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Global Communication

Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

By: Thomas L. McPhail

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Global Communication

Theories, Stakeholders, and Trends

By: Thomas L. McPhail

Global Communication is the most definitive text on multi-national communication and media conglomerates, exploring how global media, particularly CNN, the BBC, Euronews, and Al Jazeera, influence audiences and policy makers alike. Includes four completely new chapters on Asian media, Euromedia, the Middle East, and public diplomacy from a post 9/11 perspective Updates the story of arab media with a section on "Arab Media and the Al Jazeera Effect" by Middle East-based expert Lawrence Pintak Covers the global war on terrorism and the substantial US investment in Iraqi media Provides updated accounts and overviews of the largest and most important media corporations from around the world, from MTV and CNN to Bollywood Incorporates discussions of Hulu, YouTube, Myspace, and the Twitter phenomenon as well as new stakeholders in global online media

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444358103

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9781444358100

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

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The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

By: Frederic Thomas Colby

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385520037

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9783385520035

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

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General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

By: Thomas Holdup Stevens Hamersly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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3385106966

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9783385106963

The Genius of the System

Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era

By: Thomas Schatz

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The Genius of the System

Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio Era

By: Thomas Schatz

At a time when the studio is making a stunning comeback, film historian Thomas Schatz provides an indispensable account of Hollywood's tradional blend of business and art. This book lays to rest the persistent myth that businesspeople and producers stifle artistic talent and reveals instead the genius of a system of collaboration and conflict. Working from industry documents, Schatz traces the development of house styles, the rise and fall of careers, and the making-and unmaking-of movies, from Frankenstein to Spellbound to Grand Hotel. Richly illustrated and highly readable, The Genius of the System gives the definitive view of the workings of the Old Hollywood and the foundations of the New.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1627796452

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9781627796453

When Good Companies Go Bad

100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds

By: Donald W. Beachler,Thomas Shevory

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When Good Companies Go Bad

100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds

By: Donald W. Beachler,Thomas Shevory

Covering the entire world of business from heavy industry to the financial houses of Wall Street, this book shines a spotlight on 100 of the most infamous cases of misconduct and malfeasance in corporate history. Corporations are in the business of making money. But when companies forget ethics, take operational shortcuts, or willingly endanger customers and the general public in their quest for profits, disasters of enormous magnitude can result. This book examines 100 of the worst cases of corporate greed and irresponsibility and poses the questions: Is it necessary or desirable to conduct business in this manner? Do the penalties and other punishments levied against these companies go far enough? And what is the government's responsibility for keeping corporate misdeeds in check? Coauthored by distinguished public policy experts, When Good Companies Go Bad: 100 Corporate Miscalculations and Misdeeds presents a representative sample of cases on a variety of topics, such as the financial sector, health care, environmental protection, product liability, and copyright. This broad introduction to the dark side of the corporate world focuses on events and scandals that resulted in substantial financial penalties, regulatory actions, or criminal convictions. The cases are presented in a readable and engaging format, making the book an illuminating and informative read for high school and college students as well as businesspeople, lawyers, journalists, and professors who teach American politics, public law, or public policy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216164470

Fellowship and Freedom

The Merchant Adventurers and the Restructuring of English Commerce, 1582-1700

By: Thomas Leng

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Fellowship and Freedom

The Merchant Adventurers and the Restructuring of English Commerce, 1582-1700

By: Thomas Leng

This is the first modern study of the Fellowship of Merchant Adventurers - England's most important trading company of the sixteenth century - in its final century of existence as a privileged organisation. Over this period, the Company's main trade, the export of cloth to northwest Europe, was overshadowed by rising traffic with the wider world, whilst its privileges were continually criticised in an era of political revolution. But the Company and its membership were not passive victims of these changes; rather, they were active participants in the commercial and political dramas of the century. Using thousands of neglected private merchant papers, Fellowship and Freedom views the Company from the perspective of its members, in the process bringing to life the complex social worlds of early modern merchants. For members, 'freedom' meant not just the right to access a privileged market, but also to trade independently, which could conflict with the 'fellowship' of corporate affiliation, and the responsibilities to the collective that it entailed. The study's major theme is the challenge of maintaining corporate unity in the face of this and other pressures that the Company faced. It restores the centrality of the Merchant Adventurers within three important historical narratives: England's transition from the margins to the centre of the European, and later global, economy; the rise and fall of the merchant corporation as a major form of commercial government in premodern Europe; and the political history of the corporation in an era of state formation and revolution.

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Oxford University Press

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0192513311

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9780192513311

In Cold Sweat

Interviews with Really Scary Musicians

By: Thomas Wictor

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In Cold Sweat

Interviews with Really Scary Musicians

By: Thomas Wictor

The book contains a full discography for each of the artists, and every interview - illustrated with striking, often candid photographs - includes an introduction and a postscript that together serve to recognize the artist's accomplishments and define his place in the current pop scene."--BOOK JACKET.

