Cities of the Heartland or Stay Tuned

Cities of the Heartland: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Midwest

Author: Jon C Teaford

During the 1880s and '90s, the rise of manufacturing, the first soaring skyscrapers, new symphony orchestras and art museums, and winning baseball teams all heralded the midwestern city's coming of age. In Cities of the Heartland, Jon C. Teaford chronicles the development of these cities of the industrial Midwest as they challenged the urban supremacy of the East. The antebellum growth of Cincinnati to Queen City status was followed by its eclipse, as St. Louis and then Chicago developed into industrial and cultural centers. The early years of the twentieth century marked the heyday of the midwestern city. Automobile production made Detroit a boomtown, and automobile-related industries enriched communities throughout the heartland. Frank Lloyd Wright and the Prairie School of architects asserted the Midwest's aesthetic independence, and Sherwood Anderson and Carl Sandburg helped establish Chicago as a literary mecca. At the same time, Jane Addams was making the Illinois metropolis an urban laboratory for experiments in social justice. During the second quarter of the twentieth century, emerging Sunbelt cities began to rob the heartland of its distinction as a boom area. In the last half of the century, however, midwestern cities have suffered some of their most trying times. With the 1970s and '80s came signs of age and obsolescence; the heartland had become the "rust belt." Teaford examines the complex "heartland consciousness" of the industrial Midwest through boom and bust. Geographically, economically, and culturally, the midwestern city is "a legitimate subspecies of urban life."

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Stay Tuned: A History of American Broadcasting, Third Edition

Author: Christopher H Sterling

Since its initial publication in 1978, Stay Tuned has been recognized as the most comprehensive and useful single-volume history of American broadcasting and electronic media available. This third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to bring the story of American broadcasting forward to the 21st century, affording readers not only the history of the most important and pervasive institution affecting our society, but also providing a contextual transition to the Internet and other modern media.

The enthusiasm of authors Christopher H. Sterling and John Michael Kittross is apparent as they lead readers through the development of American electronic mass media, from the first electrical communication (telegraph and telephone); through radio and television; to the present convergence of media, business entities, programming, and delivery systems, including the Internet. Their presentation is engaging, as well as informative, promoting an interest in history and making the connections between the developments of yesterday and the industry of today.

Features of this third edition include:
*chronological and topical tables of contents;
*new material reflecting modern research in the field;
*a new chapter describing historical developments from 1988 through to the current day;
*an expanded bibliography, including Web site and museum listings;
*an updated and expanded glossary and chronology; and
*extensive statistical data of the development of television and radio stations, networks, advertising, programming, audiences, and other aspects of broadcasting.

Designed for use in undergraduate and graduate courses onthe history of American mass media, broadcasting, and electronic media, Stay Tuned also fits well into mass communication survey courses as an introduction to electronic media topics. As a chronicle of American broadcasting, this volume is also engaging reading for anyone interested in old radio, early television, and the origins and development of American broadcasting.

Table of Contents:

	Alternate Contents (Topical)
	List of Boxed Features, Illustrations, and Tables
	Preface to the Third Edition (2002)
	Preface to the Second Edition (1990)
	Preface to the First Edition (1978)
	About the Authors
Ch. 1	The Context of Broadcasting	3
Ch. 2	The Prehistory of Broadcasting (to 1919)	19
Ch. 3	The Beginnings of Broadcasting (1920-1926)	53
Ch. 4	The Coming of Commercialism (1926-1933)	105
Ch. 5	Radio's Golden Age (1934-1941)	153
Ch. 6	Radio Goes to War (1941-1945)	221
Ch. 7	Era of Great Change (1945-1952)	269
Ch. 8	The Age of Television (1952-1960)	343
Ch. 9	Accommodation and Adjustment (1961-1976)	405
Ch. 10	Challenge and Competition (1977-1988)	481
Ch. 11	Change and Evolution (1988-2001)	591
Ch. 12	Lessons from the Past for the Future	681
App. A	A Short Chronology of American Broadcasting	747
	App. B: Glossary	789
App. C	Historical Statistics on Broadcasting	823
	App. D: Selected Bibliography	877
	Author Index	931
	Subject Index	937

Thinking Space or Premises Security

Thinking Space

Author: Mike Crang

Thinking Space is ideal reading for those looking to learn about the Ospatial turn1 in social and cultural theory. As theorists have begun using using geographical concepts and metaphors to think about the complex and differentiated world this book examines the way they use spatial ideas, what role these ideas play in their thinking and what this means for how we think about theory and space. Among the writers discussed are: Simmel, Bakhtin, Deleuze, Cixous, Lefebvre, Lacan, Bourdieu, Foucault and Fanon.

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Premises Security: A Guide for Security Professionals and Attorneys

Author: William F Blak

Premises Security: A Guide for Attorneys and Security Professionals guides the security professional through the ins and outs of premises security liability. Premises security litigation claims represent a serious financial threat to owners and occupiers of property. This book provides an overview of risk assessment techniques, identification of reasonable security measures, legal issues and litigation strategies.
Premises security litigation is increasing at a dramatic rate and has a significant negative impact on corporate profits. Realizing the increasing costs of litigation, business owners and other interested parties are initiating proactive measures to provide adequate security. Attorneys can use this book as a security resource for providing legal advice to their clients and during the litigation process. Security professionals will be better able to propose and implement reasonable and appropriate security measures. The format of providing information in response to specific questions carries the reader through a logical and sequential method for understanding the legal concepts of premises liability, the identification of reasonable and appropriate protection measures, and how to acquire premises security information.

