W Schramm: 6 books

From 250 to 150 B.C., the Adena people constructed a burial mound by moving 60,000 tons of earth. The resulting formation, the largest conical burial mound in the country, is located in the middle of the namesake town of Moundsville, West Virginia. Although the Grave Creek Mound, as it is now called,...

Located in a charming community in West Virginia�s northern panhandle is West Liberty State College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the Mountain State. The school was chartered by the State of Virginia as an academy in 1837 and has seen its share of changes since that time. Arguably the...

Older than the state of West Virginia itself, The Linsly School was the first college preparatory school established west of the Alleghanies. The school was originally founded in 1814 as Wheeling Lancastrian Academy, and became an all-boys institution at the beginning of the Civil War. In 1876, Linsly...

Wörter machen Leute – und unsere Welt. Worte können trösten oder tief verletzen, manche hängen einem tage- oder gar jahrelang nach. Wer eine Liebeserklärung bekommt oder in einen heftigen Streit gerät, der spürt, wie Sprache berührt. Oftmals bemerken wir ihren Einfluss aber gar nicht, deshalb...

This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies...