wyszukanych pozycji: 15
Same Time, Same Station: Creating American Television, 1948-1961
ISBN: 9780801879333 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ever wonder how American television came to be the much-derided, advertising-heavy home to reality programming, formulaic situation comedies, hapless men, and buxom, scantily clad women? Could it have been something different, focusing instead on culture, theater, and performing arts? In Same Time, Same Station, historian James L. Baughman takes readers behind the scenes of early broadcasting, examining corporate machinations that determined the future of television. Split into two camps--those who thought TV could meet and possibly raise the expectations of wealthier,... Ever wonder how American television came to be the much-derided, advertising-heavy home to reality programming, formulaic situation comedies, haple... |
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235,89 zł |
The Republic of Mass Culture: Journalism, Filmmaking, and Broadcasting in America Since 1941
ISBN: 9780801883156 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had on the established mass media--radio, film, newspapers, and magazines. When television captured the largest share of the mass audience by the late 1950s, rival media were forced to target smaller, subgroup markets with novel content: rock 'n' roll for teenage radio listeners in the 1950s, sexually explicit films that began to appear in the 1960s, and analytical newspaper reporting in the 1970s and 1980s. The growing popularity of cable TV posed... The new edition of James L. Baughman's successful book The Republic of Mass Culture examines the advent of television and the impact it had ... |
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287,68 zł |
Trustees, Trusteeship, and the Public Good: Issues of Accountability for Hospitals, Museums, Universities, and Libraries
ISBN: 9780899301952 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 205 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. . . . a useful handbook for trustees and a fascinating survey of the role of trustees in the management of nonprofit organizations. Baughman ably examines the juridical status of trustees of charitable institutions in light of their obligation to administer trusts for the public's benefit and enjoyment. . . . The appendix includes a three-page guide prepared by Neil F. Hartigan, the attorney-general for Illinois, on how board members of nonprofit organizations can best fulfill their responsibilities. . . . Baughman presents a very readable account of trustees and of the litigation battles... . . . a useful handbook for trustees and a fascinating survey of the role of trustees in the management of nonprofit organizations. Baughman ably e... |
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383,67 zł |
Protest on the Page: Essays on Print and the Culture of Dissent since 1865
ISBN: 9780299302849 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The use of print to challenge prevailing ideas and conventions has a long history in American public life. As dissenters in America sought social change, they used print to document, articulate, and disseminate their ideas to others. Protest always begins on the margins, but print is the medium that allows it to reach a larger audience. In Protest on the Page, scholars in multiple disciplines offer ten original essays that examine protest print culture in America since 1865. They explore the surprising range of dissidents who enlisted print in their causes-from vegetarians and...
The use of print to challenge prevailing ideas and conventions has a long history in American public life. As dissenters in America sought social chan...
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193,57 zł |
The Boys from Lake County
ISBN: 9780979044342 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of the most detailed reviews of America's Civil War in it's western field. A painful, shocking expose of the disastrous treatment of America's disabled Civil War veterans...little known even in those years...completely unremembered in our day. Hour by hour...heroism and brilliant strategy in the most hard hitting, combative, small scale raid of America's Civil War. Rank and file riflemen... friends and neighbors from one Indiana county...living, fighting, dying in America's bloodiest of all wars. "The Boys From Lake County" is likely...
Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of the most detailed reviews of America's Civil War in it's western field. A painful, shocking exp...
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145,11 zł |
Villages by an Emerald Sea
ISBN: 9780979044311 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 148 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's. It is written in engaging short story format...especially including the Emerald Coast communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Valparaiso, Mary Esther, Shalimar, Sandestin, Seaside, Crestview, DeFuniak Springs, and Eglin Air Force Base.
History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's. It is written in engaging short story format...especially including the Emeral...
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86,97 zł |
An Angel with Silver Wings
ISBN: 9780979044335 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An angel who pilots an angelic World War II P-51 fighter plane comes to find a far middle aged, troubled man...and in a unique way extends help. In that time, together, they fly the fighter in a series of startling adventures ...right to the edge of Heaven's Gate. The tale is set amidst Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast. it begins and ends at a small abandonded airfield on giant Eglin Air Force Base...and over the Emerald Coast beaches and cities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, and DeFuniak Springs
An angel who pilots an angelic World War II P-51 fighter plane comes to find a far middle aged, troubled man...and in a unique way extends help. In th...
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86,97 zł |
The Boys from Lake County
ISBN: 9780979044359 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of the most detailed reviews of America's Civil War in its western field. A painful, shocking expose of the disastrous treatment of America's disabled Civil War veterans... little known in those years...completely unremembered in our day. Hour by hour...heroism and brilliant strategy in the most hard hitting, combative, small scale raid of America's Civil War. Rank and file riflemen...friends and neighbors from one Indiana county...living, fighting, dying in America's bloodiest of all wars. "The Boys From Lake County" is likely one-of-kind...
Co A, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment. One of the most detailed reviews of America's Civil War in its western field. A painful, shocking expo...
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116,29 zł |
Villages by an Emerald Sea
ISBN: 9780979044304 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's, particularly the communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Mary Esther, Valparaiso, Seaside, Sandestin, Crestview, and DeFuniak Springs. It is written in engaging short story format.
History of Northwest Florida's magnificent Emerald Coast in the 1950's, particularly the communities of Destin, Fort Walton Beach, Niceville, Mary Est...
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135,42 zł |
Fun and Adventure in the Condo Lifestyle
ISBN: 9780979044328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For Condominium owners, prospective owners, management personnel, directors, officers...learn how to better manage and maintain your condominium. Information comes from condo owners and managers over much of America.
For Condominium owners, prospective owners, management personnel, directors, officers...learn how to better manage and maintain your condominium. Info...
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86,97 zł |
Official History, 73rd Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment
ISBN: 9780979044366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The men of the valiant 73rd Indiana Regiment were first to attack in the Battle of Stones River at Murphreesborough. They lost a third of their men in that fight, listed as one of the 10 bloodiest battles of America's Civil War. Their history is a fascinating cameo of the Civil War.
The men of the valiant 73rd Indiana Regiment were first to attack in the Battle of Stones River at Murphreesborough. They lost a third of their men in...
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116,29 zł |
The Civil War Diary Col Alfred B. Wade
ISBN: 9780979044380 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Hidden from the wider world for 144 years, this diary is an astonishing historic record. Wade, of South Bend, Indiana, served in Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiments during the Civil War, and his journals are among the most detailed accounts of daily life during wartime ever to appear in American literature.
Hidden from the wider world for 144 years, this diary is an astonishing historic record. Wade, of South Bend, Indiana, served in Indiana Volunteer Inf...
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116,29 zł |
A Yankee in Rebel Prisons
ISBN: 9780979044397 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This fascinating work by Lt Alva C. Roach, completed and published in the year 1865, is surely one of the most descriptive of many personal journals written during the years of America's terrible Civil War. His depictions are so detailed and compelling as to make the reader feel as though we were there with him and our forefathers during his battles and two years in Rebel prisons. Lt Roach's book, though, is uncommon in another way. He declared his work unvarnished truth, and much appears so. Yet, his words ring constantly with far more, oozing a remarkable hatred and vilification toward...
This fascinating work by Lt Alva C. Roach, completed and published in the year 1865, is surely one of the most descriptive of many personal journals w...
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116,29 zł |
History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Indiana Regiment
ISBN: 9780983438915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This greatly detailed book is the complete History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Americas Civil War. The Regiment was one of the most active of the War, involved in the major engagements of the Wars Western arena. The Regiments service was more lengthy than many, beginning in 1861, not mustered out until early 1866. The history, written in relaxed, easy reading, enjoyable style, is an astounding eyewitness description of daily life of individual soldiers, and just as often of people, cities, and countryside around them, during the years of Americas Civil War. This...
This greatly detailed book is the complete History of the 51st Indiana Veteran Volunteer Infantry Regiment in Americas Civil War. The Regiment was one...
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125,97 zł |
56th Virginia Regiment
ISBN: 9780979044373 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg is regarded as the Civil War's most disastrous battle action, and the valiant men of Virginia's 56th Volunteer Infantry Regiment were in the middle of the front line.
Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg is regarded as the Civil War's most disastrous battle action, and the valiant men of Virginia's 56th Volunteer Infantry...
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116,29 zł |