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Electronic Civil Disobedience

By: Lawrence Soley

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Electronic Civil Disobedience

By: Lawrence Soley

This book reviews the history of the microradio movement, enabling readers to understand why and how it has captured momentum and power. It discusses the anti-Nazi underground stations and other resistance stations, explaining how previous stations provided vehicles for democratic communications.

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Routledge

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0429723865

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9780429723865

The News Shapers

The Sources Who Explain the News

By: Lawrence C. Soley

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The News Shapers

The Sources Who Explain the News

By: Lawrence C. Soley

Analysts, political scientists, scholars, and consultants,--The News Shapers describes the elite club of individuals that the media approach for inside information, background, or predictions concerning the outcome of still-unfolding stories. Although they are presented as detached experts, Lawrence C. Soley uncovers their long histories of partisanship as former government officials or politicians, and charges that most of the shapers have no better credentials than the millions of people to whom the news media never turn. Soley's findings, based on a University of Minnesota study which examined three major networks' evening newscasts during 1987-1988, reveal that a small number of white, politically conservative men associated with Washington-based think tanks, former Republican administrations, and private, East Coast universities virtually monopolize political discourse in the mass media. Dispelling the myth of the media's liberal bias, Soley discusses the shortcomings of both print and broadcast journalism which lead to selection of partisan news analysts, and the effects of their commentaries on foreign and domestic affairs. Special attention is given to Henry Kissinger, Washington Think Tanks, and the media's handling of the conflict with Iraq. The News Shapers identifies the experts, their past political affiliations, and their often thin academic credentials. It is highly recommended for scholars in communications, journalism, and political science, as well as for newspaper readers and television news viewers.

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190

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313369186

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9780313369186

Leasing the Ivory Tower

The Corporate Takeover of Academia

By: Lawrence C. Soley

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Leasing the Ivory Tower

The Corporate Takeover of Academia

By: Lawrence C. Soley

Exposes the growing corporate threats to the future of intellectual inquiry and civil society itself. Corporate investments, Soley argures, have dramatically changed the mission of higher education; they have led universities to attend to the interests of their well-heeled patrons, rather than those of students.

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220

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South End Press

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0896085031

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9780896085039

A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

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A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature

By: W. Lawrence Hogue

This book reconfigures the history of modern America, showing how multiple and, at times, vulnerable social, economic, literary, and political movements, levels, divisions, and conditions such as the emergent middle class, the labor movement, the Progressive Movement, the socialist and communist parties, the Women’s movements, the NAACP, the Garvey movement, Asian and Native American resistance movements, writers, artists, and intellectuals seized upon social, gender, economic, and racial inequalities and challenged a singularly defined modern America. This book re-represents the modern American novel, accenting the different critical literary voices that come out of the mainstream consumer society but also out of the various unequal social, economic, gender, and political movements and situations. In including racial, gender, sexual, colonial, class, and ethnic others—who reject the rigidity, the repression, the racial and ethnic stereotyping, the external and internal colonialism, the complication/rejection of the past/nature, and the violence of the institutionalized, conformist norm—in a discussion of the modern American novel, it effects a fundamental recasting of the modern Americanist paradigm, one that is de-centered, richer, more complex, and more diverse.

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519

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Anthem Press

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1785272616

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9781785272615

Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi

By: Lawrence Lee Hewitt

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Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi

By: Lawrence Lee Hewitt

Although the evidence of the site has nearly vanished, Port Hudson, Louisiana, holds a distinct place in Civil War History. Located just north of Baton Rouge, the village was the last Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River and the site of the longest genuine siege in American military history. In Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi, Lawrence Hewitt offers a compelling account of the Confederate occupation of Port Hudson in August, 1862, and the Union's efforts to capture the stronghold, culminating in a final unsuccessful assault in May, 1863. Throughout his study, Hewitt offers a colorful narrative account of daily life in the garrison, the commanders' strategies, and the importance of Port Hudson to the war.Wanting to strengthen their hold on Vicksburg, the Confederates begna constructing earthworks for a battery at Port Hudson in early April, 1862. By late summer, the first troops began arriving for duty. As thee soldiers fortified the bluff, they sought to avoid drawing fire from Union naval vessels already present in the area. Throughout their occupation of Port Hudson, the Confederate troops were able to hold their position tenaciously, fighting off Federal efforts to block supply ships by controlling the mouth of the Red River. The Union's failure to starve out the Confederates eventually led them to launch a direct assault on Port Hudson. This attack was unsuccessful and was followed by an equally disastrous siege. Consequently, Port Hudson did not surrender until after the capitulation of Vicksburg in 1863.Hewitt also discusses a unique outcome of this period of the war: the increased enlistment of black soldiers in northern units. According to the author, the newspaper coverage of the charge by black troops at Port Hudson proved to be vital in convincing the northern masses to accept the enlistment of nearly 180,000 black soldiers in the army before the end of the war. Port Hudson will generate renewed interest in and discussion of an important period in Civil War history among scholars and Civil War buffs alike.

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244

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LSU Press

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080711961X

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9780807119617

Executive Compensation

By: Michael S. Sirkin,Lawrence K. Cagney

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Executive Compensation

By: Michael S. Sirkin,Lawrence K. Cagney

Executive Compensation is an invaluable legal guide through the maze of rules, regulations and practices that govern corporate financial compensation for executive employees.

