Digital technology has revolutionized modern television but what exactly has changed? The history of the digital transition is one of great scientific achievement, expensive failures, and significant political and industrial power struggles. In Shut Off: The Canadian Digital Television Transition, Gregory Taylor examines the technology, institutional players, and the policies that have shaped Canada's efforts to switch from analogue to digital television broadcasting. Taylor shows how digi...

You take care of your body. You've learned to care for your mind. But there's a third part of you that almost no one talks about anymore — and it may be the part that's most quietly starving.We are the most connected, most informed, most entertained people who have ever lived. So why do so many of us lie awake at two in the morning with the nagging sense that something is missing — something we can't quite name?More Than This is a book for the curious and the skept...

This work is the first academic biography of North Carolina poet laureate James Larkin Pearson (1879-1981). Using material from Pearson’s personal archive in Wilkes County, from the North Carolina Collection and the Southern Historical Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and from contemporary examinations of his life and work, this study offers deeply personal insights into his life and provides extensive examinations of his hopes, joys, fears, pains, and sorrows...

The storm is the least of her worries.When Emily Hoeffsteader flees her abusive ex-husband with her autistic seven-year-old son Charlie, their desperate escape ends in a nightmare: a midnight crash sends their car careening off a snow-slicked mountain road-and into the den of a mother grizzly and her cubs.Trapped in a mangled wreck, freezing and injured, Emily fights to stay conscious, haunted by guilt and the terrifying certainty that her violent ex will s...

Paul Crouch (1903-1955) was a naïve, ill-educated recruit who found a family, a livelihood, and a larger romantic cause in the Communist Party. He spent more than fifteen years organizing American workers, meeting with Soviet leaders, and trying to infiltrate the U.S. military with Communist soldiers. As public perceptions of Communism shifted after WWII, Crouch’s economic failures, greed, and desire for fame morphed him into a vehement ideologue for the anti-Communist movement.Dur...

North Carolina's State Prison was typical of American prisons in the 19th century, but with an important difference. North Carolina put most of its inmates outside prison walls to work on road camps and prison farms for the purpose of getting useful work out of them. Opened in 1870, the prison in Raleigh housed only a fraction of the prisoners. Those inmates were for the most part too old, too sick, or too feeble to handle anything other than light institutional work details. This book exp...

Kia Carson, a Los Angeles district attorney with beauty, brains, taste, and style, is about to turn thirty-five. There's just one problem with her picture-perfect life—she's not got one eligible man in sight. Well, thank God she has her career . . . at least until she gets suspended from her job. To regain her sense of purpose, she plans a restorative girl's night out—all the way to Europe.In this fresh and funny Los Angeles Times bestseller, Kia embarks on what becomes a ...

It's About TimeTime-traveling thieves and assassins. Mysterious visitors from the past and future. Historical encounters that were never meant to be. Predestination paradoxes and miraculous machines. Journeys through the ages that take unpredictable twists and turns, sending the travelers—and the reader—where they least expect.Welcome to The Accidental Time Travelers Collective, featuring twelve short stories by an international group of speculative fictio...

Who are, au féminin, the legends who shaped radio in Canada? What did they contribute locally, regionally, and nationally? How was their experience in radio broadcasting different from that of their male counterparts?Women in Radio presents the women who built careers in the radio industry—yet whose contribution has often been overlooked simply because they were women. This collection of stories highlights the multi-faceted contributions they made to their field a...

This is a 5-book combo. These are the themes that you will find:Theme 1: Sometimes, when people are diagnosed with bipolar disorder, the diagnosis is wrong. In some cases, the condition is mistaken for borderline personality disorder, or the main essence of the disorder is still missing. We will investigate this further, as well as some of the criteria that a diagnosis like that has to meet.Theme 2: What causes someone to have Borderline Personality Disorder? Well, the opin...

This is a 5-book combo. These are the themes that you will find:Theme 1: Many people have wondered what bipolar disorder is or what the symptoms are. While starting out with these simple facts, this guide goes much deeper into the subject. It covers a wide range of subtopics that will help you understand the nature of the disorder better.Theme 2: This guide will not leave you in the dark, however; it will talk about these topics and so much more, such as society’s changing ...

This is a 5-book combo. These are the themes that you will find:Theme 1: What is so difficult about diagnosing bipolar disorder?What are possible solutions?These and many other questions will be answered in this book. Aside from this, clinical concepts will be discussed, as well as nutritional resources, the connection to autism, suicidal tendencies, and the overlap of the symptoms in schizophrenia.Theme 2: In this guide, the first thing we’ll point out is h...