The Encyclopedia of American Journalism explores the distinctions found in print media, radio, television, and the internet. This work seeks to document the role of these different forms of journalism in the formation of America's understanding and reaction to political campaigns, war, peace, protest, slavery, consumer rights, civil rights, immigration, unionism, feminism, environmentalism, globalization, and more. This work also explores the intersections between journalism and other phenomena in American Society, such as law, crime, business, comsumption, etc.
A fun book for children and teacher with practical applications for learning in the classroom
The big purple dinosaur leads children through an active rhyme that explores different parts of the body.
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The image of the great artist as a suffering visionary is a recent
invention, observes sociologist Nathalie Heinich - an invention rooted
in the "canonization" of Vincent van Gogh as a cultural hero for the
twentieth century. Heinich explores how and why the impoverished and
mentally tormented van Gogh came to be glorified shortly after his
suicide at the age of 37. Did the secular art world need a rebel-saint
of its own? In considering this possibility, the author explores the
history of efforts to celebrate van Gogh, whether in biographies or on
T-shirts, showing how the details of his life have been constructed
according to the pattern of a Christian saint's rise to recognition.
These biographical details circulated first as anecdotes, then as
historical truths, and finally became legendary motifs defining
individual greatness.
Heinich organizes her book around the stages that characterize the life
of a saint-deviation, renewal, reconciliation, and pilgrimage, the
latter culminating in visits to van Gogh's burial site and the
competition to buy his paintings or "relics." Heinich explores the
economics of the art market and the themes that make up the van Gogh
myth, such as the personalization of artistic grandeur, the celebration
of the interiority of the creator, and the glorification of
abnormality. By examining the mythology that helps drive artistic
investment, she forces us to reconsider the nature of admiration and
particularly the notion that obscurity during an artist's lifetime is a
guarantee of true genius.
Drawing on a rich oral tradition, numerous trips to the region, and the
latest scholarship available on this important but little-studied era,
scholar and author David Conrad explores the people, places, and ideas
that made up this trio of empires.
18th Century Highlanders
Osprey Men-at-Arms series
The new 43rd Regiment formed in 1739 not only wore bonnets, but had short jackets in place of coats, and belted plaids instead of breeches. In addition to their firelocks and bayonets they were armed with Scots broadswords, pistols and dirks. In the early days a few of them may even have carried circular shields or targets. The British Army was never to be the same again. Stuart Reid explores the history, clothing and equipment of the 18th-century Highland regiments, in a text complemented by a multitude of photographs and illustrations, including full colour plates.
18th Century Highlanders
