Buku ini memfokuskan diri pada semiotika komunikasi, yang berkaitan dengan penggunaan dan produksi tanda secara sosial di dalam proses komunikasi. Di dalamnya diuraikan secara komprehensif sistem-sistem tanda, penggunaan tanda secara sosial di dalam berbagai media komunikasi (iklan, sastra, komik, musik, film, dsb). Keistimewaan buku ini adalah dilengkapi dengan berbagai pemikiran dari tokoh-to…
Colorado Congressman Evan Kendrick is trying to live out his term quietly when a political mole reveals his deepest secret: Kendrick was the anonymous hero who freed the hostages held by Arab terrorists in the American embassy in Masqat, and then silently disappeared. Now, brought into the light, Kendrick is a target, pursued by the terrorists he once outwitted. Together with the beautiful woma…
He has no past. And he may have no future. His memory is blank. He only knows that he was flushed out of the Mediterranean Sea, his body riddled with bullets. There are a few clues. A frame of microfilm surgically implanted beneath the flesh of his hip. Evidence that plastic surgery has altered his face. Strange things that he says in his delirium -- maybe code words. Initial: "J.B." And a numb…
Michael Havelock's world ended on a moonlit beach on the Costa Brava. He stood by and watched as his partner and lover, Jenna Karas, double agent, was coldly and efficiently gunned down by his own agency. There's nothing left for Havelock but to get out, quit the game. Until, in one frantic moment on a crowded railway platform in Rome, Havelock sees Jenna. She's alive - and suddenly Havelock is…
Para peneliti dan mahasiswa Program Doktor Ilmu-ilmu Sosial, Kemanusiaan, dan Budaya saat ini cenderung menggunakan metode mixed method karena disadari bahwa dengan metode yang saling melengkapi tersebut (mixed method) kelemahan pada satu metode ditutup dengan metode yang lain. Di samping itu, dengan mixed method 2 (dua) jenis tujuan dapat tercapai. Tujuan mendapatkan makna di balik fenomena da…