Michael Paul: 327 books
by Paul Michael Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2003
At the turn of the 20th century, Chicago was home to the largest Swedish population of any city in the world outside of Stockholm. In the 1920s, Sweden experienced an economic depression and population growth that sparked another rush of Swedish immigration to America and Chicago, where they settled...
by Paul Goldsmith, Michael Bassett
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2007
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the successful and influential Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. There is a thorough analysis of Douglas Myers’ controversial...
Head's Broadcasting in America
A Survey of Electronic Media (1-download)
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
This book documents the dramatic changes in the field of electronic media in the past decade and provides informed insights in the exciting, and changes yet to come. It examines the transition in broadcasting from analog to digital transmission and the changing business models of electronic media.
Fire in the Valley
The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own...
Heroines of Comic Books and Literature
Portrayals in Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014
Despite the growing importance of heroines across literary culture—and sales figures that demonstrate both young adult and adult females are reading about heroines in droves, particularly in graphic novels, comic books, and YA literature—few scholarly collections have examined the complex relationships...
by The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Michael McCall, John Rumble
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Immediately upon publication in 1998, the Encyclopedia of Country Music became a much-loved reference source, prized for the wealth of information it contained on that most American of musical genres. Countless fans have used it as the source for answers to questions about everything from country's...
Twentieth Century Fox
A Century of Entertainment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Here it is: the first-time look at the remarkable American multinational mass media empire and its century of entertainment—the story of Twentieth Century Fox (1915–2015). Or, to borrow the title of a classic 1959 Fox film, The Best of Everything. This is the complete revelatory story—bookended...
by Paul Michael Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Wrigley Field is the second oldest ballpark currently in use in the major leagues, but it ranks first in the hearts of Cubs fans. Rooting for the home team from the corner of Clark and Addison to small towns and city streets across the country, generations of Cubs' fans have made that summer pilgrimage...
Semantricks
A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words.
Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce
Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way
Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown
Zinfandel: Heathen wine
Ranging...
Montesquieu's Science of Politics
Essays on The Spirit of Laws
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000
Montesquieu's The Spirit of Laws is one of a handful of classic works of political philosophy deserving a fresh reading every generation. The product of immense erudition, Montesquieu's treatise has captured since its first printing (1748) the imagination of an impressive array of intellectuals including...
by Michael D. Morrison, Paul Kroll
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Christians have different views of the millennium of Revelation 20. Some believe it is occurring now; some believe it will occur before Christ returns, and some believe it will happen after he returns. Equally sincere, equally Bible-believing Christians disagree. Is it necessary for us to disagree? What do we have in common?
On the Border
Society and Culture between the United States and Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
A stunningly beautiful backdrop where cultures meet, meld, and thrive, the U.S.–Mexico borderlands is one of the most dynamic regions in the Americas. On the Border explores little-known corners of this fascinating area of the world in a rich collection of essays. Beginning with an exploration of...
United by Faith
The Multiracial Congregation As an Answer to the Problem of Race
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2003
In the last four decades, desegregation has revolutionized almost every aspect of life in the United States: schools, businesses, government offices, even entertainment. But there is one area that remains largely untouched, and that is the church. Now comes a major new call for multiracial congregations...
Chasing Chiles
Hot Spots along the Pepper Trail
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
Chasing Chiles looks at both the future of place-based foods and the effects of climate change on agriculture through the lens of the chile pepper-from the farmers who cultivate this iconic crop to the cuisines and cultural traditions in which peppers play a huge role.
Why chile peppers? Both...