Melvin J Lasky: 4 books

Book cover of Media Warfare

Media Warfare

The Americanization of Language

by Melvin J. Lasky
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2017

Media Warfare is the concluding volume of Melvin Lasky's monumental The Language of Journalism, a series that has been praised as a ""brilliant"" and ""original"" study in communications and contemporary language. Firmly rooted in the critical tradition of H....
Book cover of Voices in a Revolution

Voices in a Revolution

The Collapse of East German Communism

by Melvin J. Lasky
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

Afeatured article in Die Zeit, the leading German weekly, begins with "Melvin, du hast gewonnen"--Mel, you have won! In his extraordinary account of the final days of the German Democratic Republic (DDR) we see the reckoning of a regime, and also the vindication of a life-long devotee of European...
Book cover of Und alles war still

Und alles war still

Deutsches Tagebuch 1945

by Melvin J. Lasky, Wolfgang Schuller
Language: German
Release Date: October 24, 2014

"Selbst als ein Ungläubiger stand ich demütig und beschämt vor den Ruinen dieses fremden Landes", notiert Melvin Lasky, als er im letzten Kriegsjahr mit der US-Army nach Deutschland kommt. Hier soll der Oberleutnant Material für eine Geschichte der Invasion sammeln, doch was er sieht,...
Book cover of On Understanding Emotion
by Melvin J. Lasky
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017

Emotions--fleeting, insubstantial, changeable, and ambiguous--seem to defy study and analysis. Nothing is more complex, mysterious, and subject to conflicting theories and interpretations than human emotion. Yet the central importance of emotion in human affairs is undeniable. Emotions affect all...
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