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As the best-selling text in its market for more than thirty-five years, Broadcasting in America distinguishes itself by presenting electronic media both as products of contemporary social forces and as social forces in their own right. This text will introduce you to the exciting changes taking place in electronic media. It will help you examine the emerging information infrastructure and the accelerating convergence of various electronic media forms. It will also help you examine the role electronic media plays in many academic areas, ranging from economics to law, from history to social science. You will find this industry more accessible as you experience broadcasting dually through the people and the products that have shaped the history of this medium and through your own experiences with broadcasting in your daily life. ... Read more

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Not Too Current
This book covers the history of radio and tv well, but it really isn't too current with some of the new broadcasting standards and new research methods going on.

Covers the Subject Well
Among the historical aspects of broadcasting covered are: development, technology, economics, programming, impact, regulation, and international aspects. The book's beginning tells us that broadcasting has consequences and that theme runs through the text. We're given clear definitions of the key terms used by media professionals and a historical context of their development.

Appropriate charts, graphs, and photos add an element of visual explanation to accompany the written descriptions. The sections on regulation and audience research emphasize the importance of those two components for students interested in entering the field. This book is a good introduction to the industry's founding and place in American culture.

Standard Intro to TV and Radio Text Book
This is a popular text for your basic college TV and Radio intro class.I have used it for several years myself and it's a fine overview of the subject.Gets pretty technical on electronic stuff and has less on broadcast history and personalities (in my view).Also, since the death ofone author the book has become more dated each year and will continue to doso unless they do a fairly significant rewrite. ... Read more

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Invasion-The story of D-Day by Jeremy
I read this book for my summer reading. I liked it because I like World War II.The pictures were cool they were actual pictures from that war.It took me 3 days to read it,it was so good.I want to read the other books from this series.
I recommend buying it.
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Nineteen of Michael Swanwick's rich, sardonic tales are gathered here for the first time. The collection features The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O, written for this volume, the 1999 Hugo Award winner The Very Pulse of the Machine," and includes the 2000 Hugo Award winner Scherzo with Tyrannosaur.Amazon.com Review
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, Michael Swanwick is one of science fiction's best authors and a master of short fiction. Tales of Old Earth collects 19 of his acclaimed stories, including one ("The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O") that is original to this volume.

"The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O" is a mythic, Zelazny-tinged tale of time-transcending, world-hopping humans, monsters, and gods. In the Hugo Award winner "The Very Pulse of the Machine," the stranded surviving member of a Jupiter mission may have discovered the secret of the moon Io--or may be going mad. In "The Dead," the corporate mania for profit reaches a shocking nadir of exploitation. "Mother Grasshopper" explores a planet that might be the weirdest ever to appear in science fiction (a huge claim, buttrue). In the World Fantasy Award winner "Radio Waves," a peculiar science-fictional ghost in a strange and frightening afterlife recovers his memory, and regrets it.

Tales of Old Earth has one minor but potentially annoying problem: it doesn't give copyright information for the individual stories, so you can't see where, or when, they first appeared. Other books by Michael Swanwick include the novels In the Drift, Vacuum Flowers, Griffin's Egg, Stations of the Tide (a Nebula Award winner), and The Iron Dragon's Daughter (a New York Times Notable Book); and the collections Gravity's Angels and A Geography of Unknown Lands. --Cynthia Ward ... Read more

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Excellent Short Stories
Mr. Swanwick has given us a collection of good short stories (some are brilliant) with both science fiction and science fantasy included (unless you believe that there is, somewhere in space, a planet sized grasshopper that could be settled by humans).Fun, interesting and at times sublime, these stories should be basic reading for any F&SF fan.

I like Swanwick and I enjoy SF short fiction . . . just not most of these
Generally speaking, I like Swanwick's stuff -- _Jack Faust_ and _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_ are among the best SF I've read in many years -- but I'm afraid I wasn't very impressed with this collection. The first story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine," about time travel and dinosaurs, is really pretty good -- but it's also the basis for a chapter in his latest novel, _Bones of the Earth_ (only slightly rewritten) so I already knew where it was going. "Mother Grasshopper" didn't make a lot of sense, nor did "In Concert," nor did "Ancient Engines." I couldn't even finish several of the others. "North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy" was more straightforward, but the author was trying too hard with that one. Maybe the best thing in the volume, actually, is "Radiant Doors," about time-traveling refugees from future fascism (maybe) and whether people get what they deserve. Everyone's entitled to an off day, but I think I'll just stick to Swanwick's novels hereafter.

Some of the Best Michael Swanwick Stories.
Contents of this collection can probably still be found on the Amazon site and elsewhere, but here they come again, with additional information.

