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Book The Electronic Whorehouse

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  • Author : Paul Sheehan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003-09
  • ISBN : 9781740510776
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Electronic Whorehouse written by Paul Sheehan and published by . This book was released on 2003-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Electronic Whorehouse

Download or read book The Electronic Whorehouse written by Paul Sheehan and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical examination of reporting practices in the media. Argues that lies, fabrications, character assassinations, reputational rapes, point scoring, axe grinding and smearing have become standard fare in the media. Includes sources and index. Author is a columnist and senior writer for the 'Sydney Morning Herald'. His previous title is 'Among the Barbarians'.

Book From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow

Download or read book From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow written by Mark Monmonier and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. Thus, summits such as Squaw Tit—which towered above valleys in Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, and California—found their way into the cartographic annals. Later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, town names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the national and cultural map forever. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow probes this little-known chapter in American cartographic history by considering the intersecting efforts to computerize mapmaking, standardize geographic names, and respond to public concern over ethnically offensive appellations. Interweaving cartographic history with tales of politics and power, celebrated geographer Mark Monmonier locates his story within the past and present struggles of mapmakers to create an orderly process for naming that avoids confusion, preserves history, and serves different political aims. Anchored by a diverse selection of naming controversies—in the United States, Canada, Cyprus, Israel, Palestine, and Antarctica; on the ocean floor and the surface of the moon; and in other parts of our solar system—From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow richly reveals the map’s role as a mediated portrait of the cultural landscape. And unlike other books that consider place names, this is the first to reflect on both the real cartographic and political imbroglios they engender. From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow is Mark Monmonier at his finest: a learned analysis of a timely and controversial subject rendered accessible—and even entertaining—to the general reader.

Book Patriots

Download or read book Patriots written by and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia's environmental movement and those defending the unique wildlife Down Under are superbly examined in this powerful account. Charting the emergence of a new national green movement and its members' commitment to nature's survival, this exploration details the landmark environmental battles already faced as well as those lurking on the horizon.

Book Journalism Ethics

Download or read book Journalism Ethics written by Roger Patching and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journalism Ethics: Arguments and Cases for the 21st Century explores the major ethical dilemmas facing journalists in the digital age. Engaging with both the theory and practice of journalism ethics, this text explains the key ethical concepts and dilemmas in journalism and provides an international range of examples and case studies, considering traditional and social media from a global perspective. Journalism Ethics offers an introductory philosophical underpinning to ethics that traces the history of the freedom of expression from the time of Greek philosophers like Aristotle, through the French and American revolutions, to modern day. Throughout the book Patching and Hirst examine ethically-challenging issues such as deception, trial by media, dealing with sources and privacy intrusion. They also explore continuing ethical fault lines around accuracy, bias, fairness and objectivity, chequebook journalism, the problems of the foreign correspondent, the conflicts between ethics and the law and between journalists and public relations consultants. Concluding with a step-by-step guide to ethical thinking on the job, this textbook is an invaluable resource for students of journalism, media and communication.

Book Goth Music

    Book Details:
  • Author : Isabella van Elferen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2015-12-07
  • ISBN : 1317962982
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book Goth Music written by Isabella van Elferen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is "goth music" a genre, and if so, how does it relate to the goth subculture? The music played at goth club nights and festivals encompasses a broad range of musical substyles, from gloomy Batcave reverberations to neo-medieval bagpipe drones and from the lush vocals of goth metal to the harsh distortion of goth industrial. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture argues that within this variegated musical landscape a number of key consistencies exist. Not only do all these goth substyles share a number of musical and textual characteristics, but more importantly these aspects of the music are constitutive of goth social reality. Drawing on their own experiences in the European and American goth scenes, the authors explore the ways in which the sounds of goth inform the scene’s listening practices, its fantasies of other worlds, and its re-enchantment of their own world. Goth music, this book asserts, engenders a musical timespace of its own, a musical chronotope that is driven by nostalgic yearning. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture reorients goth subcultural studies onto music: goth music must be recognized not only as simultaneously diverse and consistent, but also as the glue that holds together goth scenes from all over the world. It all starts with the music.