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Hal Leonard Corporation

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0879109564

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9780879109561

Slow Fade to Black

By: Thomas Cripps

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Slow Fade to Black

By: Thomas Cripps

Set against the backdrop of the black struggle in society, Slow Fade to Black is the definitive history of African-American accomplishment in film--both before and behind the camera--from the earliest movies through World War II. As he records the changing attitudes toward African-Americans both in Hollywood and the nation at large, Cripps explores the growth of discrimination as filmmakers became more and more intrigued with myths of the Old South: the "lost cause" aspect of the Civil War, the stately mansions and gracious ladies of the antebellum South, the "happy" slaves singing in the fields. Cripps shows how these characterizations culminated in the blatantly racist attitudes of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, and how this film inspired the N.A.A.C.P. to campaign vigorously--and successfully--for change. While the period of the 1920s to 1940s was one replete with Hollywood stereotypes (blacks most often appeared as domestics or "natives," or were portrayed in shiftless, cowardly "Stepin Fetchit" roles), there was also an attempt at independent black production--on the whole unsuccessful. But with the coming of World War II, increasing pressures for a wider use of blacks in films, and calls for more equitable treatment, African-Americans did begin to receive more sympathetic roles, such as that of Sam, the piano player in the 1942 classic Casablanca. A lively, thorough history of African-Americans in the movies, Slow Fade to Black is also a perceptive social commentary on evolving racial attitudes in this country during the first four decades of the twentieth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0199878455

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9780199878451

Selections from The Municipal Year Book

On Strategies and Services During Fiscal Stress

By: Lingwen Zheng,Thomas I. Miller ,James H. Svara

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Selections from The Municipal Year Book

On Strategies and Services During Fiscal Stress

By: Lingwen Zheng,Thomas I. Miller ,James H. Svara

Selections from The Municipal Year Book: On Strategies and Services During Fiscal Stress contains facts, figures, and research-based articles on management trends and intergovernmental relations: (1) Economic Development Strategies for Recessionary Times, (2) The Hurt Divide: Residents’ Appreciation for Local Government Services in Tough Times, (3) How Local Governments Are Navigating the Fiscal Crisis, and (4) Building Child- and Age-Friendly Communities in Tight Fiscal Times.

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ICMA Publishing

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0873265548

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9780873265546

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

By: Thomas S. Hischak

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The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

By: Thomas S. Hischak

A dictionary of short entries on American musicals and their practitioners, including performers, composers, lyricists, producers, and choreographers

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0195335333

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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

By: Thomas Doherty

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Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

By: Thomas Doherty

Between 1933 and 1939, representations of the Nazis and the full meaning of Nazism came slowly to Hollywood, growing more ominous and distinct only as the decade wore on. Recapturing what ordinary Americans saw on the screen during the emerging Nazi threat, Thomas Doherty reclaims forgotten films, such as Hitler's Reign of Terror (1934), a pioneering anti-Nazi docudrama by Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr.; I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany (1936), a sensational true tale of "a Hollywood girl in Naziland!"; and Professor Mamlock (1938), an anti-Nazi film made by German refugees living in the Soviet Union. Doherty also recounts how the disproportionately Jewish backgrounds of the executives of the studios and the workers on the payroll shaded reactions to what was never simply a business decision. As Europe hurtled toward war, a proxy battle waged in Hollywood over how to conduct business with the Nazis, how to cover Hitler and his victims in the newsreels, and whether to address or ignore Nazism in Hollywood feature films. Should Hollywood lie low, or stand tall and sound the alarm? Doherty's history features a cast of charismatic personalities: Carl Laemmle, the German Jewish founder of Universal Pictures, whose production of All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) enraged the nascent Nazi movement; Georg Gyssling, the Nazi consul in Los Angeles, who read the Hollywood trade press as avidly as any studio mogul; Vittorio Mussolini, son of the fascist dictator and aspiring motion picture impresario; Leni Riefenstahl, the Valkyrie goddess of the Third Reich who came to America to peddle distribution rights for Olympia (1938); screenwriters Donald Ogden Stewart and Dorothy Parker, founders of the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League; and Harry and Jack Warner of Warner Bros., who yoked anti-Nazism to patriotic Americanism and finally broke the embargo against anti-Nazi cinema with Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939).

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Columbia University Press

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0231535147

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9780231535144

Redemption

By: Jacquelin Thomas

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Redemption

By: Jacquelin Thomas

The Essence best-selling author of The Prodigal Husband and Defining Moments looks at the role and rewards of redemption as she follows the life of a woman whose desperate and fateful decisions could destroy her, in a modern-day retelling of the biblical story of Hosea and Gomer. Reprint.

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Penguin

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0451223063

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9780451223067

Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin

By: Thomas O. McDonald

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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin

By: Thomas O. McDonald

A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812–1856) migrated to Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcée, Sarah Medissa Day (1822–1856). The lives of these two Texas pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah’s family’s journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the pair’s respective paths to their meeting, then follows as, together, they contend with conflict, troublesome social mores, the emergence of new industries, and the taming of the land, along the way helping to shape the Texas culture we know today. With a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material at his command, author Thomas O. McDonald tells a story as crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a canvas on which the history of Texas—from revolution, frontier defense, and Indian wars to Anglo settlement and emerging legal and social systems—dramatically, inexorably unfolds.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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080616994X

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9780806169941

Projections of War

Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II

By: Thomas Patrick Doherty

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Projections of War

Hollywood, American Culture, and World War II

By: Thomas Patrick Doherty

Topics include: the influence of Leni Riefenstahl; negro soldiers; depicting Vietnam in films. Films examined include: Sergeant York, Air force, Saving Private Ryan, The thin red line.

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0231116357

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Global Communication

Global Communication

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

The Visitation of the County of Somerset in the Year 1623

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

General Register of the United States Navy and Marine Corps: Arranged in Alphabetical Order, for One Hundred Years (1782 to 1882)

The Genius of the System

The Genius of the System

When Good Companies Go Bad

When Good Companies Go Bad

Fellowship and Freedom

Fellowship and Freedom

In Cold Sweat

In Cold Sweat

Slow Fade to Black

Slow Fade to Black

Selections from The Municipal Year Book

Selections from The Municipal Year Book

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

The Oxford Companion to the American Musical

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939

Redemption

Redemption

Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors

Projections of War

Projections of War

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