Michael Mark: 240 books
by Mark McLaughlin, Michael McCarty
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the seductive allure of vampires. We read about them in books, watch stories about them on television and in movies -- but do we know all there is to know about them? Of course not. These creatures of the shadows have kept their most shocking secrets...
by Fred H. Cate, Katie Shilton, Simon DeDeo
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2016
Perspectives on the varied challenges posed by big data for health, science, law, commerce, and politics.
Big data is ubiquitous but heterogeneous. Big data can be used to tally clicks and traffic on web pages, find patterns in stock trades, track consumer preferences, identify linguistic correlations...
Debugging Game History
A Critical Lexicon
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2016
Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games.
Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...
Sound as Popular Culture
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
Scholars consider sound and its concepts, taking as their premise the idea that popular culture can be analyzed in an innovative way through sound.
The wide-ranging texts in this book take as their premise the idea that sound is a subject through which popular culture can be analyzed in an...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
by Rhonda Parrish, Jane Yolen, Angela Slatter
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
A flock of shiny stories! Associated with life and death, disease and luck, corvids have long captured mankind’s attention, showing up in mythology as the companions or manifestations of deities, and starring in stories from Aesop to Poe and beyond.
In Corvidae birds are born of blood and...
Undead Worlds
A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
21 Authors. 21 Undead worlds. 1 Great Book.
Do you dare?
ALONE TOGETHER BY DAVID SIMPSON
What do you do when there is nowhere left to run?
GONE FISHIN' BY JUSTIN ROBINSON
When the dead rise, the living become the monsters.
THE FESTIVAL BY CHRISTOPHER MAHOOD
A city on lockdown...
Academic Labor
The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
USC Annenberg Press has published The Politics of Academic Labor in Communication Studies, edited by Jonathan Stere. This collection features the work of 21 authors who raise difficult questions about academic labor in the field of communication studies. Twenty-one authors take on difficult questions...
Remaking the News
Essays on the Future of Journalism Scholarship in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Leading scholars chart the future of studies on technology and journalism in the digital age.
The use of digital technology has transformed the way news is produced, distributed, and received. Just as media organizations and journalists have realized that technology is a central and indispensable...
Business Law Basics
Learn What You Need in 2 Hours
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
When you start a business, legal issues can seem complex, even scary. Business Law Basics will help you ask smart questions and get the right advice. This simple guide will show you everything you need to know about:
How to choose an attorney.
Contract essentials, including patents and...
by Michael Sincere, Mark D. Cook
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015
In the book, "Prepare Now and Survive the Coming Bear Market," author and columnist Michael Sincere interviews professional trader Mark D. Cook on how to navigate through a treacherous bear market. Cook takes readers through the 11 stages of a bear market, including how it begins and ends....
Spirits distilled (US edition)
With cocktails mixed by Michael Butt
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
Every bartender must know each and every ingredient behind the bar. The third edition of Spirits distilled, by Mark Ridgwell, is a comprehensive guide to all of the major spirits categories. Taking the reader through the principles of distillation to an explanation on how to taste spirits, Ridgwell...
Mark Twain in Bayern
Erzählungen, Reiseberichte, Briefe
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Ein halbes Jahr seines Lebens hat Mark Twain - damals schon der weltberühmte Autor von Bestsellern wie »Die Arglosen im Ausland« (1869) oder »Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer« (1876) - in Bayern verbracht und sich dort pudelwohl gefühlt. Im Winter 1878/79 lebt er mit seiner Familie in München,...
Five Frogs on a Log
A CEO's Field Guide to Accelerating the Transition in Mergers, Acquisitions And Gut Wrenching Change
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
A riddle:
Five frogs are sitting on a log.
Four decide to jump off. How many are left?
Answer: Five
Why?
Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.
Written by Mark L. Feldman and Michael F. Spratt of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Five Frogs on a Log offers readers an entertaining and...