Legitimating Television: Media Convergence and Cultural Status explores how and why television is gaining a new level of cultural respectability in the 21st century. Once looked down upon as a "plug-in drug" offering little redeeming social or artistic value, television is now said to be in a creati[...]

For eighty years, Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., has been training people at all levels to get the most out of what they put into their careers. Now, drawing on insights from some of this century's most important voices, two of its top executives bring the Dale Carnegie & Associates, Inc., time-t[...]

Suitable for start-up owners, entrepreneurs, and those who want to garner the greatest publicity for the least money, this manifesto teaches them techniques to break through the once-impregnable firewalls of print and broadcast media. It also includes tips for writing an attention-grabbing press rel[...]

Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia provides a unique firsthand portrait of peasant family life as recorded by Olga Semyonova Tian-Shanskaia, an ethnographer and painter who spent four years at the turn of the twentieth century observing the life and customs of villagers in a central Russian provinc[...]

Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what they can do in the face of challenging times. It does so by exploring the notion that architect[...]

Although conventionally treated as separate, America's four wars in Asia were actually phases in a sustained U.S. bid for regional dominance, according to Michael H. Hunt and Steven I. Levine. This effort unfolded as an imperial project in which military power and the imposition of America's politic[...]

This groundbreaking two-volume handbook provides a comprehensive collection of evidence-based analyses of the causes, treatment, and prevention of eating disorders. * Features contributions from an international group of experts from multiple disciplines and edited by two of the leading authorities [...]

An introduction to philosophy through film, Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies combines the exploration of fundamental philosophical issues with the experience of viewing films, and provides an engaging reading experience for undergraduate students, philosophy enthusiasts and f[...]

Presents the important and commonly used methods in human resource management in detail. This book offers practical tips on how to conduct a job analysis, as well as anecdotes, to help organizations create programs that make people work smarter, improve hiring and training, make jobs safer, and prov[...]

This book presents a collection of writings by expert researchers from Canada, the United States, and Australia who are committed to finding common cause and common ground in the prevention of eating disorders and obesity. The eleven chapters in this book seek to create a new public health approach [...]