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Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film

By: Richard R. Ness

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Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film

By: Richard R. Ness

From All the President’s Men to Zodiac, some of the most compelling films of the last century have featured depictions of journalists in action. While print journalism struggles to survive, the emergence of news from social media outlets continues to expand, allowing the world to be kept informed on a second-bysecond basis. Despite attacks on journalists—both verbal and physical—a free press remains a crucial bastion for civilized society. And just as the daily news reflects the current state of affairs, films about journalism represent how reporting has evolved over the last few centuries. In Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film, Richard R. Ness provides a comprehensive examination of the fourth estate in cinema—from newspaper reporters to today’s cyber journalists. In this volume, Ness provides in-depth descriptions and analyses of more than five hundred significant films, from the silent era to the present, including international productions and made-for-television movies. The entries focus on the image of the press on screen and ethical issues or concerns raised about the practices of the profession. Collectively, the entries demonstrate that there is a recognizable genre of journalism films with definable plot patterns and iconography. Each entry features: Major credits including directors, writers, and producers List of characters and the actors who portray them Running time Plot synopsis Analysis of the role of journalism Many of the entries feature critical reviews as well as cogent selections of dialogue. Films discussed here include comedies such as His Girl Friday (1940), nail-biting thrillers like Foreign Correspondent (1940) and The Parallax View (1974), social commentaries like Network (1976) and The China Syndrome (1979), dramas like Citizen Kane (1941) and The Post (2017), and of course, Academy Award winners All the President’s Men (1976) and Spotlight (2015). A definitive study of a film genre, Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film will be of interest to film scholars, researchers, journalists, and students of popular culture.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538103605

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9781538103609

Polymer Structure Characterization

From Nano to Macro Organization

By: Richard Arthur Pethrick

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Polymer Structure Characterization

From Nano to Macro Organization

By: Richard Arthur Pethrick

This book brings together, in a logical fashion, the way in which molecular interactions lead to the observedmorphologies in crystalline organic materials and polymers. It is arranged into self contained chapters on various aspects of materials science and includes discussions of topics such as crystal growth, polymer morphology, amorphous glassy materials, polymer phase separation and structure and organisation in materials. The main feature of this title is that, within a single volume, a range of topics is covered which normally would only be found in a number of separate volumes. It is aimed at polymer - materials scientists but will also be of interest to chemists and physics students interested in the properties of organic materials.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0854044663

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Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars

The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933

By: Richard Bak

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Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars

The Negro Leagues in Detroit, 1919-1933

By: Richard Bak

Stearnes established virtually all of the team's individual and career records during his nine seasons with Detroit.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814325823

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9780814325827

Cobb Would Have Caught it

The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit

By: Richard Bak

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Cobb Would Have Caught it

The Golden Age of Baseball in Detroit

By: Richard Bak

Players' interviews are prefaced with a short history of the parallel paths the city and professional baseball took from the end of World War I through the early 1950s.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814323561

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Reading the Bible Wisely

An Introduction to Taking Scripture Seriously. Revised Edition.

By: Richard S. Briggs

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Reading the Bible Wisely

An Introduction to Taking Scripture Seriously. Revised Edition.

By: Richard S. Briggs

Covers how to read the Bible in historical, literary, and theological context, highlighting the significance of its two-testament structure and its contribution to a doctrine of scripture.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1610972880

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9781610972888

Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

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Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382108534

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9783382108533

Neotropical Migratory Birds

Natural History, Distribution, and Population Change

By: Richard M. DeGraaf,John H. Rappole

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Neotropical Migratory Birds

Natural History, Distribution, and Population Change

By: Richard M. DeGraaf,John H. Rappole

Thrushes, warblers, vireos, and tanagers are probably the most familiar of the Neotropical migrants--birds that breed in the United States and Canada, then journey to spend the winter in the Caribbean, Mexico, or southward. But this extraordinary group actually comprises a large number of diverse species, including waterfowl, shorebirds, terns, hawks, flycatchers, and hummingbirds. In their compendious review of information on these birds, Richard M. DeGraaf and John H. Rappole illuminate the need for a thorough understanding of the ecology of each species, one that exte4nds throughout the entire life cycle. The authors argue convincingly that conservation efforts must be based on such an understanding and carried out across a species' range--not limited to the breeding grounds. This book is the first to summarize in one volume much-needed practical data about the distribution and breeding habitat requirements of migratory birds in North and South America. The body of the book consists of natural history accounts of more than 350 species of Neotropical migrants, including a brief description of each bird's range, status, habitats on breeding grounds, nest site, and wintering areas. The authors provide a complete range map of each species' distribution in the Western Hemisphere as well as notes on the distribution--basic data that until recently have largely been unavailable in usable form to ornithologists and land and resource managers. An appendix lists species that are increasing or decreasing at significant rates in various physiographic regions of North America.

