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Author: Amy Fried Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231108201 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 326
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Ten years ago the Iran-Contra affair swept the headlines as the nation watched an indignant Lt. Col. Oliver North testify before a congressional committee. Although polls showed that most Americans were critical of North's actions and ambivalent toward the man himself, media coverage left the opposite impression, with its broadcasts of "Ollie-for-president" rallies and stories of congressional aides overwhelmed by a torrent of pro-North mail. In this book, public opinion is more than the sum of a pollster's tally; instead, Amy Fried defines it as a political tool, integral to the political process, where vested interests compete to legitimize their interpretation of the public voice. Fried explores the construction, interpretation, and uses of public opinion, raising important questions about the media and the role of special interest groups in determining policy.
Author: Amy Fried Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231108201 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Ten years ago the Iran-Contra affair swept the headlines as the nation watched an indignant Lt. Col. Oliver North testify before a congressional committee. Although polls showed that most Americans were critical of North's actions and ambivalent toward the man himself, media coverage left the opposite impression, with its broadcasts of "Ollie-for-president" rallies and stories of congressional aides overwhelmed by a torrent of pro-North mail. In this book, public opinion is more than the sum of a pollster's tally; instead, Amy Fried defines it as a political tool, integral to the political process, where vested interests compete to legitimize their interpretation of the public voice. Fried explores the construction, interpretation, and uses of public opinion, raising important questions about the media and the role of special interest groups in determining policy.
Author: Ann VanderMeer Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0765333600 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 1153
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An oversized anthology of dark and bizarre tales written throughout the past century includes entries by international best-sellers and award-winners, including Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, and Franz Kafka.
Author: Bob Drury Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic ISBN: 1555849121 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 388
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“The authors of the bestselling Halsey’s Typhoon do a fine job recounting one brutal, small-unit action during the Korean War’s darkest moment.” —Publishers Weekly November 1950, the Korean Peninsula. After General MacArthur ignores Mao’s warnings and pushes his UN forces deeper into North Korea, his 10,000 First Division Marines find themselves surrounded and hopelessly outnumbered by 100,000 Chinese soldiers near the Chosin Reservoir. Their only chance for survival is to fight their way south through the Toktong Pass, a narrow gorge that will need to be held open at all costs. The mission is handed to Captain William Barber and the 234 Marines of Fox Company, a courageous but undermanned unit of the First Marines. Barber and his men climb seven miles of frozen terrain to a rocky promontory overlooking the pass, where they will endure four days and five nights of nearly continuous Chinese attempts to take Fox Hill. Amid the relentless violence, three-quarters of Fox’s Marines are killed, wounded, or captured. Just when it looks like they will be overrun, Lt. Colonel Raymond Davis, a fearless Marine officer who is fighting south from Chosin, volunteers to lead a daring mission that will seek to cut a hole in the Chinese lines and relieve the men of Fox. This is a fast-paced and gripping account of heroism in the face of impossible odds.
Author: Pei-kai Cheng Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9814021784 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 162
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This volume contains high quality articles, originally published in Chinese in the Chinese Journal Jiuzhou Xuelin [Chinese Cultural Quarterly] and new articles written on special invitation by established scholars in the field. The theme of the volume is 'New Perspectives on Research of Chinese Culture', introducing the latest trends and new developments in the research into Chinese history, humanities, music and geography. The articles are written by well-known scholars in the field who examine Chinese culture from various new perspectives adopting different research methods.
Author: Gahan Wilson Publisher: Macmillan + ORM ISBN: 1466870540 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 322
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Gahan Wilson is one of the masters of macabre cartooning, ranked with Charles Addams, Edward Gorey, and Gary Larson. He is also a masterful storyteller. From the horror of "blot" to the gentle unease of "Campfire Story," from the classic oral-horror style of "The Marble Boy" to the science fiction scares of "It Twineth Round Thee in Thy Joy," the collection in The Cleft and Other Odd Tales shows Wilson at his very best. Originally published in Playboy, Omni, and notable anthologies such as Again, Dangerous Visions, Wilson's short fiction is gathered here for the first time. The 24 stories are each accompainied by an original, full-page illustration done especially for this volume. Gahan Wilson has won two World Fantasy Awards and the Bram Stoker Award for Life Achievement. His most recent cartoon collection is Gahan Wilson's Even Weirder. His latest CD-ROM is Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Nicholasa Mohr Publisher: Arte Publico Press ISBN: 9781611922189 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 196
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An anthology of stories featuring Hispanic protagonists. In one story, a New York woman on holiday in Puerto Rico is given a lesson in being a good wife by tolerating a mistress, another story chronicles the effect on a family of a son who sells drugs.
Author: James Joseph Scheurich Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780791453599 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 288
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Offers discussion and examples of how white scholars can use anti-racist scholarship as part of the long-term civil rights struggle to create real equality in the United States.
Author: Kester James Finley Publisher: Kester James Finley ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 400
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Three people can keep a secret if two are dead. For Truddie Mae, the fallout from the Harvester includes emotional burdens. Members have come and gone, and secrets have been uncovered. Wishing to leave it all behind her, she’ll soon find it has ways of keeping up. A simple excursion leads to a discovery threatening the Keepers on every level. Forced to act as leader, she must rally remaining teammates and dig deeper into the mystery of their magical lives. New threats and unseen forces strike back, this time with more bite. Evil attacks from every direction leading to an outcome that will haunt the Keepers forever. Sometimes the past rises to the top no matter how deep you bury the bodies. Navigating a surge of supernatural villainy alongside others, she’ll quickly realize reunions aren’t always happy and that some can be downright devilishly twisted. Struggling to maintain the veil while dodging a conspiracy, will her group unearth the agenda meant to end them before it finally does or will her past doom them all?
Author: Benoît Glaude Publisher: Taylor & Francis ISBN: 1000874400 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 200
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This book opens a novel perspective on comics and literature interactions. It claims that the two artistic media have always maintained a mutual emulation, for as long as they have coexisted in media culture. To demonstrate this, the present research does not focus on literary adaptations in comics form but rather on a literary corpus that remains virtually unexplored: comics-related novels. The purpose of this volume is to inventory French comics-related novels and to study them. Within the limits of the French-speaking world, this book pieces together a literary history of bande dessinée through its novels, from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. Although the comic strip – including the aptly named "graphic novel" – has sometimes been regarded as the disciple of an unsurpassable literary model, do these under-studied adaptations in novel form not rather indicate a mutual relationship, or even an emulation, between the two media?
Author: Amy Fried
Author: Amy Fried
Author: Ann VanderMeer
Author: Bob Drury
Author: Pei-kai Cheng
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Author: Gahan Wilson
Author: Nicholasa Mohr
Author: James Joseph Scheurich
Author: Kester James Finley
Author: Benoît Glaude