The business of culture is the business of designing, producing, distributing, and marketing cultural products. Even though it gives employment to millions, and is the main business of many large and small organizations, it is an area that is rarely studied from a strategic management perspective. This book addresses this void by examining a wide range of cultural industries–motion pictures, television, music, radio and videogames–from such a perspective. The articles included in this book will be helpful to individuals who seek a better understanding of organizations and strategies in the entertainment and media sector. But it should also provide valuable insights to managers and entrepreneurs who operate in environments that share the creative uncertainty and performance ambiguity that characterize most cultural industries.
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An Entertainment for Angels, rather than for Men, one observer called electricity, and it proved to be the most significant scientific discovery of the Enlightenment. Lecturers attracted huge audiences who marveled at sparkling fountains, flaming drinks, pirouetting dancers, and electrified boys. Flamboyant experimenters made chains of soldiers leap into the air, while wealthy women titillated their admirers with a sensational electric kiss. Optimists predicted that this strange power of nature would cure illnesses, improve crop production, even bring the dead back to life. An Entertainment for Angels tells the story of how electricity charged the eighteenth-century imagination. With contemporary illustrations and engaging prose, Patricia Fara vividly portrays the struggles to understand the unusual and exciting effects that electrical experiments were producing. One of the heroes of the story is Benjamin Franklin, renowned on both sides of the Atlantic as an expert on electricity, wh
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How government military contractors and high-tech firms transformed an unincorporated suburban crossroads into the center of the world’s Internet management and governance.
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Using Computers in the Law Office, fifth edition provides up-to-date information regarding the use of technology by paralegals in all types of legal organizations. It includes basic computer concepts, including hardware and major software programs such as Word and Excel, and also addresses more complex skills and software programs available.
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“You’re fired!” became the catch phrase in the spring of 2004 as NBC’s The Apprentice captured public and media attention. Even though The Apprentice was not exclusively about race, it communicated and reinforced racial messages that are part and parcel of the dominant American ideology. No matter which minority group is represented, the media in America offer the same bill of fare: first, exclusion; followed by stereotyping that makes a sharp distinction between “good” minority members and “bad” ones; and finally, the telling of stories that justify racial inequality in American society.
Media & Minorities looks at all these tendencies with an eye to identifying the “system-supportive” messages conveyed and offering challenges to them. The book covers all major media–including television, film, newspapers, radio, and magazines–and systematically analyzes their representation of the four largest minority groups in the United States: African Americans, Native Americans, His
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The second edition of this innovative textbook introduces students to the ways that society shapes our many forms of entertainment and in turn, how entertainment shapes society. Entertainment and Society examines a broad range of types of entertainment that we enjoy in our daily lives – covering new areas like sports, video games, gambling, theme parks, travel, and shopping, as well as traditional entertainment media such as film, television, and print. A primary emphasis is placed on the impact of technological and cultural convergence on innovation and the influence of contemporary entertainment. The authors begin with a general overview of the study of entertainment, introducing readers to various ways of understanding leisure and play, and then go on to trace a brief history of the development of entertainment from its live forms through mediated technology. Subsequent chapters review a broad range of theories and research and provide focused discussions of the relationship b
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When eighteen year old Melody gets into trouble with the law once again, her Mother and Stepfather are forced to send her away to an all-girl’s detention center.
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This is an adult erotica story intended for adult audiences only. Strong sexual scenes depicting oral sex, sex between stepfather – stepdaughter, hardcore explicit sex and family pseudo incest are featured. Reader discretion is advised. All characters in this story are of eighteen years of age or older.
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Women of Faith, renowned for their unique combination of personality and truth, offer fresh new messages in four new topical study guides in the popular Women of Faith Study Guide Series.
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Used in library schools worldwide, this standard text provides students with a thorough understanding of technical services. Updated and expanded, the eighth edition further emphasizes the rapidly changing environment in which technical services are conducted. The book covers all aspects of the field—from acquisitions to managing the cataloging department—with five new chapters. “Technical Services Issues” includes material related to physical space needs; “E-resources Issues” examines how the growth of e-materials impact technical services work; “Copy Cataloging” reflects the ever increasing need to be more efficient and also to save limited funds for technical services activities; “Overview and Decisions” addresses the issue of why and how the local OPAC has become a gateway to the universe of knowledge; and “Processing Materials” covers the activities involved in making sure items that go into a library’s collection are properly identified as belonging to the library and where t
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Trying to trade stock, bond, commodity and currency markets without intermarket awareness is like trying to drive a car without looking out the side and rear windows–very dangerous. In this guide to intermarket analysis, the author uses years of experience in technical analysis plus extensive charts to clearly demonstrate the interrelationshps that exist among the various market sectors and their importance. You’ll learn how to use activity in surrounding markets in the same way that most people employ traditional technical indicators for directional clues. Shows the analyst how to focus outward, rather than inward, to provide a more rational understanding of technical forces at work in the marketplace.
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As every preschooler knows, receiving a gift is a very happy thing indeed! Well, BOZ, Drew, and Gracie are happy that God gave them wonderful ‘everyday’ gifts—like family, friends, food, and fun! Before you know it, children will be saying ‘thanks’ from their grateful hearts too!As every preschooler knows, receiving a gift is a very happy thing indeed! Well, BOZ, Drew, and Gracie are happy that God gave them wonderful ‘everyday’ gifts—like family, friends, food, and fun! Before you know it, children will be saying ‘thanks’ from their grateful hearts too!
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In this follow-up to his landmark bestseller, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen continues to break silences and change our perspectives on U.S. history. Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today’s multicultural student audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong).
How did people get here? Why did Europe win? Why Did the South Secede? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes beyond the usual textbook-dominated viewpoints to illuminate a wealth of intriguing, often hidden facts about America’s past. Calling for a new way to teach history, this book will help teachers move beyond traditional textbooks to tackle difficult but important topics like conflicts with Native Americans, slavery, and race relations. Throughout, Loewen shows time and again how teaching what really happened connects better with all kinds of stu
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One man’s hatred…
One terrible infection…
In six days, on UnDay, a deadly contagion (the Chimera Strain) will be created in Anubis, the Jackal of Death. And he will have three goals; infect everyone at the Third Branch Office, bring the Sphinx Corporation to its knees, and usher forth the Twilight. Those who are infected become mindless zombies he controls and in turn those infected infect others. Will anyone be able to stop Anubis?
As the seasons…
Things change…
Kat (the Pandora Project) looks to start a new life. The first thing she has to do is find a job. With the help of her neighbor Zax, she finds a delivery position at Sphinx Corporation Third Branch Office. Little does she know what waits for her in six days.
Can something lost…
Be found?
Kimberly Griffin (The Phoenix) searches for Kat. Kim can’t leave things as they ended with her. With the help of Stephanie (Ce
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