Download or read book The Mad Medium written by Dr. Thomas E. Berry and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine if you will, the descendant of the actual 19th-century medium, D.D. Home, whose ancestor is the fictional main character in this thrilling novel. The Mad Medium is an anarchist who is mentally unstable. His phony séances defraud the wealthy, even as they provide the front for a drug and white slavery operation. The FBI sends an officer to investigate the supposed charlatan. The medium comes to believe the agent is really the reincarnation of his son, who died of a drug overdose. The agent benefits from this misunderstanding, and soon meets some extremely dangerous criminals. The agent uncovers an underworld of crime operating at the séances, which are scary at times and amusing at others. Publisher’s website:http://sbpra.com/DrThomasEBerry Author’s website:http://www.ThomasEdwinBerry.com

Download or read book The Medium Is the Monster written by Mark A. McCutcheon and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English. It was then Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and its adaptations in Canadian popular culture that popularized, even globalized, a Frankensteinian sense of technology. The Medium Is the Monster shows how we cannot talk about technology—that human-made monstrosity—today without conjuring Frankenstein, thanks in large part to its Canadian adaptations by pop culture icons such as David Cronenberg, William Gibson, Margaret Atwood, and Deadmau5. In the unexpected connections illustrated by The Medium Is the Monster, McCutcheon brings a fresh approach to studying adaptations, popular culture, and technology.

Download or read book The Great Satan Vs the Mad Mullahs written by William O. Beeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2005. With new preface.

Download or read book A Concise Guide to Statistics written by Hans-Michael Kaltenbach and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-09-18 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text gives a concise introduction into fundamental concepts in statistics. Chapter 1: Short exposition of probability theory, using generic examples. Chapter 2: Estimation in theory and practice, using biologically motivated examples. Maximum-likelihood estimation in covered, including Fisher information and power computations. Methods for calculating confidence intervals and robust alternatives to standard estimators are given. Chapter 3: Hypothesis testing with emphasis on concepts, particularly type-I , type-II errors, and interpreting test results. Several examples are provided. T-tests are used throughout, followed important other tests and robust/nonparametric alternatives. Multiple testing is discussed in more depth, and combination of independent tests is explained. Chapter 4: Linear regression, with computations solely based on R. Multiple group comparisons with ANOVA are covered together with linear contrasts, again using R for computations.

Download or read book The Medium and Daybreak written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Medium S Message written by Catherine Harkness and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrie lives alone with her cat, her painting, and her chickensbut no man. She has good friends, and life is just as she wants it. Then when she takes a friend to see a psychic she gets a message herselfa dire prediction which soon starts coming true. Or is it coincidence? Imagination? Carries life is whirling out of control; when and how is it going to end?

Download or read book Medium written by Daniel St-Amour and published by Daniel St-Amour. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After more than 25 years living with bizarre phenomena that defy understanding, the author tells here about twenty anecdotes and stories from his experiences, stories that go beyond the imagination, that defy reason, Cartesian thinking, binary thinking. It is following the experience of a “luminous” phenomenon, of a sudden and involuntary “illumination” that the author became overnight a kind of lightning rod, a “channel” for the paranormal and the supernatural. From the first pages, you will be caught and struck by his stories, by his unique and simple way of telling them. You will be amused, scared, astonished, incredulous, amazed, surprised, angry, moved. You will laugh and you will cry. You will be affected. The fluidity with which the author tells his stories transports us to another world, to rarely visited and explored places of our being, in the depths of our mysteries, in our abysses, in our heavens, in our own and collective unconscious. Exceptional and unpublished stories, unique experiences of the author that he tells unashamedly and of disarming simplicity.

Download or read book Diary of a Mad Medium written by Melinda Vail and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Compelling. Insightful. Candid. Melinda Vail puts her own life under the microscope for you, the reader, sharing her gift for revealing karmic profiles. It's an amazing story of an American entrepreneur thriving in all conditions. Read it. You can make your life better today." -Leo Ramos, Producer

Download or read book A Philosophy of Madness written by Wouter Kusters and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 769 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The philosophy of psychosis and the psychosis of philosophy: a philosopher draws on his experience of madness. In this book, philosopher and linguist Wouter Kusters examines the philosophy of psychosis—and the psychosis of philosophy. By analyzing the experience of psychosis in philosophical terms, Kusters not only emancipates the experience of the psychotic from medical classification, he also emancipates the philosopher from the narrowness of textbooks and academia, allowing philosophers to engage in real-life praxis, philosophy in vivo. Philosophy and madness—Kusters's preferred, non-medicalized term—coexist, one mirroring the other. Kusters draws on his own experience of madness—two episodes of psychosis, twenty years apart—as well as other first-person narratives of psychosis. Speculating about the maddening effect of certain words and thought, he argues, and demonstrates, that the steady flow of philosophical deliberation may sweep one into a full-blown acute psychotic episode. Indeed, a certain kind of philosophizing may result in confusion, paradoxes, unworldly insights, and circular frozenness reminiscent of madness. Psychosis presents itself to the psychotic as an inescapable truth and reality. Kusters evokes the mad person's philosophical or existential amazement at reality, thinking, time, and space, drawing on classic autobiographical accounts of psychoses by Antonin Artaud, Daniel Schreber, and others, as well as the work of phenomenological psychiatrists and psychologists and such phenomenologists as Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. He considers the philosophical mystic and the mystical philosopher, tracing the mad undercurrent in the Husserlian philosophy of time; visits the cloud castles of mystical madness, encountering LSD devotees, philosophers, theologians, and nihilists; and, falling to earth, finds anxiety, emptiness, delusions, and hallucinations. Madness and philosophy proceed and converge toward a single vanishing point.

