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		Image from Amazon.com	Message effects research : principles of design and analysis by Jackson, Sally Ann Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Guilford Press, 1992 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: P91.3 J324M. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Message effects research : principles of design and analysis by Jackson, Sally Ann Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Guilford Press, 1992 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: P91.3 J324M. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	Theory and research in mass communication [electronic resource] : contexts and consequences / David K. Perry. by Perry, David K Series: LEA's communication series Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002 Online resources: Electronic Resources Availability: No items available. Found in Open Library: Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Theory and research in mass communication : contexts and consequences / David K. Perry by Perry, David K Series: LEA's communication series Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: P90 P477T 2002. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	The foundations of social research : meaning and perspective in the research process / Michael Crotty by Crotty, Michael Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Los Angeles, Calif. : SAGE, 2007 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM511 C767F. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			Researching society and culture / edited by Clive Seale by Seale, Clive [ed.] Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: London : Sage, 2006 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM511 R473 2006. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Researching society and culture / edited by Clive Seale. by Seale, Clive [ed.] Edition: 3rd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Los Angeles, Mass. : SAGE, 2012 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM 511 R473 2012. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			The social semiotics of mass communication by Jensen, Klaus Bruhn Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: London : Sage, 1995 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: P91 J467S. Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
			A house built on sand : exposing postmodernist myths about science by Koertge, Noretta Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Oxford Univ. Press, 1998 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (2)Call number: Q172 H687, ... Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Family theories / James M. White, David M. Klein. by White, James M, 1946- Klein, David M, 1943- Series: Understanding families / series editors: Bert N. Adams, David M. Klein Edition: 2nd ed. Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE, c2002 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HQ 728 W447F 2002. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Image from Amazon.com	Public relations and social theory : key figures and concepts / edited by Oyvind Ihlen, Betteke van Ruler, Magnus Fredriksson by Ihlen, Oyvind [ed.] Ruler, Betteke van, 1948- [ed.] Fredriksson, Magnus [ed.] Series: Communication series / Jennings Bryant/Dolf Zillmann, general editors Material type: Text; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2009 Availability: Items available for loan: BU Library and Learning Space (1)Call number: HM1221 P824. Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)
		Local cover image Image from Amazon.com	The Routledge international handbook of practice-based research / edited by Craig Vear ; consultant editors, Linda Candy and Ernest Edmonds. by Vear, Craig [editor.] Material type: Text; Format: print ; Literary form: Not fiction ; Audience: Specialized; Publisher: London: Routledge, 2022 Other title: International handbook of practice-based research Availability: Not available: Checked out (1). Found in Open Library: Place hold Save to lists Add to cart (remove)