This is a practical, concise and informative guide. This book can be used in a proactive prevention mode as well as a reactive response to litigation claims. It explains what security professionals should be thinking about and planning for when it comes to protecting people on their premises. It also provides a common base of knowledge for attorneys and security professionals that does not exist in any other publication.

Designedto meet the needs of both attorneys and security professionals
Covers both liability and security issues Appendices provide detailed premises security information to facilitate a proactive approach to providing reasonable and appropriate security measures and reacting to litigation

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A guide for attorneys, security professionals and students, business owners, and property managers. A question-and-answer format carries readers through a logical and sequential method for understanding the legal concepts of premises liability, identification of reasonable protection measures, and how to acquire premises security information. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Table of Contents:

Macroeconomics or Communicating in Groups

Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies

Author: Wendy Carlin

The distinctive feature of this book is that it provides a unified framework for the analysis of short- and medium-run macroeconomics. This gives students a model that they can use themselves to understand a wide range of real-world macroeconomic behavior and policy issues. The authors introduce a new graphical model (IS/PC/MR) based on the 3-equation New Keynesian model used in modern macroeconomics. The three equations are the IS curve, the Phillips curve, and an interest rate-based monetary policy rule. The use of a common framework throughout for closed and open economies helps students develop the economic intuition with which to address a diversity of macroeconomic problems.
Applied chapters show how models can be used to analyze performance in OECD economies over the past 25 years. The chapters on growth present in-depth coverage of the Solow-Swan, endogenous, and Schumpeterian models that allow students to understand how these approaches can be used to anser the big questions of growth: why some countries are rich and other are poor; why some catch up and others do not. Because the book is based on the mainstream 3-equation model used at the research frontier, the book gives students the economics background necessary for accessing advanced macroeconomics. It is also designed to appeal to graduate students, non-specialists in maacroeconomics, professional economists, and those from related disciplines who want a guide to the complexities of modern macroecnomics and to understand contemporary policy debates.
Online Resource Center: The companion website will provide exercises and checklist questions for students as well as password-protected solutions anddiagrams from the text for instructors.

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Communicating in Groups: Building Relationships for Group Effectiveness

Author: Joann Keyton

To communicate effectively within groups and teams, we must understand our relationships with other members and how those relationships influence the tasks and activities that the groups and teams undertake. Communicating in Groups, Third Edition, emphasizes that all groups--decision-making and social--require members to successfully convey both relational and task messages. Author Joann Keyton points to the five key elements that define a group--size, interdependence, identity, goal, and structure--and demonstrates how group processes are facilitated or hindered by them. Using examples from field research on both task and social groups, Keyton depicts group interaction as it emerges through conversation. She provides frameworks for analyzing group interaction, recommendations for effective group practice, and numerous transcripts of authentic group communication that help to underscore the concepts.
Thoroughly revised in this third edition, the book features new material on communication structures, group tasks and activities, communication competence, and decision making. Keyton includes updated literature reflecting recent communication and interdisciplinary group theory and research, and she also places more emphasis on gender and cultural diversity, stressing the need for students to consider the multiple ways in which diversity influences group interaction. Highlighting the important connection between task and relational messages in both task and social groups, Communicating in Groups, Third Edition, is ideal for undergraduate courses in group and team communication, as well as for management and business communication courses in group behavior and teamwork.

Table of Contents:

1	The basics of group communication	1
2	Your communication in groups	23
3	Communication that structures	46
4	Group tasks and activities	78
5	Building group communication competence	99
6	Building relationships in groups	125
7	Solving problems and making decisions	147
8	Assessing decision processes and implementing decisions	176
9	Managing conflict in groups	195
10	Providing leadership in groups	219
11	Managing group meetings	241
12	Making observations and giving feedback	265

The Body Impolitic or New Perspectives on Communicating in Business with Technology

The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the global Hierarfchy of Value

Author: Michael Herzfeld

The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This harsh training reinforces a stereotype of artisans as rude and uncultured. Moreover, the same stereotypes that marginalize artisans locally also operate to marginalize Cretans within the Greek nation and Greece itself within the international community. What Herzfeld identifies as "the global hierarchy of value" thus frames the nation's ancient monuments and traditional handicrafts as evidence of incurable "backwardness."
Herzfeld's sensitive observations offer an intimately grounded way of understanding the effects of globalization and of one of its most visible offshoots, the heritage industry, on the lives of ordinary people in many parts of the world today.

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New Perspectives on Communicating in Business with Technology

Author: Carol Cram

New Perspectives on Communicating in Business with Technology teaches you how to communicate effectively in today's constantly changing business environment. In the context of solving realistic business case problems, you can learn how to create a wide range of business documents and oral presentations. In the process, you use technology to communicate effectively, address the needs of diverse audiences, and consider the ethical implications of your communication practices.

Table of Contents:

Tutorial 1. Overview of Business Writing
Tutorial 2. Electronic Communications
Tutorial 3. Routine Correspondence
Tutorial 4. Persuasive Correspondence
Tutorial 5. Longer Communications
Tutorial 6. Developing Promotional Materials
Tutorial 7. Oral Communications
Tutorial 8. Persuasive Presentations
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