This intriguing biography examines the life of John Adams. Told in clear, concise language, the book delves into the most important aspects of Adams’s life, covering his early years, his role in the American Revolution, and his historic service as both the first vice president and the second president of the United States.

This compelling biography examines the life of Benjamin Franklin. Told in clear, concise language, the book explores the most significant events of Franklin’s life, covering his role in helping to draft the Declaration of Independence, his work as a statesman during the American Revolution, and his fascinating contributions to science.

In a glittering future where television is the nation's obsession, charismatic emcee Bob May presides over the most-watched quiz contest in America. Reigning champion Charles Monroe, a master of philately, faces an unexpected challenger in James Burton, who stuns the audience by choosing Mars as his category and turning the contest into a battle of encyclopedic brilliance. Sealed beneath a transparent force field and fed questions by a cybernetic brain, the contestants answer with astonish...

Oh, Canada! Pulp Kings 5 is a love letter to our home -- Canada. With short fictiondiscussing Canada’s future, and themes that define Canadians, the final issue of PulpKings: Series One is a must-read for anyone who lives in, loves, or is just curious aboutthe Great White North.

Experience and Historical Materialism: Five Argumentative Essays. The central essay in this volume sketches a revised version of historical materialism, with agents' experiences of and responses to their social circumstances as the motive power of historical development and transformations. The other four essays are critiques of Althusserian structural Marxism, various misreadings of Marx and Engels, Laclau & Mouffe's"discourse analysis" as put forward in their Hegemony and Socialist Strat...

The present volume by the author is based on the outcome of extensive explorations in the Himalayas for more than a decade. It incorporates the original research findings along with that based on literature survey. It is intended to provide a comprehensive account of an important group of fungi which has a direct bearing on wood industry and forest ecosystem besides commercial application in bioremediation and pollution control. It is the first step in providing the mycologists with consol...

Drives me nuts, but my wife LOVES SCREWING around in public…Yes, that’s right. I’m a big ole chicken, I can admit it. My wife, she’s the wild one in our relationship. Maybe Candy is right, maybe I’m boring when it comes to sex. Call me old fashioned, I just don’t think people our age should be flouncing around in public places, acting like a pair of horny teenagers.Boring I may be, but I am also a pushover. So what Candy wants, Candy gets.A...

This book offers comparative studies of the production, content, distribution and reception of film and television drama in Europe. The collection brings together scholars from the humanities and social sciences to focus on how new developments are shaped by national and European policies and practices, and on the role of film and television in our everyday lives. The chapters explore key trends in transnational European film and television fiction, addressing issues of co-production and c...

Taking a sociological approach to the study of mass media, Mediated Society explores how the media affects individuals and society. Within this unique framework, the authors analyze media and mass communication as a social rather than as a technological construct while addressing issues such as democracy, citizenship, class, gender, and cultural diversity. Drawing attention to the way in which media frames everyday experiences and events, the text examines media and communication in urban, na...

Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance proposes that the concept of curating is a complex field of enquiry. By drawing together artists, curators, architects and cultural theorists, it proposes new approaches to curating and ways of developing critical enquiry about this increasingly expanding field. Focusing on pertinent issues in curating contemporary art and performance, the book's four parts examine forms of thinking in contemporary curating; curating and the inte...

Media and Participation looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power, identity, organization, technology...

This is a lucid and lively introduction to key concepts and developments in media and media studies. The new edition, with updated case studies and a good range of online reading, is a valuable resource for both students and lecturers.- Chindu Sreedharan, Bournemouth University"Has expanded the possibilities of what a textbook can be. Incisive questions framed through accessible and detailed examples provide a platform for a wealth of different acti...