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Cornell University Press

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0801482658

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9780801482656

Machen's Hope

The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton

By: Richard E. Burnett

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Machen's Hope

The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton

By: Richard E. Burnett

The first critical biography of J. Gresham Machen, examining the full arc of his intellectual career J. Gresham Machen is known as a conservative hero of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy. But was he always so staunchly antimodernist? In this sweeping new biography, Richard E. Burnett examines the whole of Machen’s life and career—from his early years at Princeton, to his experience in the First World War, to his founding of Westminster Theological Seminary . Burnett pays special attention to topics that have received little attention from biographers, like Machen’s crisis of faith and his support for historical criticism of Scripture. Incorporating all of Machen’s major works as well as his previously unpublished private correspondence, Burnett crafts a nuanced narrative of Machen’s intellectual journey from enthusiastic modernist to stalwart conservative. Nuanced and thorough, Machen’s Hope will challenge scholars’ assumptions about Machen and his dynamic era.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467467944

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Another Side of Deadly

By: Richard E. Hardy

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Another Side of Deadly

By: Richard E. Hardy

HIGH-MINDED TURNS INTO DEADLY, AND DEADLY INTO ANOTHER SIDE THAT WAITS THOR, a Green Berea veteran trained to be deadly, lives quietly in a New England suburb and receives secret assignments as the Presidents Man. NAOMI, an older sister, is dedicated to watching Thors back until he can stand safely on his ownthen she can finally live a life of her own. DEANNE, a competent head nurse of a hospital crisis unit, in private life gives up a lover in order to keep him and in the process enters the back end of a dark cave. TAALIA AND JUAN MARCUS, two Ecuadorian orphans, grow up in the United States and overcome traumas from dangers experienced in childhood. RACHAEL, a dark-eyed Spanish countess,marries a prominent Russian physician while faithfully harboring the legacy of a powerful, duopolistic father. COLONEL AND JULIANNE, a brilliant, black military commander with clandestine Pentagon and White House ties, whose wife artfully handles bold warriors. CACHS, the intelligence communitys name for a small, unknown international group bent on world control, maintaining secret identity by deadly self-regulation. FOR NIGHTS END TO APPEAR. Another Side of Deadly, as well as Richard Hardys previous books, Heaven's Climbing Tower and Seven Keys and Ghostly Lovers, describes life as continually spinning towards wholeness. Journey races forward in the solitude of prayer, reality uncovers the ghostly, and the deadly can have heart. Opposites are in the hands of the same outreach. In the words of poet William Blake: "this mystery shall never cease; [ how] the priest promotes war and the soldier peace. With a fifty-year background in ministry, personal and group counseling, health care practice, and finance, Richard Hardy becomes a storyteller to divulge diverse perspectives from a core wealth of experience. Discovery without holding on is crucial.

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1477248390

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A Place for Summer

A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium

By: Richard Bak

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A Place for Summer

A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium

By: Richard Bak

On April 28, 1896, baseball fans traveled in horse-drawn buggies to watch the Detroit Tigers play their first baseball game at the site on the corner of Michigan and Trumbull Avenues. Starting out as Bennett Park, a wooden facility with trees growing in the outfield, Tiger Stadium has played a central role in the lives of millions of Detroiters and their families for more than a century. During the last century, millions of fans have come to Michigan and Trumbull to watch the Tigers' 7,800 home games, as well as to attend numerous other sporting, social, and civic events, including high school, collegiate, and professional football games, prep and Negro league baseball contests, political rallies, concerts, and boxing and soccer matches. A companion to the narrative history, almost two hundred rare photographs capture the spirit of 140 years of baseball in Detroit. A Place for Summer furnishes a sense of the relationship between the community, its teams, and the various fields, parks, and stadiums that have served as common ground for generations of Detroiters.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814325122

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9780814325124

Butcher's Moon

A Parker Novel

By: Richard Stark

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Butcher's Moon

A Parker Novel

By: Richard Stark

The sixteenth Parker novel, Butcher’s Moon is more than twice as long as most of the master heister’s adventures, and absolutely jammed with the action, violence, and nerve-jangling tension readers have come to expect. Back in the corrupt town where he lost his money, and nearly his life, in Slayground, Parker assembles a stunning cast of characters from throughout his career for one gigantic, blowout job: starting—and finishing—a gang war. It feels like the Parker novel to end all Parker novels, and for nearly twenty-five years that’s what it was. After its publication in 1974, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.” Featuring a new introduction by Westlake’s close friend and writing partner, Lawrence Block, this classic Parker adventure deserves a place of honor on any crime fan’s bookshelf. More than thirty-five years later, Butcher’s Moon still packs a punch: keep your calendar clear when you pick it up, because once you open it you won’t want to do anything but read until the last shot is fired.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226772985

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9780226772981

The Dishonest Murderer

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

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The Dishonest Murderer

By: Frances Lockridge,Richard Lockridge

Mr. and Mrs. North attempt to solve the case of a New Year’s Eve murder Freddie Haven has just crossed the Brooklyn Bridge when she sees a man she believes to be her fiancé, Sen. Bruce Kirkhill, on the sidewalk, walking alone through one of Manhattan’s vilest slums. It seems impossible that the shabby figure is actually Bruce, and Freddie tries to put the sight out of her mind. She prepares herself for her father’s New Year’s Eve party, and waits for her husband-to-be to arrive. But the senator never shows. Bruce is found dead in a doorway not far from the Bowery. What was he doing in the wrong part of town, and why was he dressed in a bum’s shabby suit? Freddie begs for help from Mr. and Mrs. North, amateur sleuths who catch killers between sipping martinis. But is she ready to discover that the senator had a secret the shadows of the Bowery weren’t dark enough to hide? The Dishonest Murderer is the 13th book in the Mr. and Mrs. North Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

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Open Road Media

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1504031326

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9781504031325

Reunion with a Killer

By: Rod Summitt,Richard Edgerton

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Reunion with a Killer

By: Rod Summitt,Richard Edgerton

Lee Bishop, a hardware sales rep, decides to make his last cross-country sales trip by car instead of flying. One of his main reasons was to stop in the town in Iowa where he went to school, both to see the school again and to visit with his old college roommate who is now the president of the local bank with whom Lee has been corresponding through yearly Christmas cards. When he arrives in town, he tries to hook up with his old friend, Carl Kyle, but is told by his friend that he must leave town on business and that they won't be able to meet. Lee decides to drop in at the bank anyway for a quick hello, and when directed to Kyle's office sees a man who is a complete stranger. Lee learns that while the man at the bank is obviously not his old friend, he is accepted by the townsfolk as the man who was once Lee's roommate at the local college. About ready to continue his trip and leave the perplexing puzzle behind him, Lee discovers that the editor of the local newspaper is Pete Riley, another old friend from college and enlists his help in solving the mystery of just who is the bank president and what has happened to Carl Kyle.

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Multi-Media Publications Inc.

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1591461189

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9781591461180

Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox

The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation

By: Richard J. Ellis

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Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox

The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation

By: Richard J. Ellis

Usually remembered for its slogan “Tippecanoe and Tyler too,” the election of 1840 is also the first presidential election of which it might be truly said, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Tackling a contest best known for log cabins, cider barrels, and catchy songs, this timely volume reveals that the election of 1840 might be better understood as a case study of how profoundly the economy shapes the presidential vote. Richard J. Ellis, a veteran scholar of presidential politics, suggests that the election pitting the Democratic incumbent Martin Van Buren against Whig William Henry Harrison should also be remembered as the first presidential election in which a major political party selected—rather than merely anointed—its nominee at a national nominating convention. In this analysis, the convention’s selection, as well as Henry Clay’s post-convention words and deeds, emerge as crucial factors in the shaping of the nineteenth-century partisan nation. Exploring the puzzle of why the Whig Party’s political titan Henry Clay lost out to a relative political also-ran, Ellis teases out the role the fluctuating economy and growing antislavery sentiment played in the party’s fateful decision to nominate the Harrison-Tyler ticket. His work dismantles the caricature of the 1840 campaign (a.k.a. the “carnival campaign”) as all froth and no substance, instead giving due seriousness to the deeply held moral commitments, as well as anxieties about the political system, that informed the campaign. In Old Tip vs. the Sly Fox, the campaign of 1840 can finally be seen clearly for what it was: a contest of two profoundly different visions of policy and governance, including fundamental, still-pressing questions about the place of the presidency and Congress in the US political system.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700629459

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9780700629459

The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: Richard Franklin Bensel

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The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

By: Richard Franklin Bensel

During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden cabins so isolated that even neighbors had difficulty finding them. Their votes have come down to us as election returns reporting tens of millions of officially sanctioned democratic acts. Neatly arrayed in columns by office, candidate, and party, these returns are routinely interpreted as reflections of the preferences of individual voters and thus seem to unambiguously document the existence of a robust democratic ethos. By carefully examining political activity in and around the polling place, this book suggests some important caveats which must attend this conclusion. These caveats, in turn, help to bridge the interpretive chasm now separating ethno-cultural descriptions of popular politics from political economic analyses of state and national policy-making.

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Cambridge University Press

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052153786X

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9780521537865

Space in the 21st Century

By: Richard S. Lewis

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Space in the 21st Century

By: Richard S. Lewis

-- James A. Michener

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Columbia University Press

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0231501323

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9780231501323

What Color Is Your Parachute?

By: Richard N. Bolles

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What Color Is Your Parachute?

By: Richard N. Bolles

A latest edition of the companion workbook to the popular job-seeker's reference incorporates write-in sections for recording and learning from job search details, in a resource that invites readers to explore options using the author's latest methods.

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