This book presents an absorbing study of how educational radio, which originated to broadcast weather forecasts to farmers, has become what the Pew Center calls the most trusted source of news for American liberals and a regular in the rogue's gallery of election-year conservative targets.The Nielsen Company reported in late 2019 that 272 million Americans listen to "traditional radio" each week, a number exceeding those who watch television, use a smartphone, or access the Interne...

A study of the long-term decline of the labour movement in America, exploring the outlook for labour and unions in the 21st century. There are insights from contributors from a range of backgrounds - academic and non-academic, domestic and foreign, pro- and anti-union.

One of the best-known and most-quoted books ever written on labor unions is What Do Unions Do? by Richard Freeman and James Medoff. Published in 1984, the book proved to be a landmark because it provided the most comprehensive and statistically sophisticated empirical portrait of the economic and socio-political effects of unions, and a provocative conclusion that unions are on balance beneficial for the economy and society.The present volume represents a twentieth-anniversary retrospectiv...

"A thrilling fusion of myth and modernity," revel in this explosive debut fantasy of magic and mayhem that"will have you rooting for dragons over humans and loving every minute of it."(Kevin Hearne, New York Times bestselling author)**There's nothing special about Ben Garston. . .or so he'd have you believe. He won't tell you, for instance, that he's also known as Red Ben. That the world of myth and legend isn't just a fantasy, as we've been led ...

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes four all-new stories:"Sulta" by James Bennett"Belly-Slitter" by H. Pueyo"Y is for Yesterday" by Steve Rasnic Tem"The Cat" by Morana Violeta (translated by Clara Madrigano)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by Clara Madrigano and Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"Of Gentle Wolves" by James Bennett"The Names of the Drowned are These" by Angela Slatter (reprint)"Silk-Wrapped Love Story" by Phoenix Alexander"The Memory Eater" by H. Pueyo (reprint)

Each month The Dark brings you the best in dark fantasy and horror! Selected by award-winning editor Sean Wallace and published by Prime Books, this issue includes two all-new stories and two reprints:"The Apostle" by James Bennett"The Snow Child" by Alison Littlewood (reprint)"Ruminants" by Kay Chronister"Bunting" Neil Williamson (reprint)

Elevating Data Management: Innovative Approaches to Cloud Storage Solutions - Harnessing the Power of the Cloud for Secure, Scalable, and Efficient Data Storage is a complete guide to how businesses may change the way they store, manage, and safeguard data in a world that is becoming more digital every day. As companies create more and more data, traditional on-premise storage systems have a hard time meeting the needs for flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and reliability. This book looks a...

Intercollegiate Athletics, Inc. examines the corrupting influence and damaging financial effects of big-time intercollegiate athletics, especially football and to a lesser extent basketball, on American higher education.Including historical and contemporary perspectives, the book traces the growth of intercollegiate sports from largely student-run activities supervised by faculty to the gargantuan, taxpayer-supported spectacles that now dominate many public universities. I...

This book isn't meant to be a lengthy book filled with complex theories and abstract concepts. Instead, it's designed to be a concise and actionable guide for anyone seeking to boost their productivity and achieve their goals.In today's fast-paced world, we're bombarded with endless distractions, competing priorities, and never-ending to-do lists. It's easy to feel overwhelmed and stuck in a cycle of procrastination and frustration. But it doesn't have to be that way."Effor...

The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1076–664 BCE) has been characterised previously by political and social changes based upon the introduction of Libyan social and cultural influences. In this book, James Bennett analyses the concepts of 'transition' and 'continuity' within the cultural and societal environment of Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period and provides an up-to-date synthesis of current research on the settlement archaeology of the period. This is done through the ass...

Religion and the Rise of Jim Crow in New Orleans examines a difficult chapter in American religious history: the story of race prejudice in American Christianity. Focusing on the largest city in the late-nineteenth-century South, it explores the relationship between churches--black and white, Protestant and Catholic--and the emergence of the Jim Crow laws, statutes that created a racial caste system in the American South. The book fills a gap in the scholarship on religion and rac...