Author: Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.
The Martians Have Landed!
Author: Robert E. Bartholomew
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786486716
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
History is replete with examples of media-created scares and panics. This book presents more than three dozen studies of media scares from the 17th century to the 21st century, including hoaxes perpetrated via newspapers, radio, television and cyberspace. From the 1835 batmen on the Moon hoax to more recent bird flu scares and Hurricane Katrina myths, this book explores hoaxes that highlight the impact of the media on our lives and its tendency to sensationalize. Most of the hoaxes covered occurred in the United States, though incidents from Europe, Asia, Africa, South America and Australia are featured as well. Several are global in scope, revealing the power global media wields.
An Uncharted Journey Into the Abyss
Author: John Tanner
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645402819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
In between the covers of An Uncharted Journey Into the Abyss, are eighteen short stories that don’t always end up with fairy tale endings. In fact, quite a few of them rip at our emotions and pause us to think about life, and how it doesn’t always end up the way we planned. From an Indian tribe on the brink of slaughter, to a hard nosed veteran policeman tracking a serial killer, we find ourselves drawn deep within the psyche of the main characters. Can a poor young Mexican boy save his family and farm from a vicious predator eating their livestock? Will a cocky self-assured man from back East have his ego shattered by a native American cashier in the West? Or will you be soaring above the crashing seas as a ptarmigan looking for an escape? An Uncharted Journey Into the Abyss will walk you along high mountain trails with a curmudgeonly old prospector, haunt a family as a Civil War ghost, and even visit a planet on a search and reconnaissance mission. And within each story, embedded deep within each of them, is a kernel of truth. Whether you, as the reader, decide to decipher its meaning is completely up to you.
Publisher: Speaking Volumes
ISBN: 1645402819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
In between the covers of An Uncharted Journey Into the Abyss, are eighteen short stories that don’t always end up with fairy tale endings. In fact, quite a few of them rip at our emotions and pause us to think about life, and how it doesn’t always end up the way we planned. From an Indian tribe on the brink of slaughter, to a hard nosed veteran policeman tracking a serial killer, we find ourselves drawn deep within the psyche of the main characters. Can a poor young Mexican boy save his family and farm from a vicious predator eating their livestock? Will a cocky self-assured man from back East have his ego shattered by a native American cashier in the West? Or will you be soaring above the crashing seas as a ptarmigan looking for an escape? An Uncharted Journey Into the Abyss will walk you along high mountain trails with a curmudgeonly old prospector, haunt a family as a Civil War ghost, and even visit a planet on a search and reconnaissance mission. And within each story, embedded deep within each of them, is a kernel of truth. Whether you, as the reader, decide to decipher its meaning is completely up to you.
Poets, Philosophers, Lovers
Author: Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
With a foreword by Ilan Stavans This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. Her best-known titles are El imperio de los sueños, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. She writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English and embraces timely and enduring subjects: love, liberty, creativity, environment, economy, censorship, borders, immigration, debt, incarceration, colonialization, terrorism, and revolution. Her work has been widely adapted into theater, photography, film, lithography, painting, sculpture, comics, and music. The essays in this volume explore the marvelous ways that Braschi’s texts shake upside down our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822987597
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
With a foreword by Ilan Stavans This collection of essays, by fifteen scholars across diverse fields, explores forty years of writing by Giannina Braschi, one of the most revolutionary Latinx authors of her generation. Since the 1980s, Braschi’s linguistic and structural ingenuities, radical thinking, and poetic hilarity have spanned the genres of theatre, poetry, fiction, essay, musical, manifesto, political philosophy, and spoken word. Her best-known titles are El imperio de los sueños, Yo-Yo Boing!, and United States of Banana. She writes in Spanish, Spanglish, and English and embraces timely and enduring subjects: love, liberty, creativity, environment, economy, censorship, borders, immigration, debt, incarceration, colonialization, terrorism, and revolution. Her work has been widely adapted into theater, photography, film, lithography, painting, sculpture, comics, and music. The essays in this volume explore the marvelous ways that Braschi’s texts shake upside down our ideas of ourselves and enrich our understanding of how powerful narratives can wake us to our higher expectations.
A Manual of Weeds
Author: Ezra Michener
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weeds
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weeds
Languages : en
Pages : 180
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Jim Jarmusch
Author: Juan A. Suárez
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252074432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252074432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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Entoma
Author: Clyde Carney Hamilton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insecticides
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Includes advertising matter.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insecticides
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Includes advertising matter.
Practical Trapping - A Description Of The Methods In Vogue For The Destruction Of Vermin
Author: W. Carnegie
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144749234X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This early works is an informative look at the subject of Trapping. Contents include: Rabbits, Hares, Wood Pigeons and Winged Vermon, Ground Vermin, Permanent Traps, Rats, Moles, Voles, Mice & Sparrows, The use of the "Naked Trap", Otters, Badgers, & Foxes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 144749234X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
This early works is an informative look at the subject of Trapping. Contents include: Rabbits, Hares, Wood Pigeons and Winged Vermon, Ground Vermin, Permanent Traps, Rats, Moles, Voles, Mice & Sparrows, The use of the "Naked Trap", Otters, Badgers, & Foxes. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Health Aspects of Pesticides Abstract Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pesticides
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pesticides
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Video Game Music
Author: Melanie Fritsch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316999440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools for readers to engage with the music in new ways. Many popular games are analysed, including Super Mario Galaxy, Bastion, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero and the Katamari, Gran Turismo and Tales series. Topics include chiptunes, compositional processes, localization, history and game music concerts. The book also engages with other disciplines such as psychology, music analysis, business strategy and critical theory, and will prove an equally valuable resource for readers active in the industry, composers or designers, and music students and scholars.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316999440
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 483
Book Description
Video game music has been permeating popular culture for over forty years. Now, reaching billions of listeners, game music encompasses a diverse spectrum of musical materials and practices. This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of video game music by a diverse group of scholars and industry professionals. The chapters and summaries consolidate existing knowledge and present tools for readers to engage with the music in new ways. Many popular games are analysed, including Super Mario Galaxy, Bastion, The Last of Us, Kentucky Route Zero and the Katamari, Gran Turismo and Tales series. Topics include chiptunes, compositional processes, localization, history and game music concerts. The book also engages with other disciplines such as psychology, music analysis, business strategy and critical theory, and will prove an equally valuable resource for readers active in the industry, composers or designers, and music students and scholars.
Pest Control
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Household pests
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Household pests
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description