Book With William Burroughs

Download or read book With William Burroughs written by Victor Bockris and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trove of intimate conversations between Burroughs and Susan Sontag, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, David Bowie, and more icons of ’70s New York and beyond. During the 1970s, William Burroughs, author of Junky and Naked Lunch, lived in a loft on the Bowery in New York City’s Lower East Side. Christened “The Bunker,” his apartment became a modern-day literary salon with people like Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, and fellow beat poet Allen Ginsberg passing through for a drink or a joint and the promise of stimulating conversation with the ingenious and eccentric Burroughs. Among Burroughs’s entourage was author Victor Bockris, whose tape recorder was always running to capture meandering dinner party conversations and electric late-night sessions in the Bunker. In these moments, Bockris captures Burroughs’s desires, anxieties, and thoughts on writing, photography, punk rock, and more. The recordings and recollections in With William Burroughs create an unprecedentedly multidimensional portrait of a man who is often overshadowed by his reputation.

Book The Bulletin

Download or read book The Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 2003-11 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Essay 43 Bad News

Download or read book Quarterly Essay 43 Bad News written by Robert Manne and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year has seen unprecedented scrutiny of Rupert Murdoch’s empire in Britain. But what about in Australia, where he owns 70 per cent of the press? In Bad News, Robert Manne investigates Murdoch’s lead political voice here, the Australian newspaper, and how it shapes debate. Since 2002, under the editorship of Chris Mitchell, the Australian has come to see itself as judge, jury and would-be executioner of leaders and policies. Is this a dangerous case of power without responsibility? In a series of devastating case studies, Manne examines the paper’s campaigns against the Rudd government and more recently the Greens, its climate change coverage and its ruthless pursuit of its enemies and critics. Manne also considers the standards of the paper and its influence more generally. This brilliant essay is part deep analysis and part vivid portrait of what happens when a newspaper goes rogue. “The Australian sees itself not as a mere newspaper, but as a player in the game of national politics, calling upon the vast resources of the Murdoch empire and the millions of words it has available to it to try to make and unmake governments.” Robert Manne, Bad News ‘A devastating expose.’ —Crikey ‘The are many things to admire about Professor Robert Manne. He’s a prolific writer. He’s incredibly intelligent. And he’s brave.’ —Josh Rosner, The Canberra Times ‘Fairness and integrity are under the microscope in this scathing analysis of Murdoch’s flagship.’ —Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald ‘In our shrinking broadsheet market, it would be good if the healthiest specimen, and the only national one, recognised that we need more mutual respect in public debate if we are ever going to sort through the complex problems and opportunities that confront us.’ —Robert Phiddian, Australian Book Review

Book Public Relations Metrics

Download or read book Public Relations Metrics written by Betteke van Ruler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public relations metrics : measurement and evaluation, an overview / Betteke van Ruler, Ana Tkalac Vercic, and Dejan Vercic -- Public relations methodology : should we bother (if it exists)? / Manfred Ruhl -- The nature of scholarly endeavors in public relations / Alenka Jelen -- Empirical research in contemporary social sciences relevant to public relations : towards a network approach / Jan Kleinnijenhuis -- Conceptualizing quantitative research in public relations / James E. Grunig -- Using qualitative research to become the "thinking heart" of organizations / Larissa A. Grunig -- The corporate communications scorecard : a framework for managing and evaluating communication strategies / Ansgar Zerfass -- Public relations is what public relations does : conclusions from a long-term project on professional public relations modeling and evaluation / Barbara Baerns -- The evaluation of government campaigns in the Netherlands / Wim van der Noort -- The role of research in shaping and measuring communication : London's bid to hold the 2012 Games / Claire Spencer and Julia Jahansoozi -- Organization-stakeholder relationships, crisis responsibilities, and crisis-response strategies / Iris Wong and Chung-ju Flora Hung -- The case study as an evaluation tool for public relations / Mafalda Eiro-Gomes and Joao Duarte -- Public relations research and evaluation in Africa / Ronel Rensburg -- Adapting communication satisfaction and relationship scales to a third-world country / Tanya Le Roux -- Applying stakeholder thinking to public relations : an integrated approach to identifying relationships that matter / Nigel de Bussy -- Introducing the Institute for Public Relations : dedicated to the science beneath the art / Frank E. Ovaitt, Jr. -- Introducing the Chartered Institute of Public Relations Initiative : moving on from talking about evaluation to incorporating it into better management of the practice / Anne Gregory and Jon White.

Book Australia   S Unthinkable Genocide

Download or read book Australia S Unthinkable Genocide written by Colin Tatz and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are a moral people and the very notion that Australians could have anything to do with genocide is unthinkableso claimed parliamentarians when Australia was asked to ratify the UNs Genocide Convention in 1949. The reality is that even decent democrats and people who consider themselves good colonists are capable of doing just thatkilling people because of who they were, forcibly removing their children in order to assimilate them and erase them from the landscape, and then, in the name of their protection, incarcerated them on reserves in a manner that caused them serious physical and mental harm. This confronting book addresses the whole issue of what happens to an indigenous minority who were considered other than human, an unworthy order of beings destined to die out.

