Download or read book Media Wizards written by Catherine Gourley and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at how the media can alter the perceptions of the public, making people believe what they are shown, includes historical notes of how media manipulation existed even in the Civil War.
Download or read book Game Wizards written by Jon Peterson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the arcane table-top game that became a pop culture phenomenon and the long-running legal battle waged by its cocreators. When Dungeons & Dragons was first released to a small hobby community, it hardly seemed destined for mainstream success--and yet this arcane tabletop role-playing game became an unlikely pop culture phenomenon. In Game Wizards, Jon Peterson chronicles the rise of Dungeons & Dragons from hobbyist pastime to mass market sensation, from the initial collaboration to the later feud of its creators, Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson. As the game's fiftieth anniversary approaches, Peterson--a noted authority on role-playing games--explains how D&D and its creators navigated their successes, setbacks, and controversies. Peterson describes Gygax and Arneson's first meeting and their work toward the 1974 release of the game; the founding of TSR and its growth as a company; and Arneson's acrimonious departure and subsequent challenges to TSR. He recounts the "Satanic Panic" accusations that D&D was sacrilegious and dangerous, and how they made the game famous. And he chronicles TSR's reckless expansion and near-fatal corporate infighting, which culminated with the company in debt and overextended and the end of Gygax's losing battle to retain control over TSR and D&D. With Game Wizards, Peterson restores historical particulars long obscured by competing narratives spun by the one-time partners. That record amply demonstrates how the turbulent experience of creating something as momentous as Dungeons & Dragons can make people remember things a bit differently from the way they actually happened.
Download or read book Made In America written by Michael S. Horton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 1998-12-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a crisis of truth in our time, asserts Michael Horton, even in our evangelical church. And it is due at least in part to our cultural accommodation. Horton believes the time has come to call evangelicals back to faith and truth.
Download or read book The Wizards of Once written by Cressida Cowell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book of a new series by the bestselling author of How to Train Your Dragon, the warring worlds of Wizards and Warriors collide in a thrilling and enchanting adventure. Once there were Wizards, who were Magic, and Warriors, who were not. But Xar, son of the King of Wizards, can't cast a single spell. And Wish, daughter of the Warrior Queen, has a banned magical object of her own. When they collide in the wildwood, on the trail of a deadly witch, it's the start of a grand adventure that just might change the fabric of their worlds. With Cressida Cowell's trademark wit, and the same stunning combination of action, adventure, heart, humor, and incredible artwork that made How to Train Your Dragon a beloved bestselling franchise, The Wizards of Once will transport and bewitch readers.
Download or read book Electric Wizards written by JR Moores and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-11-28 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Black Sabbath to Big Black, a ride through the evolution, diversity, and influence of genre-defying heavy music. It began with the Beatles’ “Helter Skelter.” It was distilled to its dark essence by Black Sabbath. And it has flourished into a vibrant modern underground, epitomized by Newcastle’s Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs. This is the evolution of heavy music. The voyage is as varied as it is illuminating: from the lysergic blunt trauma of Blue Cheer to the locked grooves of Funkadelic, the aural frightmares of Faust to the tectonic crush of Sleep, alighting on post-punk, industrial, grunge, stoner rock, and numerous other genres along the way. Ranging from household names to obscure cult heroes and heroines, Electric Wizards demonstrates how each successive phase of heavy music was forged by what came before, outlining a rich and eclectic lineage that extends far beyond the usual boundaries of heavy rock or heavy metal. It extols those who did things differently, who introduced something fresh and exciting into this elemental tradition, whether by design, accident, or sheer chance. In doing so, Electric Wizards weaves an entirely new tapestry of heavy music.
Download or read book Growing Pains written by Timothy J. Colton and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing Pains is a detailed study of the 1993 election and of its implications for Russian development and for the country's relations with the West. The contest, with its deeply contradictory results, was a watershed in the evolution of Russia's fledgling democracy.
Download or read book War Made Invisible written by Norman Solomon and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a new preface by the author on the Gaza war An unflinching exposé of the hidden costs of American war-making written with “an immense and rare humanity” (Naomi Klein) by one of our premier political analysts Every election cycle, candidates across the political spectrum repudiate what has become one of the most consequential and enduring components of American foreign policy: the forever war. Yet, once the ballots have been cast and the camera crews go home, the American war machine chugs along in almost complete obscurity. The journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon’s War Made Invisible is a “gripping and painful study” (Noam Chomsky) of the mechanisms behind our invisible, but perpetual, national state of war. From ever-compliant journalists serving as little more than stenographers for the Pentagon to futuristic military technology, horrifying in its destructive power, that makes dropping a bomb or pulling the trigger on a drone strike more of an abstraction than a moral calculation, Solomon’s “staggeringly important intervention” (Naomi Klein) exposes the profoundly human consequences at home and abroad of the bipartisan commitment to war making. In an era of increasing global instability in which it is all too easy to succumb to despair, Solomon pierces the “manufactured ‘fog of war’ . . . [and] casts sunlight, the best disinfectant, on the propaganda that fuels perpetual war” (Amy Goodman). Now in paperback with a new preface by the author on the Gaza war, Solomon’s incisive, ever-timely analysis “provide[s] the fresh and profound clarity that our country desperately needs” (Daniel Ellsberg) now more than ever.
Download or read book Media Wizards a Behind the Scenes at Media Maniplations written by Catherine Goueley and published by . This book was released on with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the various tools, adventures broadcasters and other in volved and media use to impart meddages to the public, describing, both both historical and contemporary media events and pphenomena.
Download or read book Media and Social Life written by Mary Beth Oliver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our use of media touches on almost all aspects of our social lives, be they friendships, parent-child relationships, emotional lives, or social stereotypes. How we understand ourselves and others is now largely dependent on how we perceive ourselves and others in media, how we interact with one another through mediated channels, and how we share, construct, and understand social issues via our mediated lives. This volume highlights cutting edge scholarship from preeminent scholars in media psychology that examines how media intersect with our social lives in three broad areas: media and the self; media and relationships; and social life in emerging media. The scholars in this volume not only provide insightful and up-to-date examinations of theorizing and research that informs our current understanding of the role of media in our social lives, but they also detail provocative and valuable roadmaps that will form that basis of future scholarship in this crucially important and rapidly evolving media landscape.
Download or read book Wizards of Media Oz written by Norman Solomon and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon draw their long knives again. Following the take-no-prisoners approach pioneered in their first two volumes, Adventures in Medialand and Through the Media Looking Glass, The Wizards of Media Oz cuts through media bias with scathing, sharp-witted, fun to read prose.In these columns syndicated in over 20 newspapers nationwide, look out for what Molly Ivins terms some of the best press-bashing, honest sleuthing found anywhere. Pandering to no sacred cows -- especially media cash cows -- The Wizards of Media Oz skewers the moneyed interests by exposing the facts behind the headlines.
Download or read book The Science of Witchcraft written by Meg Hafdahl and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific discovery of witches in fiction—Chilled Adventures of Sabrina, Sleeping Beauty, Wicked and so many more! Kelly Florence and Meg Hafdahl, authors of The Science of Women in Horror and co-hosts of the Horror Rewind podcast called “the best horror film podcast out there” by Film Daddy, present a guide to the history of witchcraft through the stories and characters we all know and love. Reveal the spellbinding science behind the legends and lore surrounding fiction’s most iconic witches, answering such questions as: What is the science behind divination and spellcraft? When did witchcraft begin to show up in literature and media? Has science made it possible to uncover the truth behind the powers of necromancy and employing familiars? How has witchcraft been thought of throughout the world? Through interviews, film and literary analysis, and bone-chilling discoveries, join Kelly and Meg as they learn about the complicated and rich science of witchcraft throughout the centuries and discover why now is the season of the witch!
