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From All the President’s Men to Zodiac, some of the most compelling films of the last century have featured depictions of journalists in action. While print journalism struggles to survive, the emergence of news from social media outlets continues to expand, allowing the world to be kept informed on a second-bysecond basis. Despite attacks on journalists—both verbal and physical—a free press remains a crucial bastion for civilized society. And just as the daily news reflects the current state of affairs, films about journalism represent how reporting has evolved over the last few centuries. In Encyclopedia of Journalists on Film, Richard R. Ness provides a comprehensive examination of ...
Few composers even begin to approach Beethoven's pervasive presence in modern Western culture, from the concert hall to the comic strip. Edited by a cultural historian and a music theorist, Beethoven and His World gathers eminent scholars from several disciplines who collectively speak to the range of Beethoven's importance and of our perennial fascination with him. The contributors address Beethoven's musical works and their cultural contexts. Reinhold Brinkmann explores the post-revolutionary context of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, while Lewis Lockwood establishes a typology of heroism in works like Fidelio. Elaine Sisman, Nicholas Marston, and Glenn Stanley discuss issues of temporality...
Viola Maybach hat sich mit der reizvollen Serie "Der kleine Fürst" in die Herzen der Leserinnen und Leser geschrieben. Alles beginnt mit einem Schicksalsschlag: Das Fürstenpaar Leopold und Elisabeth von Sternberg kommt bei einem Hubschrauberunglück ums Leben. Ihr einziger Sohn, der 15jährige Christian von Sternberg, den jeder seit frühesten Kinderzeiten "Der kleine Fürst" nennt, wird mit Erreichen der Volljährigkeit die fürstlichen Geschicke übernehmen müssen. "Der kleine Fürst" ist vom heutigen Romanmarkt nicht mehr wegzudenken. E-Book 1: Schöne Lilly - neues Leben! E-Book 2: Ich will dein Herz erobern E-Book 3: Die unglaubliche Philippa E-Book 4: Eine Verwandlung mit Stil E-Book 5: Ein Butler in Paris E-Book 6: Die schöne und der falsche Graf E-Book 7: Vom Himmel gefallen - im Schloss gelandet! E-Book 8: Julia findet ihr Glück E-Book 9: Der Mann mit der Maske E-Book 10: Ihre Flucht aus Liebe
Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Fall Release in Business and Economics A consumer credit industry insider-turned-outsider explains how banks lure Americans deep into debt, and how to break the cycle. Delinquent takes readers on a journey from Capital One’s headquarters to street corners in Detroit, kitchen tables in Sacramento, and other places where debt affects people's everyday lives. Uncovering the true costs of consumer credit to American families in addition to the benefits, investigative journalist Elena Botella—formerly an industry insider who helped set credit policy at Capital One—reveals the underhanded and often predatory ways that banks induce American borrowers into debt the...
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The most important articles of the social historian Klaus Tenfelde from Bochum, many of which have now become classics in the field.Klaus Tenfelde shaped the German social history scene over the course of the past decades in a quite distinctive way. This is true also of his articles, in which he combines his usual empirical thoroughness with a fresh approach to modern questions. This volume offers a selection of the most important studies of this important researcher, who died in 2011, on various subjects, such as the life of the working class, social classes, the city and the citizen, the role of clubs/associations in public life, and political parties. Many of them were groundbreaking studies and will continue to inspire readers long into the future.