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by Robert F. Fernandez
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
For all hard-core boxing fans, this book introduces the reader to New Jersey stars of the 20th century—gladiators who fought in blood-soaked rings bringing entertainment to millions for little pay. They must not be forgotten. The book contains many little known facts about these fine men, all trying...
The Tobacco State League
A North Carolina Baseball History, 1946-1950
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2016
The Tobacco State League played an important role in eastern North Carolina for five summers (1946–1950), giving small-town communities a chance to be a part of professional baseball and offering a return to normalcy after World War II. Years later, the players’ names were spoken with reverence,...
Newspapers in Transition
American Dailies Confront the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
The impact of cyberspace on newsprint journalism is at the core of this text. After a brief history of U.S. news dailies and weeklies it turns attention to those journals’ status today. A wide range of forces that impinge on their success and failure are explored, including the decline of their...
Contact Improvisation
An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2017
In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from colliding with each other. Dancer Steve Paxton in the 1970s considered this distance a territory for investigation. His study of intentional contact resulted in a public performance in 1972 in a Soho gallery,...
Job Stress and the Librarian
Coping Strategies from the Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Practicing academic, public, school and special librarians and LIS faculty in the United States offer practical how-to essays on managing stress as working librarians. Creative methods of diffusing stress are emphasized, adaptive to various types of libraries and job descriptions. The book is divided...
The Fantasy Role-Playing Game
A New Performing Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Many of today’s hottest selling games—both non-electronic and electronic—focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk’em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokémon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing...
by Steven J. Hoffman
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2017
Using post–Civil War Richmond, Virginia, as a case study, Hoffman explores the role of race and class in the city building process from 1870 to 1920. Richmond’s railroad connections enabled the city to participate in the commercial expansion that accompanied the rise of the New South. A highly...
All News Is Local
The Failure of the Media to Reflect World Events in a Globalized Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
This book is an investigation of the 300 year old model of global journalism used by the Western news media. It argues that the framework of localization is fragile and unable to cope with the issues, events, agents and institutions of globalization that exist, and that the current model of news gathering and reporting requires rethinking.
To Boldly Go
Essays on Gender and Identity in the Star Trek Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
In 2016, Star Trek—arguably the most popular science fiction franchise of all time—turned 50. During that time the original series and its various offshoots have created some of the genre’s most iconic characters and reiterated a vision of an egalitarian future where humans no longer discriminate...
Global Models of Urban Planning
Best Practices Outside the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
This volume is based on an international literature search of the best urban planning practices being used in dozens of cities around the world. Such topics as green technology, conservation, infrastructure maintenance, alternative energy, downtown business districts, and recycling are covered, with...
by William J. Phalen
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
In 1846, political economist Karl Marx wrote that “without cotton, you have no modern industry.” Indeed, before the American Civil War, cotton brought wealth, power and prosperity to both America and Europe. Giant industries in the northern U.S., extensive shipping networks up and down the Atlantic...
Shanghaiing Sailors
A Maritime History of Forced Labor, 1849-1915
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
“Shaghaiing,” or forcing a man to join the crew of a merchant ship against his will, plagued seafarers the world over between 1849 and 1915. Perpetrators were known as “crimps,” and they had no respect for a man’s education, social status, race, religion, or seafaring experience. The merchant...
Teach Like a Gamer
Adapting the Instructional Design of Digital Role-Playing Games
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
With a compilation of information that has never before been available in one source, this exhaustive reference work provides complete published election returns for all popular Congressional elections, including special elections, in the United States--over 36,000 since 1788. For all candidates,...
Race in American Sports
Essays
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
These essays critically examine the issue of race in college and professional sports, beginning with the effects of stereotypes on black female college athletes, and the self-handicapping of black male college athletes. Also discussed is the movement of colleges between NCAA designated conferences,...