Download or read book Shock Talk written by Bob Larson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2001-04-08 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The engaging smile and easy manner of Billy McBride, TV talk show host, belies the deep pain he carries from childhood-being abandoned by his father. This old but still raw pain leaves Billy vulnerable to the life situation of show guest Allison Owens. Allison and her mother, Jenny, have come on the show desperately hoping to encounter some healing for their disintegrating relationship. Instead, the show erupts into unexpected chaos, as Allison still has wounds on her wrists from a recent suicide attempt. Billy attempts to help Allison, eventually resorting to exorcism for both of them. The plot takes many twists and turns, but results in each character finding spiritual freedom from pain in the past.
Download or read book Shock Jocks written by Rory O'Connor and published by Alternet Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles ten shock jocks who the author believes use free speech and their celebrity status as means to perpetuate homophobia, racism, sexism, and other discriminatory beliefs, and discusses the increase of progressive alternatives as a reaction to them.
Download or read book The EC Archives Shock Suspenstories Volume 1 written by Various and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic EC series, presented as a deluxe-size trade paperback! This high-quality trade reprints the first six complete issues of the pulp-comic classic Shock SuspenStories! Featuring the titanic artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Graham Ingles, and Wally Wood, with a foreword by Steven Spielberg! Collects Shock SuspenStories issues #1-#6.
Download or read book Talking Radio An Oral History of American Radio in the Television Age written by Michael C. Keith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes interviews with such well known personalities as Walter Cronkite, Dick Clark, Steve Allen, Art Linkletter, Paul Harvey, Howard K. Smith, Ed McMahon, Bruce Morrow, as well as more than fifty other individuals who were or continue to be actively involved in radio.
Download or read book The EC Archives Shock Suspenstories Volume 3 written by Carl Wessler and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in an affordable paperback edition, Shock SuspenStories Volume 3 continues the fabled EC tradition of presenting the finest noir comics of the era. These hard-as-nails tales of betrayal, larceny, and murder are the works of legendary creators Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Reed Crandall, Jack Kamen, and more. Includes “Squeeze Play,” the only EC story illustrated solely by Frank Frazetta—who appears as the main character in the story! Collects Shock SuspenStories #13–#18 and features a foreword by comics superstar Brian Michael Bendis.
Download or read book The Shock Doctrine written by Naomi Klein and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bestselling author of No Logo shows how the global "free market" has exploited crises and shock for three decades, from Chile to Iraq In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster capitalism." Whether covering Baghdad after the U.S. occupation, Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami, or New Orleans post-Katrina, she witnessed something remarkably similar. People still reeling from catastrophe were being hit again, this time with economic "shock treatment," losing their land and homes to rapid-fire corporate makeovers. The Shock Doctrine retells the story of the most dominant ideology of our time, Milton Friedman's free market economic revolution. In contrast to the popular myth of this movement's peaceful global victory, Klein shows how it has exploited moments of shock and extreme violence in order to implement its economic policies in so many parts of the world from Latin America and Eastern Europe to South Africa, Russia, and Iraq. At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new economy, and is the violent culmination of a radical economic project that has been incubating for fifty years.
Download or read book How China Escaped Shock Therapy written by Isabella M. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first post-Mao decade, China’s reformers were sharply divided. They agreed that China had to reform its economic system and move toward more marketization—but struggled over how to go about it. Should China destroy the core of the socialist system through shock therapy, or should it use the institutions of the planned economy as market creators? With hindsight, the historical record proves the high stakes behind the question: China embarked on an economic expansion commonly described as unprecedented in scope and pace, whereas Russia’s economy collapsed under shock therapy. Based on extensive research, including interviews with key Chinese and international participants and World Bank officials as well as insights gleaned from unpublished documents, the book charts the debate that ultimately enabled China to follow a path to gradual reindustrialization. Beyond shedding light on the crossroads of the 1980s, it reveals the intellectual foundations of state-market relations in reform-era China through a longue durée lens. Overall, the book delivers an original perspective on China’s economic model and its continuing contestations from within and from without.
Download or read book The EC Archives Shock Suspenstories Volume 2 written by Bill Gaines and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic EC series, presented as a deluxe-size trade paperback! This high-quality trade reprints the issues #7–#12 of the pulp-comic classic Shock SuspenStories! Featuring 24 stories by the all-star artistic talents of Al Feldstein, Jack Kamen, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando, Al Williamson, and Wally Wood.
Download or read book EC Archives Shock Suspense Stories Vol 1 written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 collects Shock suspenstories #1-#6, originally published between February 1952 and January 1953 by I.C. Publishing Co., Inc.; foreword by Steven Spielberg.
Download or read book Popular Culture written by Marcel Danesi and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives seeks to define pop culture by exploring the ways that it fulfills our human desire for meaning. The second edition investigates current contexts for popular culture, including the rise of the digital global village through new technology and offers up-to-date examples that connect with today's students.
