This work offers an overview of attitudes and practical skills needed by new entrants to the broadcast industry. Topics outlined include the need to develop a professional approach; the need to develop the occupational skills needed to meet deadlines, work under pressure and within a budget; the importance of understanding the potential of broadcast equipment in programme-making and the need to keep up-to-date with technique and technology; the individual responsibility to ensure continuity of experience and training in all craft skills that technical operators are required to work in; an...
This work offers an overview of attitudes and practical skills needed by new entrants to the broadcast industry. Topics outlined include the need to d...
In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. This stands in stark contrast to James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis--the idea that life sustains habitable conditions on Earth. In answer to Gaia, which draws on the idea of the "good mother" who nurtures life, Ward invokes Medea, the mythical...
In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the ...