John Brian: 151 books
Writing History with Lightning
Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
Films possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett’s doomed charge...
by Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
It is a commonly held belief that television news in Britain, on whatever channel, is more objective, more trustworthy, more neutral than press reporting. The illusion is exploded in this controversial study by the Glasgow University Media Group, originally published in 1976.
The authors undertook...
by Peter Beharrell, Howard Davis, John Eldridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
First published in 1980, More Bad News is the Second Volume in the research findings of the Glasgow University Media Group. It develops the analytic findings and methods of the first volume Bad News through a series of Case Studies of Television News Coverage, and argues that much of what passes as...
by Paul Green, Padmaprabha Dalby, Harriet Mowat
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Positive shifts in attitudes mean that emphasis is now being placed on the person with dementia and their personal relationships, rather than the illness. There is also growing recognition of the significance of a person's spiritual life in forming an essential basis for their sense of identity, and...
by Brian R. Calfano, Michele Dillon, Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From a Church that once enjoyed devotional loyalty, political influence, and institutional power unrivaled in Europe, the Catholic Church in Ireland now faces collapse. Devastated by a series of reports on clerical sexual abuse, challenged publicly during several political battles, and painfully aware...
by Andrew Fear, Brian Sandberg, Jay Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
Great statesmen and gentlemen, men of honor and rank, seem to be phenomena of a bygone Aristocratic era. Aristocracies, which emphasize rank, and value difference, quality, beauty, rootedness, continuity, stand in direct contrast to democracies, which value equality, autonomy, novelty, standardization,...
Latin America's Middle Class
Unsettled Debates and New Histories
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
As middle classes in developing countries grow in size and political power, do they foster stable democracies and prosperous, innovative economies? Or do they encourage crass materialism, bureaucratic corruption, unrealistic social demands, and ideological polarization? These questions have taken...
Applied Ethics in Mental Health Care
An Interdisciplinary Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Discussions of key ethical dilemmas in mental health care, including consent, trauma and violence, addiction, confidentiality, and therapeutic boundaries.
This book discusses some of the most critical ethical issues in mental health care today, including the moral dimensions of addiction, patient...
by John Romita Jr., Brian Michael Bendis, Matt Fraction
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 5, 2018
È successo l’impensabile: un noto arcicriminale, per di più con seri problemi di sanità mentale, è a capo dell’H.A.M.M.E.R., la più grande organizzazione per la sicurezza nazionale degli Stati Uniti. Norman Osborn, noto alle cronache per essere stato il supercriminale di nome Goblin, ha salvato...
Atomic Postcards
Radioactive Messages from the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union,...
Called and Chosen
Toward a Spirituality for Lay Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2005
That lay women and men increasingly serve as leaders of institutional ministries in the Church is nothing new. Yet, until now, these lay leaders have longed for theological resources and formational training to help them in their vocation and ministry. Called and Chosen: Toward a Spirituality for...
by Brian Solomon, John Gruber
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The handsome multicolored streetcar is a nostalgic icon of the some of the most romantic and heritage-rich locales in America, including San Francisco, New Orleans and Chicago, immortalised on stage and screen in classics including 'Meet Me In St Louis' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire'. Streetcars of...
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...
Heart for the Fight: A Marine Hero's Journey from the Battlefields of Iraq to Mixed Martial Arts Champion
A Marine Hero's Journey from the Battlefields of Iraq to Mixed Martial Arts Champion
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
This is the story of a kid from the wrong side of Scranton who made it to the Naval Academy, played linebacker for the Navy football team for four years, became a Marine officer, graduated first in his infantry officer class, led his men in two intense combat tours in the Anbar Province, received...