Download or read book A Way Through written by Kathryn F. Weymouth PhD and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever had something happen that affected you so profoundly that you wondered if you would ever get over it and feel normal again? This is grief, a consequence of loss. Whether it be from a death or any other life-altering event such as loss of a relationship, job, home, health, safety, belief, or any of the other losses we experience as part of living, we need ways to heal and integrate the experiences into our life. The workbook, A Way Through: Healing From Loss, guides you through how to tell your story provides a check list to identify all the ways the loss has affected you helps you see where you are in your healing process helps you identify what remains to be healed provides over 80 resources and self-help techniques for Healing From Loss Used in the classroom, in workshops, in grief groups, in individual counseling, or on ones own, the workbook provides a structure that can be used as is or adapted to fit the needs of any program, instructor, or therapist.
Download or read book Television Talk written by Bernard M. Timberg and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Book Flip through the channels at any hour of the day or night, and a television talk show is almost certainly on. Whether it offers late-night entertainment with David Letterman, share-your-pain empathy with Oprah Winfrey, trash talk with Jerry Springer, or intellectual give-and-take with Bill Moyers, the talk show is one of television's most popular and enduring formats, with a history as old as the medium itself. Bernard Timberg here offers a comprehensive history of the first fifty years of television talk, replete with memorable moments from a wide range of classic talk shows, as well as many of today's most popular programs. Dividing the history into five eras, he shows how the evolution of the television talk show is connected to both broad patterns in American culture and the economic, regulatory, technological, and social history of the broadcasting industry. Robert Erler's "A Guide to Television Talk" complements the text with an extensive "who's who" listing of important people and programs in the history of television talk.
Download or read book Syndicated Television written by Hal Erickson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-10-09 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an excellent reference book on "first run" syndication--the distribution of programs either made exclusively for non-network play, or of programs intended for network telecasts but ultimately making their debuts in syndication. Bringing together information not easily found, this work covers the classics such as Sea Hunt, Highway Patrol, The Merv Griffin Show and the Muppet Show, as well as such once-popular but now obscure productions as China Smith, Ripcord and The Littlest Hobo. Coverage goes back to 1947 and the book includes a number of series ignored in other works. The first section is an overview of the concept of syndication from its earliest application in the newspaper world to the attempt by Fox Television to become a fourth network. The next four sections each cover ten years of syndication, listing the shows (with full background--who produced them and why, who liked them and why, etc.) alphabetically by title under the following genres: Adventure/Mystery, Children's, Comedy, Drama, Game/Quiz, Informational, Music/Variety, Religious, Sports, Talk/Interview, Travel/Documentary, Westerns, and Women's.
Download or read book The Book of Help written by Megan Griswold and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSLLER • WINNER OF THE NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD • “In a world full of spiritual seekers, Megan Griswold is an undisputed all-star. What a delightful journey!”—Elizabeth Gilbert, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Magic and Eat, Pray, Love The Book of Help traces one woman’s life-long quest for love, connection, and peace of mind. A heartbreakingly vulnerable and tragically funny memoir-in-remedies, Megan Griswold’s narrative spans four decades and six continents—from the glaciers of Patagonia and the psycho-tropics of Brazil, to academia, the Ivy League, and the study of Eastern medicine. Megan was born into a family who enthusiastically embraced the offerings of New Age California culture—at seven she asked Santa for her first mantra and by twelve she was taking weekend workshops on personal growth. But later, when her newly-wedded husband calls in the middle of the night to say he’s landed in jail, Megan must accept that her many certificates, degrees and licenses had not been the finish line she’d once imagined them to be, but instead the preliminary training for what would prove to be the wildest, most growth-insisting journey of her life.
Download or read book How to Say the Right Thing Every Time written by Robert D. Ramsey and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2002-07-19 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Makes ... effective strategies for communicating ... readily available to all school leaders"--Page xiii.
Download or read book Inside the World of Comic Books written by Jeffery Klaehn and published by Black Rose Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From gutter business to art form, an engaging, provocative look at all things comic book.
Download or read book Dirty Discourse written by Robert L. Hilliard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changes in American society, the pluralistic nature of itscitizens, and its geographic preclude a common definition of whatis indecent, profane, or obscene. What may appear to be "dirtydiscourse" to some may be considered to be laudable satire toothers. Renowned media scholars and authors Robert Hilliard andMichael Keith examine the blue side of the airways in DirtyDiscourse: Sex and Indecency in Broadcasting. This first-everanalysis of the history and nature of off-color program contentexplores the treatment of once-forbidden topics in the electronicmedia, investigating the beliefs, attitudes and actions of thosewho present such material, those who condemn it, and those whodefend it. Written from a social and cultural perspective, Dirty Discourseconcentrates on the means of greatest distribution - radio, withits phenomenal growth of 'shock jocks' and rap music lyrics, andprovides coverage of television and the Internet. The book showshow and why broadcasting has evolved from the ribald antics of theRoaring 20's to today's streaming cybersex, contrasting thestandards and actions of the FCC v. the First Amendment amidst theover-the-air and in-the-court battles of over-the-top radio. Itexamines political pressures and legal considerations, includingSupreme Court decisions, and efforts to protect children from mediasmut.