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966

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Law Journal Press

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1588520714

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9781588520715

A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919

International Movement of Free and Enslaved People, Funds, Goods and Services

By: Lawrence H. Officer

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A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919

International Movement of Free and Enslaved People, Funds, Goods and Services

By: Lawrence H. Officer

This book develops new balance of payments statistics for the United States from 1790 to 1919, before official statistics were kept. Part I of this book justifies construction of a new balance of payments table, and Chapter 1 surveys existing tables from that standpoint. Chapter 2 shows how this book overcomes the limitations of Office of Business Economics and its North-Simon-Goldsmith foundation. Specific features are highlighted, including measurement decisions, improvement of OBE series, development of new series, and derived implications for the structure of the US economy and for the importance of individual sectors that loom large at various times: slave trade, shipping, manufacturing, and travel. The book then generates new time series of the movement of people, the movement of goods, the movement of funds, and the provision of services. Part VI puts the new balance of payments table to use in several ways: aggregates and balances within the table, structure of the US economy, and specific sectors of the economy (slave trade, shipping, manufacturing, travel). Finally, Part VII provides concluding comments.

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Springer Nature

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3030660990

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9783030660994

The C.S.S. Florida

Her Building and Operations

By: Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.

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The C.S.S. Florida

Her Building and Operations

By: Frank Lawrence Owsley, Jr.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512805130

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9781512805130

The Tools of Asclepius

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

By: Lawrence Bliquez

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The Tools of Asclepius

Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times

By: Lawrence Bliquez

With The Tools of Asclepius Lawrence Bliquez offers the first comprehensive treatment in English of the instruments and paraphernalia employed by Greco-Roman surgeons since John St. Milne’s Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times (1907). Introductory sections cover topics ranging from literary and archaeological sources to the design, materials and production of instruments and the training and practice of the doctors-surgeons who used them. Summaries of Hippocratic and Hellenistic surgery lead to the meat of the book: tools used during the Roman Empire. These are presented by category (e.g. Cutting Instruments) broken into subcategories (Scalpel, Lithotome, etc.). A substantial appendix deals with biodegradable items, such as suppositories. Much new material is featured and the book is richly illustrated.

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475

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BRILL

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9004283595

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9789004283596

More Blood, Sweat and Beers

World Cup Rugby Tales

By: Lawrence Dallaglio

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More Blood, Sweat and Beers

World Cup Rugby Tales

By: Lawrence Dallaglio

In More Blood, Sweat and Beers, World Cup-winning rugby legend Lawrence Dallaglio shares his favourite stories from his time at International rugby's greatest tournament. With razor-sharp wit and good humour he lets the reader behind the closed doors of the tournament, to see what happens on and off the pitch when the cameras aren't looking. All the great names are here - Blanco, Lomu and Pienaar among them - and in his time Dallaglio has shared pints or blows (or both) with them all and has lived to tell the stories. Funny, frank and fully loaded with quick-fire banter these are the best of the best tales of the legends of the International stage.

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Simon and Schuster

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0857203460

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9780857203465

Charitable Knowledge

Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London

By: Susan C. Lawrence

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Hospital Pupils and Practitioners in Eighteenth-Century London

By: Susan C. Lawrence

Charitable Knowledge explores the formation of the teaching hospital in eighteenth-century London.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521525187

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9780521525183

MediaMaking

Mass Media in a Popular Culture

By: Lawrence Grossberg

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MediaMaking

Mass Media in a Popular Culture

By: Lawrence Grossberg

Taking a unique approach to the study of mass communication and cultural studies, MediaMaking is a volume that presents the current knowledge about the relationship between media, culture, and society. What sets this volume apart from competing texts is the approach taken and the distinguished scholarship. Rather than examining each major medium separately (newspapers, books, magazines, radio, television, film), the authors contend that mass communication cannot be studied apart from the other institutions in society and the other dimensions of social life-each is shaping and defining the other. They hold that media can only be understood in relation to their context-institutional, economic, social, cultural, and historical. As such, this book explores the variety of ways in which the media are involved in our social lives. The authors explore the different relationships between the media and the systems of social value and social differences that organize power in contemporary society. They examine how the media are reproduced and consumed and what they produce in turn. Theoretically and analytically organized with sections on media′s relation to behavior, politics, media effects, the public, globalization, organizations, meaning , and ideology, this text offers students a more comprehensive understanding of the nature of media communication processes-an absolutely necessary part of understanding contemporary life.

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524

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SAGE

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0761925449

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9780761925446

Principles of Integrated Marketing Communications

By: Lawrence Ang

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Principles of Integrated Marketing Communications

By: Lawrence Ang

Explains the principles and practice of implementing an effective marketing strategy using a variety of channels and techniques, such as brand equity, advertising and personal selling.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108703119

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9781108703116

Book's by Lawrence Soley

Free Radio

Free Radio

The News Shapers

The News Shapers

Leasing the Ivory Tower

Leasing the Ivory Tower

A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature

A Theoretical Approach to Modern American History and Literature

Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi

Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi

Executive Compensation

Executive Compensation

A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919

A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919

The C.S.S. Florida

The C.S.S. Florida

The Tools of Asclepius

The Tools of Asclepius

More Blood, Sweat and Beers

More Blood, Sweat and Beers

Charitable Knowledge

Charitable Knowledge

MediaMaking

MediaMaking

Principles of Integrated Marketing Communications

Principles of Integrated Marketing Communications

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