Perfect for minimising screen time, Find it! books keep children entertained, engaged and curious about the world around them. - Search for worms, flower pots and weeds amongst many other things. - Learn fascinating facts about the things you are searching for. - Play wordsearches, mazes, spot the differences, and various other quizzes and games. The back of the book contains a certificate to award when everything has been successfully found, and for every 3 books completed, you can send off for a Find it! Super Spotter badge!

Find it! In the Backyard

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Paper Romance depicts real life letters and poetry correspondence between two young lovers, written by Hades over the course of a year and a half. The poems are displays of intricate, interwoven tapestries of shared desire, dedication, and sometimes despair.

Paper Romance

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The history of Wales as a destination and confection of English Romantic writers is well-known, but this book reverses the process, turning a Welsh gaze on the rest of the world. This shift is timely: the severing of Britain from the European Union asks questions of Wales about its relationship to its own past, to the British state, to Europe and beyond.

An Open Door

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A Canadian grandchild of Dutch and Hungarian immigrants, Emily Vandeploeg explores issues of language, ritual, death and identity. Strange Animals charts the author's journey from childhood home to settling across an ocean, moving through the vagaries of modern love as she travels to new cities and a newfound maturity.

Strange Animals

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A newly curated volume of academic essays on Raymond Williams' work. To be published in Williams' centenary year, as part of the Parthian Modern Wales Series . In this collection of essays edited by Stephen Woodhams, Raymond Williams: From Wales to the World serves to further engage and extend his ideas of class and society.

Raymond Williams

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The stories of women from Wales' minority communities are seldom heard. This book comprises the life stories of 40 Black Asian Minority Ethnic women that were finalists/winners for the Ethnic Minority Welsh Women Achievement Awards (2011-2019).

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