Download or read book The Praeger Handbook of Media Literacy written by Art Silverblatt and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking two-volume set provides readers with the information they need to grasp new developments in the swiftly evolving field of media literacy. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) proclaimed media literacy a "fundamental human right." How fitting that there is finally a definitive handbook to help students and the general public alike become better informed, more critical consumers of mass media. In these A–Z volumes, readers can learn about methodologies and assessment strategies; get information about sectors, such as community media and media activism; and explore areas of study, such as journalism, advertising, and political communications. The rapid evolution of media systems, particularly digital media, is emphasized, and writings by notable media literacy scholars are included. In addition to providing a wide range of qualitative approaches to media literacy analysis, the handbook also offers a wealth of media literacy resources. These include lists of media literacy organizations and national media literacy programs, plus relevant books, websites, videos, and articles.

Download or read book Ethical Practice of Social Media in Public Relations written by Marcia W. DiStaso and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the high rate of social media use by the public, organizations are compelled to engage with key audiences through these outlets. Social media engagement requires organizations to actively participate with public groups, and this highly-interactive exchange raises a new set of ethical concerns for communicators. In this rapidly changing communications environment, the long-term implications of social media are uncertain, and this book provides the much needed research to understand its impact on audiences and organizations. Through an examination of a broad range of ethics concepts including transparency and online identities, policies, corporate responsibility, and measurement, this book explores a variety of topics important to public relations such as diversity, non-profit communication, health communication, financial communication, public affairs, entertainment communication, environmental communication, crisis communication, and non-profit communication. The chapter authors, expert scholars within their fields of public relations, offer insights drawn from original research and case study examples of ethical dilemmas raised by social media communication.

Download or read book The Happy Medium written by Annmarie O'Connor and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speed of modern culture combined with the hyper-connectivity of technology has shifted our perspective from good enough to never enough. We are now primed to expect more, to aspire to better, and to want nothing less than the best.The reality? It's making us miserable.So if you'd like to swap the weight of 'having it all' for having more with less, then get ready: it's time to discover your happy medium.This isn't a mantra of mediocrity. Rather, it's about finding balance in a full-throttle culture. Offering a paradigm-shifting manifesto for Generation Burn-out, The Happy Medium will help you gain perspective and get rid of unsustainable expectations of what constitutes a life well lived.You'll discover what you really need so you can get more of what you actually want,, and begin to define your happiness on your own terms.

Download or read book Media Advertising written by Rambabu Lavuri and published by Educreation Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-20 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, media becomes as essential as our daily needs. Media of today is playing an outstanding role in creating and shaping of public opinion and strengthening of society. Media is the sword arm of democracy. Media acts as watchdog to protect public interest against malpractice and create public awareness. The media was dominated by print, radio, and television, attracting a broad swath of the public, affording them the opportunity to read, listen, and watch the world around them in a way that they previously had not been able to do. Media is intended to reach and address a large target group or audience. The word was first used in respect of books and newspapers i.e. print media and with the advent of technology, media now encompasses television, movies, radio and internet. Media Advertising does this, by changing the consumer attitude favourably. Further, the sales turnover rate so attained should be maximised and maintained at any rate. Advertising does this by repeat sales. A regular, effective and frequent advertising always helps in building more loyal class of customers and effective media advertising helps to informing the public about the right product at the right time through the right medium.

Download or read book A choice of futures written by F. Emery and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploration of the nature of human communication and the media is a pre requisite to any assessment of the likely future role of communications . . We cannot assume that the nature of these things is transparently obvious to everyone and therefore commonly understood. Three developments in recent decades should adequately warn against such an assumption. First, we had the fiasco of social scientists trying to apply Shannon's mathematical theory of information as if it were a theory of human communication. 'In Shannon's use of information we cannot speak of how much information a person has only how much a message has. ' (Ackoff and Emery, 1972, p. 145). They would not have wandered into that blind alley if they had stopped to think about the nature of human communication. Second was the belated but wholehearted acceptance of the Heider theory of balance and its subse quent wane. Its wane had nothing to do with its inherent merits. It waned because it could not survive on the Procrustean bed of the psychologists' theory of choice. It did not occur to the psychologists to question their as sumptions about how people made the choices that lead to purposeful com munication (Ackoff and Emery, 1972, p. 58). The last example has been the bitter and unended furore about McLuhan. This time the psychologists and sociologists haye been strangely quiet but we can be sure this does not imply acquiescence in McLuhan's views.

Download or read book Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies written by John Hartley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to provide new theories of communication that accommodate social media, participatory action, and user-creativity Leads the way for new interdisciplinary engagement with systems thinking, complexity and evolutionary sciences, and the convergence of cultural and economic values Analyzes the historical uses of multimedia from print, through broadcasting to the internet Combines conceptual innovation with historical erudition to present a high-level synthesis of ideas and detailed analysis of emergent forms and practices Features an international focus and global reach to provide a basis for students and researchers seeking broader perspectives

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Download or read book Strategic Marketing Planning for the Small to Medium Sized Business written by David Anderson and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighty percent of small to medium sized new businesses fail within 2 years of their inception. Ninety percent of businesses close after 10 years of operation. While many factors contribute to failure, the lack of an organized, measurable, strategic marketing plan often is the underlying cause. Creating a strategic marketing plan for your business may appear to be a daunting task. Indeed, many business owners do not create a strategic marketing plan or the plan they create is flawed due to the lack of an actionable planning process. "Strategic Marketing Planning for the Small to Medium Sized Business" addresses these issues by providing both narrative marketing theory as well as workbook exercises. This book offers the small to medium sized business owner or marketing staff a hands-on experience that will culminate in the development of a true marketing plan, specifically tailored to an individual business. From developing or refining the company's mission, goals and strategies to implementing tactics and creating budgets, this book provides the information and framework needed to develop a sound marketing plan that will help your business grow.