A User's Guide to Michael Swanwick by Bruce Sterling (foreword).
'The Very Pulse of the Machine' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1998.
'The Dead' (short story) Starlight 1, ed. by Patrick Nielsen Hayden, 1996.
'Scherzo with Tyrannosaur' (short story) Asimov's Jul 1999.
'Ancient Engines' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1999.
'North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy' (novelette) Killing Me Softly, ed. Gardner Dozois, 1995.
'The Mask' (short story) Asimov's Apr 1994.
'Mother Grasshopper' (short story) A Geography of Unknown Lands, 1997.
'Riding the Giganotosaur' (short story) Asimov's Oct/Nov 1999.
'Wild Minds' (short story) Asimov's May 1998.
'The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O' (short story).
'Microcosmic Dog' (shory story) Science Fiction Age Nov 1998.
'In Concert' (short story) Asimov's Sep 1992.
'Radiant Doors' (short story) Asimov's Sep 1998.

'Ice Age' (short story) Amazing Jan 1984.
'Walking Out' (short story) Asimov's Feb 1995.
'The Changeling's Tale' (short story) Asimov's Jan 1994.
'Midnight Express' (short story) Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling, 1998.
'The Wisdom of Old Earth' (short story) Asimov's Dec 1997.
'Radio Waves' (short story) Omni Win 1995.

There are quite a number of stories here that have either won an award or were at least nominated. Scherzo with Tyrannosaur is a 2000 Hugo winner. And The Very Pulse of the Machine is likewise a Hugo winner, but of the year 1999. All those awards merely state the obvious: Read these tales.

Swanwick is excellent in the short story and novelette regions but I'm as of yet unfamiliar with his novels. This collection was for me an introduction to Swanwick the writer, and I'll probably pick up one of his novels in the near-future.

This is a fine collection, one of the best in years. Write more stories, Michael Swanwick!

Incredible
This collection of short stories is among the best ever written.Deeply profound, thoughtful and literary tales, these stories remind me of Franz Kafka and Philip K. Dick at their best.Swanwick utilizes science fiction in the exact way science fiction should be utilized: as a realistic and cautionary window into the future.His favorite themes include: The dangers of unfettered capitalism and emergence of corporate slave-labor; science and medical technology run amok; the nature of death, the soul, and the afterlife; and time travel and the complications involved in altering the past.He also seems to have an obsession with dinosaurs.If these themes sound like a recipe for intellectual and thoughtful literature, you are correct.Swanwick is able to convey fascinating philosophical concepts through his fiction, and does so with a clear and lucid style.Unlike some modern authors, Michael Swanwick does not try to experiment with an overly abstract or poetic style, and does not play tricks with the reader in an attempt to create a "new" style of writing prose.Swanwick sticks with a basic writing style, and invokes pioneering literary concepts through the actual content of his stories.This is mystical-realist literature at its best - realistic style and execution, combined with far-out mystical concepts.

The body of work of a true Master
Michael Swanwick's latest collection 'Tales of Old Earth' is masterful.The collection of stories ranges from Hard SF to the so-called Hard Fantasy (don't ask me to explain it).There are Hugo and World Fantasy Award Winners and numerous stories that were nominated for major awards.

It's unfortunate that Michael Swanwick isn't widely-recognized as the writer that he is.His work is consistently head-and-shoulders above the average work being turned out in the genre.But he writes predominantly short fiction, and short fiction never has, and never will be, recognized by the masses.

This is one of the best story collections I've ever read.There isn't a 'dog' in the bunch.Every story jumps out at the reader with its vibrancy.Michael Swanwick is a wordsmith of unparalleled talent.I have no doubt that he's the best writer of the current generation.I highly recommend this collection. ... Read more

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2010 Sidewise Award Nominee Best Short-Form Alternate History

«O jornalista ético protege uma fonte confidencial. Então eu protegi “Massimo Montaldo”, embora eu soubesse que aquele não era o seu nome.

Cada vez que eu fazia uso da indiscrição de Massimo, o acesso ao meu blog dobrava.

Havia oito “Massimo Montaldos” no Google e nenhum era ele. Massimo provinha de lugares desconhecidos, deixava suas informações, como preciosos ovos de ouro, e então navegava de volta por águas escuras. Eu o protegia com esses favores. Certamente que havia outras pessoas muito curiosas a seu respeito, além de mim.». ... Read more

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Four Took Freedom is a must read!!
I have read this insightful book several times. It is a wonderful tool when teaching multicultural education in my classroom. The writing grabs you and brings you into the story, so you can experience it first hand. I highly recommend! ... Read more

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"Eu amo tanto ela quanto elas. Eu cheguei à conclusão de que ela é o que elas são. Uma mulher aceita um homem, esperando que ele irá mudar. Um homem aceita uma mulher, esperando que ela nunca mude. Os dois se desapontam. Embora esse enorme desapontamento seja a fonte primordial de todos os novos homens e mulheres."

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"What about the tiny gang of folks that view science fiction as a supercharged way to think about the present? That gang reads (and writes) SCIENCE FICTION EYE, a fat nonfiction quarterly with great graphics and regular columns by Bruce Sterling, Paul DiFilippo, and Richard Kadrey. It's like going to a party where all your favorite writers are discussing the real-life issues that inspire their fiction." -- Wired Magazine. Special fiction issue featuring stories by Lupoff, Shirley, Ian Watson, Charles Sheffield, and more. Also, an in-depth interview with Samuel R. Delany. ... Read more