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In writing this book I discovered that everyone I talked to had his or her own theory about meetings, and yet there is no theory of meetings in the research literature. This makes writing about this subject both excit ing and hazardous. It is always exciting to examine the significance of something that has been ignored, but it is hazardous to write about something that everyone already thinks they understand. Without re course to the legitimacy of a research tradition, readers are likely to evaluate this study based on their own theory. I have tried to take this into account by discussing what might be referred to as American folk theory about meetings (see particularly Chapter 3), and also...
Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned to college radio to defy the mainstream—and they ended up disrupting popular music and commercial radio in the process. In this first history of US college radio, Katherine Rye Jewell reveals that these eclectic stations in major cities and college towns across the United States owed their collective cultural power t...
Featured on NPR and CNN In a riveting page-turner, NBA referee Bob Delaney reveals the clandestine life he led before becoming one of professional basketball’s most respected referees. In 1975, Delaney had spent only a year and a half as a New Jersey State Trooper when his superiors approached him with a tantalizing yet dangerous undercover assignment: to infiltrate the Mob. Delaney accepted, and became Bobby Covert, the president of Alamo Trucking, a fully-operational business used by law enforcement as flypaper for snagging crooks. At the height of The Godfather era, Delaney wore a wire and lived among wiseguys who modeled themselves on their on-screen counterparts, quoting lines from ...
Sharky: When Titans Clash! Sharky is 16 years old. All his life, heÕs been raised by his mom, with no idea of who his father was. Now heÕs hit puberty, only to discover that the "no-good-S.O.B." who contributed to his genes is none other than ODIN Ð not to mention his mother his a child of ZEUS! Whenever something sets off his hormones, he transforms into the demi-god SHARKY Ð complete with a body The Rock would kill to have Ð and the strength of a superman! When two of his long lost 'relativesÕ visit Earth and decide to create havoc by raising the dead, Sharky has to pick sides, with the fate of the planet at stake. With no time for training, itÕs a case of working out Superhero 101 as he goes Ð and if he fails, his friendsÕ lives are forfeit! With guest appearances from indie comics favorites THE MASK, VAMPIRELLA, SAVAGE DRAGON, MILK & CHEESE, MR MONSTER and FLAMING CARROT!
This text considers issues in alternative education. It looks at the issues from teaching, learning and research perspectives.