Download or read book If Only We Knew written by John Willinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-05-03 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Whisker Wizard written by Jennifer L. Holm and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watch out, Internet! Babymouse is about to influence you in the next book in the Babymousetastic, highly illustrated Babymouse: Tales from the Locker series. Babymouse's whiskers are in a twist! Literally. She tries out a new style--the twist--and now everyone wants to know her whisker secrets. When she posts a tutorial online, it immediately goes viral. Babymouse is officially a whisker influencer! But being an online celebrity is no piece of cake! There are trolls, receipts, and tea that somehow gets spilled. Wut? Can Babymouse hold on to internet fame and keep her whiskers on point? And will someone please explain to her what all these words mean?!
Download or read book A Convention of States written by Dakota Windancer and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2022-05-22 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My aim in writing this book was for the purpose of reminding Americans that we the people are and always were intended to be sovereign over the elected government. Popular sovereignty was asserted as the founding principle of our beloved United States of America. In our forefather’s viewpoint, legitimate governments are those deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. This book addresses a solution to the problems that government creates through alliances with the corporate elite and the world’s oligarchs. The abuse of power is the abuse of liberty, and this is occurring through the eroding separation of powers within the structure and energies of our current administration. We are at a crisis and crossroads both culturally and politically. We have three choices available for resolving and fixing what is broken within our system of government. Discussions of these solutions are the content held within these pages. James Madison succinctly states: “If men were angels, no government would be necessary, we must have ambition to counteract ambition.” It is of course up to everyone to decide the action of their individual conscience. My hope is that you will not take for granted the legacy given to us through our ancestor’s sacrifice but utilize the talents within you to help secure our Constitutional Republic for the present, and future generations. God Bless America and the hope of this ailing world!
Download or read book Windows 2000 Configuration Wizards written by Syngress and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2000-03-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developers are used to working with Wizards, component-like products that allow them to create certain elements - like dialog buttons - quickly and easily while they are coding applications. With the launch of Windows 2000, Microsoft has announced a new set of Wizards that will help administrators and users configure and set up Windows 2000 Professional (the Windows NT 4 Workstation successor) and Windows 2000 Server (the Windows NT 4 Server successor). Windows 2000 Setup and Configuration Wizards covers all the available Wizards, with an emphasis on those new to Windows 2000. Each Wizard is broken down by dialog box, with explanations of all options and required elements so administrators will know what to be prepared with. In addition, coverage of new services that will speed configuration and set up (like the Windows Installer) will be covered. * This is the first book to focus on Wizards and Windows 2000 automated components * Network administrators and developers will save time using this book
Download or read book The Queen written by Hugh Hewitt and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National broadcast journalist Hugh Hewitt warns how a Clinton "reign" would damage the fundamental, foundational traditions upon which America is built. In THE QUEEN, Hugh Hewitt's in-depth examination of the career and accomplishments -epic failures, really- of the real Hillary Clinton will show you why-after her decades of working so hard, after surviving Bill and his antics, after losing to an upstart in 2008, submerging her boiling anger and wounded pride, and after enduring the real predations of the "vast right-wing conspiracy" that has been dogging her throughout-Hillary is on the brink of achieving it all as the 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee. Not since the publication of The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 500 years ago has a member of the political opposition written so candidly about the strengths and weaknesses of the strongest member of his opposing political party. Brilliant and insightful, THE QUEEN is simply unique among political books of our era.
Download or read book Hands On Guide to Windows Media written by Joe Follansbee and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hands-On Guide to Windows Media is a practical guide that teaches how to distribute audio and video efficiently and effectively over computer networks. This book enables you to get up and running quickly and focuses on one of the most popular tools in the streaming media universe, Windows Media. This book will help you to understand the unique characteristics and demands of streaming audio and video information over packet-switched networks. Ideal even for non-technical readers.