Book Overland

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 506 pages

Download or read book Overland written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crazy Bastard Trapped in Haunted Whore House

Download or read book Crazy Bastard Trapped in Haunted Whore House written by Danny Salazar and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family of three leave their home to start a new life in a town called "Skank Hill Nevada." Only this town wasn't exactly what they always dreamed of. Dealing with their crooked Landlord and their own personal family issues, they then finally meet another family who is just as screwed up as they are.

Book Exquisite Corpse

Download or read book Exquisite Corpse written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Arrogance of Distance

Download or read book The Arrogance of Distance written by Stan Haski and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arrogance of Distance outlines major stages of humanity's exertions to advance from a simple tribe to the modern state based on the rule of law and individual freedom. It traces the main stages of the rise of the West from tribalism through ancient Israel, Greek city-states, Rome, Christianity, European feudalism, the Renaissance, the Reformation and Counter-reformation, the Enlightenment, capitalism to modernity. The book resonates those features of the West that are considered decisive in the West's success in the competition among civilizations. It recalls the values, customs, laws and institutions that have contributed to the emergence of the long economic, scientific and, in many cases, cultural distance between the West and the Rest. However, that very distance made the West arrogant as it has, more recently, been eroding the very principle of balance among human values and institutions. "Nothing too much" warned the ancient Greeks. It adumbrates the main symptoms and mechanisms of its XX century decadence reflected, among other things, in the rise of totalitarian states in the I half of the XX century and the establishment of counter-cultures, extreme individualism, multiculturalism and affirmative actions of unlimited duration in the II half of the last century. Finally, it outlines the possible measures that could check the progress of moral hazard, recover West's self-confidence and help restore the culture of freedom, individual responsibility and economic prosperity as well as to better equip the West in its fight against the scourge of terrorism.

Book Making Trouble

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Manne
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2011-08-03
  • ISBN : 1459624912
  • Pages : 694 pages

Download or read book Making Trouble written by Robert Manne and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Manne has twice been voted Australia's leading public intellectual. This book will show you why. Making Trouble takes aim at the new Australian complacency. This is a book that will enlighten and challenge, as it traces the ideas and events that have recently changed the nation. It covers much ground - from Howard to Gillard by way of Rudd, from Victoria's bushfires to the Apology, from Wilfred Burchett to Julian Assange. Making Trouble also includes an exchange of letters with Tony Abbott, critical appraisals of the 'insider' Paul Kelly and the 'outsider' Mark Latham, an insightful discussion of the political and moral issues surrounding climate change, appreciations of W.E.H. Stanner and Primo Levi, a reflection on ways of remembering the Holocaust, and incisive and original essays about the question of reconciliation and the treatment of asylum seekers. As this eloquent and important book shows, no one in Australia makes a better argument than Robert Manne.

Book Vangie   s Ghosts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Di Filippo
  • Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
  • Release : 2024-02-20
  • ISBN : 1538440954
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Vangie s Ghosts written by Paul Di Filippo and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Di Filippo delivers a thrilling and thought provoking adventure through the multiverse in Vangie’s Ghosts, a compelling science fiction novel about one girl with extraordinary powers. Three-year-old Vangie is mute and unresponsive. She shows no interest in the people or world around her, much to the frustration of her callous foster parents. Little do they know, Vangie is otherwise occupied observing “ghosts”—an infinite number of versions of herself, in an infinite number of parallel universes. When a tornado hits their trailer and Vangie is severely injured, she makes a desperate leap into another timeline where she survives the tornado, but her foster parents do not. So begins a life of shuttling through various foster homes, cultivating her abilities to seek out alternate timelines, and making jumps calculated to better her circumstances in order to avoid the exploitation of adults who seek to harness her powers for their own means. Vangie never communicates with her avatars, until one day the “Council”—a group of Vangies—appear to her and warn her of an ominous, growing threat in the multiverse: a man they call the Massive. And thus begins an epic conflict, spanning millennia and worlds, in a brutal effort to control the fate of the multiverse. Vangie’s Ghosts is Paul Di Filippo at the height of his imagination and versatility, filled with compelling characters who play captivating roles in a story where the stakes are nothing less than existence itself.